COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka appears set to avoid an international inquiry into atrocities committed during its lengthy civil war if a new UN resolution is adopted next week. Colombo has lobbied successfully for a watering-down […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Former US president Jimmy Carter who has been diagnosed with cancer will travel to quake-hit Nepal to build homes with 1,500 volunteers in November. In August, 90-year-old Carter said he had been diagnosed […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa was Sept 25 questioned by a special anti-corruption panel for allegedly not paying Rs 10.1 million dues to a state-owned TV channel for carrying out his 2015 […]
KABUL (TIP): A terror attack was foiled in Afghan capital Kabul following tight security measures taken in the city ahead of Eid al-Adha celebrations, the media reported on Sept 20. According to Kabul police Chief […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Terming the Kashmir dispute as the main reason of tension with India, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has urged New Delhi to hold talks on all issues, including Kashmir. The issue should also […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Gunmen attacked a Pakistani air force base in the volatile northwestern city of Peshawar early on September 18, a military spokesman said, the first major attack in several weeks. A group of between […]
GENEVA (TIP): The United Nations commissioner for human rights, Zeid Raad al-Hussein, on September 15 called for the creation of a special court to investigate the war crimes committed during Sri Lanka’s 25-year-long insurgency in […]
GHAZNI (TIP): Taliban insurgents stormed a prison in Afghanistan’s Ghazni on September 12 , killing police and releasing more than 350 inmates, including nearly 150 deemed a threat to national security , and then at […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal on september 12 entered the final phase of promulgating its new Constitution with the three major parties going ahead with clause-wise voting on the final draft of the statute despite a boycott […]
HOPONE, Myanmar: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi over the weekend appealed to ethnic rebel groups in nationwide ceasefire talks with the government not to rush the deal, but work slowly on an agreement […]
A US drone strike in Pakistan’s volatile South Waziristan tribal region today killed at least seven militants and injured two others. “A vehicle close to a militant compound was the target of the strike in […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan on Sept 10 reiterated its stance for talks with India saying there would be no talks with New Delhi unless the issue of Kashmir was on the agenda. “Any formal talks with […]
KARACHI (TIP): Police in Pakistan say gunmen have shot dead two journalists in separate attacks in the country’s violent port city of Karachi in the last 24 hours. Police say the first attack on Sept […]
MALE, MALDIVES (TIP): A team of human rights lawyers said Sept 10 they will seek international sanctions and travel bans against the Maldives as part of its efforts to secure the release of the country’s […]
LOIKAW (Myanmar) (TIP): Thousands thronged to see Aung San Suu Kyi’s first rally on Sept 10 as the Myanmar opposition leader launched her bid for historic November elections by touring a remote eastern region seen […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Ang Kami Sherpa is one of Nepal’s most experienced “ice doctors” — the mountaineers who brave Mount Everest’s treacherous Khumbu icefall to prepare it for the climbing season — but even he is […]
KARACHI (TIP): A Pakistani court on September 3 rejected a petition to send back to India a deaf-mute woman who lost her family when she wandered over one of the world’s most militarized borders as […]
DHAKA (TIP): Five militants of an al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Bangladesh were today charged with murder for hacking to death an atheist blogger who is among the four secular writers killed in brutal attacks this […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Two months after foreign countries and international agencies pledged $4.1 billion to help Nepal recover from its worst natural disaster, the government has yet to make arrangements to receive the money and has […]
DHAKA (TIP): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused Pakistan, the US and Canada of non-cooperation in repatriating the fugitive convicted killers of her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. “(Of the convicts’ sacked lieutenant colonels) Rashid, […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka’s Parliament on September 3 recognized an ethnic Tamil lawmaker as the opposition leader for the first time in decades in what is seen a positive step toward postwar reconciliation with the […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Four murder convicts were hanged to death on September 3 in separate jails in Pakistan’s Punjab province, the media reported. Three of the convicts – Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Boota, and Faqeer Muhammad – […]
Islamabad: Pakistan is likely to persuade Afghanistan to resume talks with the Taliban after their parleys were snapped due to power struggle within the militant group following the death of its chief Mullah Omar. Pakistan Prime Minister’s […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least 13 people were killed and 16 injured in two separate road accidents in Pakistan on August 25, local media reported. Samaa TV said that in the first accident, a van-oil tanker […]
HERAT (TIP): At least 11 people, most of them children, were killed in a series of explosions at an Afghan gas storage facility, which triggered a massive inferno in a nearby settlement for displaced people, […]
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