Tag: South Asia

Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif named his brother Shahbaz, the chief minister of Punjab province, as his successor and ...

Sri Lanka on Saturday sealed a billion-dollar deal to let a Chinese state firm take over a loss-making port in ...

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was Friday ousted from the top office by the Supreme Court, but as the head ...

Pakistan police on Thursday arrested four more men involved in the rape of a teenage girl as punishment for a ...

Sitting in her Karachi home, Jamshed Jahan Ara looks straight into the camera as she explains in a trembling voice ...

Fourteen members of a Pakistani village council have been arrested for ordering the rape of a teenage girl as punishment ...

China warned on Monday that it will step up its troop deployment in a border dispute with India, vowing to ...

A Pakistan app-based taxi service has launched an unusual add on, offering passengers the chance to share their ride with ...

India's stand in its border dispute with China is supported by other countries, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said Thursday as ...

Surging global demand for Asian exports and low oil prices will help China and the region's developing economies grow faster ...

The US State Department said Wednesday that global terror incidents and deaths fell last year, while it maintained its designation ...

Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 65,000 years, longer than previously thought, roaming the area alongside giant ...

From the tiny chihuahua to the massive Saint Bernard, domestic dogs today trace their roots to a single group of ...

Pope Francis is unlikely to visit India and Bangladesh this year as widely expected, a senior church official said Tuesday, ...

A business-as-usual approach to climate change will be "disastrous" for Asia, undoing much of the phenomenal economic growth that has ...

Pakistan will raise the rate of contraception use to at least 50 percent within the next three years, the health ...

Eleven migrant labourers died of asphyxiation in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in a fire that engulfed the windowless house they ...

China's ambassador has said the withdrawal of Indian troops from disputed territory is a "precondition" for peace, in an apparent ...

One of Bangladesh's most prominent government critics went missing on Monday after calling his wife to tell her he feared ...

New Delhi is hoping to privatise Air India to make the ailing national carrier more competitive, but experts say debts ...