The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has retained Pakistan in its ‘grey list’ as Islamabad failed to implement two of the total 34 recommended actions, including investigating and prosecuting terrorist leaders and UN-designated senior terrorist commanders for terror financing

At least 30 people were killed and over 50 injured when a suicide bomber detonated himself on Friday at a Shia mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar in Pakistan, officials confirmed

Despite the increasingly strained ties between the two nations, the Indus Water Treaty of 1960 remains the only agreement the two countries continue to uphold successfully

India has sent the second batch of wheat shipment as part of its humanitarian assistance to crisis-hit Afghanistan which has been going through what has become one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world

Nepal has sought assistance from India to evacuate its trapped nationals from Ukraine as New Delhi pulls out all stops, launching Operation Ganga, an ambitious rescue operation to evacuate over 20,000 Indians, mostly students, from the war-hit country

Sri Lankan energy crisis, primarily caused by the severe foreign exchange shortage, has reached a dangerous level this week as the country struggles to manage multiple interlinked crises, forcing authorities to ration both electricity and fuel

Amid growing western sanctions on Russia, at least five superyachts owned by Russian billionaires are either anchored in or moving around the Maldives, a small Indian Ocean archipelago and a luxury tourism destination, media reports say citing ship tracking data

Bhutan broke ranks with India and joined the majority of countries in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in calling for respecting Ukrainian sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity and said it is deeply concerned by the escalating conflict in Ukraine

Afghanistan’s economy is heading towards “a point of “irreversibility” and is nearing a “ tipping point” where there will be more businesses closed, job losses, the UN special envoy for the country has warned, asking the international community to work to address the issue of reviving the Afghan economy

Bhutan, which emerged as a rare Covid success story in South Asia, will soon move away from its existing zero-Covid policy, Prime Minister Lotay Tshering announced on Wednesday, as the country plans a gradual shift to the “living with the virus” policy like any other country

Envoys of 22 countries, mostly from the European Union, in Pakistan have issued a joint statement calling on the Pakistan government to condemn Russia’s action in Ukraine, hardly a week after Prime Minister Imran Khan returned from his visit to Moscow

‘Lunana:  A Yak in the Classroom’, a Bhutanese film, shot by just 35 local crew in a remote far western Bhutanese village,  was among five films nominated for an Oscar award last month in the International Feature Film category—a first for the Himalayan country of  750,000 people

In what comes a major relief for Afghanistan, the World Bank has approved a decision transferring $1 billion from the frozen Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) to United Nations' agencies and select international aid groups to support aid operations in the country gripped humanitarian crisis

The ongoing war in Ukraine will significantly impact the tourism industry,  said Maldives’ Tourism Minister Abdullah Mausoom, as tourists from Russia and Ukraine, the two countries at war now, comprise almost 20 percent of the country’s total tourists

The Taliban has banned Afghans from leaving the country, a move that the group claimed was taken after considering the alleged hardships faced by Afghan refugees abroad in camps in different countries