Lahore (TIP): Moved by the plight of a 24-year-old woman who survived an acid attack, an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on December 8 handed down life imprisonment to the two culprits. Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Ijaz […]
Myanmar (TIP): Rohingya refugees sued Facebook parent Meta Platforms for more than USD 150 billion over what they say was the company’s failure to stop hateful posts that incited violence against the Muslim ethnic group […]
Dhaka (TIP): A bomb threat, which forced a Malaysia Airlines flight with 135 passengers on board to make an emergency landing at the Dhaka airport, turned out to be a hoax, a senior airport official […]
Kabul (TIP): Afghanistan’s acting air force commander Mawlawi Amanudin Mansoor has called on the pilots who served under the previous government to return to work and join the current air force. The commander made the […]
Dhaka (TIP): A Bangladeshi court on December 2 sentenced 13 people to death and 19 others to life imprisonment for lynching six students suspecting them of being robbers on the outskirts of the capital ten […]
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan on December 2 summoned a senior diplomat from the Indian High Commission here to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to convey its view that a model’s “bareheaded” photoshoot at the revered Gurdwara […]
Lahore (TIP): A Muslim man and his three sons in Pakistan’s Punjab province have been booked under the tough blasphemy laws over an argument with a cleric who had refused to make an announcement about […]
Colombo (TIP): A ferry with 20 people board capsized in eastern Sri Lanka on November 23, killing at least six students, the Navy said. Six students drowned while 17 others survived by swimming at Kinniya’s […]
Rome (TIP): National Geographic magazine’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the West’s evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country, the Italian government said on November 25. […]
Colombo (TIP): Sri Lanka’s former police chief Pujith Jayasundera was on November 22 indicted with 855 charges of criminal negligence for failing to act despite receiving prior intelligence warnings in the 2019 Easter Sunday terror […]
Islamabad (TIP): An 11-year-old Hindu boy was sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in Pakistan’s Sindh province, according to a media report on Saturday. The boy went missing on Friday evening and his body was later […]
Bangkok (TIP): Myanmar’s state election commission announced it is prosecuting the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and 15 other senior political figures for alleged fraud in last November’s general election. The announcement was […]
Dhaka (TIP): The Supreme Court of Bangladesh has relieved Judge Begum Mosammat Kamrunnahar Nahar of court duties after she made a controversial observation in her judgment that the police should not register a rape case […]
Kabul (TIP): A prominent doctor was kidnapped and killed in northern Afghanistan, his family has said. Mohamed Nader Alemi was abducted two months ago in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, and his kidnappers demanded a ransom […]
London/Karachi (TIP): Nobel Laureate and Pakistani activist for girls’ education Malala Yousafzai has tied the knot with a top-ranked officer of the Pakistan Cricket Board in a small ceremony in the UK. Yousafzai gained international […]
Bangkok (TIP): A court in Myanmar has sentenced two members of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party to 90 years and 75 years in prison after finding them guilty of corruption, their lawyer […]
Islamabad (TIP): Imran Khan on November 10 faced a barrage of questions at a hearing of the 2014 terror attack on an Army-run school during which the Supreme Court (SC) Bench asked the Pakistan Prime […]
Jakarta (TIP): The soldiers in rural Myanmar twisted the young man’s skin with pliers and kicked him in the chest until he couldn’t breathe. Then they taunted him about his family until his heart ached, […]
Lahore (TIP): Tens of thousands of supporters of a banned radical Islamist party in Pakistan took out a march towards Islamabad on October 28 to press the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan to release […]
Jerusalem (TIP): For years, Zebulon Simentov branded himself as the “last Jew of Afghanistan,” the sole remnant of a centuries-old community. He charged reporters for interviews and held court in Kabul’s only remaining synagogue. He […]
Quetta (TIP): Balochistan Awami Party leader, Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo, on October 29 was elected Chief Minister of the restive region of Balochistan, five days after his predecessor Jam Kamal Khan Alyani stepped down from […]
Lahore (TIP): Pakistan’s Opposition parties on October 20 accused Prime Minister Imran Khan of selling gifts he received from other countries’ heads, including an expensive watch worth USD 1 million. Gifts are routinely exchanged between […]
Kathmandu (TIP): The death toll from flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rains in Nepal climbed to 104 on October 21 after 16 more fatalities were reported from various parts of the country, officials said. […]
Dhaka (TIP): Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on October 21 instructed her home minister to initiate immediate action against those who incited violence using religion, as she asked people not to trust anything on social […]
Lahore (TIP): The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on October 21 kept Pakistan on the grey list as it “needs to further demonstrate that investigation and prosecution of proscribed terrorists and terror groups is being […]
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