People in India have been taking to Twitter to accuse the BBC of "hypocrisy" for referring to Kashmir as "Indian occupied", asking the broadcaster to apply a similar description to the North.

Pakistan has arrested a radical cleric and terror suspect implicated in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, officials said, days ahead of prime minister Imran Khan's trip to Washington.

At least one person has died after gunmen attacked a five-tar hotel in Gwadar, Pakistan.

A woman in Pakistan who had allegedly been gang-raped has accused a police officer investigating her case of raping her.

A grenade blast at a bus station in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir has left one civilian dead and at least 30 others injured.

Update: Pakistan's Imran Khan offers olive branch to India PM.

Pakistan's prime minister has offered to hold talks with India but warned New Delhi to refrain from launching any attacks on his country following last week's suicide bombing in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Aasia Bibi is now free to leave the country after the resolution of the blasphemy case.

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has arrived in Pakistan at a time when relations between the two countries have sunk to a new low.

Pakistan's ruling party has suspended a newly elected MP after a video surfaced online showing him beating up a citizen in the southern city of Karachi.

Three members of a grooming gang in England face possible deportation to Pakistan after Court of Appeal judges upheld a decision to strip them of their British citizenship.

It is not uncommon for athletes to enter politics as many of the skills needed to succeed in sport apply to government.

Pakistan Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in a US drone strike in north-eastern Kunar, the Afghan defence ministry said.

A mother who duped her teenage daughter to go to Pakistan and forced her to marry has been jailed for four-and-a-half years, in the first successful prosecution of its type.

The playing of a test match in Dublin last weekend between Ireland and Pakistan is a reminder that there is nothing inevitable in sport.

Pakistan have beaten Ireland by five wickets in their Test match at Malahide.

The Irish Cricket team have set Pakistan a target of 160 runs to win on the final day of their inaugural test match in Malahide.

Pakistan's interior minister has been shot and wounded in the shoulder by a gunman following a public meeting.

An independent Pakistani watchdog criticised the country's human rights record over the past year in a new report today, saying the nation has failed to make progress.

A man has been arrested in Pakistan over the fatal shooting of a pregnant singer as she performed at a party held by a wealthy landlord.

Malala Yousafzai has visited her hometown of Mingora for the first time since a Taliban militant shot her there in 2012 for advocating girls' education.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai is meeting Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi hours after returning to her homeland for the first time since she was shot by Taliban militants in 2012.

The UN children's agency has singled out Pakistan as the riskiest country for newborns, saying that for every 1,000 infants, 46 die at birth.

A Pakistan court has sentenced a serial killer to death after finding him guilty of killing eight children, including a seven-year-old girl whose rape and murder drew nationwide condemnation.

Afghanistan's former president has criticised both the US and Pakistan, accusing them of using the Afghan war to further their own interests and calling on Washington to sanction Pakistani military and intelligence officials.

Two teenagers have been arrested in Pakistan over the death of a four-year-old girl last month which triggered protests across the country.

A magnitude-6.1 earthquake has rattled Pakistan and Afghanistan, including both capitals, killing a young Pakistani girl and injuring five others, officials said.

Gunmen have shot and killed a mother and her daughter who were working for an anti-polio campaign under way in Pakistan’s south-western city of Quetta, police said.

Richard N. Haass looks at the risks involved as the United States’ relationship with Pakistan deteriorates into a Twitter shouting match.

Pakistan's cricket legend-turned-politician Imran Khan has proposed marriage to a faith healer - but the woman has yet to make her decision, his party said.

Pakistan is ready to face any US action in the wake of President Donald Trump’s tweet on New Year’s Day threatening the country, the defence minister and the army spokesman said.

Pakistani security forces were on high alert across the country on Monday, following a suicide attack on a church by the Islamic State group that killed nine people, officials said.

Two suicide bombers have attacked a church in the south-western city of Quetta, killing five people and wounding 18 others.

Islamist militants have stormed a provincial government complex for agricultural research in north-west Pakistan, killing 12 people including students and wounding 35 others, officials said.

Police have launched an operation to clear Islamist protesters from an intersection linking the Pakistani capital with the garrison city of Rawalpindi, sparking other demonstrations across the country.

The parents of an American woman freed with her family after five years of captivity say they are elated, but also angry at their son-in law for taking their daughter to Afghanistan.

The death toll from a bombing at a Shiite shrine in south-west Pakistan has increased to 24 after four victims died in hospital, police said.

At least six Pakistani villagers were killed and 26 wounded in an overnight cross-border shooting by India in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, Pakistan's military said.

Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif has stepped down after the supreme court disqualified him from holding office over allegations of corruption and ordered criminal charges to be filed against him and his family.

Latest: The death toll from an oil tanker fire in Pakistan has risen to 153, with dozens more in a critical condition, and the fatalities are expected to increase.

The death toll from twin blasts in the north-western town of Parachinar climbed to 45 overnight, bringing the overall death toll from three separate attacks in Pakistan on Friday to 61, with several others in a critical condition, officials said.

Twin bombings minutes apart have hit a crowded market in Pakistan's north-western tribal region, killing at least 15 people and wounding 70, a government official said.

LATEST: Pakistani police have raised the death toll from a huge bombing in the country's south-western Baluchistan province to 25.

Here's your lunchtime news bulletin.

Eleven people have died after a minibus plunged into a ravine in the mountainous north west of Pakistan.

At least 24 people have died and more than 70 others were injured after a suicide car bomb attack near a Shia Muslim place of worship in the north-west Pakistani city of Parachinar.

Around 1,300 suspected militants have been arrested in a sweep of hideouts in Pakistan's largest province of Punjab, police said.

A group of suicide bombers armed with grenades and assault rifles have attacked a courthouse in north-western Pakistan, killing six people.

Latest: An Islamic State suicide bomber has targeted worshippers at a famous shrine in southern Pakistan, killing at least 75 people and wounding more than 200 others, officials said.