Pakistan has issued visas to 136 Indian Hindus and Sikhs pilgrims for visits to revered Hindu religious sites in the country, the Pakistan High Commission informed issuing a statement

Bangladesh Navy and the US military personnel launched the annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) maritime exercise on Wednesday in the Bay of Bengal in an indication of Bangladesh's growing importance in the regional security matrix

Since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, India has granted 200 emergency e-visas to that country’s citizens, the government told Parliament on Wednesday

Samsung, the South Korean electronics and white goods major, has started production in Pakistan, lifting hopes of the authorities and the industry that this would cut down the import bill of the country in the months to come, local media said

Iranian border forces and Taliban fighters clashed—for the first since the group’s return to power— along the border for several hours in the western Nimroz province in Afghanistan, media reports said

Pakistans recorded a whopping $5.1 billion trade deficit in November—the highest for a single month—as imports continued their surge, touching around $8 billion, an increase of about 94 percent in comparison to the same month last year

Sri Lanka is in talks with US billionaire Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX over its satellite internet division Starlink, the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) announced

Women and children joined the continuing protests in Pakistan's port town of Gwadar seeking increased rights over local resources in the region which has witnessed growing Chinese footprints through a range of projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)

The Taliban-led government has rejected a recent report by an international human rights watchdog that said the group had executed dozens of Afghan security members after they surrendered following the fall of civilian government earlier this year

The United States has asked the Taliban to fulfill its “commitments” on counter-terrorism, human rights, and general amnesty when the officials of both sides met in Doha

Days after Sri Lanka witnessed 19 incidents within 48 hours involving explosions in the cooking gas cylinders, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered a probe into the matter as fear gripped the public of possible defects in the cylinders

Indian President Ram Nath Kovid will visit Bangladesh to join the Victory Day celebration marking the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's founder, and golden jubilee celebrations of Bangladesh's 1971 independence from Pakistan following a nine-month long Liberation War

Over 100 police and intelligence officers of the former Afghan government have been abducted, killed, and “summarily executed” by the Taliban since the group took over power in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said in its latest report

Nepal’s Supreme Court is set to resume its works from Wednesday after a prolonged crisis-- after allegations involving the dealings with the government surfaced against Chief Justice Cholendra Sumsher Rana--as judges reached a compromise that stripped Justice Rana of its prerogative to assign cases

In what is seen as a politically significant development, the Maldives Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of former president Abdullah Yameen in a money laundering case where he had been sentenced to five years in prison