At least four people were killed and two persons sustained injuries after a bomb exploded in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan in Pakistan, on Sunday. The explosion took place within the vicinity of Shalkot police station, reported ARY News. Police officials informed

At least seven people have died and more than 50 injured after an explosion during a class at a religious school in Pakistan, police have said. Hospital officials say those killed in the attack, which took place in the northern city of Peshawar, were aged between 20 and 30. Dozens

The United States and India have reaffirmed their defensive and security relationship, as Washington continues to rally allies in Asia amid concerns over increased Chinese military activity in the region. In a meeting Monday in the Indian capital, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and

The US Senate has confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in a victory for President Donald Trump a week before the general election. Trump's fellow Republicans voted 52-48 to approve the judge, overcoming the unified opposition of Democrats. The 48-year-old took

Given China’s increasingly aggressive behaviour across the India-Pacific from the Himalayas to the South China Sea, it’s more important than ever that we work with like-minded partners such as India, said US State Department on Friday. Speaking at the Washington Foreign

Pakistan Interior Minister Brig (retd) Ijaz Shah is suspected to be the person behind the recent Pakistan Rangers' move to 'kidnap' Sindh IGP and subsequent arrest of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader Safdar Awan, media reports said. Targeting former Pakistan PM Nawaz

The latest reportage coming from China's Xinjiang on confiscation of Quran has left the entire world in a shocking state. Radio Free Asia reported a few disturbing incidents from Xinjiang wherein Muslims were forced to dispose of the holy Quran in rivers to save themselves from

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin faced calls to resign on Monday (Oct 26) as doubts swirled over the support that he commands, after the king rejected his request to declare a state of emergency to fight the COVID-19 epidemic. Muhyiddin had requested emergency rule amid a

Spain has declared a national state of emergency and imposed a night-time curfew in an effort to help control a new spike in Covid-19 infections. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the curfew, which came into force on Sunday night, would be in place between the hours of 23:00 and

France has urged Middle Eastern countries to end calls for a boycott of its goods in protest at President Emmanuel Macron's defence of the right to show cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The French foreign ministry said the "baseless" calls for a boycott were being

In another move to expand its control over Tibet, China has set its target to 'Sinicise' Tibetan Buddhism, which is modifying the faith under the Chinese influence, according to media reports. At the 7th Central Symposium of Tibet Work held in Beijing in August, Chinese

Kashmiri Apples, considered as one of the delicious fruits is ready to hit the markets and growers are expecting good returns over it in Kashmir. With the help of apt climatic conditions and efforts of the horticulture department, apple growers of the valley are full of joy. "The

The 'Karachi incident' has vindicated former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's "state above state" remark, Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz vice president, Maryam Nawaz said on Friday. According to the Pakistan daily Dawn, Maryam was referring to the incident

The Jamaat-i-Islami has announced launching a country-wide protest movement against the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government from Nov 1. JI chief Senator Sirajul Haq, who has called a meeting of the party’s central leadership on Oct 23 to discuss modalities of the movement, said

The death toll from a suicide attack at an educational centre in Kabul has gone up to 24, Afghanistan’s interior ministry said. At least 57 others were wounded in the attack that took place on Saturday, it added. The explosion struck outside the Kawsar-e Danish educational

Gunmen stormed a school in Cameroon on Saturday and opened fire indiscriminately, killing at least six children and wounding about eight more in a region where separatist insurgents operate, officials and parents said. Arriving on motorcycles and in civilian clothes, the attackers hit

Hundreds of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) refugees gathered at Vikram Chowk in the Jammu city under the banner of SOS International (an organisation of PoK displaced persons) to observe Black Day on Thursday. Black Day is observed on October 22 every year to mark Pakistan’s

Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) activist Amjad Ayub Mirza has claimed that Pakistan PM Imran Khan has lost Karachi after a large number of people attended the rally hosted by the opposition alliance in the city. "100s of 1000s attending Karachi jalsa. PTM and baloch leaders

A group of 50 girl students was Monday flagged-off by Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Doda, Mumtaz Ahmed for Inter Zonal District level trekking expedition, at Sartingal (Bhaderwah) from here. Chief Education Officer, Tariq Hussain; District Information Officer, Mohammad Ashraf

'Gar firdaus bar-rooh-e zameen ast, Hami asto, hamin asto, hamin ast’ This couplet by celebrated mystic, Sufi poet Amir Khusro describes all that can be said about the beauty of Kashmir ‘if there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this’. But