• 

  Imran Khan backs off from threat to shut down capital

  Reuters . Islamabad | Updated at 12:29am on November 02, 2016

  Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan backed down from a threat to paralyse the capital on Wednesday, a move likely to ease tension that has spilled...

• 

  10 dead in ship-breaking yard blast in Pakistan

  Reuters | Updated at 07:05pm on November 01, 2016

  At least 10 Pakistani workers were killed and more than 50 injured on Tuesday by huge blast in an oil tanker at a ship-breaking yard,...

• 

  19 killed in latest India-Pakistan border firing

  Reuters | Updated at 05:39pm on November 01, 2016

  India and Pakistan on Tuesday tallied at least 19 deaths in recent firing across their disputed border in Kashmir, where the nuclear-armed neighbours are engaging...

• 

  Indian police shoot dead eight Islamists after prison escape

  Reuters | Updated at 09:10pm on October 31, 2016

  Indian police shot dead eight Islamist prisoners who had escaped from jail hours earlier on Monday by using knotted bedsheets to scale the walls, officials...

• 

  Nepal drains dangerous Everest lake

  BBC | Updated at 10:32am on October 31, 2016

  Nepal's army says it has finished draining a dangerous glacial lake near Mount Everest to a safe level...

• 

  India destroys four posts along contested border with Pakistan

  Reuters | Updated at 12:25pm on October 30, 2016

  The Indian army said it had destroyed four Pakistani military posts on Saturday along its contested border, the latest escalation of tensions between the nuclear-armed...

• 

  Gunmen kill four at Shiite Muslim gathering in Pakistan

  Reuters | Updated at 09:02pm on October 29, 2016

  Gunmen on motorcycles killed at least four people at a religious gathering of Shiite Muslims in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, on Saturday, police said, in...

• 

  Two Indian soldiers killed along disputed Kashmir frontier

  Associated Press | Updated at 01:20pm on October 29, 2016

  Officials say two Indian soldiers have been killed in fighting with Pakistani soldiers and suspected militants along the volatile frontier in...

• 

  Indian shelling across Line of Control in Pakistan kills three civilians

  Reuters | Updated at 07:49pm on October 28, 2016

  Three civilians, including a young girl, were killed as Indian troops continued to shell villages along the Line of Control in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Friday,...

• 

  India, Pakistan each expel a diplomat amid rising tensions

  Associated Press | Updated at 09:25am on October 28, 2016

  Pakistan and India on Thursday each expelled a diplomat from the other country in an exchange amid escalating tensions between the two South Asian archrivals...