A case of the deadly waterborne disease cholera has been confirmed in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest, and aid workers expect there to be more, the UN said today.

A case of the deadly, waterborne disease cholera has been confirmed in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest, and aid workers expect it is not isolated, the UN said today.

Pakistan’s election campaign intensified today with the two top political leaders travelling across the country to attack President Pervez Musharraf’s rule.

Pakistan and India resumed talks today aimed at resolving a lingering territorial dispute that has hindered oil and gas exploration and led to the arrests of fishermen from both sides.

Railway workers were clearing debris and repairing damaged train tracks in southern Pakistan today, a day after the country’s worst rail crash in more than a decade left at least 133 people dead and hundreds injured.

Pakistani agricultural researchers have confirmed that a disease that has killed up to 4 million chickens in the country's south since November was a strain of bird flu.

A man convicted of killing an Iranian diplomat 10 years ago has been hanged in Pakistan.