Three arrested, including two policemen, after two teenage Dalit cousins found dead in Uttar Pradesh state. Two teenage girls have been found dead, hanging from a tree in a northern Indian village... Read more »

Foreign secretaries to meet soon “to carry forward bilateral agenda”, Sharif says after attending Modi’s inauguration. Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s prime minister, has held formal talks with Narendra Modi as part of his... Read more »

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday awarded 3G and 4G mobile spectrum licences to the successful mobile operating bidders and said that true development in the country was only possible through... Read more »

Tight security outside house of Ananthamurthy who allegedly received threatening calls for criticising PM-elect Modi. Security has been tightened outside the residence of Indian writer, UR Ananthamurthy, who has been receiving threatening... Read more »

ISLAMABAD: A committee formed by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has suspended the licences of three television channels owned by the Geo TV network. The committee has also ordered that... Read more »

Local Taliban leader says he intends to use the Chinese tourist to free jailed comrades in a prisoner exchange. Taliban fighters have kidnapped a Chinese tourist in northwest Pakistan, police officials said.... Read more »

India’s Prime Minister-elect, Narendra Modi, has been performing religious rituals in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi after his election landslide. Mr Modi offered prayers on the banks of the river Ganges... Read more »

Government celebrates five years since end of conflict with Tamil Tigers, and bans commemorations for victims. Matara and Colombo – Sri Lanka’s government has marked the fifth anniversary of the civil war victory... Read more »

India going to have now an extreme Prime Minister, BJP wins, Congress losses New Delhi: Narendera Modi, the 63-year-old son of a low-caste tea seller tainted by anti-Muslim violence in his home... Read more »

KARACHI: A court in Karachi on Thursday granted bail to a US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent arrested for trying to board a domestic civilian flight with bullets and a knife... Read more »

NEW DELHI: Once again Kashmir students came under attack by Hindu extremists at an educational institution in India. Three Kashmiri students were beaten up at a private university in the city of... Read more »

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has approved a $12 billion loan for cash-strapped Pakistan to be given out in a period of five years, the country’s finance ministry said on Friday. The finance... Read more »

KARACHI: The country’s financial capital was shut down due to a call for observing a ‘day of mourning’ by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) against extrajudicial killings of its party members. The... Read more »

A suicide attack in Panjshir province has killed at least 11 people, including six police officers, officials say. A suicide car bomb has killed at least 11 people, including six policemen, in... Read more »

Amnesty International urges Islamabad to investigate military and spy agency for violating human rights of journalists. Pakistani authorities should investigate the country’s powerful military and intelligence agency for human rights abuses against... Read more »

RIYADH: Pakistans’ Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif has witnessed Saudi military’s war exercise “Shamsheer of Abdullah”. The military experts and chiefs of army staff of Gulf States were also... Read more »

DHAKA: A severe storm has killed 16 people and destroyed 1,000 homes in northern Bangladesh, police and government officials said Monday. The storm tore through scores of villages overnight on Sunday, uprooting... Read more »

At least four killed and 30 wounded in explosion outside mosque in city of Karachi. A bomb attack in Pakistan’s biggest city, Karachi, has killed at least four people and wounded 30... Read more »

ISLAMABAD: The four cellular service providers bidding on licences for next generation mobile technology emerged the winners of Wednesday’s bidding war, with Mobilink, Telenor and Ufone picking up licences for 3G services... Read more »

LAHORE: Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif narrowly escaped a shoe hurled at him during the inauguration of a three-day South Asia Labour Conference in Lahore. The shoe-hurler turned out to be a... Read more »

A police guard opens fire at an international hospital in Afghanistan’s capital, killing at least three Americans. At least three American doctors have been killed by a security guard at an international hospital in... Read more »