South Asia
Afghan blasts kill 25, jeopardising peace talks
Twenty-five people were killed in two attacks in Afghanistan Saturday, including one in the capital, with the blasts putting attempts by Kabul ...Two pilots killed as plane crash lands in Nepal
Two pilots were killed when a small passenger plane crash landed in Nepal on Friday but all nine passengers survived, an airport ...23 people killed in Nepal plane crash
Rescue teams in Nepal on Wednesday found the burnt-out wreckage of a passenger plane that went missing in a remote mountainous area ...Delhi faces water crisis as deadly protests hit key source
Much of New Delhi\'s water supply was cut off Monday after members of an influential Indian caste sabotaged a canal as part ...Pakistani Taliban kill nine paramilitary personnel in attacks in northwest
Pakistani Taliban militants on Thursday shot and killed at least nine security forces personnel in two separate attacks in a volatile northwestern ...Afghan civilian casualties top 11,000 to hit record in 2015
Civilian casualties of the war in Afghanistan rose to record levels for the seventh year in row in 2015, as violence spread ...Former Nepal PM Sushil Koirala dies
Nepal\'s former prime minister Sushil Koirala died in Kathmandu aged 77 after a bout of pneumonia.Ethnic protesters in Nepal withdraw border blockade, strike
The main ethnic group that\'s been protesting for months over Nepal\'s new constitution is ending its border blockade and general strike, bringing ...Pakistan police arrest six over child wedding
Police have arrested six people accused of arranging the marriage of a seven-year-old boy and six-year-old girl in eastern Pakistan, officials said ...Three protesters killed in fresh Nepal violence
Police fired on ethnic protesters in southern Nepal on Thursday, killing at least three and wounding eight, in fresh violence likely to ...




