Toxic gas leak at Bangladesh shipbreaking yard kills at least eight
DHAKA : A suspected gas leak at a shipbreaking yard in southeastern Bangladesh killed at least eight people on Friday…
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Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif warns India over Indus Waters Treaty in Independence Day address
Pakistan has once again dipped into its familiar playbook of indulging in empty and hollow rhetoric against India, with Prime…
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Afghanistan marks five years under the Taliban with safer streets but pleas for jobs, education
As Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers mark five years since sweeping back to power, some Kabul residents say they feel safer after…
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Hasina vows she will return to Bangladesh despite risk of arrest
New Delhi (TIP): Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5 signalled her determination to return home in December…
Read MorePak, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia sign joint defence agreement
Mecca (TIP): Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkiye have signed a joint defence pact as tensions in the Middle East continue…
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Pak bans international media from reporting in most of country
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistani authorities have imposed severe new restrictions on international media, including barring them from reporting in most of…
Read MoreSri Lanka welcomes US tariff reduction
COLOMBO, July 24 (TIP) : Sri Lanka on Friday, July 24, welcomed the US decision of lowering to 10 per…
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Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin resigns
Dhaka (TIP): Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin has resigned two years ahead the end of his full five-year term. Shahabuddin, 76,…
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Pakistan’s nuclear past casts a shadow over US-Saudi Arabia deal
Islamabad (TIP): Two decades ago, President George W Bush stood at a joint news conference with President Pervez Musharraf on…
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Car bomb attack kills 27 in northwest Pakistan
Islamabad (TIP): A suicide attack on a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan has killed 27 people, including soldiers, police and…
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Bangladesh: DB hands over fugitive Retd Major Muzaffar Hossain, accused in ex-President Rahman murder case, to army
Dhaka (TIP): The Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has handed over Major (Retd) Muzaffar Hossain (77),…
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EU report raises rights concerns as Pak reaps billions in trade benefits
Muzaffarabad (TIP): Pakistan pocketed roughly Euro 732 million in EU tariff exemptions last year as the top beneficiary of Europe's…
Read MorePakistan lodges protest with Japan over reference to cross-border terrorism in India-Japan joint statement
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan has formally lodged a strong diplomatic protest with Japan over its decision to explicitly refer to "cross-border…
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54 militants, 38 security personnel killed in Balochistan attacks this week
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan's military has said that security forces had killed 54 militants in a series of retaliatory operations across…
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PoK faces showdown as JAAC ultimatum raises tensions
Muzaffarabad (TIP): Tensions in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) have escalated after the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC)…
Read MorePakistan Deputy PM Ishaq Dar’s grandson arrested for rape & kidnapping
Pakistani politics has been hit by a bombshell with the arrest of Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar’s grandson for alleged…
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After Pak, it’s Bangladesh, Myanmar: China plans new corridor bordering India
Dhaka (TIP): China has revived a decade-old connectivity dream which may have major implications for India as well. The China-Myanmar-Bangladesh…
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Why Pakistan, not India, is to blame for its own water crisis
Islamabad/New Delhi (TIP): Pakistan, a state sponsor of terror, seems to have found a new way to deflect attention from…
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Taliban holds first Brussels talks with EU on Afghan returns amid outcry
Brussels (TIP): A Taliban delegation held closed-door talks with European Union officials and representatives of 15 EU countries in Brussels,…
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Pakistani rights activist Mahrang Baloch sentenced to life in prison
QUETTA (TIP): A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has sentenced prominent civil rights activist Mahrang Baloch and an associate to life in…
Read MoreFrench woman, 5 children held captive by Pakistani man for 12 years, rescued
Islamabad (TIP): A French woman who spent more than a decade cut off from the outside world, trapped inside a…
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Pak plans to deploy submarines in Bay of Bengal, a first since 1971
Islamabad (TIP): The name Hangor evokes history. In 1971, Pakistani submarine PNS Hangor sank India's INS Khukri during the India-Pakistan…
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Taliban’s family law makes divorce harder, child marriage easier in Afghanistan
Kabul (TIP): Little Afghan girls are being sold in marriage. Taliban’s new family law has normalised child marriage and made…
Read MorePrime suspect in Sikh couple murder case in Pakistan arrested
Islamabad (TIP): Police have arrested the prime suspect in the double murder case involving a Sikh caretaker couple who were…
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B’desh deploys armed villagers along border
Dhaka (TIP): The Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) has deployed armed village defence volunteers at several locations along the India-Bangladesh border…
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Pakistan Army guns down 16 protesters in POK’s Rawalakot as demonstrations intensify
Islamabad (TIP): At least 16 protesters were killed and more than 37 others injured after Pakistani Army personnel and Rangers…
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Pakistanis build mosque illegally in Japan, embarrassments follow
Kawagoe city (TIP): For Pakistan's diaspora in Japan, a mosque built illegally in Kawagoe city has become a matter of…
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As Pak turns US stooge, Afghan Taliban lean on Russia; history comes full circle
Kabul (TIP): History appears to be turning a full circle in Afghanistan. Decades after the Soviet Union fought a costly…
Read MorePak men who gang-raped French tourist in front of her children to be executed
Islamabad (TIP): A Pakistani court has upheld the death sentences of two men convicted of gang-raping a French tourist in…
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IMF clears £512 million payout for Sri Lanka as recovery faces fresh pressure
Colombo (TIP): International Monetary Fund has approved fresh funding worth around £512 million ($695 million) for Sri Lanka as the…
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