Taiwan government detect 47 sorties by Chinese aircraft, seven vessels
Mar 25, 2025, at 12:44 am
The Taiwanese government has detected 47 sorties by Chinese aircraft and seven vessels until 6 pm local time on Saturday.
Pakistan: Amnesty International, UN demand release of Baloch activist Mahrang Baloch
Mar 24, 2025, at 07:19 pm
Amnesty International has urged Pakistani authorities to release Baloch activist Mahrang Baloch and all others who were detained for exercising their right to peaceful protest.
UN Advocacy Officer warns about severe risk posed by China’s Metok dam to Tibet's environment
Mar 23, 2025, at 11:03 pm
Phuntsok Tobgyal, UN Advocacy Officer at the Office of Tibet in Geneva, has raised serious concerns over the risks posed by the planned construction of the Medog (Metok) Dam on Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo River.
Mar 23, 2025, at 04:13 pm
The United Nations children's agency has urged Taliban rulers of Afghanistan to lift the ban on girls' education, a decision that has hit the future of millions of children in the country.
Pakistani TikToker arrested on blasphemy charges
Mar 22, 2025, at 07:08 pm
Pakistani police have arrested a Tiktoker on allegations of blasphemy from the country's Muzaffargarh district, media reports said.
IHCNBT urges Narendra Modi to confer Bharat Ratna on Dalai Lama
Mar 22, 2025, at 06:06 pm
The Indian Himalayan Council of Nalanda Buddhist Tradition (IHCNBT) has unanimously urged PM Narendra Modi to confer Bharat Ratna on the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama.
Mar 21, 2025, at 07:27 pm
Afghanistan's Taliban administration has freed American national George Glezmann after staying in captivity in the war-torn South Asian country for over two years.
Bangladesh interim government not planning to ban Sheikh Hasina's Awami League
Mar 21, 2025, at 02:45 pm
Bangladesh interim government chief Muhammad Yunus on Thursday said his administration is not planning to ban ousted former PM Sheikh Hasina's Awami League.
Bangladesh: Security officials arrest Rohingya armed group commander Ataullah Abu Ammar Jununi
Mar 19, 2025, at 05:13 pm
Bangladeshi security officials have arrested the top leader of a Rohingya insurgent group on charges of illegally entering, sabotaging and terrorist activities in the South Asian nation which is facing political instability since the exit of former PM Sheikh Hasina on August 5 last year.
Pakistan: Grenade lobbed in senior police official's residence in Balochistan, 5 injured
Mar 18, 2025, at 06:08 pm
At least five people, including children, were injured after grenades were lobbed at the house of a senior police official located in Pakistan's Balochistan region on Monday, media reports said.
Pakistan: People loot computers, laptops during raid at fake Chinese-run call centre in Islamabad
Mar 18, 2025, at 06:02 pm
Pakistan's Islamabad city witnessed an unexpected heist after officials raided a fake call centre in the city's Sector F-11.
Muhammad Yunus says reforms should be completed before 'December polls'
Mar 17, 2025, at 06:41 pm
Bangladesh interim government chief Muhammad Yunus has focussed on the urgency of implementing reforms since his administration has limited time before the possible general elections in December.
BLA releases first video footage of attack on convoy carrying Pakistani soldiers
Mar 16, 2025, at 08:53 pm
The Balochistan Liberation Army on Sunday released a video of the targeted attack on a convoy that was carrying Pakistani soldiers, hours after the rebel group claimed 90 security personnel were killed in the incident.
Banned Lashkar-i-Islam group founder Mufti Munir Shakir dies in bomb blast in Pakistan
Mar 16, 2025, at 06:02 pm
Banned Lashkar-i-Islam group founder Mufti Munir Shakir was killed in a bomb blast in Pakistan's Peshawar city on Saturday, media reports said.
BLA claims 90 Pakistani soldiers died as blast occurs close to their convoy in Balochistan
Mar 16, 2025, at 03:44 pm
The Balochistan Liberation Army, the group which was responsible for the hijacking of a passenger train last week, claimed 90 Pakistani soldiers died after a blast occurred close to a convoy in which the security personnel were travelling in Balochistan’s Noshki district on Sunday.
Pakistan security forces arrest 'possible' suicide bomber
Mar 15, 2025, at 05:52 pm
Pakistani security forces arrested a 'possible' suicide bomber and left another injured during a crossfire on Barki Road in Lahore on Friday.
UN chief Antonio Guterres vows to prevent Rohingya suffering during Bangladesh visit
Mar 15, 2025, at 03:01 pm
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, during his visit to the Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, vowed to do everything in his power to prevent further hardship as drastic aid cuts threaten food supplies and other critical relief efforts.
PIA flight lands in airport with missing wheel, passengers safe
Mar 15, 2025, at 10:05 am
A domestic Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight landed at Lahore Airport with a missing wheel, raising concerns over the safety of the Pakistani national carrier.
Bangladesh: Minority Group claims violence against minorities still continuing in country
Mar 14, 2025, at 06:02 pm
The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, the largest minority group in Bangladesh, has claimed that attacks and violence against minorities in the South Asian country still continue months after the interim government came to power in the nation following the ouster of former PM Sheikh Hasina on August 5, 2024.
Pakistan: Local JUI leader hurt in bomb blast during Friday prayer inside mosque
Mar 14, 2025, at 03:59 pm
A local Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (JUI) leader and three others were injured after a bomb blast ripped through a mosque in Pakistan's South Waziristan area on Friday during prayers.
Mar 14, 2025, at 10:58 am
India on Friday rejected Pakistan's claim that New Delhi was behind the Jaffar Express attack and said the world knows where the epicentre of global terrorism lies.
US Awami League Vice President hopes Sheikh Hasina will return to Bangladesh as PM
Mar 13, 2025, at 04:57 pm
US Awami League Vice President Dr Rabbi Alam has expressed confidence that Sheikh Hasina will return as Prime Minister of Bangladesh and thanked India for sheltering her after she fled the South Asian nation on August 5, 2024 following massive protests against her regime over a job quota issue.
Pakistani army claims to have freed all hostages in passenger train siege; 28 personnel killed
Mar 13, 2025, at 12:30 am
All the train passengers who were taken hostage by the Baloch rebel group in southwestern Pakistan have been freed, an army official told AFP on Wednesday.
BLA rebels share video footage showing the moment when Pakistan's Jaffar Express was hijacked
Mar 12, 2025, at 05:11 pm
The Baloch rebel group that abducted a Pakistani train and took the passengers as hostages on Tuesday has shared a video online which showed a section of the railway tracks being blown before the Jaffar Express was taken under the control of its members.
Irish PM Micheal Martin visits White House amid divisions on economy, Ukraine, Gaza
Mar 12, 2025, at 02:36 pm
For more than 70 years, Irish leaders have visited the White House for the annual St. Patrick's Day celebration of Irish-America heritage.
Pakistan Army secures release of 155 passengers from hijacked Jaffar Express, 27 BLA rebels killed
Mar 12, 2025, at 01:17 pm
At least 155 hostages were released, and Pakistan security forces killed 27 rebels after members of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) hijacked a passenger train in the restive Balochistan province on Tuesday.
Bangladesh: Court directs to seize ex-PM Hasina's Dhaka residence, over 120 bank accounts frozen
Mar 12, 2025, at 10:42 am
A Dhaka court has ordered the seizure of plots, houses and flats belonging to former PM Sheikh Hasina and her family members, adding more troubles for the family that played a major role in securing Bangladesh's freedom from Pakistan in 1971.
More than 100 hijacked passengers released from Pakistan's Jaffar Express
Mar 12, 2025, at 09:37 am
Security forces killed at least 16 terrorists and rescued 104 passengers after the Jaffar Express was hijacked by suspected Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) members in Pakistan's Balochistan region on Tuesday.
Pakistani train hijack: Security forces rescue dozens of hostages, hundreds still in captivity
Mar 12, 2025, at 01:59 am
Pakistani troops freed dozens of train passengers taken hostage by Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) armed militants in the country's southwest on Tuesday.
180 passengers, mostly soldiers, held hostage as Baloch Liberation Army hijack train in Pakistan
Mar 11, 2025, at 11:59 pm
The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) which seeks independence for Balochistan from Pakistan in a statement claimed responsibility for taking control of a train and keeping over 180 passengers, most of them Pakistani soldiers, hostages.