Pakistan continues to be a major target of terrorism, most recently demonstrated by the attack on Bacha Khan University, which killed 20 people. Only a week before, three attacks in close succession at a UN-backed […]
SYDNEY (TIP): Australian church leaders on february 4 said they would offer sanctuary to asylum seekers facing removal to a remote Pacific detention camp, vowing to defy the government’s harsh immigration rules. The asylum seekers, […]
QIAN’AN/DONGGUAN (TIP): This year, laborer Fan Fu and 20 or so colleagues working on the Zixia Garden apartment complex in Hebei province have not joined China’s legion of migrant workers returning home to celebrate new […]
MUZAFFARABAD (TIP): Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, on Wednesday praised last month’s terror attack at Indian Air Force’s base in Pathankot and encouraged similar attacks against India. Addressing […]
LAHORE (TIP): Even as Pakistan has reportedly asked for more evidence from India in the Pathankot airbase terror attack, terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) has openly dared India once again. According to an article reportedly published […]
KABUL (TIP): As the Afghan government goes into a new spell of talks with the Taliban on Saturday, Kabul appears to have “dropped” the “red lines” that had earlier defined the Kabul-Taliban negoitiatons. Violence by […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Lifting an unofficial ban, Sri Lanka’s national anthem was on Thursday sung in Tamil at a ceremony here to mark the the country’s independence day, in an effort to achieve reconciliation with the […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): An unwieldy coalition of lawmakers trying to implement Nepal’s first democratic constitution is finding common cause with protesting minority groups, isolating Prime Minister KP Oli and increasing the risk his government could fall […]
BANGKOK: Add aging western bridge players to the list of desperadoes in Thailand’s seaside resort of Pattaya, a sin city rife with prostitution, corruption and foreign and home-grown gangsters. The bridge players, mostly British but […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan on January 28 accused India of “hurling unsubstantiated terror allegations” at it, saying it undermines efforts to eliminate terrorism from the region in a “collaborative manner”. At his weekly news briefing here, […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal may have some differences with India but can never show enmity towards the country, deputy prime minister CP Mainali said on January 27, in a climbdown from his earlier hardline stance. “There […]
DHAKA (TIP): Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, head of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was ordered on Monday to appear in court to answer the charge of sedition, a move her supporters said […]
KABUL (TIP): As the fate of Helmand Province hung in the balance last month during a withering Taliban offensive, the province’s deputy governor, Mohammad Jan Rasoolyar, found his urgent pleas for help from the central […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Islamabad high court has dismissed two petitions seeking voices samples of seven 26/11 accused facing trial in Pakistan besides declaring two others, including executed terrorist Ajmal Kasab, as absconders. Embed from Getty […]
SYDNEY (TIP): China is set to join the underwater search for a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet missing for almost two years by providing a sonar-equipped vessel by the end of February, Australia’s deputy prime minister […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A hotline between the director general of military operations (DGMO) in Indian and Chinese armies is likely to come up within months. “Surveys were carried out to set up the hotlines between the […]
JAKARTA (TIP): Indonesians were shaken but refusing to be cowed a day after a deadly attack in a busy district of central Jakarta that has been claimed by the Islamic State group. In a new […]
BEIJING (TIP): Five people were killed and seven injured January 14 in an explosion at a fireworks factory in central China just weeks ahead of the Chinese New Year, authorities said. The Tongxu county government […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia: The secretary general of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has condemned the bombings and gun attacks in Jakarta and expressed “his solidarity with the government and people of Indonesia.” A statement released by […]
BEIJING: Days after China passed a new law that for the first time permits its military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations, its marines began exercises in the western deserts of Xinjiang, more than 2,000 […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The dreaded Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack on a Pakistani media house that had injured one person. Unidentified assailants riding a motorbike lobbed a hand grenade on ARY […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan on Wednesday set up a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) comprising security and military officials to probe whether any Pakistani individual or organization was involved in the Pathankot terror attack in India. The […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal’s last monarch Gyanendra Shah has not paid his electricity dues for the last 10 years, the state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority said on Wednesday. Gyanendra, after vacating the Narayan Hiti Royal Palace here […]
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s new government on Saturday presented its plan for a new constitution aimed at devolving power and preventing the sort of ethnic tensions that led to a long and bitter civil war that […]
Taiwan’s voters go to the polls on Saturday to choose a new president and parliament. This year an unusual candidate is running for MP. Freddy Lim is the lead singer of the Taiwanese heavy-metal band […]
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