New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Pakistan’s recent push to deepen a trilateral cooperation with China and Bangladesh can at most give Beijing a chance to further broaden its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), where Islamabad is already reeling under huge...
Quetta, Dec 11 (IANS) Several villagers of Balochistan’s Kech district on Thursday are staging a protest against what they described as the “brutal trend” of indiscriminate firing by Pakistani forces targetting local civilians. According to the Baloch Women Forum (BWF),...
New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Pakistan-backed terror outfits, including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), are reactivating their networks inside India's northeastern states and West Bengal, relying heavily on safe transit routes and logistical hubs inside Bangladesh, a report highlighted on...
Naypyidaw, Dec 11 (IANS) The increasing military and strategic engagement between Bangladesh and Pakistan may contribute to a surge in radicalism within both countries, intensifying existing security challenges, a report said on Thursday. It added that amid rising religious extremism...
Kabul, Dec 8 (IANS) As Afghanistan deepens economic ties with India and the Central Asian countries, Pakistan risks strategic isolation amid emerging transit alternatives that could diminish the influence of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a report said on Monday....
Dhaka, Dec 8 (IANS) As political conflict intensifies ahead of next year’s election, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Monday took an indirect dig at the radical Islamist party, Jamaat- e-Islami asserting that the people of the country have already...
Dhaka, Oct 8 (IANS) Bangladesh's Awami League party on Monday claimed that a fact-finding team from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), which visited the country between September 16 2024 and February 12 2025 and...
Tokyo, Dec 8 (IANS) Satoru Nagao, an expert in US-Japan-India security cooperation and a Visiting Fellow at the Hudson Institute, has termed collaboration between India and Japan critical for maintaining stability and fostering prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region, especially with...
Dhaka, Oct 8 (IANS) As the February 2026 elections approach in Bangladesh, the radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami on Monday pressed the country's Election Commission for a specific decision on announcing the poll schedule, saying that “time is running out to...
Kathmandu, Dec 6 (IANS) Nepal has been witnessing a series of corruption allegations in recent years, particularly in projects involving Chinese contractors or suppliers. The latest controversy concerns the billing system that Nepal Telecom (NT), a company in which the...
Dhaka, Dec 6 (IANS) Bangladesh's Awami League party on Saturday reiterated that the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government continues to work towards erasing the history of the country's 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan, terming it as a deeply troubling pattern. Recalling...
Moscow, Dec 6 (IANS) Russia is taking all necessary measures to ensure its national security amid the growing presence and military activities of NATO member states in the Arctic region, a Russian diplomat said on Saturday. RIA Novosti quoted Russian...