South Asia
Sri Lanka welcomes US tariff reduction
COLOMBO, July 24 (TIP) : Sri Lanka on Friday, July 24, welcomed the US decision of lowering to 10 per cent the tariff on goods imported from the island nation saying it will send a […]
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Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin resigns
Dhaka (TIP): Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin has resigned two years ahead the end of his full five-year term. Shahabuddin, 76, cited health reasons for his decision on Friday. The move comes amid rising demand from […]
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Pakistan’s nuclear past casts a shadow over US-Saudi Arabia deal
Islamabad (TIP): Two decades ago, President George W Bush stood at a joint news conference with President Pervez Musharraf on the grounds of the presidential palace, the Aiwan-e-Sadar, in Islamabad. Ducks splashed in a flower-filled […]
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Car bomb attack kills 27 in northwest Pakistan
Islamabad (TIP): A suicide attack on a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan has killed 27 people, including soldiers, police and gunmen, the army reported. The overnight attack was near the Afghan border in the restive […]
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Bangladesh: DB hands over fugitive Retd Major Muzaffar Hossain, accused in ex-President Rahman murder case, to army
Dhaka (TIP): The Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has handed over Major (Retd) Muzaffar Hossain (77), a fugitive accused in the assassination case of Former President Ziaur Rahman, to the Army. […]
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EU report raises rights concerns as Pak reaps billions in trade benefits
Muzaffarabad (TIP): Pakistan pocketed roughly Euro 732 million in EU tariff exemptions last year as the top beneficiary of Europe’s GSP+ trade scheme, but a new joint assessment from the European Commission and the EU’s […]
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Pakistan lodges protest with Japan over reference to cross-border terrorism in India-Japan joint statement
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan has formally lodged a strong diplomatic protest with Japan over its decision to explicitly refer to “cross-border terrorism from Pakistan” in the India-Japan Annual Summit Joint Statement, underscoring Tokyo’s growing alignment with […]
Asia
54 militants, 38 security personnel killed in Balochistan attacks this week
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 […]
Asia
PoK faces showdown as JAAC ultimatum raises tensions
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 […]
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Pakistan Deputy PM Ishaq Dar’s grandson arrested for rape & kidnapping
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 […]
Asia
After Pak, it’s Bangladesh, Myanmar: China plans new corridor bordering India
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 […]
Asia
Why Pakistan, not India, is to blame for its own water crisis
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 […]
Asia
Taliban holds first Brussels talks with EU on Afghan returns amid outcry
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” […]
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Pakistani rights activist Mahrang Baloch sentenced to life in prison
QUETTA (TIP): A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has sentenced prominent civil rights activist Mahrang Baloch and an associate to life in prison over the killing of a paramilitary soldier during a July 2024 protest. Baloch’s lawyer […]
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French woman, 5 children held captive by Pakistani man for 12 years, rescued
Islamabad (TIP): A French woman who spent more than a decade cut off from the outside world, trapped inside a remote home in Pakistan with her five children, has finally been rescued after one of […]
Asia
Pak plans to deploy submarines in Bay of Bengal, a first since 1971
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 […]
Asia
Taliban’s family law makes divorce harder, child marriage easier in Afghanistan
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 […]
Asia
Prime suspect in Sikh couple murder case in Pakistan arrested
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 […]
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B’desh deploys armed villagers along border
Dhaka (TIP): The Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) has deployed armed village defence volunteers at several locations along the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal and Tripura amid growing tensions over undocumented migration, cross-border infiltration and alleged […]
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Pakistan Army guns down 16 protesters in POK’s Rawalakot as demonstrations intensify
Islamabad (TIP): At least 16 protesters were killed and more than 37 others injured after Pakistani Army personnel and Rangers opened fire on a large crowd of demonstrators in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir’s (POK) Rawalakot, sources said […]
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Pakistanis build mosque illegally in Japan, embarrassments follow
Kawagoe city (TIP): For Pakistan’s diaspora in Japan, a mosque built illegally in Kawagoe city has become a matter of predicament. The mosque, inaugurated in April in the presence of Pakistan’s Ambassador to Japan, Abdul […]
Asia
As Pak turns US stooge, Afghan Taliban lean on Russia; history comes full circle
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 […]
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Pak men who gang-raped French tourist in front of her children to be executed
Islamabad (TIP): A Pakistani court has upheld the death sentences of two men convicted of gang-raping a French tourist in front of her three children after her car ran out of fuel on a motorway […]
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IMF clears £512 million payout for Sri Lanka as recovery faces fresh pressure
Colombo (TIP): International Monetary Fund has approved fresh funding worth around £512 million ($695 million) for Sri Lanka as the country continues navigating a fragile economic recovery shaped by rising oil prices, geopolitical tensions and […]
Asia
Pak’s role in West Asia conflict mirrors a familiar pattern—use and discard by the US
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 […]