Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday hinted that general elections will be held ahead of schedule, but the offer did not appear to be acceptable to the Opposition, who demanded that the pol

The Taliban broke off confidence-building talks with the Americans on Thursday and the Afghan President ordered US troops out of villages, demanding a transition of security from Nato control in 2013.

The Pakistan Army Chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, is set to effect a major reshuffle in the military’s top hierarchy in the next few days after the incumbent ISI chief, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, retires on March 18, sources said.

A Pakistani court conducting the trial of LeT’s Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects in the Mumbai attacks on Tuesday issued a notification stating that a judicial panel would visit India on March 14 to interview key Indian officials as part of the probe into the 2008 strikes.

Iran may be preparing to expand its nuclear programme at an underground plant near the city of Qom, a diplomat has told the BBC, just days ahead of a visit by United Nations nuclear inspectors.

India said Wednesday it was in the final stages of revising its 1974 visa agreement with Pakistan to facilitate the movement of people, particularly businessmen, between the two countries.

The former president of under-fire Olympus has been arrested in Tokyo, prosecutors said on Thursday, in one of the biggest ever financial scandals to rock corporate Japan.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday became the first Pakistani head of government to be indicted when the Supreme Court charged the embattled PM with contempt of court for refusing to reopen corruption cases against his boss, President Asif Ali Zardari.

The Pakistani police said on Wednesday they were investigating how and why a parcel containing anthrax was sent to the Prime Minister’s official residence in the capital Islamabad in January.

The Pakistani police were on Wednesday investigating how and why a parcel containing anthrax was sent to the Prime Minister's official residence in the capital Islamabad last month.