The head of a village council in central Pakistan has been arrested for allegedly sanctioning the rape of a teenage girl.

Police have arrested a cook accused of poisoning to death 22 people in central Pakistan in a political feud between two branches of the same family.

A PAKISTANI man has been jailed for 60 years for kidnapping a five-year-old British boy who was on holiday in the country.

A spokesman for a paramilitary group claims security forces in southern Pakistan have been given permission to shoot at rioters.

At least 17 people were killed in central Pakistan today when fireworks caught fire and exploded as they were being loaded onto a truck.