Gen. Miller, commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, while in Kandahar with Afghan security officials this week said: “The violence is too high

The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, has approved a US$5 million Murabaha Financing Facility in favour of national bank, Bank of Maldives (BML) to support the Bank’s private sector businesses, particularly SMEs importing raw materials from the international markets

The United States of America has donated sixty critical care ventilators to the Maldives, to assist the nation in its bid to combat COVID-19

Transport Minister Aishath Nahula has stated that the Maldives will be taking part in the International Maritime Labor Convention and ratifying the move very soon while also developing workers in the field

Ambassadors, diplomats, defence attachés and the representatives of various countries and international organisations visited Jura Sector along the Line of Control (LoC) on Thursday, Radio Pakistan reported

Nepal has directed its security forces and intelligence agencies to keep a close watch on movements of Tibetan refugees owing to ongoing India and China military impasse over border issues, sources said

On Tuesday, doctors at Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital decided to take matters into their own hands as people in an overwhelming number stood in queue for hours to get tested for COVID-19

In a startling revelation that further jolted the anti-establishment image of the main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Army on Wednesday disclosed that former Sindh governor Mohammad Zubair had twice reached out to Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and discussed political and legal woes of deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz in the past few weeks

Senior artists, including those who have previously helped the top art council of the country, have asked Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and the chairman of the apex anti-corruption watchdog, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to launch an urgent probe into an alleged art heist in the heart of the capital

According to an estimate by the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS), Regulations and Coordination, more than 1,200 children between the ages of five to 15 start to smoke every day in Pakistan

Testifying before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the Easter Sunday Attacks Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundera yesterday (23) said the former Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena had stated at the Security Council that all open investigations into Muslim extremists by the police should be stopped and that investigations would be carried out under the then Chief of State Intelligence Nilantha Jayawardena

The Census of Population and Housing in Sri Lanka is conducted every 10 years and in accordance with the powers vested in it by the Census Ordinance, the Department of Census and Statistics plans to conduct the next Census in the year 2021

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that many international trade agreements that have been signed are not favourable for the country, the President’s Media Division said

The primary and mass education ministry on Wednesday also outlined the sectors from where the costs of preparation will come

Bidders need to give bribes in the form of financial benefits, arrange trips and host dinners for government officials in Bangladesh to win public procurement contracts, says a World Bank report