Javed Iqbal, a Pakistani carpenter working in Saudi Arabia, says he deeply regrets his decision to illegally send his 13-year-old son to Europe.
"The agents had sent dozens of boys from the village to Greece and Italy," he says. "My son, who was (...)
All primary schools in Delhi will close due to worsening air pollution, officials have announced.
In a post on X, the Indian capital's chief minister, Atishi Marlena Singh, said classes will move online until further notice due to a thick smog that (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
When former prime minister Imran Khan was dragged out of a courthouse by police on charges of corruption on 9 May 2023, the reaction was unlike anything seen in Pakistan before.
Enraged supporters took to the streets in cities across the country and (...)
A court in Pakistan has sentenced a 22-year-old student to death on charges of blasphemy over Whatsapp messages.
The court in Punjab Province said he had shared blasphemous pictures and videos with the intention to outrage the religious feelings of (...)
An angry mob in Pakistan accused a woman who wore a dress adorned with Arabic calligraphy of blasphemy, after mistaking them for Qur'an verses.
She was saved by police who escorted her to safety after hundreds gathered. She later gave a public (...)
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 (...)
Pakistan's former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif only returned from self-imposed exile last year but is now the clear front-runner to win the Feb. 8 election.
Few could have predicted his return to the top, despite his dominance in Pakistani (...)
Courts in the UK and Pakistan are involved in a complex legal tussle to decide what should happen to the siblings of Sara Sharif.
Sara, 10, was found dead at her home in Woking, Surrey, in August. Her father, stepmother and uncle deny her (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Toxic smog in eastern Pakistan has made thousands of people sick, forcing authorities to shut some cities for the rest of the week. Smog in the country's second-largest city Lahore has risen to dangerous levels. The Punjab provincial government has (...)
A prominent Sikh leader was brazenly murdered this summer outside a temple in British Columbia (BC), Canada. The death has outraged his supporters and intensified global tensions between Sikh separatists and the Indian government.
On a mid-June (...)
Multiple doctors have advised Farah Nurfirman to leave her hometown Jakarta for her health's sake.
The 22-year-old asthmatic often wears a mask and carries an inhaler, but the air quality in the city is not helping.
The Indonesian capital, which has (...)
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been given a three-year jail sentence over corruption allegations.
Khan was found guilty of not declaring money earned from selling gifts he received in office. He denies the charges and says he will (...)
An air of melancholy engulfs the small village of Bandali in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, where hopes are fading fast for nearly two dozen residents who went abroad in search of a better life and have since disappeared.
Families fight back tears (...)
Pakistan's government has restricted former Prime Minister Imran Khan, his wife and hundreds of political aides from traveling abroad amid a standoff with the country's powerful military, officials said.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), (...)
For many years, Pakistan's military establishment believed that in Imran Khan they had found a savior for the country. But, writes author and journalist Mohammed Hanif, after only a year out of power he is threatening to become their nemesis — and (...)
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have announced the signing of an agreement to implement the 'Road to Makkah' project aimed at simplifying the immigration procedures for Pakistani Hajj and Umrah pilgrims, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
The (...)
Pakistan's ex-prime minister Imran Khan has been freed from custody, a day after the Supreme Court ruled his dramatic arrest on corruption charges was illegal.
Judges released Khan on protected bail, meaning he can not be re-arrested for at least (...)
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges a day after his arrest sparked nationwide protests.
Eight people have died nationwide in the protests and about 1,000 have been arrested, police say.
The army (...)
Violent clashes have broken out in Pakistan between security forces and supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan after he was arrested on Tuesday.
Protests are erupting nationwide, and at least one person has been killed in the city of Quetta. (...)
Pakistan's main opposition leader Imran Khan says the authorities are acting outside the law in their attempt to arrest him.
"They should all be subject to the law of the land," he told the BBC.
On Tuesday police clashed with supporters of Khan, a (...)
Pakistani security personnel withdrew from around Imran Khan's residence in Lahore on Wednesday, putting a halt to clashes that had erupted after police tried to arrest the former prime minister for not showing up in a case against him related to (...)
