As tensions ramp up between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, and peace talks in Afghanistan reach a crucial stage, the Trump administration has some difficult choices to make, writes Richard N Haass

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.

A passenger train has rammed into a freight train in southern Pakistan, killing at least 10 people and injuring 64 others.

President Xi’s repression of Muslim minorities is redolent of the Soviet Union’s gulag and will foster a new generation of Islamist domestic terrorists, says Brahma Chellaney

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.

Thousands of Indian and Pakistani social media users have been pleading with their leaders to find peace amid escalating tensions as #SayNoToWar began trending on Twitter in both countries on Wednesday.

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

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

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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.

Russell Brand has allegedly split from Jemima Khan.

Pakistan’s prime minister and army chief have held marathon meetings over violent anti-government protests that could force the premier to resign.

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.

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.

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.

Russell Brand is ready to have children, but girlfriend Jemima Khan isn't rushing into anything.

A bomb attack in a Pakistan cinema has killed five people.

The Pakistani government accused the US of sabotaging peace talks with domestic Taliban fighters by killing their leader in a drone strike, as the militants began the process of choosing a successor.

A suicide bomber has shot his way into the residence of a Pakistani provincial government minister killing him and seven others.

Russell Brand is having the "best sex ever" with Jemima Khan.

A suicide bomber has blown himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in Pakistan, killing 27 people.

Newly elected members of Pakistan’s National Assembly were sworn in today, officially marking the first transition of power between democratically elected civilian governments in the nearly 66-year history of the coup-prone country.

Pakistani cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan has left hospital about two weeks after he received serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift truck at a campaign event.

The final vote count from Pakistan’s national elections has confirmed a big win for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s party.

Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif looked poised today to return to office with a resounding election victory – a mandate that could make it easier to tackle the country’s daunting problems, including growing power cuts, weak economic growth and shaky finances.

Defying the danger of militant attacks, Pakistanis streamed to the polls today for a historic vote pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister and an unpopular incumbent.

Pakistan is holding historic elections today, pitting former cricket star Imran Khan against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and an incumbent blamed for power blackouts and inflation.

Afghan president Hamid Karzai has written letters to top political and religious leaders in Pakistan, denouncing the Taliban attack on a Pakistani teenager who is promoting girls’ education and asking them to help battle extremism in both countries.

Thousands of Pakistanis, joined by US anti-war activists, are heading towards a militant-riddled tribal region to protest against US drone strikes despite threats of suicide attacks by the Pakistani Taliban.

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The Taliban have threatened to kill a Pakistani cricket star turned politician if he holds a planned march to their tribal stronghold along the Afghan border to protest over US drone attacks.

He remains modest about his achievements, but Imran Khan’s tireless work to combat racism in England was groundbreaking, writes Dan Buckley

A scheduled visit to University College Cork by the leader of the British National Party Nick Griffin has been cancelled.

ACTOR Hugh Grant and writer Jemima Khan must be shown police information which indicates their telephone messages might have been intercepted by a private investigator working for the press, a High Court judge has ruled.

US missiles killed 25 people in an al Qaida and Taliban sanctuary close to the Afghan border today, Pakistani officials said, signalling American intent to press ahead with such attacks despite renewed protests by Islamabad.

There is little prospect of Pakistan returning home any time soon to a country which has suffered more than 7,000 terrorist incidents since 2006.

Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif today warned that the country was moving towards a state of political crisis.

The seeds of the global credit crunch lie in the US response to the 9/11 terror attacks, an academic said today.

THOUSANDS of Pakistani lawyers and other opponents of President Pervez Musharraf embarked on a “long march” aimed at reinstating judges sacked by the embattled US-backed leader.

Voting has begun today in the postponed Pakistan elections after opposition politicians voiced concerns about vote rigging.

Opposition politicians have today voiced concerns about vote rigging on the eve of the postponed Pakistan elections.

BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted last night he been assured by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf that his country could hold “credible” elections next month.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown today urged Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf to ensure “transparent, credible” elections in his country next month.

More than 20 people died today in a wave of violence that swept across Pakistan following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.