PAN Monitor

Bangladesh’s ex- foreign minister Hasan Mahmud has been arrested at the Dhaka airport and handed over to the military, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.

At least five US personnel have been wounded in a rocket strike on an American military base in Iraq, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

Amid deadly protests against the job quota system, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid stood down and left the country on Monday, media reports say.

Amid a hectic search for the missing, the death toll from rain-triggered landslides in India’s southern state of Kerala has mounted to 151, a media reports said on Wednesday.

New Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has been invited to the upcoming BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan.

Afghanistan’s new acting consul-general has embarked on his mission in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, a media report said on Tuesday.

Turkey could enter Israel in support of Palestinian people, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has warned.

Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian, who won last the runoff vote earlier in the month, has formally been endorsed as new president, IRNA reported.

People-to-people contacts are the foundation of its historical relationship with Afghanistan, says India.

Ex-US president Donald Trump has been wounded in what the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI says) calls an assassination attempt, CNN reported on Sunday.

Twenty months into his ill-starred term, Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has lost a parliamentary trust vote, says a media report.

Top Russian and Indian leaders have welcomed Afghanistan’s campaign against international terrorist groups, including ISIS.