A Pakistan Navy official said the day-long sea exercise conducted by Pakistan and Iran’s navies in the Arabian Gulf on Tuesday was unplanned and part of a “goodwill gesture

A Hindu girl has been allegedly abducted in Ali Gohar Abad locality in Pakistan's Larkana region, media reports said

Former US Secretary of State and current President Joe Biden's climate envoy John Kerry on Friday praised Bangladesh for giving refuge to Rohingya's, saying they are not only Bangladesh's responsibility

As Covid-19 infections and deaths remain unchecked in the country, the Bangladeshi government may have to impose a strict full lockdown from April 14, reported the Daily Times

Lauding the United States’ return to the Paris climate agreement, Bangladesh Prime Minister Shaikh Hasina said it will provide new momentum to climate diplomacy, The comment came when Hasina met John Kerry, the US special envoy for climate, on Friday in Dhaka, according to a Daily Star report

Nepal Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali dialed Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, and asked for his assistance in fast-tracking the supply of vaccines from the Serum Institute of India (SII), media reports say

Pakistan will have an e-passport system by this June this year, Sheikh Rashid, the country’s minister for interior said. A German company has been contracted for the implementation of the project, reported Dawn

Top commanders of the Pakistan Army on Thursday reviewed the situation along on the Line of Control for the first time since the forces of Pakistan and India last month issued a joint statement, reported The Express Tribune

Authorities in the United States designated a Pakistan-based travel agency as a "transnational criminal organization" (TCO) and said the firm was involved in human smuggling, according to a report in Dawn

The Maldives government has signed an agreement to support local island tourism with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

A Bhutanese journalist, who was a member of Prime Minister  Lotay Tshering’s entourage to Bangladesh last month, tested positive for COVID-19 and has been quarantined at a facility in the capital Thimphu

Sri Lankan police have arrested the mayor of the northern city of Jaffna, accusing him of promoting the defunct LTTE and the group’s ideology, as per a report in Colombopage

The Pakistani government has committed to increasing taxes by around $8.3 billion in the coming budget, reported Dawn

Nepal received around $2 billion in foreign aid in the 2019-20 fiscal year which ended in mid-July last year, data released from Nepal’s foreign ministry showed

Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked state chief ministers to focus on creating micro-containment zones and extensive testing as means to contain the spread of Covid-19 second wave, which pushed up the daily surge of cases to 126,000 in 24 hours