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A suicide bomber killed at least 69 people, mostly women and children, at a public park in the Pakistani city of Lahore yesterday, striking at the heart of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s political base of Punjab.

Indian security forces are trying to secure a major air force base near the border with Pakistan where an attack by suspected militants left at least 11 people dead, amid reports of fresh gunfire at the compound.

Pakistan is on track to become the world’s fifth largest nuclear power by 2025, according to a report released by a U.S. based independent research organization on Monday.

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.

Gunmen on motorcycles boarded a bus and opened fire on commuters in Pakistan’s volatile southern city of Karachi yesterday, killing at least 43 in the latest attack directed against religious minorities.

A powerful earthquake which struck Nepal today has killed at least 876 people across four countries.

Authorities in Pakistan have hanged two convicted militants in the first executions following the reinstatement of the death penalty in the wake of this week’s Peshawar school massacre.

Taliban claim attack that targeted military school in Pakistan

Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 141 people, mostly children, before Pakistani officials declared a military operation to clear the school over.

The death toll in a Taliban attack on a school in the city of Peshawar in Pakistan has risen to 126, an official says.

Four relatives of a pregnant woman who bludgeoned her to death outside one of Pakistan’s top courts were sentenced to death for the crime, their lawyer said.

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.

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.

Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods have killed 128 people in Pakistan and 108 people in India, officials said, as forecasters warned of more rain in the coming days and troops raced to evacuate people from deluged areas.

Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods have killed 110 people in Pakistan and 108 people in India, officials said, as forecasters warned of more rain in the coming days and troops raced to evacuate people from deluged areas.

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.

As many as 100 people have been killed in airstrikes in the northwestern tribal regions of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.

Taliban militants disguised as security forces stormed Pakistan’s busiest airport on Sunday and at least 27 people were killed in a dramatic night-long battle at one of the country’s most high-profile targets.

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.

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

The leader of the Pakistani Taliban was one of three people killed in a suspected US drone strike, intelligence officials say.

A major earthquake has rocked Pakistan’s south west, killing at least 15 and sending panicked people running into the street just days after another quake in the same region killed hundreds.

A suicide bomb attack on a historic church in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 60 people today

Afghanistan’s president has urged neighbouring Pakistan to help peace talks with the Taliban, but hopes were low in both countries that much progress would be made.

A court in Pakistan has charged former military dictator Pervez Musharraf with the 2007 murder of Benazir Bhutto in an unprecedented move likely to anger the all-powerful army.

Pakistan’s former leader Pervez Musharraf has been charged with murder over the 2007 assassination of prime minister Benazir Bhutto, deepening the fall of a once-powerful figure who returned to the country this year to make a political comeback.

The death toll from two overnight bombings at a busy market in northern Pakistan rose to 49 today with 10 more people dying at a hospital, officials said.

Pakistan will hold a presidential election on August 6, officials announced today.

A car bomb exploded as a convoy of paramilitary troops passed through the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 16 people and wounding 42 others.

A suspected US drone strike has killed seven militants near the Afghan border, according to Pakistani intelligence officials

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.

A suspected US drone strike has killed the number two commander of the Pakistani Taliban, according to intelligence sources.