New Delhi, Aug 3 — Amidst Pakistan’s internal challenges, including political polarisation and economic crisis that are weakening institutions, and unrest in its provinces exposing the failures of centralisation, the shadow of 1971 looms large. Ignoring regional voices, analysts warn, could lead to…
Tehran, Aug 3 — Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday that negotiations between Iran and Oman are focused on reaching an agreement on designating a "temporary" route to ensure safe shipping in the Strait of Hormuz."The negotiations have been focused on the idea that the…
Taipei, Aug 3 — The possibility of China's invasion of Taiwan is a scenario openly practised in military exercises launched by Beijing and based in its political doctrine. Taiwan cannot depend only on its distant allies, and its survival relies on having a defence partnership with Japan, a report…
Quetta, Aug 3 — The Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) has claimed that as many as 97 Pakistani military personnel and five alleged informants were killed while 15 other military personnel were injured in 48 operations carried out by the group in Balochistan last month, local media reported on…
Islamabad, Aug 3 — The death toll from the suicide bombing at Kabal Police Station in Swat district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has risen to 17 after two more injured police personnel succumbed to their injuries, local media reported on Monday. Police authorities said that two police…
New Delhi, Aug 3 — The situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) worsened overnight as protesters refused to disperse and security forces allegedly opened fire on demonstrators.Reports from PoK said that the security forces launched a midnight crackdown on protesters, with gunfire reported in…
Dhaka, Aug 3 — People in Dhaka and other areas of Bangladesh have been facing hardships as many compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered auto-rickshaws and public transport vehicles have not been operating due to an ongoing gas shortage in the country, local media reported on Monday. Transport…
Islamabad, Aug 3 — Amid the ongoing unrest in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) has shared a video on social media platform X showing Pakistani forces dragging and assaulting an unarmed civilian on the road in Muzaffarabad city of the occupied territory. The…
New Delhi, Aug 3 — Uzbekistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Saidov Bakhtiyor Odilovich called on President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Monday. During the meeting, the two leaders agreed that the visit offers an opportunity to identify new areas of bilateral cooperation and…
Kathmandu, Aug 3 — Nepal has formally requested India to recognise its National Identity Card (NID) as a valid travel document for cross-border travel, aiming to strengthen identity verification and security while facilitating the movement of people between the two countries, a senior immigration…
New Delhi, Aug 3 — Users in Pakistan have taken to social media platforms to express outrage over what they describe as the blocking of access to one of the international media outlets in the country following its coverage of recent developments in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Several users…
Seoul, Aug 3 — South Korea and the United States on Monday launched a joint underwater excavation project in waters off the country's eastern coast to find wreckage of US aircraft that went down during the 1950-53 Korean War, Seoul's defence ministry said. The project, which is scheduled to run…
Cairo, Aug 3 — A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck northeast of Sharm el-Sheikh early Monday, Egypt's National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics said. The earthquake occurred at around 3:00 a.m. local time (0000 GMT) at a depth of 10 km, with its epicentre located at 30.19 degrees north…
Seoul, Aug 3 — South Korea's Navy said on Monday it carried out its first mine-sweeping trial using artificial intelligence (AI) technology and unmanned vessels, as it seeks to advance its future maritime operational capabilities. The trial, jointly led by South Korean defence company Hanwha…
Havana, Aug 3 — Cuba was hit by another nationwide blackout, the National Electric Union said. The union said in a statement on social media that the country's national power system experienced a total disconnection at 22:43 local time (0243 GMT) on Sunday.A partial collapse of Cuba's National…
Seoul, Aug 3 — South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung returned home on Monday from an 11-day overseas tour that included meetings with the heads of leading US tech firms and summits with the presidents of three South American nations. The trip first took Lee to San Francisco, where he met with…
London, Aug 3 — A tanker reported hearing an explosion in close proximity to the vessel near the eastern entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, though both the vessel and its crew were reported safe, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said. According to a UKMTO advisory on Sunday, the…
Seoul, Aug 3 — South Korea's main opposition People Power Party (PPP) on Monday called on President Lee Jae Myung to veto a recently passed bill aimed at abolishing the prosecution's direct investigative powers. PPP lawmakers made the appeal as they held a meeting of the party's Supreme Council…
Sydney, Aug 3 — One teenage boy has died, and three others have been hospitalised under police guard after an alleged stolen vehicle they were travelling in crashed north of Sydney on Monday morning. According to police, the vehicle left the road and crashed into a field 110 km north of Sydney…
Seoul, Aug 3 — South Korea's defence ministry on Monday launched a new counterintelligence unit tasked with countering espionage and terror threats from North Korea and elsewhere, as part of a sweeping overhaul aimed at replacing a former unit long dogged by criticism over its political influence.…
Budapest, Aug 3 — Hungary is entering its "most critical 5 days" as dropping water levels on the Danube River threaten the complete shutdown of the Paks nuclear power plant amid an extreme heatwave, Hungary's Prime Minister Peter Magyar has said, warning that the plant could be shut down for more…