Four months after quakes, Nepal fails to spend any of $4.1 billion donor money
KATHMANDU (TIP): Two months after foreign countries and international agencies pledged $4.1 billion to help Nepal recover from its worst…
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(Update 12 minutes ago)Hasina criticises Pak, US over coup convicts’ repatriation
DHAKA (TIP): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused Pakistan, the US and Canada of non-cooperation in repatriating the fugitive convicted…
Read MoreFor the first time in decades, Tamil lawmaker becomes Sri Lanka’s opposition leader
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka's Parliament on September 3 recognized an ethnic Tamil lawmaker as the opposition leader for the first…
Read MorePakistan hangs four murder convicts: Reports
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Four murder convicts were hanged to death on September 3 in separate jails in Pakistan's Punjab province, the…
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Pakistan to push for resumption of Afghan-Taliban talks
Islamabad: Pakistan is likely to persuade Afghanistan to resume talks with the Taliban after their parleys were snapped due to power struggle…
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13 KILLED IN PAKISTAN ROAD ACCIDENTS
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least 13 people were killed and 16 injured in two separate road accidents in Pakistan on August…
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Blasts at Afghan gas storage facility kill 11, mostly children
HERAT (TIP): At least 11 people, most of them children, were killed in a series of explosions at an Afghan…
Read MoreProtests over Nepal statute kill at least 9
KATHMANDU (TIP): At least nine people, including six policemen, were killed and several others injured as thousands of ethnic protesters…
Read MoreCops `forcibly’ take Maldives ex-president Nasheed to jail
MALE (TIP): Mohamed Nasheed has been forcibly taken back to jail by police, a month after the former Maldivian president's…
Read MoreNepal opens Everest expedition after earthquake
KATHMANDU (TIP): A Japanese climber will be the first to attempt to scale Mount Everest since a massive earthquake in…
Read MorePak court orders arrest of ex-PM Gilani
ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (TIP): A Pakistani court on August 27 issued arrest warrant for former PM Yousuf Raza Gilani in a…
Read MorePakistan probes ‘$100 ID cards for militants’ scam
KARACHI (TIP): Pakistani authorities are investigating officials at the national identity database for allegedly issuing ID cards to militants, including…
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Pakistan to hang Peshawar school massacre plotters
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Six militants who plotted and aided Pakistan's worst ever terrorist attack at a Peshawar school are set to…
Read MoreStrong 6.7 quake jolts Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A strong earthquake of 6.7 magnitude on August 10 jolted several parts of Pakistan. The epicentre of the…
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Pakistan must take ‘forceful actions’ against LeT, US says
WASHINGTON (TIP): Pakistan must take "forceful actions" against the dreaded Haqqani network and the Lashkar- e-Taiba in a manner similar…
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FIVE KILLED IN US DRONE STRIKE IN PAKISTAN
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least five people were killed and three others injured in a US drone strike in Pakistan's northwest…
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Indian-American Atul Keshap Confirmed as US Envoy to Sri Lanka and Maldives
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian-American Atul Keshap has been confirmed as the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives, becoming the second…
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Pakistan police kill leader of anti-Shia militant group
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Malik Ishaq, the dreaded chief of banned Sunni sectarian outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was gunned down along with his two…
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Taliban confirm chief’s death, pick successor
WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States and other stakeholders in Afghanistan are scrambling to organize a response to the sudden disclosure…
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Sharif to meet Obama in White House in October
WASHINGTON (TIP): Barack Obama is inviting Pakistan beleaguered Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to the White House in October, raising the…
Read MorePakistan to include ‘India’s role’ in school attack in dossier
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan would include proof of alleged Indian involvement in the Taliban attack on a Peshawar army school last…
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Civilian deaths and ‘spy drone’ put chill back in India-Pakistan tie
NEW DELHI (TIP): Amid heightened tension along their border resulting in casualties on both sides, India on July 16 warned…
Read MoreChina provides $10 mn to Pakistan for rehabilitation of IDPs
ISLAMABAD (TIP): China on July 17 pledged to provide$10 million to all-weather friend Pakistan for the rehabilitation of people displaced…
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Two arrested in Pakistan for facilitating Wagah suicide bomber
LAHORE (TIP): Two militants linked to Tehreek-i- Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been arrested here for "facilitating" a suicide bomber, who blew…
Read MoreDon’t merge Gilgit with Pak: PoK leader to Islamabad
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) prime minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed has warned Islamabad against any attempt to convert Gilgit-Baltistan into…
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Sabotage suspected as Pakistan troop train plunges into canal
LAHORE (TIP): A train carrying hundreds of Pakistan soldiers and their families plunged several feet into a canal on July…
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Pakistan heatwave deaths reach 780; lawmakers trade blame
KARACHI (TIP): A heatwave has killed nearly 800 people in Pakistan's financial hub of Karachi and piled pressure on a…
Read MoreMany Bangladeshis suspect Pakistan’s hand behind attacks on secular bloggers
DHAKA (TIP): With the recent killings of three secular bloggers in Bangladesh by fundamentalists, the country's intellectuals here are suspecting…
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Militants blow up primary school in Pakistan
PESHAWAR (TIP): Militants blew up a primary school for boys early this morning in Pakistan's volatile Bajaur Agency bordering Afghanistan.…
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Days after Indian cross border strike, Myanmar shifts militant camps near ‘fenced’ border
NEW DELHI (TIP): Days after special forces of the Indian Army carried out cross-border strikes on three insurgent camps located…
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