-- 2022-04-04 19:07:52
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday nominated Gulzar Ahmed, a former chief justice of the country, for the office of the caretaker prime minister. The announcement was made by PTI le...
-- 2022-04-04 18:56:45
Pakistan's top court adjourned on Monday without deciding on the legality of Prime Minister Imran Khan's actions in blocking an opposition attempt to oust him, a move that has led to political turmoil...
-- 2022-04-04 15:14:58
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa dropped his brother as finance minister on Monday after calling for a unity government as protests against an economic crisis persisted and cracks emerged in th...
-- 2022-04-04 10:44:08
China has sent the military and thousands of healthcare workers into Shanghai to help carry out COVID-19 tests for all of its 26 million residents as cases continued to rise on Monday, in one of the c...
-- 2022-04-04 10:35:42
Sri Lanka's cabinet ministers resigned en masse on Sunday after protests over the government's handling of the worst economic crisis in decades. All 26 ministers submitted letters of resi...
-- 2022-04-03 21:59:03
Pakistan's political turmoil deepened on Sunday, when Prime Minister Imran Khan avoided an attempt to oust him and sought fresh elections after dissolving parliament, a move the opposition called trea...
-- 2022-04-03 18:35:40
President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi has approved the dissolution of the national assembly on the advice of Prime Minister Imran Khan. In an address on state TV, Khan said there had been unacceptable i...
-- 2022-04-03 15:54:27
Fresh elections in Pakistan will be held in 90 days, State Minister for Information Farrukh Habib said on Sunday. Habib made the announcement in a tweet, although a final decision will come from the...
-- 2022-04-03 11:19:24
China on Sunday reported a total of 13,287 new daily cases for April 2, the highest level since February 2020, with the majority in northeastern Jilin province and the financial hub of Shanghai which...
-- 2022-04-02 22:44:02
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan suggested on Saturday that he might not accept a vote to oust him, a move he alleged was being orchestrated by the United States. Opposition parties say Khan has f...
-- 2022-04-02 22:24:22
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan - when the faithful fast from dawn to dusk - began at sunrise Saturday in much of the Middle East, where Russia's invasion of Ukraine has sent energy and food prices s...
-- 2022-04-02 19:37:34
Pakistan's army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said on Saturday his country sought to expand its relationship with Washington, a day after Islamabad protested to the US embassy over alleged interfere...
-- 2022-04-02 18:39:53
Sri Lanka's government imposed a weekend curfew on Saturday even as hundreds of lawyers urged President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to revoke a state of emergency to ensure that freedom of speech and peaceful...
-- 2022-04-02 18:24:46
Nepal's Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba met his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and inaugurated the Himalayan nation's only railway link with its southern neighbour on Saturday in a summit meant to...
-- 2022-04-02 10:48:08
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a nationwide public emergency late on Friday following violent protests over the country's worst economic crisis in decades. Rajapaksa said in a gover...
-- 2022-04-01 20:06:08
Five children were killed and two others injured as an explosive device left over from the past wars exploded in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on Friday, the state-run news agency Bakhtar re...
-- 2022-04-01 18:30:23
Malaysia fully reopened its borders on Friday, dropping quarantine requirements for people vaccinated against Covid-19 after two years of strict travel restrictions. The Southeast Asian nation has ma...
-- 2022-04-01 17:10:37
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov began meetings with India's leaders in New Delhi on Friday after seeing his Chinese counterpart earlier in the week, as Moscow tries to keep the Asian powers on...
-- 2022-04-01 14:51:29
Police in Sri Lanka's capital lifted a curfew on Friday after protests in which dozens of people were arrested and several policemen were hurt near the home of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over his ha...
-- 2022-04-01 10:38:07
Police imposed an overnight curfew in several parts of Sri Lanka's main city of Colombo early on Friday after protests over the government's handling of the country's worst economic crisis in decades...
-- 2022-03-31 19:48:02
Pakistan's opposition on Thursday called on Prime Minister Imran Khan to resign ahead of a parliamentary vote which could see the former cricket star ousted and the return of political uncertainty in...
-- 2022-03-31 17:48:32
Sri Lanka is turning off its street lights to save electricity, a minister said on Thursday, as its worst economic crisis in decades brought more power cuts and gloom to its main stock market, trigger...
-- 2022-03-31 12:56:46
The United States continues to violate a United Nations resolution that enshrines a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, despite its claims of wanting to revive the pact, foreign ministry...
-- 2022-03-31 11:47:38
Taiwan's defence ministry has set up a working group to study the tactics of the war in Ukraine, including how the country has been able to hold out against Russia, and has been discussing this with t...
-- 2022-03-30 19:34:37
Moscow and Beijing are "more determined" to develop bilateral ties and boost cooperation, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday following a meeting in eastern China with his Russian count...
-- 2022-03-30 19:14:22
A main ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan quit his ruling coalition on Wednesday after reaching a pact with opposition parties seeking to oust him, signalling Khan may be running out of optio...
-- 2022-03-30 18:54:56
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit New Delhi on Thursday for a two-day trip, the Indian foreign ministry said on Wednesday, as the two countries look for ways to maintain trade and othe...
-- 2022-03-30 17:14:18
Pakistani opposition political parties have introduced a no-confidence vote in parliament seeking the ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan, largely on accusations of economic mismanagement. The bid to...
-- 2022-03-30 13:35:56
Coronavirus infections in Asia passed 100 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, as the region records a resurgence in cases, dominated by the BA.2 omicron sub-variant. The region is rep...
-- 2022-03-30 09:06:13
An Arab gunman killed at least five people in a Tel Aviv suburb on Tuesday before he was fatally shot, the national ambulance service said, in the third deadly attack in Israel in a week. "Israel is...
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