The Pakistan government will have to pass amendments into Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Foreign Exchange Regulation laws within next three months from the Parliament for complying with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) conditions

After about 30 Pakistanis who arrived in Hong Kong onboard an Emirates flight on June 22 tested positive for COVID-19, the UAE airline announced temporary suspension of passenger service from Pakistan till July 3

Sri Lanka’s coronavirus cases surpassed 2000, three months since the virus started spreading in the country with 10 more new cases reported last night

Sri Lanka plans to request proposals to fund a 2.2 billion US dollar light rail transit project after cancelling a Japanese soft-loan project, which will also involved up to 2.0 billion dollars of related investments, a top official said amid concerns that the project will be a non-starter

In all but one of the last 16 days, the daily new COVID-19 cases have not dipped below 3,000 and another 3,462 tested positive in the 24 hours preceding 2:30 pm yesterday

With the country witnessing a continuous surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths, a shortage of testing kits appears to be a major setback for efforts to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus

The cabinet has adopted a resolution congratulating Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as Bangladesh won the prestigious United Nations Public Service Award 2020 (UNPSA 2020) in the category of "Developing Transparent and Accountable Public Institutions"

Bangladesh is building its largest infrastructure Padma Bridge despite the coronavirus pandemic, but the crisis has thrown the timely completion of the project into uncertainty

In a virtual interview given for the US Institute of Peace, Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the High National Reconciliation Council, discussed his idea for bringing peace to Afghanistan and said that there are still serious concerns among the Afghan people about their civil liberties and rights despite their hopes this time there will be peace in the country

Afghan customs revenue has declined due to corruption and embezzlement to 10 billion afs in the past six months, a number of lawmakers and businessmen said on Wednesday

At least 20 Afghan security force members, among them seven members of the special forces and three policemen, were killed in fighting with Taliban insurgents in Badghis, Helmand and Balkh provinces over the past 24 hours, according to local officials in these provinces

The United States slammed Pakistan on Wednesday for continuing to be a safe haven for terrorist groups and for failing to prosecute Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) boss Masood Azhar and Lashkar-e-Taiba's (LeT) Mumbai attack mastermind Sajid Mir

The Indian cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has taken a slew of decisions that include opening up the Indian space sector, pumping in money to create dairy infrastructure in the country, constructing an international airport at Kushinagar to boost tourism in the Buddhist circuit

India witnessed a spike of almost 16,000 fresh cases of the novel Coronavirus in the past 24 hours taking the total in the country to 4.5 lakh with 465 new deaths, data from the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry revealed on Wednesday

The old Bhutanese saying, “too many frogs can kill a tiger,” indicating coordination and cooperation came alive at Tashiling, Trongsa when a 40 feet temporary bailey bridge was readied in a record time of nine hours