At least seven people have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Hindu scrap trader in Bangladesh last week, an incident that triggered widespread protests in the South Asian c ...

At least ten people, including six children, died in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza on Sunday, media reports said.

Pakistani police have claimed they thwarted a mob attack on the worship place of the Ahmadi community in Lahore city.

A chaotic wave of returnees from Iran and Pakistan is straining Afghanistan’s already fragile capacity under Taliban rule and threatening broader regional stability, said the UN ref ...

Prominent Bangladeshi economist Abul Barkat, who has been a critic of radical Islam, was sent to jail on Friday over a graft case.

A Pakistani father has allegedly gunned down her daughter after she refused to delete her account on the popular video-sharing app TikTok.

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for two Taliban leaders and accused them of persecuting girls and women in Afghanistan.

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Pakistan on Tuesday sent Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) chief Dr Mahrang Baloch and other organisers of the group to 10 days police custody.

As digital technologies rapidly reshape every aspect of society, the UN’s top human rights official has called for human rights to be placed at the centre of this transformation.