BEIJING — Four people were killed and 14 others injured after a powerful earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted the city of Ya’an in China’s Sichuan province, authorities have confirmed. The earthquake struck Lushan county at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicentre, with a depth […]
KATHMANDU — Rescuers on Monday pulled out 14 bodies from the wreckage of the Tara Airlines plane that crashed in Nepal’s mountainous Mustang district with 22 people on board, including four Indians, according to a media report. Pieces of the wreckage of the passenger plane that crashed on Sunday morning were found at 14,500ft in […]
KABUL — Afghanistan’s central bank is planning to implement an “Islamic banking system”, a spokesman said. Sabir Momand, the spokesman of Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), however did not elaborate on the details of the new system, reports TOLO News. “The implementation of the Islamic banking system will be a long process and it is being […]
ISLAMABAD — A five-member Pakistani delegation will visit India next week for talks on the water dispute between the two countries, according to a media report on Saturday. The talks will be held in New Delhi from May 30-31, the Dawn newspaper quoted Pakistan Commissioner for Indus Waters Syed Muhammad Mehr Ali Shah as saying. […]
NEW YORK — Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that his country’s relationship with India has been “particularly complicated” by New Delhi’s decision to abrogate Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and the recent recommendation by a delimitation commission, underlining that at this moment the “practical space” for economic activity, dialogue and diplomacy […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has said the appointment of a ‘trade minister’ in New Delhi was a routine process and there was ‘no change’ in its trade policy with India. On Tuesday, media reports said Qamar Zaman had been made Pakistan’s “trade minister in New Delhi”, giving rise to speculation of a thaw in the present […]
BEIJING — Twenty-five people were injured after a passenger plane veered off the runway during take-off and caught fire at an airport in southwest China’s Chongqing at around 8 a.m. on Thursday, airport sources said. The passenger plane operated by Tibet Airlines was carrying 113 passengers and nine crew members on board, said the sources. […]
LAHORE — A Pakistani anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Wednesday sentenced 22 people to five years in jail each for attacking a Hindu temple in Punjab province last year. In July 2021, hundreds of people attacked the Ganesh Mandir temple at Bhong city, district Rahim Yar Khan, some 590 kms from Lahore, in reaction to alleged […]
COLOMBO — At least five people, including an MP, were killed in Sri Lanka, with over 200 others injured in the wake of the violence in the island nation, which also led to a number of houses belonging to resigned Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and other politicians, being torched. On Monday night, anti-government protesters surrounded […]
KABUL — A powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 20, a Taliban spokesman said. Hundreds of worshippers had gathered for prayers on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramdan and the Khalifa Aga Gul Jan Mosque was […]