South Asia
Taliban order Afghan women to cover faces again
Afghanistan’s Taliban government ordered women on Saturday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past ...Blast kills more than 50 at Kabul mosque, its leader says
A powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, its leader said, the latest in a ...Shehbaz Sharif elected as Pakistan’s new prime minister
Pakistan’s parliament on Monday elected Shehbaz Sharif prime minister after a week-long constitutional crisis that climaxed on Sunday when his predecessor Imran ...Pakistan Prime Minister Khan removed after vote of no-confidence succeeds
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan lost a confidence vote in parliament on Sunday, the speaker of the lower house said, following desertions ...Pakistani court jails Islamist Hafiz Saeed for an extra 31 years
A Pakistani court has jailed Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed, founder of the militant group blamed by the United States and India for ...Pakistan PM Khan avoids ouster move but uncertainty builds
Imran Khan survived a move to oust him as Pakistan’s prime minister on Sunday, getting a reprieve when the deputy speaker of ...Security tight in Sri Lanka’s capital after state of emergency declared
Police and the military patrolled Sri Lanka’s capital city Colombo as shops slowly opened on Saturday – the first day after a ...Sri Lanka lifts curfew after violent protests over economic crisis
Police in Sri Lanka’s capital lifted a curfew on Friday after protests in which dozens of people were arrested and several policemen ...Taliban orders girl high schools remain closed, leaving students in tears
The Taliban on Wednesday backtracked on their announcement that high schools would open for girls, saying they would remain closed until a ...No country met WHO air quality standards in 2021 – data
Not a single country managed to meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) air quality standard in 2021, a survey of pollution data ...













