The dispute over land ownership has been one of the country’s most contentious issues.
Sat, 09 Nov, 2019
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.
Wed, 17 Jul, 2019
India and Pakistan exchanged gunfire through the night in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, a day after Islamabad said it shot down two Indian warplanes and captured a pilot.
Thu, 28 Feb, 2019
Update: Pakistan's Imran Khan offers olive branch to India PM.
Wed, 27 Feb, 2019
Aasia Bibi is now free to leave the country after the resolution of the blasphemy case.
Tue, 29 Jan, 2019
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Tue, 20 Nov, 2018
The girl's body was found yesterday in a rubbish bin.
Wed, 10 Jan, 2018
Pakistan's ruling party has named senior politician Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as successor to the deposed prime minister, a day after the Supreme Court removed Nawaz Sharif from office for concealing assets.
Sat, 29 Jul, 2017
The complainant says Tomkins' "overpowered" her and she was also too drunk to consent to sex.
Thu, 18 May, 2017
Fourteen people have been killed after a roadside bomb targeted a minivan in Pakistan's north-western tribal region.
Tue, 25 Apr, 2017
Pakistani forces have killed and arrested dozens of suspects in sweeping raids as the death toll from a massive suicide bombing by Islamic State that targeted a famed shrine rose to 88.
Fri, 17 Feb, 2017
Thu, 08 Dec, 2016
A government official in Pakistan says there are unlikely to be any survivors following a plane crash in the northern part of the country.
Wed, 07 Dec, 2016
Wed, 10 Aug, 2016
Saudi Arabia yesterday identified the suicide bomber who struck outside the US consulate in Jiddah as a Pakistani resident of the kingdom who arrived 12 years ago to work as a driver.
Wed, 06 Jul, 2016
PAKISTAN: The plight of a lonely elephant in a Pakistani zoo has inspired help from pop icon Cher.
Sat, 25 Jun, 2016
Fourteen Nepalese security guards were killed when a Taliban suicide bomber attacked their minibus in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, the Interior Ministry and an Afghan security official said.
Mon, 20 Jun, 2016
IT would be foolishly romantic to imagine that humanity’s base, destructive instincts can always be controlled or even modified as, in recent days and months, hatred seems to be roaring ever louder around the world.
Tue, 14 Jun, 2016
Sat, 11 Jun, 2016
The family of a five-year-old Afghan boy who received autographed shirts from his football hero Lionel Messi have been forced to leave Afghanistan amid constant telephone threats, the boy’s father has said.
Wed, 04 May, 2016
Flash floods triggered by heavy rain in Pakistan have killed at least 55 people and rescuers were trying to help thousands of survivors including some cut off by a landslide in a mountain valley, officials said.
Tue, 05 Apr, 2016
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Sat, 12 Dec, 2015
Pakistan’s only paraplegic death-row inmate is set to be executed today at a high-security prison in the industrial city of Faisalabad, his mother and an international rights group said.
Wed, 25 Nov, 2015
As the death toll in the massive earthquake that struck the remote Hindu Kush mountains soared above 300, officials on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border warned yesterday that casualty figures will likely leap once relief workers return from villages so remote they can only be accessed on foot or by donkey.
Wed, 28 Oct, 2015
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Fri, 16 Oct, 2015
Studio Ghibli, Bourne, and a Cilla Black tribute are among the gems on TV tonight
Sun, 16 Aug, 2015
One-day peace talks between Afghan officials and Taliban representatives have ended with both sides agreeing to meet again after the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.
Wed, 08 Jul, 2015
Pakistani authorities have given Save the Children 15 days to leave the country, officials said, accusing the aid agency of spying.
Sat, 13 Jun, 2015
Pakistan has shut the offices of the international aid group Save the Children in the capital, Islamabad, without giving any reason, officials say.
Fri, 12 Jun, 2015
A Pakistani man whose lawyers say was a child when charged with murder, and only confessed after being tortured, was handed a reprieve just hours before he was due to be executed, the fourth time his death penalty has been stayed.
Wed, 10 Jun, 2015
Pakistani politicians have protested against the publication of images of Islam’s prophet in the satirical French magazine attacked by extremists last week.
Thu, 15 Jan, 2015
Cuba has completed the release of 53 political prisoners that was part of last month’s historic deal between the United States and Cuba, the US said.
Mon, 12 Jan, 2015
Taliban claim attack that targeted military school in Pakistan
Wed, 17 Dec, 2014
A 60-year-old woman, her husband and their three children were axed to death in central Pakistan by the woman’s family in revenge for the couple marrying 28 years ago, police said.
Thu, 11 Dec, 2014
A stampede at an anti-government rally in central Pakistan killed seven supporters of the country’s famous former cricketer now opposition politician Imran Khan officials said.
Sat, 11 Oct, 2014
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Tue, 07 Oct, 2014
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg has been dramatically released after being cleared of a string of terrorist offences linked to the civil war in Syria.
Thu, 02 Oct, 2014
Army and air force troops worked to rescue thousands of people stranded in Indian-controlled Kashmir and northern and eastern Pakistan, where flooding and landslides have caused more than 320 deaths.
Mon, 08 Sep, 2014
Pakistan’s prime minister and army chief have held marathon meetings over violent anti-government protests that could force the premier to resign.
Tue, 02 Sep, 2014
Thousands of anti-government protesters tried to raid the official residence of Pakistan’s prime minister, sparking clashes with police that killed three people and wounded nearly 400 amid cries for the premier to step down, officials said.
Mon, 01 Sep, 2014
Pakistan’s prime minister has denied asking the country’s military chief to mediate with opposition leaders and protesters who have camped outside parliament in Islamabad for two weeks, demanding his resignation over alleged voting fraud.
Fri, 29 Aug, 2014
Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have gathered in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad following the arrival of convoys led by a cricket star-turned-politician and a fiery anti-Taliban cleric.
Fri, 15 Aug, 2014
The husband of a pregnant Pakistani woman bludgeoned to death outside a courthouse murdered his first wife, he told AFP yesterday, in a gruesome twist to a story that has shocked rights activists.
Fri, 30 May, 2014
A controversial Pakistani cleric who runs an Islamic seminary for girls in the capital, Islamabad, has named the school’s new library in honour of Osama bin Laden.
Fri, 18 Apr, 2014
A Pakistani man was arrested on suspicion of cannibalism when the head of a newborn baby was found at his home — three years after he was jailed for the same offence.
Tue, 15 Apr, 2014
Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has escaped unharmed after a bomb attack in the capital Islamabad, police said.
Thu, 03 Apr, 2014
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