India's prime minister was set to meet with top opposition leaders on June 19 as the government tries to diffuse tensions with China after 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a clash in a Himalayan border region.
Global rights watchdog Amnesty International (AI) has urged Pakistan to immediately release a human rights campaigner after the country's intelligence agency admitted it was holding Idris Khattak, who went missing seven months ago.
The Indian army says at least 20 of its soldiers were killed after hand-to-hand fighting with Chinese troops at a disputed border site, the deadliest clash in decades.
For the Hindus of Pakistan, Modi's long-held commitment to providing them refuge has drawn more and more across the border even before the new law was enacted.
A tribal posse in southeast Afghanistan burned down the houses of four families whose male members are accused of murdering seven members of a rival family.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says countries “must stay alert to the possibility of resurgence” as Europe continues to reopen and China faces a fresh coronavirus outbreak that has closed parts of the capital.
Idrees Syawash is cycling between remote villages of Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province trying to educate people about the dangers of the coronavirus and urging them to wash their hands and keep their distance.
With rapidly rising confirmed coronavirus cases and limited testing, Pakistan seems to be on a trajectory toward herd immunity despite no official acknowledgment that this is the country’s default approach to combating the coronavirus pandemic.
Pakistan has turned to its spy agency’s terror surveillance technology to track coronavirus patients, which rights activists and medical professionals worry could lead to the “militarization of a health emergency” and stigma toward infected people.
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