India and Pakistan don't miss any chances to hit out at each other for either country's acts of omission and commission with strong statements, but this time Pakistan took it a level higher by summoning the seniormost Indian diplomat at the High Commission in Islamabad and asked him to convey their “serious concerns” over hate speeches targeting Muslims at a Hindu politico-religious congregation in the pilgrim town of Haridwar and calling for violence and assassination and against them, the Indian media said

German police have arrested a wanted Sikh radical, Jaswinder Singh Multani, after what Indian media said was more than 72 hours of hectic diplomacy by the Modi government with Berlin

Sri Lanka will temporarily close down three of its missions in Nigeria, Germany and Cyprus in what seems a desperate bid by the government to save its fast-declining foreign currency reserves amid a severe economic crisis

The Modi government has held a real estate summit in Jammu - the first of its kind - to encourage people from across the country to buy land, or a "second home", in Jammu and Kashmir in a move fraught with political implications

When the United States and the Taliban signed the Doha deal in 2020, there were a lot of assumptions regarding the Taliban 2.0— many of these were to be proved wrong later

Weeks after Nepal’s central bank introduced measures to cut imports, traders and importers have hiked the prices of goods, fueling an artificial shortage in the coming days

Food insecurity has risen by around 22 percent in rural Bangladesh in comparison to the pre-pandemic period, finds a survey, indicating people are unable to eat enough and healthy nutritious food

Hundreds of the residents of Panjshir valley, some 90 km north of the Afghan capital Kabul, took out a protest march last week, chanting slogans against the Taliban regime after the group’s fighters shot dead a civilian

A senior leader of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Senator Raza Rabbani, has on Friday questioned the government’s policy of supporting the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan, asking why the government was in haste to support them when the Taliban did "not even recognize the border"

Sri Lanka is heading for an imminent food shortage, warned Uditha K Jayasinghe, who was the country’s agriculture secretary until Thursday and was removed only after he issued a dire — and blunt -  warning

Hailing Bangladesh for its economic rise and "unprecedented political stability" in recent years under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership, Maldivian parliament speaker Mohammed Nasheed termed Dhaka a “tiger economy,” while pointing out its consistent over 7 per cent GDP growth prior to the pandemic

A joint delegation of Turkish and Qatari officials is in Kabul as both countries try to explore the possibility of jointly running five airports in Afghanistan with the ruling Taliban

Bangladesh and the Maldives have on Thursday signed four agreements on multiple sectors as the two South Asian nations seek to enhance cooperation in trade, investment, and connectivity among others during the first official bilateral visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the archipelago

Once a lifeline for the people of the subcontinent, the part of railways that went to Pakistan now stares at a bleak future

During Hasina's visit, 13 armoured vehicles of the Bangladesh Army will be handed over to the Maldives Defense Department as a symbol of friendship, writes Dr Mohammad Tarikul Islam for South Asia Monitor