In India recently, there is all the hype in mainstream media about a probable 30 second rapid COVID-19 detection system by collaboration of DRDO with the Israeli military R&D.

Pakistan said Thursday that suspected militants operating out of Afghanistan have attacked several border outposts, killing a paramilitary soldier and “critically” injuring two others.

Thousands of prominent Afghans will gather in Kabul Friday to decide whether to release about 400 Taliban prisoners, including many involved in brutal attacks that killed scores of Afghans and foreigners.

Taliban militants and Afghan civilians have been killed in attacks and clashes across Afghanistan amid peace efforts aimed at ending the nearly 19-year war.

March in Pakistani city was held by Jamaat-e-Islami political party to express solidarity with the people of Kashmir.

An Afghan official says at least 11 people have been killed in a roadside bombing in the country’s north.

Afghan authorities were searching Tuesday for about 270 inmates — most of them Islamic State fighters — who remained on the loose after escaping during a deadly prison raid.

Authorities blanketed Kashmir with troops, who laid out barbed wire and set up road blacks to prevent demonstrations.

The president’s assertion undercuts diplomats who have said withdrawals will depend on the Taliban’s commitment to its peace deal with the United States.

Afghanistan will convene a grand assembly of elders, known as the loya jirga, in Kabul on Friday to decide the fate of hundreds of prisoners the Taliban insist should be released before entering peace talks with the government.