With 11 rape cases reported every day, rising sex crimes have emerged as a big issue in Pakistan, with women lawmakers cutting across party lines on Friday demanding public hanging of perpetrators of sexual assaults and harassment of women and children

India's Supreme Court, in a politically significant decision, has agreed to hear next week a petition filed by two veteran journalists for an independent probe into the "mass surveillance" by the government of more than 142 potential “targets” using the military-grade Israeli spyware Pegasus, an issue that has rocked many governments around the world

A Sri Lankan magistrate has ordered the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) to ban all "harmful websites" in the wake of a worrying increase in child pornography and sextortion cases in the country

In a bid to leverage Islamabad’s perceived proximity to the Taliban in preventing the hardline Islamic militia from taking power by force, and persuade it to eschew violence and join the peace process, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Pakistan has a vital role in influencing the Taliban and the United States hopes Islamabad plays that role

A sharp spike in dengue cases is straining Bangladesh’s fragile healthcare system, which is already battered by a worsening coronavirus crisis in the country

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was brutally murdered by the Taliban after verifying his identity, according to a US-based magazine, which said the hardline Islamic militia took their cruelty to a new level because Siddiqui was Indian

India firmly rejected the recent elections in what it calls Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir or POK (Pakistan calls it Azad Jammu and Kashmir or AJK),  which were won by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's PTI party, saying the "cosmetic exercise" was nothing but an attempt by Pakistan to "camouflage its illegal occupation" and that it has lodged a strong protest over the issue

Sri Lankan authorities have formed a dedicated new cell to probe the incidents of child pornography in the country as police revealed that over 17,000 videos and pictures related to child pornography have been uploaded from Sri Lanka in a little over a month’s time

Nepali Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, while seeking a vote of confidence in parliament earlier this month, said the country's foreign policy will be of mutual friendship and cooperation

India is committed to ensuring safe habitats for its tigers and nurturing a tiger-friendly ecosystem, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, pointing out that India is home to over 70 per cent of the world's tiger population

India and the United States are bound together by “shared democratic values” and “free citizenry” said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on his first official visit to India which came in the backdrop of increasing concern about shrinking space for civil society and regional security challenges like Afghanistan and China

In a novel initiative, a million people in Tamil Nadu state in southern India would get free COVID-19 vaccines at private hospitals before the end of this year

Apparently sending out a message to India that has faced criticism over growing use of anti-terrorism legislation and sedition laws to arrest campaigners, journalists and students, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday said the world’s two biggest democracies need to do more to strengthen democratic institutions

Stung by a damning criticism of its judicial system in a US report, that questioned the independence of Pakistan’s courts and called them “corrupt” and “inefficient”, Islamabad has described the comments as “unwarranted” and “factually incorrect”

Nazar Mohammad, popularly known as Khasha Jawan, made people laugh for years in Afghanistan