ISLAMABAD: National Security Adviser Lt General Retired Nasser Khan Janjua on Monday emphasized that the tension in Korean peninsula should be mitigated by using...
UNITED NATIONS: The United States will try to de-escalate tensions between India and Pakistan without waiting till “something happens”, says US Ambassador to the United...
MUMBAI, INDIA: An Indian film festival dropped a Pakistani drama from its programme on Monday after protesters threatened to disrupt the screening - the...
NEW DELHI: India wants to contain tensions with Pakistan after what it claimed was a successful cross-border strike on militants sheltered there, according to...
MUMBAI/KARACHI: Rising hostilities between India and Pakistan have brought their $822 million-a-year trade in cotton to a juddering halt, as traders who are worried...
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations on Thursday urged India and Pakistan to exercise restraint after New Delhi carried out a series of strikes inside Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.
WARSAW: President Barack Obama pledged on Saturday to seek ways to calm racial tensions and reduce divisions between police and minorities during his final months in office, but he warned that easy access to guns nationwide exacerbated the problem.
ISLAMABAD: A three-member delegation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called on Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in Islamabad on Saturday, ARY News reported.
SHANGHAI: A US warship began a week-long port call in China Monday, a moment of cooperation as the two Asia-Pacific powerhouses jockey for position in the disputed South China Sea.
SEOUL: North and South Korea reached agreement early on Tuesday after more than two days of talks to end a standoff involving an exchange of artillery fire that had pushed the divided peninsula into a state of heightened military tension.
LONDON: The return of oil from Iran following the landmark nuclear energy deal with world powers could create fresh tensions within OPEC but may reinforce the cartel's output strategy, analysts say.
SYDNEY: Japan will join a major U.S.-Australian military exercise for the first time in a sign of growing security links between the three countries as tensions fester over China's island building in the South China Sea.
KATHMANDU: Nepali officials conceded they had made mistakes in their initial response to a massive earthquake that has killed more than 4,700 people, as survivors stranded in remote villages and towns waited for aid and relief to arrive on Wednesday.
DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY: Three people were killed Saturday in clashes between Kurdish rebels and a rival Kurdish Islamist group in southeast Turkey near the Syrian border, a local governor's office said.
ADELAIDE: Umpires had to intervene when tempers boiled over between Australian and Indian players in the first Test in Adelaide on Friday, as the home side took control.