Independent journalists in Afghanistan will “just disappear”, warned the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), a global trade union of media workers, as over 153 media outlets ceased their operations since the Taliban take over in the country last month, and the prospect of an independent media looks “bleak”

Pakistan booked a cleric for sedition and terror charges after he hoisted the Afghan Taliban flag--the third time since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan-- on the rooftop of a seminary he runs in the country’s capital Islamabad

A police constable guarding polio vaccine workers was shot dead in the northwestern part of  Pakistan, a day after the week-long immunization campaign was kicked off in the region, media reports say

With the international community as also regional leaders raising the pitch for a more inclusive regime in Afghanistan instead of the all-male and mainly Pashtun interim government announced by the Taliban, Pakistan – the principal backer of the hardline Islamist group – says it has initiated a dialogue with the Taliban

An Indian paramilitary trooper,  on duty at the country’s border with Bangladesh in Nadia district of West Bengal state, was injured when he was attacked by Bangladeshi smugglers who intruded into India territory for stealing crops, an official statement said on Friday

India did over 25 million covid vaccinations in a day for the first time on Friday as the government raced to deliver a record on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday

For the first time since the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised questions Friday on the “acceptability” of the new “system” in Afghanistan and flagged concerns that the change of power there took place without negotiations, and was not inclusive

Days after Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi reiterated an amnesty offer for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP),  a banned militant group, also known as the Pakistan Taliban, the latter on Friday rejected the idea and said they will "continue to fight" for the "implementation of Sharia laws" in Pakistan

Faced with an “unbearable” number of daily Covid-19 cases, the Sri Lankan government has extended the ongoing lockdown till October 01, Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said

In what comes as another blow to Afghan women, the Taliban abolished the country’s Ministry of Women Affairs, almost a month after the group seized power in Afghanistan, toppling the US-backed government in Kabul and replaced it with the “Ministry of Vice and Virtue.”

Increasing extremism and radicalisation are the biggest threat to global peace, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the nine-member Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit Friday, as he drew attention to the Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan

With several high-income countries deciding to start administering Covid-19 vaccine boosters, India's health ministry said priority will continue to be full vaccination of two doses and that booster dose is not a "central theme" at the moment in the scientific discussions

India has rejected media reports suggesting that the US was in touch with it to explore the option of carrying out ''over-the-horizon'' counter-terror strikes in Afghanistan

There is no need for “external mechanisms” to solve the issues of rights and accountability, Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Jayanath Colombage said, asserting that solutions to those problems are “available” within the country’s domestic legal system

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Thursday told parliament said she did not doubt that late president Ziaur Rahman, founder of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was involved in the 1975 conspiracy that led to the assassination of the nation’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and several members of her family