Pakistan's prime minister cut short a trip abroad to rush to the side of victims of a massive fuel tanker fire as authorities raised the death toll from the blaze to 157.

The death toll from twin blasts in Parachinar has climbed to 67, bringing the overall death toll from three separate attacks in Pakistan to 85.

Fourteen people have been killed after a roadside bomb targeted a minivan in Pakistan's north-western tribal region.

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.

A train crushed two motorised rickshaws on an unattended railway crossing in central Pakistan on Friday, killing seven schoolchildren and one of the rickshaw drivers, police and railway officials said.

A massive fire has swept through a four-star hotel in Karachi where members of Pakistan's cricket team were staying, killing at least 11 people.

Dutch dairy firm FrieslandCampina has unveiled plans to acquire a 51% stake in Engro Foods in Pakistan, where consumers primarily drink unprocessed raw milk.

At least 18 people were killed and up to 150 trapped when a factory collapsed near the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, officials said, adding to a number of industrial disasters to hit the South Asian nation.

Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency said that the reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been dead for more than two years.

A devastating heatwave has killed more than 400 people in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi over the past three days, health officials said, as paramilitaries set up emergency medical camps in the streets.

More than 400 people have died from heatstroke in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi in the last three days, officials have said.

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.

Gunmen have killed 43 people in an attack on Shiites in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, police said.

Thousands of Shiites across Pakistan mourned and protested today after a bombing at a Shiite mosque killed at least 59 people.

At least 10 people have been killed in violent protests in the west African nation of Niger over French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo’s depiction of the Prophet Mohammed.

A press photographer has been shot in Pakistan during a demonstration against Charlie Hebdo.

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At least 19 people have drowned off beaches in southern Pakistan because of heavy waves and strong currents, rescuers said today.

Dublin has jumped 10 places in a list of the world’s costliest places to live for expats and foreign nationals.

Pakistan has launched a ground offensive against Taliban strongholds near the Afghan border after evacuating nearly half a million residents from the tribal region.

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 Pakistani Taliban says it was behind the five-hour assault on the international airport in Karachi that killed 18 people.

Gunmen disguised as police guards attacked a terminal at Pakistan's busiest airport with machine guns and a rocket launcher, killing at least 13 people as explosions echoed into the night.

Gunmen disguised as police guards stormed an airport terminal used for VIPs and cargo in Pakistan’s largest city tonight, killing at least nine people as explosions echoed into the night.

Five people have been killed after gunmen attacked a terminal at Karachi’s international airport, Pakistan officials say.

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Rescuers are struggling to help thousands of people injured and left homeless after their houses collapsed in a massive earthquake in south-western Pakistan, as the death toll rose overnight to 210, officials said.

Pakistani officials have released their highest-ranking Afghan Taliban prisoner in a bid to kick-start Afghanistan’s struggling peace process.

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PASHTUNABAD — a poor, wind and flyblown suburb of Quetta — is the type of Pakistani town where commanders in the Afghan Taliban lived after being kicked out of their country in 2001.

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.

Twin blasts in the southern city of Karachi have killed three people near the office of a political party critical of the Taliban.

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is thought to be holed up at his private compound on the outskirts of Islamabad after a court revoked his bail in a case in which he is accused of treason.

A bomb blast has killed at least 20 people in a neighbourhood dominated by Shiite Muslims in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.

At least five people were killed when militants wearing suicide vests and disguised as policemen attacked the office of a senior political official in north-western Pakistan today, police and hospital officials said.

The former St Patrick’s Marymount Hospice on Wellington Road in Cork looks set to be taken over by Griffith College.

French judges have authorised a fresh probe against ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy as part of the so-called “Karachi affair,” a judicial source told AFP, in the latest legal headache faced by the former leader.

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Three more workers in a polio eradication campaign were shot in Pakistan, and two of them were killed, the latest in an unprecedented string of attacks over the past three days that has partially halted the UN-backed campaign.

The Taliban murdered five women polio health workers in a series of attacks in Pakistan today.