LAHORE (TIP): Over 100 Christians have been arrested for allegedly being part of a mob that lynched two men after Taliban suicide attacks on two churches here in Pakistan’s biggest Christian colony that killed 17 people. Confirming […]
BEIJING (TIP): Sri Lanka’s new president held talks March 26 with Chinese leader Xi Jinping amid a push to recalibrate his predecessor’s strongly pro-China policies and a review of major Chinese projects in the island […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistani jet fighters killed 30 militants allied to the Pakistani Taliban in a missile attack in the mountainous northwestern Khyber region on March 24, including the group’s spokesman, intelligence officials said. The air […]
COLOMBO (TIP): A lawyer says Maldives’ jailed ex-president Mohamed Nasheed will not appeal his 13-year sentence because the court has not released all documents from the first hearing to prepare a case. Hassan Latheef said […]
KABUL, Afghanistan: Hundreds marched on Monday in the Afghan capital, demanding justice for a woman beaten to death last week by a Kabul mob over false allegations she had burned a Quran — a vicious […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least 34 militants were killed on March 18 when fighter jets pounded their positions in the restive northwestern tribal region, the Pakistani military said. Pakistan intensified operations against Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants after […]
KANDAHAR (TIP): A suicide bomber wearing a burqa blew himself up in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing an influential provincial police chief, officials said March 19. The Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for the death of […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): At least 18 people, including a three-month-old baby, were killed and 11 others injured today when a bus skidded off from a rain-drenched mountain road in northwestern Nepal. The bus was heading for […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe has again said that his country’s navy has the right to shoot anyone who intrudes into its territorial waters, notwithstanding India’s forthright disapproval. “The Lankan navy has […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan government on Wednesday said it may lift the ban on Tamil diaspora groups imposed by the previous Mahinda Rajapaksa regime to achieve reconciliation with the minority community. Foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistani authorities sacked some people having “negative tendencies” working with the country’s sensitive nuclear programme to keep it safe, according to a report. “We filtered out people having negative tendencies that could have […]
TIP Bureau report: Pakistan Taliban’s Outfit called Jamatul Ahrar carried out two bomb blasts targeting two local churches in Lahore which have killed at least 10 people, local officials say. According to local media the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Obama on Wednesday nominated career diplomat David Hale as the US ambassador to Pakistan amid continuous misgivings about the country’s commitment to fight terrorism, fueled by new disclosures that Islamabad tried to […]
LONDON (TIP): A domestic inquiry into alleged war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan civil war may be set up in less than a month, President Maithripala Sirisena said on his trip to Britain. He, […]
TORONTO (TIP): Canadian immigration officials have arrested a Pakistani man who they say was plotting to attack the US consulate and other buildings in Toronto’s financial district. The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada said […]
DHAKA (TIP): The wife of an American blogger and critic of religious extremism who was hacked to death in Dhaka last month said that police stood nearby when the couple were attacked on a university […]
LETPADAN, MYANMAR (TIP): Myanmar police beat students with batons and detained some of them as they broke up a group of about 200 protesters who had been locked in a standoff with security forces for […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has inaugurated a new session of parliament, praising the country’s security forces in his speech. Ghani made an address Saturday as parliament reconvened. He said insurgents who tried to […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan’s former army chief Gen Pervez Musharraf kept Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in the dark about the Kargil operation in 1999 despite the latter heading forces responsible for guarding Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, according to […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A human shield was formed at the Holi celebrations at Swami Narayan Temple in Karachi to show solidarity with and protect Hindus in attendance. The National Students Federation (NSF) organized the formation of a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): FBI has agreed to help in the invetigation of the murder of American blogger Avijit Roy who was assassinated in Dhaka. Avijit Roy, who critisized religious extremism in his writings, was killed […]
KARACHI (TIP): A lawyer from Pakistan’s minority Shia sect, who was a counsel for several activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, was shot on March 6 dead by unidentified gunmen here with police suspecting it […]
KATHMANDU )TIP): Nearly 240 people on board a Turkish Airlines jet had a lucky escape when the plane missed the runway on landing in dense fog at the Kathmandu airport on March 04 and skidded […]
ZURICH (TIP): Sri Lankan President Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisawa got the good news that his country has been given a six-month reprieve by the UN Human Rights Council during his visit to India this month. […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The famous green-eyed ‘Afghan girl’ immortalized by the National Geographic magazine on its 1985 cover has been living in Pakistan on fake documents, prompting authorities to launch a probe. Four officials were suspended […]
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