Abandoning the Taliban will have “dangerous consequences,” Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has warned, adding no one will be safe if the international community isolates the Taliban, the new rulers of Afghanistan

Almost six years have passed since Nepal constituted a commission to investigate the cases of people gone missing during the decade-long Maoist insurgency that raged from 1996 to 2006

Pakistan’s trade deficit increased--for the second consecutive month--to $4.05 billion in August, registering around 133 percent increase in comparison to July, as imports grew by almost three times than that of exports, showed the data released by the government

A 200-strong Indian Army contingent will participate in a multi-nation military exercise in Russia from September 3 to September 16

Pro-Pakistan Kashmiri separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani died at the age of 92 at his home in Srinagar late on Wednesday evening

Organisations working to evacuate a group of Afghan Sikhs and Hindus from Afghanistan have claimed that the Taliban have promised "safe passage" for the minorities who want to visit India for the 400th birth anniversary (Gurpurab) celebrations of Sikh Guru Teg Bahadur this year, The Indian Express said

The Taliban has stepped up attacks on Panjshir valley--the last remaining Afghan province still not under the group’s control-- as talks with the resistance leaders of the valley didn’t yield any result

The leaked audio tapes of three of the five Maldivian judges, who convicted former president Abdullah Yameen in a money laundering case, created a political storm in Maldivian politics as the tapes appear to show that Yameen’s trial was influenced by the current government

Two weeks have passed since the Taliban captured Kabul, Afghanistan is without a government, at a time when the country is staring at a grave humanitarian crisis

Pakistan hopes that after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, India wouldn’t be able to use Afghan soil against Pakistan, Fawad Chaudhary, Pakistan’s information and technology minister said

In the first publicised outreach of its kind, top Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police brass interacted with over 80 families of militants active in the Kashmir Valley Tuesday, urging them “guide their wards back into society”, The Indian Express said

Some Indian states where schools have opened amid concerns about a third wave of the Covid pandemic are seeing a rise in infections among children

The Taliban representative who met Ambassador Deepak Mittal, India's envoy in Qatar with wide experience of the region, on Tuesday in Doha, trained under the Indian Army at its elite institutions in the late 1970s and early 1980s

Around 120 Afghan nationals, who are training either at defence academies in India or pursuing specialised military courses, will be allowed to continue with their training

Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajpaksa has issued emergency regulations under Public Security Ordinance and appointed a Major General to oversee food distribution as prices of goods went up and the country’s currency rupee fell in the wake of dysfunctional bond auctions and money printing