Pakistan on Thursday denounced new US sanctions on the country's ballistic missile program as "discriminatory" that put the region's peace and security at risk, according to the Associated Press news agency.
Pakistan's foreign ministry warned in a (...)
ISLAMABAD — President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan welcomed Shoura Council Speaker Dr. Abdullah Al Al-Sheikh and his accompanying delegation during an official visit to Islamabad.
At the meeting's outset, Al Al-Sheikh conveyed to the Pakistani (...)
Supporters of jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan have been pushed back by security forces after reaching the heart of the heavily-barricaded capital earlier on Tuesday.
The convoy of opposition protesters has been marching towards (...)
Opposition supporters in Pakistan have temporarily called off protests demanding the release of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, a day after marching on central Islamabad.
Protesters had vowed not to leave the capital until Khan's release. (...)
At least one policeman has been killed and more than 50 injured, Pakistan's authorities say, as officials try to stop thousands of opposition protesters reaching Islamabad.
Scores of supporters of jailed former PM Imran Khan have been arrested and (...)
Tens of thousands of protesters are closing in on Pakistan's capital Islamabad as part of nationwide protests calling for the release of former prime minister Imran Khan.
Authorities have enforced a security lockdown for the last two days to block (...)
Record-breaking levels of thick, toxic smog that have shrouded eastern Pakistan and northern India since last month can be seen in striking satellite imagery.
A huge cloud of gray smog blankets Pakistan's Punjab province and stretches out east into (...)
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a train station in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 26 people, including soldiers and railway staff, and wounding about 62 others, some critically, according to officials.
The attack occurred (...)
Polio is once again spreading in Pakistan, where officials say more than 1 million children missed their vaccination doses last month, underscoring the challenges they face in eradicating one of the world's most intractable diseases.
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif received Minister of Investment Khalid Al-Falih and his delegation from Saudi Arabia's public and private sectors during an official visit to Islamabad on Thursday.
Sharif expressed deep gratitude (...)
ISLAMABAD — The 2024 Saudi-Pakistani Business Forum took place on Thursday in Islamabad, attended by Minister of Investment Eng. Khalid Al-Falih, Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ishaq Dar, and numerous entrepreneurs (...)
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 (...)
ISLAMABAD — King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) signed four cooperation programs with the National Disaster Management Authority, National Commission for Human Development, Pakistan Red Crescent Society, and Kashmir Earthquake (...)
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 (...)
Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday, marking the highest-level visit by a foreign official since the Taliban returned to power three years ago.
Aripov, leading a delegation, was welcomed at Kabul airport by Abdul (...)
ISLAMABAD — President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi received Sheikh Dr. Salah Al-Budair, Imam of the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah, at the Presidential Palace on Thursday.
The meeting was attended by Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf Al-Maliki and (...)
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan has now been behind bars for a year – although there are times you would barely know it.
Khan is still the dominant force of Pakistan's opposition politics; his name still in the papers and the courts. His (...)
On 9 June, Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir saw one of its deadliest attacks in years.
Nine Hindu pilgrims were killed and more than 30 people were injured after militants opened fire on a bus that was making its way to a shrine in the (...)
At least four soldiers have been killed in a gunfight with suspected militants in Indian-administered Kashmir — the latest in a recent spate of attacks by armed insurgents in the disputed region.
Security forces came under fire on Monday night when (...)
A Pakistani court on Saturday suspended the sentences and acquitted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife in a case accusing them of violating Islamic marriage law, according to court records.
Judge Muhammad Afzal Majoka of the Islamabad (...)
Pakistan is extending the stay of nearly 1.5 million registered Afghan refugees – but its mass deportation of "illegal immigrants" will continue, authorities said.
Afghan refugees in Pakistan with Proof of Registration (POR) cards will be able to (...)
Pakistan will continue to launch attacks against Afghanistan as part of a new military operation aimed at countering terrorism, the country's defense minister has told the BBC.
Khawaja Asif said the aerial strikes were targeting groups that Pakistan (...)
Pakistan on Saturday announced the launch of a "reinvigorated" national counter-terrorism campaign to "eradicate extremism and terrorism from the country."
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif made the announcement while chairing a meeting of the country's (...)
At least 10 people have died and 33 injured after suspected militants fired on a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims in the Indian federal territory of Jammu and Kashmir, police officials said.
The driver lost control, causing the bus to plunge into a gorge (...)
