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India concerned about Afghan security situation: Rajnath Singh

India is concerned about the security situation in Afghanistan and will continue to support the local government's efforts for peace, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday

Maldives' foreign minister hails late Indian president Pranab Mukherjee

Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdulla Shahid on Thursday penned a message in the Condolence Book opened by the High Commission of India in Maldives, dedicated to the late former president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, following his demise

IHC gives India, Jadhav second chance to clarify stance on pursuing case

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) granted on Thursday another opportunity to New Delhi and Kulbhushan Jadhav to clarify their stance on pursuing the case before the federal capital’s high court

Speaker Nasheed attributes prosperity, independence to India-Maldives relations

Parliament Speaker and former president of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed has praised Maldives-India relations, describing it as an age-old friendship

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Dostum claims possession on half of Pakistan territory

Former Vice Oresident Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum says that Afghan soil is not limited to the Durand Line, but it expands to Pakistani capital city of Islamabad

India defuses potential controversy with Nepal over Buddha's birthplace

India categorically said on Sunday that Gautam Buddha was born in Lumbini in Nepal thereby defusing a potentially new controversy with Nepal over  Buddha's birthplace after Kathmandu had responded to remarks attributed to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar

Kathmandu is pursuing alternative channels to end impasse with Delhi

Amid the continuing diplomatic standoff between Nepal and India over the ongoing boundary dispute, the government is seeking suggestions on how to get India to sit down for talks

'Pakistan created new terror group Khattak Taliban to fight in Afghanistan'

The Pakistani military and intelligence have not abandoned the policy of training terrorist groups on their soil and have recently created a new terror group under the name of  Khattak Taliban

Pending India-Bangladesh issues will be resolved: Bangladesh Foreign Minister Momen

Bangladesh Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen on Saturday said that India and Bangladesh have resolved major bilateral issues, achieved progress on water sharing and will soon also resolve the other pending issues

Bangladesh condoles deaths in Kozhikode plane crash

Bangladesh has expressed deep shock at the loss of lives following an Air India Express plane crash at an airport in the southern state of Kerala, killing at least 18 people and injuring over 100

Election victory new opportunity for India, Sri Lanka to enhance bilateral engagement: Indian envoy

Sri Lanka ruling party’s election victory is a fresh opportunity for Sri Lanka and India to enhance the bilateral engagement, said the Indian envoy to Sri Lanka when he called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Temple Tress Saturday Congratulate him on election victory

PM Oli opens new fronts of Indo-Nepal disputes

Needling India further, the K.P. Oli-led Nepal government has started the construction of a helipad at a disputed site in Bihar besides beginning the installation of 360-degree CCTV cameras in a no-man's land near Uttarakhand along the India-Nepal border

WB says cannot mediate in Pakistan-India water dispute

The World Bank has expressed its inability to take an independent decision on appointment of a neutral expert or court of arbitration for settlement of a long outstanding water dispute between Pakistan and India, saying the two countries will have to bilaterally choose one option

India tells Pakistan to desist from communal incitements in India

India on Thursday asked Pakistan to desist from inciting communal tensions in India with its provocative statements on its internal matters

Pakistan seeks OIC meeting on Kashmir, Saudis show reluctance

Pakistan wanting to ratchet up the volume over Kashmir but the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is refusing to hold foreign ministers meeting

'Pakistani soldier killed, two critically injured in Afghan border violence'

A Frontier Corps soldier was martyred while two others were critically injured in separate incidents of violence against Pakistan Army posts by terrorists and Afghan Border Police from across the border, the Foreign Office said in a statement late Wednesday

Pakistan FM Qureshi asks OIC to stop dragging feet on Kashmir meeting

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in an unusually sharp warning asked Saudi Arabia-led Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday to stop dilly-dallying on the convening of a meeting of its Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) on Kashmir

Pakistan will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with its Kashmiri brethren: PM Imran Khan

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday expressed that Pakistan will always be with its brothers and sisters in the "Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir"(IIOJK) until they get the right to self-determination through a free and impartial plebiscite under the United Nations as per the relevant UNSC Resolutions

Two more kidnapped Indian engineers freed in Afghanistan

India said on Tuesday two more of the seven Indian engineers kidnapped in northern Baghlan province in May 2018 had been freed and had returned to the country, the Hindustan Times reported