South Asia
Taliban warn Afghans not to participate in presidential election
The Taliban has warned Afghans not to participate in the upcoming presidential election and has ordered its fighters to disrupt the vote.Afghanistan district chief killed in blast
Officials in eastern Afghanistan say a bomb blast has struck the vehicle of a district chief, killing him.NATO airstrike kills at least 5 Afghan soldiers
Five Afghan soldiers were killed in an air strike by the NATO-led force in Afghanistan on. Thursday in eastern Logar province, a ...Pakistan prime minister meets with pro-Taliban team
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met Thursday with Taliban representatives, in an attempt to energize faltering talks aimed at ending the country\'s ...Nepal forces Everest climbers to clean up
Nepal government has ordered mountaineers climbing Mount Everest to bring back at least 8kg each of litter on their way back.At least 11 killed in suicide attack on Pakistani court
A group of armed men, including two suicide attackers, stormed a court complex in the Pakistani capital on Monday in a rare ...US warns Afghanistan of complete troop pullout without security deal
The US president, Barack Obama, has told his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai that he is preparing a contingency plan to withdraw all ...Pakistan air strikes on militant hideouts kill at least 30
Pakistan\'s military have launched air strikes against suspected militant hideouts in the north-west, killing at least 30 people, officials say.Burqa-wearing gunmen attack Afghan police
Afghan officials said militants disguised as women have attacked a police compound near Kabul, killing one police officer and wounding at least ...Indian state to release killers of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi
The chief minister of an Indian state on Wednesday ordered the release of all seven people jailed for plotting the assassination of ...




