Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan’s military has said that security forces had killed 54 militants in a series of retaliatory operations across Balochistan after coordinated attacks over the past four days left 42 civilians and security personnel […]
Muzaffarabad (TIP): Tensions in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) have escalated after the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) gave Islamabad a 48-hour ultimatum. JAAC warned of a “grand and final” phase of protests […]
Pakistani politics has been hit by a bombshell with the arrest of Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar’s grandson for alleged abduction and rape of two foreign nationals. Pakistanis are livid over the state of affairs […]
Dhaka (TIP): China has revived a decade-old connectivity dream which may have major implications for India as well. The China-Myanmar-Bangladesh Economic Corridor (CMBC) promises Beijing a new route to the Bay of Bengal. But it […]
Islamabad/New Delhi (TIP): Pakistan, a state sponsor of terror, seems to have found a new way to deflect attention from its record on terrorism. It has turned to a new rallying cry – water, or […]
Brussels (TIP): A Taliban delegation held closed-door talks with European Union officials and representatives of 15 EU countries in Brussels, with discussions centred on diplomatic services and what the Taliban called a “dignified return process” […]
Islamabad (TIP): The name Hangor evokes history. In 1971, Pakistani submarine PNS Hangor sank India’s INS Khukri during the India-Pakistan war. That was the first instance where an Indian Navy warship sank in wartime since […]
Kabul (TIP): Little Afghan girls are being sold in marriage. Taliban’s new family law has normalised child marriage and made it impossible for women to divorce their husbands. In a country where women are kept […]
Islamabad (TIP): Police have arrested the prime suspect in the double murder case involving a Sikh caretaker couple who were shot dead at a gurdwara in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said. Jagannath and wife […]
Kabul (TIP): History appears to be turning a full circle in Afghanistan. Decades after the Soviet Union fought a costly war there, Russia has signed its most significant defence-related agreement with Kabul since the Taliban […]
Islamabad (TIP): {akistan Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir was confident that his multiple backchannel visits to Iran would soon pay rich dividends as both Washington and Tehran were desperate to sign a long-awaited deal […]
Kabul (TIP): A year after the Kremlin removed the Taliban from its list of banned terrorist groups, Russia and Afghanistan signed a military cooperation agreement on Wednesday, marking a further step in their expanding ties. […]
Kabul (TIP): Poverty in Afghanistan continues to deepen, with three in four Afghans – around 28 million people – unable to meet their most basic needs in 2025, as modest economic growth fails to keep […]
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will undertake a three-day official visit to China from May 23, the government announced, amid growing strategic engagement between the two all-weather allies. During the visit from May 23-26, the […]
Islamabad (TIP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday said that the US-Iran war has created significant hurdles for regional economies, including Pakistan, as he urged people to make concerted efforts to transform the country into […]
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan’s Special Envoy to Afghanistan Mohammad Sadiq has said that he held talks on expanding a regional transit framework that bypasses Afghanistan by including Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the Quadrilateral Transit Trade Agreement […]
Islamabad (TIP): China’s push into the global fifth-generation fighter jet market appears to be gathering momentum, with Pakistan emerging as the likely first overseas customer for the newly unveiled J-35AE stealth combat aircraft. The export […]
Kathmandu (TIP): A long-running border dispute between Nepal and India has flared up after New Delhi announced the resumption of a religious pilgrimage through a contested Himalayan pass. Kathmandu’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs lodged a […]
Kathmandu (TIP): Nepal President Ramchandra Paudel on Thursday suspended the session of both houses of Parliament that was scheduled for April 30, a development described by the opposition as “unprecedented and surprising.” The president cited […]
Washington (TIP): US Congressman Brad Sherman has called on Pakistan to clamp down on terror groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which has been linked to the 2025 Pahalgam terror attack. Speaking at an exhibition organised […]
Kabul (TIP): Fresh strikes by Pakistan have damaged several homes in the Sarkano district in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, local media reported. Cross-border hostilities continue to escalate in eastern Afghanistan, with attacks starting around midnight and […]
Islamabad (TIP): US President Donald Trump on April 15 claimed the conflict with Iran was “very close to over”, even as Pakistan intensified back-channel diplomacy with a high-level delegation, led by Army chief Asim Munir, […]
Kathmandu (TIP): Nepal’s government, elected last month on an anti-corruption platform, has formed a commission to investigate the assets of politicians and officials, an official said Thursday. Prime Minister Balendra Shah, a 35-year-old rapper-turned-politician, won […]
Dhaka (TIP): A Bangladesh court has granted bail to Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das in one case, while he remains in custody. The order was issued on Thursday by Judicial Magistrate Shakhawat Hossain in Chattogram […]
Islamabad (TIP): Heavy rain, storms and floods have battered Asian neighbours Afghanistan and Pakistan in the last three weeks, killing at least 222 people, disaster officials in both countries have said. In Afghanistan, which already […]
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