Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday called on his main rival, former general Benny Gantz, to join him in a broad, governing coalition after Israel’s election ended with no clear winner. A spokeswoman for Mr. Gantz, leader of the centrist Blue and White party, had no immediate res

A Taliban truck bomb killed at least 20 people and wounded 95 when it exploded near a hospital in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, a provincial official said, with casualties expected to rise as rescuers sift the rubble. The Taliban, who have been carrying out nearly daily attacks since the coll

Police have booked more than 200 people in connection with the violent anti-Hindu riots in Ghotki district of Sindh, Pakistan. Officials said three separate cases were filed in which a total of 218 people have been booked. Sukkur additional inspector general of police Jamil Ahmed said all three c

In yet another diplomatic win for India, the European Union Parliament supported New Delhi's stance on Kashmir and called Pakistan an “ambiguous” nation. Calling India "the greatest democracy of the world," the EU pointed out that one needs to look at the number of terrorist acts that the country

Sindh, Pakistan: A Pakistani Hindu girl from Sindh was found dead in her hostel room on Tuesday. While the police has said she killed herself, the girl's family claimed she was murdered. First-year medical student, Namrita Chandani, who belonged to Ghotki town where a Hindu temple was ransacked r

An explosion near an election rally attended by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani killed 24 people and injured 31 others, a health official said, but Mr. Ghani was unhurt according to an aide. Mr. Ghani had been due to address the rally in Charikar, capital of Parwan province, north of Kabul, when th

Taliban's Qatar-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen on Saturday confirmed that representatives from Taliban met Russian officials in Moscow, just days after US President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that the peace talks between Washington and Taliban were dead. Shaheen said a Taliban delegation m

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has continued with his shrill pitch on Kashmir saying that a nuclear war with India is a possibility after New Delhi revoked the special status for Jammu and Kashmir. Imran Khan, in an interview with Al Jazeera, said that Pakistan could lose in a conventional wa

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday appointed a veteran Indian Army official as the head of the world body's observer mission in Yemen's port city of Hodeidah. Lieutenant General (retired) Abhijit Guha has been appointed as the Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Co

Pakistan should have taken a neutral stance instead of backing America’s campaign against the Soviet rule in Afghanistan, said Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday. This comes days ahead of his trip to the US and his address to the UNGA. “I strongly felt Pakistan should have been neutral because

A face-off between Indian and Chinese armies was resolved on Wednesday near the northern bank of the Pangong lake, in the newly-formed union territory of Ladakh, after delegation level talks: The stand-off started while the Indian Army was patrolling along the northern bank of the lake when the C

Pakistan said on Thursday it had no plans to give India consular access again to Kulbhushan Jadhav, a former naval officer currently on death row after being convicted of alleged involvement in espionage and subversive activities. Asked at a regular news briefing about Pakistan giving consular ac

The United States on Tuesday designated the leader of Pakistan-based terror organisation, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), as a terrorist. TTP, also known as Pakistan Taliban, in an alliance of the terror group. The group is responsible for carrying out multiple suicide bombings and killing hundr

At least 31 people died and another 102 were wounded on Tuesday during the Shi'ite Muslim religious rituals of Ashura in Iraq's southern holy city of Karbala, in what officials at its Imam Hussein shrine described as a stampede. The death toll released by the Iraqi Health Ministry was expected to

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepal counterpart K P Sharma Oli on Tuesday jointly inaugurated the Motihari-Amlekhganj petroleum product pipeline via a video link. The over 60 km-long pipeline is the first-ever cross-border petroleum product pipeline in the South Asia region, acc

The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has alerted the government about the deployment of additional Pakistani troopers along the border near Rajasthan and said Islamabad has released Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar to carry out terror attacks, according to two officials aware of the developments. HT has

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called on global leaders to follow India's decision to ban single-use plastic, declaring "time has come for even the world to say goodbye (to it)". Speaking at a climate change crisis meeting in Greater Noida, the Prime Minister highlighted efforts taken

Pakistan had refused a request by India to allow President Ram Nath Kovind to use its airspace for his flight to Iceland, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Saturday. The decision was approved by Prime Minister Imran Khan in view of the tense situation in Kashmir, the Minister told sta