Tag: Asia

Nearly 50 people have been killed across Pakistan after three days of heavy monsoon rain and flash floods. According to Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority, 19 people died in rain-related incidents in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, 12 in southern Sindh province, eight in Punjab province and 10 in the ...

How will it impact Beijing’s global soft power efforts? Will the Indian government’s review hamper ties? The story so far: On July 29, India’s Ministry of Education (previously the Ministry of Human Resource Development) sent a letter to several institutions seeking information about the activities of their Confucius Institutes ...

Pausing to catch her breath, Nadiya Akbar, 16, squats on a rocky precipice overlooking the miniature houses of her village of Wagoora nestled in the valley below. Since last August, Ms Akbar has had too much time to think. A high-achiever at her government school in Jammu and Kashmir, ...

India's defence ministry has warned, in a statement since removed from its website, that a military standoff with China that began with border fighting in June is likely to be a long one, despite multiple rounds of talks between the nuclear-armed rivals to defuse the tension. The ministry said ...

Pitching for peace and stability in Jammu and Kashmir, the union territory's new lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha on Friday said the administration would soon initiate direct dialogue with the people to end the situation of uncertainty and the menace of terrorism. Talking to reporters after ...

In early July, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced that Tehran is close to entering into a long-term strategic partnership agreement with Beijing. A few weeks later, Indian media reported that Tehran has "dropped New Delhi" from a key rail project along its border with Afghanistan after "it ...

Dozens of people have been wounded after a grenade explosion at a pro-Kashmir march in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, according to local officials. Wednesday's attack in the Gulshan-i-Iqbal area targeted a rally organised by Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), one of Pakistan's major religious parties. The provincial health department said in a statement at least 39 ...

Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistani Prime Minister has reiterated a call for the world community to intervene in the Kashmir dispute by demanding Kashmiris' right to self-determination be implemented, one year after New Delhi revoked a special constitutional status for, and imposed a siege on, Indian-administered Kashmir. Khan addressed the legislative ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a plaque on Wednesday to kick off the construction of a Hindu temple in the northern city of Ayodhya on a spot where a mosque was demolished nearly 30 years ago, prompting deadly riots nationwide. Modi offered prayers to nine stone blocks with ...

Despite the coronavirus restricting a large crowd, Hindus rejoiced as Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke ground on Wednesday on a long-awaited temple of their most revered god Ram at the site of a demolished 16th century mosque in northern India. Mr Modi offered prayers to nine stone blocks with ...