An Indian woman who says she was trafficked to Pakistan more than two decades ago has finally returned home — 18 months after her grandson spotted her in a YouTube video. Hamida Banu said she had spent the last 22 years "as a living corpse", trapped (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to consuls general-designate to a number of countries in a ceremony held at the ministry's headquarters in Riyadh on Wednesday.
The newly (...)
Gunmen have killed at least 20 people at a coal mine in Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan, according to local police.
The attackers stormed the workers' accommodation at the Junaid Coal Company mines in the province's Duki district in (...)
Two Chinese nationals have been killed and at least 10 people injured in a suspected suicide attack near Karachi airport in Pakistan.
A third body, not yet officially identified, is thought to be that of the attacker, the BBC understands.
The (...)
Police in southern Pakistan have shot dead a doctor accused of blasphemy, drawing condemnation from human rights groups.
Dr Shahnawaz Kanbhar was killed "just by chance" in a shootout with officers who did not know it was him, according to a local (...)
At least 56 people, including 12 militants, were killed in a series of violent incidents in southwest and northwest Pakistan on Monday, according to officials and local media reports.
In southwestern Balochistan province, suspected militants killed (...)
At least 40 people were killed and dozens more injured in two separate road accidents in southwest and northwest Pakistan on Sunday, according to police and local media reports.
In the first incident, around 29 passengers lost their lives when a (...)
The Pakistani government on Sunday denied any role in the ongoing internet disruptions that have severely impacted online businesses, particularly the country's 2.37 million freelancers.
State Minister for Information Technology and (...)
As the temperatures rose in southern Pakistan, so did the body count.
The Edhi ambulance service says it usually takes around 30 to 40 people to the Karachi city morgue daily.
But over the last six days, it has collected some 568 bodies — 141 of (...)
Temperatures rose above 52 degrees Celsius (125.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh, the highest reading of the summer and close to the country's record high amid an ongoing heat wave, Reuters news agency reported quoting (...)
KARACHI— Saudi Arabia has launched the Makkah Route Initiative for Pakistani pilgrims for this year's Hajj at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi. This is the second airport in Pakistan to benefit from the initiative, which is part of Saudi (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Interior and the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) have harnessed highly advanced technologies, systems and equipment enhanced with artificial intelligence and innovative digital solutions to complete (...)
MADINAH — The first group of Pakistani pilgrims set off from Karachi on Thursday, embarking on their spiritual journey to Saudi Arabia via the Makkah Route Initiative. Departing from they city's Jinnah International Airport (JIAP), the pilgrims (...)
At least 17 Pakistanis have died in a bus crash while traveling to a shrine in Balochistan for Eid-al-Fitr celebrations.
The accident occurred late on Wednesday officials say, when the vehicle lost control before falling into a ravine.
More than 40 (...)
Two political parties in Pakistan have reached a formal agreement to form a new government following an election mired in controversy.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) will be backed by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in a new (...)
A Pakistan politician who won a seat in last week's controversial national elections has given it up because he says the vote was rigged in his favor.
Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman of the Jamaat-e-Islami party had been named the victor of the provincial (...)
In the latest development from Pakistan's electoral battlefield, candidates affiliated with the imprisoned ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan's party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), emerged as the front-runners in the final count of the Feb. 8 general (...)
Zayn Malik's collaboration with popular Pakistani band Aur has given fans much to celebrate — with many psyched that the British singer is fluent in Urdu.
A remake of Aur's breakout hit Tu Hai Kahan features the ex-One Direction singer providing (...)
At least 23 soldiers have been killed and dozens injured in Pakistan after militants attacked a police compound.
The attack took place in the early hours when a vehicle containing explosives rammed into the building in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, (...)
Daily-wage laborer Asif Maseeh wakes up each day wondering how he will feed his family of seven.
"We just pray to God that we'll find a way to eat tomorrow," Maseeh told the BBC.
The 45-year-old is among an estimated 700,000 workers who have lost (...)
The Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani) has announced the addition of Jubail Commercial Port to the India to East Med shipping service by MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company).
With the arrival of container vessel MSC ELLEN, the Saudi ports sector is set (...)
Tens of thousands of supporters from Pakistan's main religious political party have rallied in the eastern city of Lahore against Israel's bombing of Palestinians in Gaza and what it said is the world's failure to protect Gazans.
Amid anti-Israeli (...)
At least 52 people were killed and dozens more wounded in what authorities believe was a suicide attack at a religious procession in southwest Pakistan Friday.
The explosion occurred in the Mastung district of the restive Balochistan province, as (...)
ISLAMABAD — Minister of Hajj and Umrah Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah announced the signing of a new agreement with Pakistan aimed at increasing the number of flights between the two countries as well as to reduce costs for Hajj and Umrah pilgrims from that (...)
In his 1974 novel Tamas (Darkness), a vivid portrayal of the bloody partition of India, author Bhisham Sahni vividly depicts the atmosphere changing in a violence-wracked village, as an airplane circles above it thrice.
"People ventured out. The (...)
