South Asia

South Asia

Northwest Pakistan: Militants kill 4 members of security forces

Gunmen killed four members of the Pakistani security forces and their driver in an attack in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police told AFP yesterday.

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Sri Lanka records highest deflation in 65 years

Sri Lanka’s consumer prices fell by 4.0 percent in January, the highest deflation rate since July 1960, official data showed yesterday, as the South Asian nation emerges from its worst economic meltdown.

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Pak outlaws disinfo with 3yr jail term

Pakistan criminalised online disinformation yesterday, passing legislation that enshrines punishments of up to three years in prison, a decision journalists say is designed to crack down on dissent.

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Pakistan army foils militant attempt to take post

Militants in an explosive-laden vehicle were thwarted in their attempt to overrun a Pakistani security post near the border with Afghanistan, the army said yesterday.

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Sri Lanka revokes power purchase deal with Adani

Sri Lanka has revoked a power purchase agreement with Indian conglomerate Adani Group following allegations of corruption, energy ministry sources in Colombo said on Friday..President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's administration opened probes into the company's local projects after billionair

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Pakistan drought dents winter harvest

A winter drought is ravaging crops in Pakistan’s breadbasket, farmers said yesterday, with the region parched by a 40 percent drop in rainfall.

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Pak ex-PM Imran Khan calls off talks with govt

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan called off reconciliatory talks with the government yesterday, a week after a court handed him a 14-year jail term on graft charges, his party’s chairman said.

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Land graft case: Imran handed 14-year jail term

A Pakistani court yesterday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan to 14 years’ imprisonment in a land corruption case, a setback to nascent talks between his party and the government aimed at cooling political instability in the south Asian nation.

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Sri Lanka navy rescues boat of 102 Rohingya refugees

Sri Lanka’s navy said yesterday it had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, bringing them safely to port.

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Pak province aims to collect weapons to stem clashes

Provincial authorities in northwestern Pakistan said yesterday they planned to collect heavy weapons to stop sectarian clashes that have killed hundreds, but tribesmen in the historically lawless region said they would not give up their arms.

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Sri Lanka navy rescues boat of 100 Rohingya refugees

Sri Lanka's navy said Friday it had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, bringing them safely to port

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Gunmen kill six Pak soldiers near Afghan border

Gunmen attacked a Pakistani army base near the border with Afghanistan and killed six soldiers, the army reported yesterday.

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Pakistan Unrest: Imran threatens civil disobedience movement

Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has called on his supporters to hold a rally next week and threatened to start a civil disobedience movement days after his party led a deadly protest march in Islamabad.

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Imran Khan booked over Rangers’ deaths in Islamabad

Imran Khan was booked in a murder case over the death of paramilitary personnel who were run over by a speeding vehicle

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13 more killed in Pakistan

Sectarian feuding in northwest Pakistan killed 13 more people, a local government official said yesterday, as warring Sunnis and Shias defied repeated ceasefire orders in recent conflict claiming 124 lives.

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Nepal's first transgender candidates run for local office

She is running for the post of mayor of Kirtipur, a settlement on the outskirts of the capital Kathmandu, in Sunday's elections.

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Islamabad march: Imran Khan’s followers end demos after crackdown

Pakistan police said yesterday they had arrested nearly 1,000 protesters who marched on the capital demanding the release of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, after crowds were evicted from the city centre in a sweeping security crackdown.

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Pakistani forces launch midnight raid on Imran Khan's supporters

At least six people, including four paramilitary soldiers, were killed before the night raid was launched

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