A bombing at a football match killed three people and injured 11 others on Monday in eastern Afghanistan, a police official told AFP, as the Taliban announced an end to a partial truce in the country.

Bangladeshi security officials on Monday fatally shot seven suspected members of a Rohingya refugee gang allegedly involved in drug dealing and human trafficking, officials said.

The Taliban said Monday they were resuming offensive operations against Afghan security forces, ending the partial truce that preceded the signing of a deal between the insurgents and Washington.

India is ready to share with Bangladesh any military hardware being manufactured in the country for India's defence forces, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Monday as he underlined the potential for robust defence cooperation between the two neighbours.

The incumbent Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government has decided to seek the deportation of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from London, where he is undergoing treatment, a media report said.

A Pakistani doctor who played a key role in the capture of former Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden, on Monday launched a hunger strike inside a jail, alleging that appeals against his prison sentence have been delayed repeatedly.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshis said that any reservations Afghanistan had with Islamabad should be resolved bilaterally rather than involving the United States, Dawn reported.

Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to arrive here on March 17 to join the mega event of birth centenary celebration of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Bangladesh Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has rescheduled her four-day visit to India amid ongoing unrest over their Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Md. Tarik Mahmud, director (PR-1) of the parliament secretariat, confirmed the information through a statement last night, The Independent reported.

The Modi government has adopted a pro-active security strategy with zero tolerance to terrorism and India is now globally respected as the only country apart from the US and Israel capable of avenging the blood of its soldiers by launching air or surgical strikes in the home of the enemy, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said

India's Union Minister for Commerce and Industries Piyush Goyal called on the King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in Thimpu.

Pakistan has confirmed two more cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of the infected people in the country to four, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Zafar Mirza has said.

Pakistan has welcomed the signing of the historic agreement between the US and Taliban as a major step towards peace in Afghanistan after more than 18 years of war and hoped that the Afghan factions would avail this opportunity to reach a mutual accommodation.

Twelve eminent citizens of Bangladesh have expressed grave concern over the communal clashes going on in Delhi over the new citizenship law and  urged people of Bangladesh to maintain communal harmony in this country

India will be witness to the US-Taliban peace deal that will be signed in Doha, Qatar on Saturday the Hindu reported citing official source.