Pakistan has summoned the US ambassador and Islamic groups have held rallies in major cities after Donald Trump lashed out at the country over its alleged support for extremists.

The death toll in a suicide bombing in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore has risen to 22.

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.

A man arrested after a mid-air drama that saw an international passenger flight diverted with an RAF fighter escort was wanted over a fraud of just £175 (€204), a court heard.

A suicide bomber has struck police escorting a protest rally in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, killing at least 13 people and wounding nearly 60 in an attack claimed by a breakaway Taliban faction.

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.

THOUGH it has never held a less-than-prominent place in modern western thinking, the turbulent political and social events of the past few years, perhaps exemplified most clearly of all by the tragic and horrific attack on the Charlie Hebdo office, have moved the issue of Free Speech — and by extension, freedom of expression — to the very forefront of our consciousness.

Eleven people have been killed in two separate militant attacks in north-western Pakistan.

Huma Mobin's new husband couldn't get a visa - so she went to Greece without him.

Huma Mobin and Arsalaan Sever Butt got married seven months ago and had planned a romantic second honeymoon to Greece.

Parveen Rafiq closed her hands around the neck of her youngest daughter, Zeenat, and squeezed and squeezed until the girl was almost dead.

A woman in Pakistan burned her 17-year-old daughter alive to punish her for marrying against the family’s wishes, the latest in a series of so-called “honour killings” that claim the lives of nearly 1,000 women every year in the conservative Muslim country.

Islamic State is relatively new to the terrorist game. Brutal it may be, but already it is light years ahead of others in the darkly encrypted world of cyber technology.

An international Islamic scholar has told the Government it was not immune to Islamic extremism and urged it to act now rather than “when it is too late”.

French president Francois Hollande says private security firms have hired an additional 3,000 people for the European Championship football tournament.

Malala Yousafzai has condemned the “senseless killing” in her birth country Pakistan after a terrorist bombing left at least 70 dead on Easter Sunday.

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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.

COMING, as it does, days after the atrocities in Brussels, and months after the Paris outrages andthe bombing campaign in Turkey and yesterday’s outrage in Lahore the defeat of IS at Palmyra can be hailed as a victory, hopefully the first of many against Islamic extremism.

Survivors trapped in the rubble of a collapsed Pakistani factory pleaded for help on their mobiles even as rescuers said they feared the death toll of 18 could rise in the latest tragedy to spotlight poor safety standards in south Asia.

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.

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.

Pakistani security forces have launched a major operation to hunt down gunmen who hijacked two buses and killed at least 19 passengers before fleeing.

PAKISTAN: A motorcyclist has been arrested in the city of Lahore after police caught him riding naked along a busy road, days after a video of his exploits went viral on social media.

Bombs outside two churches in Lahore killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80 during Sunday services, and witnesses said quick action by a security guard prevented many more deaths.

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A bomb which exploded near a Pakistani paramilitary checkpoint has killed at least 45 people near the country’s eastern border with India, in an attack suspected to be the work of a suicide bomber.

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.

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.

A man who was jailed in 2005 for the violent rape of three women he followed home has received a seven-year sentence after he confessed to carrying out two more sex attacks.

A serial rapist has been jailed for a further five years after he confessed in prison to two unsolved crimes.

A court has heard a serial rapist who stalked his victims confessed to two further attacks on women after receiving psychological help in Arbour Hill prison.

The father of a pregnant Pakistani woman who was stoned to death, and four other men, have been charged with killing her after she married against the family’s wishes. Their trial is set to begin today, police said.

A Pakistan court has indicted five relatives accused of stoning a pregnant woman to death for marrying against the family’s wishes.

Four more people have been arrested in connection with the killing of a woman in Pakistan who was beaten and stoned to death by her family for marrying without their permission.

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 woman was stoned to death by her own family in front of a Pakistani high court yesterday for marrying the man she loved, police and a defence lawyer said.

A woman has been stoned to death by her family in front of a Pakistan high court for marrying the man she loved, police and lawyers said.

A Pakistani court has thrown out charges of attempted murder against a nine-month-old baby, in a case that highlighted endemic flaws in the country’s legal system and provoked widespread ridicule.