South East Asia

Pakistan government today handed over the security of capital Islamabad to the army for three months under a controversial decision taken recently, days ahead of a major anti-government rally by Mr Imran Khan’s party. Interior minister Nisar Ali Khan had announced last week that military will remain here from 1 August till …

The India visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry later this week would lay the groundwork for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington in September to meet President Barack Obama, an American official

US Secretary of State John Kerry voiced hope on Monday of finding common cause with India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hailing the nations’ ties as “indispensable” despite recent friction. Mr Kerry, who heads Tuesday to New Delhi in the highest-level US contact yet with the right-leaning government that took …

The UN Security Council on Tuesday condemned the two attacks in Afghanistan earlier in the day, which killed scores of civilians including children. The 15-member UN body “condemned in the strongest terms” the suicide attack in the eastern province of Paktika, which reportedly killed 89 and injured many

Hailing Russia as “our country’s greatest friend,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin that India was committed to deepening ties between the two countries and to exploring new areas of cooperation.

China’s President Xi Jinping on Tuesday invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit China in November and called for a “negotiated resolution” to the boundary dispute “at an early date”, as the two leaders held their first ever meeting in Brazil.

Amid requests from both Afghan presidential candidates to broaden the investigation of suspected ballot fraud, the US reaffirmed its support for a “sovereign, unified, and democratic Afghanistan.” State Department

Pakistanآ’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Raheel Sharif visited troops on the front line in North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan and vowed that terrorists will be chased and hunted down across the country till their final elimination, said military.

For the first time , a former Chief of Army Staff and President of Pakistan has been indicted by a special court for high treason on Monday to impose emergency and undermining the Constitution. General Pervez Musharraf has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain on Thursday arrived in Afghan capital city Kabul to attend the Nowroz festival on the invitation of his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai, said an official press release. This is the first visit by the Afghan President to Afghanistan since taking office. According to Foreign Office, …