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 […]
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” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kabul (TIP): A year after the Kremlin removed the Taliban from its list of banned terrorist groups, Russia and Afghanistan signed a military cooperation agreement on Wednesday, marking a further step in their expanding ties. […]
Dhaka (TIP): Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has said his government will deliver on both Teesta and Padma River water plans. While the Teesta Water Agreement between India and Bangladesh has been held up since […]
Although tensions between the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and Pakistan have eased in recent weeks, discussions and disputes over relations between the two countries continue. As part of these discussions, Pakistan’s defense minister, in recent […]
Islamabad (TIP): The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has concluded its latest round of discussions with Pakistan, focusing on the country’s economic outlook, upcoming budget plans and the implementation of reforms linked to its ongoing IMF-supported […]
Kabul (TIP): Poverty in Afghanistan continues to deepen, with three in four Afghans – around 28 million people – unable to meet their most basic needs in 2025, as modest economic growth fails to keep […]
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will undertake a three-day official visit to China from May 23, the government announced, amid growing strategic engagement between the two all-weather allies. During the visit from May 23-26, the […]
Islamabad (TIP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday said that the US-Iran war has created significant hurdles for regional economies, including Pakistan, as he urged people to make concerted efforts to transform the country into […]
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan’s Special Envoy to Afghanistan Mohammad Sadiq has said that he held talks on expanding a regional transit framework that bypasses Afghanistan by including Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the Quadrilateral Transit Trade Agreement […]
Islamabad (TIP): China’s push into the global fifth-generation fighter jet market appears to be gathering momentum, with Pakistan emerging as the likely first overseas customer for the newly unveiled J-35AE stealth combat aircraft. The export […]
Kathmandu (TIP): A long-running border dispute between Nepal and India has flared up after New Delhi announced the resumption of a religious pilgrimage through a contested Himalayan pass. Kathmandu’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs lodged a […]
Lahore (TIP): Pakistan’s Punjab government has changed the 97-year-old law by setting 18 years as the minimum legal age for marriage for girls and declaring underage marriage a non-bailable offence. Previously, the minimum legal age […]
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