An image of the Peshawar elite police squad posing for a group selfie with Faisal alias Khalid, who last week killed American citizen Tahir Ahmad Naseem inside a courtroom, has been doing the rounds of social media. The photograph has been shared by many, including some journalists and

Condemning Prime Minister Imran Khan for releasing Pakistan’s new political map laying untenable claims to Indian territories, India on Tuesday termed the act as an “exercise in political absurdity.” “We have seen a so-called “political map” of

A number of Beirut port officials are being placed under house arrest pending an investigation into Tuesday's huge explosion, Lebanon's government says. The blast killed at least 135 people and injured more than 4,000 others. A two-week state of emergency has begun.

Merdan Ghappar was used to posing for the camera. As a model for the massive Chinese online retailer Taobao, the 31-year-old was well paid to flaunt his good looks in slick promotional videos for clothing brands. But one video of Ghappar is different. Instead of a glitzy studio or

At least 100 people are dead and more than 4,000 injured in an explosion that rocked Beirut Tuesday, a Lebanese Red Cross official said. George Kettaneh, of the Red Cross, said the numbers may rise. Officials have said the city’s hospitals are overflowing with patients. The

Lebanese President Michel Aoun called for an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday and said a two-week state of emergency should be declared following a massive explosion in Beirut that killed at least 78 people and injured 4,000 others. The explosion on Tuesday sent shockwaves across

  Some people in Japan have complained that they have received unsolicited mysterious seed parcels that appear to be coming from China, NHK reports. The development occured at a time when Japan and the rest of the world is battling COVID-19 virus. The virus is believed to

  Ever since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reconsecrated the Hagia Sophia, a UNESCO world heritage site and museum, as a mosque, critics have questioned whether the move is a long-running attempt to undo Turkish secularism or an effort to bring caliphate back. Frontier

  As the US has called "for a new alliance of democracies" to counter China's aggressive policies, Beijing has begun adding more potential new trade and energy corridors linking Central Asia with South Asia and the Middle East. "Fundamental realignments are

  There is no part of India that receives more attention in the worid than Kashmir, and yet, there is perhaps no part more shrouded in the mists of ignorance both within India and outside it. Few know this is the land where Buddhism flowered under the patronage of Emperor Ashoka

  With Article 370 now scrapped, the women in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) will no longer be deprived of their property rights if they get married to a non-resident. Article 35A, which emanated from Article 370, prohibited the women in J&K to be property owners if they marry

  In a move to support the Southeast Asian nation, the US and Vietnam have signed a memorandum of understanding, which includes support against illegal “intimidation” of the latter’s fishermen at sea. Vietnam and China are engaged in a bitter standoff on

  India needs to instill fear in the minds of Communist China if it has to achieve equilibrium in the bilateral relationship, senior Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi has said, calling for a comprehensive, aggressive change in India’s policy on Beijing. Advocating a

  Saudi Arabia will evaluate this year’s extraordinary Hajj season which was held amid heightened security and strict coronavirus-related restrictions over the next two weeks, Dr. Hussein al-Sharif, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah for Hajj Affairs told local

  The number of deaths from coronavirus in Iran is nearly triple what Iran's government claims, a BBC Persian service investigation has found. The government's own records appear to show almost 42,000 people died with Covid-19 symptoms up to 20 July, versus 14,405

  At least 86 people have died in recent days as a result of drinking illegally-made alcohol, officials in the northern Indian state of Punjab say. On Saturday, police carried out more than 100 raids, confiscating supplies of the suspected liquor and making 25 arrests. The

  Seven people were killed, including a member of the Alaska State Legislature, after two planes collided in midair on Friday morning in the Alaskan city of Soldotna, the authorities said. Officials said the collision, between a single-engine de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver and a

  At least 10 people have died after drinking alcohol-based sanitiser after liquor shops were closed in a village in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The village of Kurichedu has been placed in lockdown after a local surge in cases of coronavirus. District police chief

  James Murdoch, the younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has resigned from the board of News Corporation citing "disagreements over editorial content". In a filing to US regulators, he said he also disagreed with some "strategic decisions" made by the

  The scrapping of Article 370 by the Centre and other constitutional changes brought last year have significantly improved the lives of  Shia community living in Ladakh. They are now enjoying religious freedom and equal rights like citizens in parts of the country.