Cricket Australia (CA) has strongly backed the inclusion of a Test Championship in the international schedule after the current Futures Tours Programme (FTP) ends in...

London, July 6 : Former Pakistan leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed will undergo right knee surgery on...

Karachi, July 6 : Sri Lanka's wicket-keeper batsman Kumar Sangakkara has described Asia as the modern-day custodian of the game of cricket, and claimed that the region has pioneered unprecedented...

Karachi, July 6 : Defending champions Sri Lanka and a rampaging India will clash in the Asia Cup final on Sunday, with both sides promising to provide spectators with an explosive encounter on a batting paradise at the National Stadium...

Karachi, July 6 : At least seven people have been killed and many others have been wounded after a two-storey building collapsed in Karachi's Buldia Town locality here on Sunday....

Islamabad, July 6 : Pakistan has been ranked 84 among 118 countries on 'The Global Enabling Trade Report 2008' released by World Economic Forum Saturday....

Islamabad, July 6 : The Pakistan Government is still considering a proposal to commute the death sentences of around 7,000 prisoners into life...

Islamabad, July 6 : Strategic Plans Division (SPD) Director General Lt. Gen. (retired) Khalid Kidwai has rejected Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan's statement that President Pervez Musharraf, as army chief, and the Pakistan Army were involved in nuclear...

Karachi, July 6 : Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has vowed to pull his country out of its current prevailing...

Lahore, July 6 : Ram Parkash, the 51-year-old Indian prisoner who has been lodged in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail since 1998, is now expected to return to India on July...

Washington, July 5 : A Pakistani human rights activist Munawar Laghari has said that Pakistan being an Islamic country cannot be...

Islamabad, July 5 : Latest figures issued by Pakistan's Federal Bureau of Statistics indicate that inflation has jumped over 31 per cent during the last one week....

7/6/2008, 9:13 a.m. EDT COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan fighter jets bombed a Tamil Tiger rebel position in their northern stronghold Sunday, a day after 19 rebels and a soldier were...

7/6/2008, 6:12 a.m. EDT ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of Islamists gathered Sunday in Pakistan's capital to mark the one-year anniversary of a deadly military crackdown on the radical...

7/6/2008, 6:11 a.m. EDT YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The overwhelming election victory by Aung San Suu Kyi's party in 1990 has been nullified by the approval of a military-backed constitution and her...

PESHAWAR, 6 July 2008 (IRIN) - Ahsan Khan, 35, has lived in Peshawar almost all his life. He never imagined he would one day consider moving away - but that day has come. Because of ongoing...

Malaysia has issued an international alert for a missing private investigator after he made, and abruptly retracted, allegations about the deputy prime minister's links to a high-profile murder...

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian opposition parties and non-governmental organizations on Sunday kicked off a massive public rally that saw more than 10,000 people gathering by noon to protest recent fuel...

Dhaka - At least 13 people, including members of a bridal party, were killed in highway accidents across Bangladesh at the weekend, media reports said Sunday. Seven of a 20-member wedding group...

7/6/2008, 6:49 a.m. EDT TEKNAF, Bangladesh (AP) — A baby girl was pulled from the rubble unharmed Sunday after a landslide destroyed her family's home in southern Bangladesh, killing her...

Karachi - At least eight people died and more than a dozen were injured on Sunday when a 4-storey residential building collapsed in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi. The building, located in...

One of Saudi Arabia's leading ICT figures arrived in Malaysia last month to lead discussions as to how the Kingdom can best improve upon the on-going accomplishments of Yesser e-government...

Malaysian police have launched an international hunt for a private investigator who accused a top politician of sexual misconduct. Balasubramaniam Perumal vanished after retracting a claim that...

Some 200,000 people were marooned in Bangladesh when a storm caused a sea surge to swamp a number of villages in southern coastal districts, officials said. Three landslides caused by torrential...

Conference Thousands of students from religious seminaries gathered in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Sunday to mark the last year military operation against the students of Red Mosque, which had...

Wellington - A group of Asian immigrants in New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland, threatened Sunday to recruit Triad gang members for a vigilante force to help protect them against a crime wave....

More than 150 financial corporations representing 23 Asian countries, including the GCC, battled to win the coveted award. The Banking Sector's representative Adnan Al Salem, who received the...

Kashmir Pakistan Saturday condemned and expressed deep regret over the use of force against demonstrators in the Indian-controlled Kashmir and said it is violation of human rights. Commenting on the...

CHITTAGONG--At least 16 people were killed and more than 20,000 marooned as heavy rains over the past week triggered landslides and floods in southeast Bangladesh, an official has said. Three...

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Thousands of Islamist hardliners converged amid tight security in the Pakistani capital on Sunday to commemorate the first anniversary of the deadly siege and storming of the Red...

Singapore on Sunday launched the national orange ribbon celebrations as part of its efforts to strengthen the city state's racial and religious harmony. Speaking at the inaugural launch of the...

BARA, Pakistan (AP) - Officials of Pakistan's new government say security forces have halted an operation against militants in the country's volatile northwest to try negotiating peace through tribal...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has issued an international alert for a missing private eye after he made, and abruptly retracted, allegations about the deputy prime minister's links to a...

Summit The 11th meeting of foreign ministers of the Group of Eight Islamic Developing Countries (D-8) started its work on Sunday. The meeting was inaugurated by Malaysian Foreign Minister Rais Yatim...

Indonesia's foreign minister says recent arrests of Islamic militants suspected of plotting to attack Western targets have weakened but not crippled terrorist movements in the country. Ten suspects,...

Meeting Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda handed over the two-year chairmanship of the Eight Islamic Developing Countries (D-8) to his Malaysian counterpart Rais Yatim here on Sunday. The...

The World Food Program (WFP) of the United Nations will continue its ration aid supply to survivors in Myanmar's cyclone-hardest-hit area of Laputta in the Ayeyawaddy delta region until September, a...

Headlines The following headlines appeared in major Pakistani newspapers on Sunday: **DAILY TIMES - Musharraf, army not involved in proliferation - Lashkar-e-Islam agree to disarm - Musharraf vows to...

HANOI (Reuters) - The patriarch of a Vietnamese Buddhist group that has peacefully campaigned against successive governments and Communist Party controls on religion, died in his monastery at the age...

parachuting into a lake, starting his five-and-a-half-year ordeal as a prisoner of war, much of it in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton". As the Republican senator now makes a run for the White...

Five people have been killed in the Philippines after gunmen opened fire on a bus in the country's rebellion-hit south, survivors and officials say.No group immediately claimed responsibility for the...

The UN's envoy to Afghanistan is set to outline a new plan on spending foreign aid, amid concerns that millions of dollars have been wasted. The envoy, Kai Eide, wants international aid money to...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's Foreign Ministry insisted Saturday that its nuclear proliferation case was closed, a day after the disgraced architect of its atomic program claimed the army...

The foreign minister will be leading a four-member team for the important meeting next week which is likely to determine the crucial aspect of whether it would be a UN Security Council sanctioned...

This evening, June 27 the vigil of the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Benedict XVI will inaugurate the Pauline Year, centred on the figure of the apostle who, born in Tarsus around the year 8 A.D.,...

Pakistani security forces have eased an operation against insurgents in a tribal region near the border with Afghanistan as local elders try to negotiate peace with a militant leader, a government...

SIEM REAP, Cambodia : There is no question that Angkor and its famed temples are among the world's archaeological treasures, providing a window into the Cambodian dynasty that flourished there...

HYDERABAD: There are lessons for Indian Maoists and elite in the way Nepali Maoists and other mainstream parties showed maturity and statesmanship in the transition of Nepal from monarchy to a...

I'm leaving Malaysia to return to Canada, but Malaysia has become my second home and I will really miss it. I'll miss the sun and heat, the smiles and friendships, the food, the fun.However, a...

A woman said to be 70 years of age has given birth to twins in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state after taking IVF treatment. Omkari Panwar has no birth certificate but if her age is proven it...