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The officers had been gathering outside the centre to accompany polio workers for the third day of a vaccination campaign in the province of Balochistan, of which Quetta is the capital.

There have been several bomb blasts in Afghanistan over recent weeks at a time when efforts are underway to restart a peace process with the Taliban.

India is the world's biggest outsourcing destination in terms of financial attractiveness and business environment, according to a study published by a London-based global management consulting firm.

The Karachi Stock Exchange was the main bourse in the country and attracted millions in foreign investment with the Lahore and Islamabad exchanges behind in trading and volume shares as well.

The gunmen were still holed up in the shopping centre in Baghdad al-Jadida, a police colonel said, adding that it was feared the attackers were wearing suicide belts.

Nepal's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Durga Prasad Bhattarai was also unanimously elected as vice president to the bureau of the executive board of the UNICEF for 2016, representing the Asia-Pacific region, according to officials of the m...

Kim Jong Un called the nuclear test "a self-defensive step for reliably defending the peace on the Korean Peninsula and the regional security from the danger of nuclear war caused by the US-led imperialists," according to a dispatch on Sunday from state-r...

Analysts have feared the dispute could boil over into the proxy wars between the two Mideast rivals in Yemen and in Syria.

North Korea said that with the 'perfect success' of hydrogen bomb test, they have joined the rank of advanced nuclear states.

In New Delhi, there was no official comment on the Pakistani statement nor was there any official indication as to through which channel the "leads" have been provided to Pakistan.

Angry exchanges following Saudi Arabia's execution Saturday of prominent Shiite cleric and activist Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr erupted into a full-blown diplomatic crisis as Riyadh and then Bahrain and Sudan severed their relations with Tehran, the main Shiite p...

Afghanistan sees the support of Pakistan as vital to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table.

Festivities went ahead as planned and crowds cheered the arrival of 2016 with bursts of light and colour in a massive fireworks show across the globe.

Sydney the first to host a major New Year's bash, as crowds thronged to waterside vantage points.

Sydney is traditionally the first to host a major event to ring in the New Year, held its 9 PM family fireworks, with pyrotechnics exploding over the harbour ahead of the main show at midnight.