#southasia

News Desk  Stockholm: Pakistan and India continue to expand their nuclear arsenals amid a broader global resurgence in nuclear competition, according to the latest annual report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research…

Shoaib Ullah  Islamabad: Balochistan does not simmer. It burns slowly, deliberately, and with the patience of a people who have been waiting for over seven decades to be heard. It is tempting to frame the Balochistan crisis as a…

Nadeem Khan  Quetta: In Pakistan’s southwest city of Quetta, dust often hangs visibly in the air. For many residents, breathing has become a daily struggle, especially for children suffering from asthma. Outside the doctor’s room at…

Sher Ahmed Durrani Quetta: The politics of Balochistan has long been discussed through the lens of the Baloch national question. Yet an equally important conversation remains insufficiently explored: the growing sense of political,…

Shazia Mehboob  Islamabad: A 29-year-old Bangladeshi citizen has lodged a formal complaint with the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Islamabad against a Pakistani citizen, Sharjeel Zahid, alleging serious offences including harassment,…

News Desk Lahore: The provincial capital once again ranked as the world’s most polluted major city on Saturday morning after its air quality plunged into the “hazardous” category, according to Swiss monitoring platform IQAir. At…

AFP/APP United Nations: Nearly 80 percent of the world’s poorest population — about 900 million people — are directly exposed to climate hazards intensified by global warming, bearing what the United Nations has described as a “double…

News Desk Islamabad: The United States has approved the sale of state-of-the-art air-to-air missiles to the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), signalling a revival of defense collaboration between the two countries after years of limited…

APP Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday met Professor Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser of the Government of Bangladesh, and reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to building constructive and forward-looking relations with Dhaka…

Dr Ikramullah Peshawar: South Asia has recently seen powerful youth-led movements, with Nepal and Bangladesh standing out as examples where younger generations rose against injustice and forced political change. Whether such…