In what is seen as a politically significant development, the Maldives Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of former president Abdullah Yameen in a money laundering case where he had been sentenced to five years in prison

Russia and China may have some divergence in their long-term interests in Afghanistan and the region--despite both having a shared aim of getting the US out of Afghanistan--as Moscow’s larger concerns remain currently “muted”, Shyam Saran, India's former foreign secretary, said, suggesting New Delhi needs to keep its ties with Russia in a very "good shape" due to potential  correspondence of interests in the future

Afghanistan's air force, comprising abandoned Russian and American helicopters, held its first military exercises since the Taliban came to power, Afghan media reported

Days after Saudi Arabia, the chair of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), took the initiative to call the extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers of the OIC on Afghanistan, Pakistan has offered to organize the meet in Islamabad

Pakistan appears to have put conditions on the transportation of India’s humanitarian assistance offered to Afghanistan as Islamabad has been insisting on transferring wheat consignments using Pakistani trucks under the UN banner

An enraged mob of Islamic fanatics set fire to a police station in Charsadda in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after police refused to hand over for mob justice a mentally ill man who had burnt a page with a Quranic verse inscribed on it, local media reports was quoted by UNI news agency

In another bid to control the shrinking media space in Afghanistan, the Taliban-led government has issued an order restricting the media outlets from publishing anything against the interest of the Taliban administration

Bangladesh Police seized over 1400 bundles of fake Indian currency worth over Rs seven crore (70 million rupees) from a house in the capital on Saturday, which were produced in Pakistan and was intended to be pushed in India through the border areas of Bangladesh

Pakistan has strongly condemned the recent remark by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on undoing partition, terming it "delusional thinking and historical revisionism"

Pakistan has been pushing a huge quantity of drugs into Jammu and Kashmir in India for funding terror activities, a top police official said, warning that youth in the valley are being sucked into the drug menace in a planned manner

The international community needs to give proper attention to the Rohingya issue, Bangladesh Prime Minister Hasina said, warning that the growing violence and crimes in the refugee camps can soon spread beyond borders

Humla, a northernmost Nepali district along the China border, has been facing severe food shortages as the district has mostly relied on supplies from China, which has not opened its border since the pandemic began in early 2020

Pakistan's rural areas are "thriving" due to bumper crops leading to "record sales of motorcycles", said Shaukat Tarin, Advisor to Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue, citing World Bank's latest data showing a drop in Pakistan's poverty level by 1 per cent

As India sombrely marked the 13th anniversary of the horrific 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks on Friday, New Delhi said Pakistan has shown little sincerity in bringing the perpetrators to justice and called on Islamabad to give up double standards and to expeditiously bring those behind the terror attack to justice

The Bangladesh government has decided to reduce fares of the Bangladesh Road Transport Corporations (BRTC) buses by fifty percent for students who had been protesting the recent hike for weeks now