Senior Pakistani journalist Absar Alam was shot at in a suspected targeted attack incident recently in Islamabad, media reports said

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has sent a strong message to Pakistan and said it is time for the neighbouring nation to decide to be eight a friend or an enemy, IBNS reported

Afghanistan commandoes have freed 28 civilians from Taliban prison in Helmand province, media reports said

At least four people, including a police officer, were killed and a dozen injured when an explosion rocked the Serena Hotel on Wednesday night in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province, reports say

Authorities in Pakistan have warned people that they may have to close down major cities if the Covid-19 cases continue to rise with the current rate, as per a report in Dawn

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said that those responsible for the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks would be brought to justice, reported Colombopage

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the International Cricket Council (ICC) are yet to receive written assurances from the Indian cricket board BCCI regarding the issue of visas to the Pakistan Cricket team for the ICC World T20 in October, Dawn News reported

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi met Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran on Wednesday and iterated his country’s commitment to strengthening bilateral relations and promoting cooperation in various fields of mutual interest, The Express Tribune reported

India witnessed a massive spike in COVID-19 deaths as 2023 people died due to the virus in the past 24 hours, as per the Ministry of Health website

At least 22 suspected COVID-19 patients were feared dead here on Wednesday due to the leak in the oxygen tank of the civic-run Zakir Hussain Hospital in this Maharashtra city in western India

Opposition PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has targeted Imran Khan over the situation of the country following clashes with the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) and said it is a 'mess' created by the Pakistan prime minister

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will roll over its $2 billion loans that it had earlier given to Pakistan in 2018 as part of the bailout package, a statement issued by Pakistan’s Foreign Office said

The Pakistan government has decided not to lift the ban on the Tahreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), the radical Islamist group responsible for recent violent protests

As Nepal struggles to procure vaccines from India, authorities in Nepal have given emergency use approval to Russia’s Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccines, as per a report in the Kathmandu Post

Days after he landed in a controversy for allegedly claiming that Indian fishermen would be granted permission to fish in Sri Lankan waters, the island nation’s Fisheries Minister, Douglas Devananda, has said that Indian fishermen illegally entering his country’s waters should be arrested