The United Arab Emirates on Monday unveiled plan to issue first multi-entry five-year tourist visa to all nationalities.
11:56 Tue 07 Jan 2020
Pakistan's airspace has been reopened to civil aviation with immediate effect, authorities said on Tuesday, following more than four months of restrictions imposed in the wake of a standoff with neighboring India earlier this year.
08:33 Tue 16 Jul 2019
NYT: Trump approves strikes on Iran, but then pulls back
President Donald Trump approved military strikes against Iran in retaliation for downing an American surveillance drone, but pulled back from launching them on Thursday night after a day of escalating tensions, US media reports said on Friday.
14:21 Fri 21 Jun 2019
Blast near shrine in Pakistan, several dead: police
A bomb targeting police outside a major Sufi shrine in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday killed several people and wounded dozens, officials said.
09:18 Wed 08 May 2019
Easter Day bombs kill about 100 in attacks on Sri Lankan churches, hotels
Easter Day bomb blasts at three Sri Lankan churches and three luxury hotels killed about 100 people and wounded more than 400, a hospital director and police officials said, following a lull in major attacks since the end of the civil war 10 years ago.
10:35 Sun 21 Apr 2019
Pakistan PM: 'No use' for armed militias anymore
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday his country will not allow armed militias to operate anymore.
10:55 Wed 10 Apr 2019
Turkish Airlines to transfer all flights from Ataturk Airport to Istanbul Airport on April 6
Turkish Airlines switches its operations to the new mega-Istanbul Airport and ends its all scheduled flights at Ataturk Airport as of April 6 at 2:00 a.m. local time (April 5, 23:00 GMT), the airline said on March 11.
12:57 Tue 12 Mar 2019
Pakistan says strikes against India, shoots down two Indian aircraft
Pakistan shot down two Indian jets on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Pakistan armed forces said, a day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistan for the first time since a war in 1971, prompting leading powers to urge the nuclear armed rivals to show restraint.
11:40 Wed 27 Feb 2019
India says carried out air strike on 'terror camps' inside Pakistan
Indian jets crossed into Pakistani territory on Tuesday, conducting what one minister said was an air strike on "terror camps", dramatically escalating tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours who have fought three wars against each other.
10:01 Tue 26 Feb 2019