KABUL: Military raid has killed at least 12 people including children, 14 injured in an attack near the northeastern province of Takhar, provincial officials said. The strike on a village in northeastern Takhar province on Wednesday came as Afghan security forces clashed with suspected Taliban ...

NASHVILLE: The final debate between United States (US) presidential nominees Donald Trump and Joe Biden did not bring good news for India as the US president described India as ‘filthy’. The reference to India was made by Donald Trump during the second and final presidential debate. “Look ...

BEIJING: President Xi Jinping has issued a sharp warning to potential “invaders” of Beijing’s military resolve, speaking on the 70th anniversary of his nation’s entry into the Korean War, the only time Chinese forces have fought US rivals. In a long speech on Friday, heavy on patriotism ...

ISLAMABAD – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says Pakistan has been playing its reconciliatory role in Afghan peace process with sincerity. Talking to Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in Islamabad on Monday, the Foreign Minister said Prime Minister Imran ...

NEW DELHI – The Indian Army is now questioning a Chinese soldier, captured in the disputed border region of Ladakh, he is likely to be handed over to the Chinese armed forces later, a statement on Monday. "A PLA soldier identified as Corporal Wang Ya Long was apprehended in the Demchok sector ...

NEW DELHI – India says it has test-fired a naval version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, which the South Asian country has jointly developed and produced with Russia. "BrahMos, the supersonic cruise missile was successfully test fired today from Indian Navy's indigenously-built ...

LAHORE/NEW DELHI – Indian opposition leader Shashi Tharoor has taken on the Narendra Modi led government for failing to handle the COVID-19 pandemic in the South Asian country, accuse the ruling BJP of unnecessarily targeting Tablighi Jamaat. Speaking at the Lahore Literature Festival via video ...

ISLAMABAD –The leader of Hezb-e-Islami of Afghanistan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar along with a delegation is arriving Islamabad on Monday on three-day visit to Pakistan. According to the country’s Foreign Office, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar will call on President Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Imran Khan as ...

Azerbaijan on Sunday shot down another Armenian Su-25 fighter jet, according to the country's Defense Ministry – the second Su-25 to be downed in as many days. In a statement, the ministry said the Su-25 attack aircraft was trying to launch airstrikes on Azerbaijani positions in the Jabrayil ...

BEIJING - The construction of the China-Pakistan Health Corridor and the cooperation between China and Pakistan in the field of health can directly benefit the people’s livelihood in Pakistan, Cheng Xizhong, visiting professor at Southwest University of Political Science and Law said ...