Nepal govt mulls airlifting fuel to ease crisis
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal is mulling airlifting fuel either from Bangladesh or Malaysia and may build a petroleum storage plant near…
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US in talks with Pakistan over capping its nuke range
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Obama administration is exploring a possible civilian nuclear deal with Pakistan ahead of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's…
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Pakistan rejects accusations of involvement in Kunduz attack
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan's military has rejected allegations by Afghanistan's deputy army chief that Pakistani generals were involved in the Taliban's…
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Small plane with 2 foreigners on board goes missing in Nepal
KATHMANDU (TIP): An ultra-light aircraft with two foreigners on board that took off from Pokhara went missing today during a…
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Pakistan to hang man who claims he was 15 at time of crime
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistani authorities are set to hang a man who says he was 15 when he was arrested for…
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11 killed in US C-130 plane crash in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (TIP): An American C-130J military transport plane crashed at the Jalalabad airport in Afghanistan early Oct 2, killing all…
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Sri Lanka likely to dodge international probe into war crimes
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka appears set to avoid an international inquiry into atrocities committed during its lengthy civil war if…
Read MoreFormer US president Carter to build homes in Nepal
KATHMANDU (TIP): Former US president Jimmy Carter who has been diagnosed with cancer will travel to quake-hit Nepal to build…
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Rajapaksa questioned by Lanka’s anti-graft panel
COLOMBO (TIP): Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa was Sept 25 questioned by a special anti-corruption panel for allegedly not…
Read MoreTerror attack foiled in Kabul
KABUL (TIP): A terror attack was foiled in Afghan capital Kabul following tight security measures taken in the city ahead…
Read MoreKashmir issue main cause of India-Pakistan tension: Sharif
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Terming the Kashmir dispute as the main reason of tension with India, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has…
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Gunmen attack Pakistan air force base in Peshawar
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Gunmen attacked a Pakistani air force base in the volatile northwestern city of Peshawar early on September 18,…
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US Drone Strike Kills Seven in Pakistan
A US drone strike in Pakistan's volatile South Waziristan tribal region today killed at least seven militants and injured two…
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Pakistan reiterates its stance for talks with India
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan on Sept 10 reiterated its stance for talks with India saying there would be no talks with…
Read MoreAftab Alam second journalist to be killed in Pakistan in 24 hours
KARACHI (TIP): Police in Pakistan say gunmen have shot dead two journalists in separate attacks in the country's violent port…
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Pak court rejects bid to send disabled Indian back
KARACHI (TIP): A Pakistani court on September 3 rejected a petition to send back to India a deaf-mute woman who…
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Bangladesh charges 5 militants over blogger murder
DHAKA (TIP): Five militants of an al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Bangladesh were today charged with murder for hacking to death…
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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…
Read MoreHasina 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…
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