Hours after a former Sri Lankan MP, sentenced to life for the murder of another lawmaker, was released on a presidential pardon, the US envoy to Colombo on Thursday said the incident undermined the country’s rule of law

Sri Lanka was at the risk of losing USD 2 billion if the  Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) concession was withdrawn, State Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara told parliament

The United States has warned the Taliban that if they seized power by force in Afghanistan, the world would not recognize the imposed government

Among the 500 animal species found in Afghanistan, 149 are facing the risk of extinction, the country’s environmentalists revealed, as they encounter a number of challenges ranging from poaching to climate change

Authorities in the Maldives are planning to withhold the passport of former tourism minister Ali Waheed, accused in multiple sexual harassment cases, as he fails to return to the country upon the expiry of the four-month travel relaxation period granted earlier on medical grounds

Amid soaring prices of rice locally, the Sri Lanka government has reversed its decision to import 100,000 MT of rice, citing forex constraints, and said they would instead regulate the price locally

Bangladesh police have arrested and pressed charges against a 42-year-old Indian citizen, who entered the country without proper documents and was seen suspiciously roaming around Padma Bridge project site in Jajira on Wednesday night

The current spike in Covid cases in Bangladesh has put 40 of its 64 districts at very high risk, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)

Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Thursday said police were close to arresting the culprits responsible for the bomb blast close to proscribed Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed’s residence in Lahore, the capital city of Punjab province, that claimed three lives

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have jointly conferred awards on Pakistan’s Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB) and five of the country's scientists, according to a statement issued by the country’s foreign affairs ministry

Pakistan has endorsed a declaration made by Chinese President Xi Jinping rejecting “vaccine nationalism” and dispelling notions of stigmatization, according Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi

Wildlife workers in Nepal face multiple challenges while on duty, including the risk of contracting Covid-19

Plans for the security of Kabul’s International Airport in Afghanistan have hit a roadblock on Wednesday when Turkey refused to send any additional troops to Afghanistan after the withdrawal of foreign forces from the war-torn country

Domestic flights in Nepal will resume operations with just fifty percent occupancy initially from 1 July, the country's Council of Ministers approved the move, reported The Himalayan Times. Nepal had banned domestic flight services on 4 May following the second wave of the Covid-19

A new assessment by the US intelligence community concluded that the Afghan government could collapse as soon as sixth months after the US military withdrawal from the country, The Wall Street Journal said