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 (...)
JEDDAH — A Saudi Arabian Airlines aircraft caught fire while landing at Bacha Khan International Airport in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday. Flight SV-792 was en route from Riyadh with 297 people on board.
Saudi Arabian Airlines issued a statement (...)
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 (...)
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, (...)
Thousands of Afghans living in Pakistan have raced to the border to beat a Wednesday deadline for undocumented foreigners to leave the country.
Pakistan says 1.7 million such people must leave by 1 November or face arrest and deportation. Most are (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
At least 44 people have been killed in an explosion in Pakistan during a rally organized by an Islamist party.
More than 100 people were also injured in the explosion in north-west Bajaur district, where Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) was holding (...)
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. (...)
The leader of the Taliban has ordered Afghan officials to sack relatives they have hired to government positions.
Hibatullah Akhundzada's decree says officials should replace appointed sons or other family members — and refrain from hiring relatives (...)
Nine security officers were killed and at least 13 others were wounded during a suicide attack in southwest Pakistan.
The blast happened in Balochistan province when the officers were returning to the provincial capital Quetta after policing a (...)
Police in Karachi said they have retaken their headquarters after it was attacked by the Pakistani Taliban.
Security forces regained control after several hours and killed all three militants, a government spokesman said.
Three police officers and a (...)
The suicide bomber who targeted a mosque inside a police compound in Peshawar, killing more than 80 people, was a member of the Pakistani Taliban disguised as a policeman, a senior official said Thursday.
CCTV footage shows the suspected bomber (...)
The death toll from a suspected suicide bomb that ripped through a mosque in northwestern Pakistan Monday has risen to at least 92, marking one of the deadliest attacks in the country in years as it faces what one analyst described as "a national (...)
Muslim countries and organizations strongly denounced the bomb attack on a mosque in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, killing and injuring scores of worshippers on Monday.
The death toll in the suicide bombing rose to 83 while 57 others were injured, (...)
The death toll of yesterday's deadliest suicide attack in Police Lines mosque mounted to 88 as rescuers retrieved some 17 more bodies from the debris in the ongoing rescue operation that entered its final phase, the Associated Press of Pakistan (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has strongly condemned and denounced the terrorist attack that took place in a mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, which led to many deaths and several injuries.
In a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, (...)
Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Dr. Nayef Falah Mubarak Al-Hajraf condemned the terrorist suicide bombing that targeted a mosque in Peshawar City in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, leading to the death and injury of many (...)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's strong condemnation and denunciation of the terrorist attack that took place in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, that resulted in a number of deaths and injuries.
The (...)
At least 28 people have been killed in an explosion at a mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
The blast happened when the mosque was packed with worshippers and more than 150 people were injured.
A section of the building was destroyed, and (...)
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter Scale hit Islamabad, Pakistan, on Sunday, the National Center for Seismology said.
According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, the depth of the earthquake was measured at 150 km with the (...)
Pakistan suffered a huge power cut early on Monday following a breakdown in its national electricity grid, the energy ministry said.
Power was out in all the country's major cities, including the biggest city Karachi, the capital Islamabad as well (...)
A prominent Pakistani lawyer was shot and killed by a colleague in the Peshawar High Court on Monday.
Abdul Latif Afridi, a former president of Pakistan's lawyers union and a human rights activist, was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at a (...)
A prominent Afghan cleric who supported the Taliban and was in favor of female education has been killed.
Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani reportedly died in a suicide bomb blast in Kabul.
Speaking to Reuters, Taliban sources say the religious leader was (...)
Pakistan's lawmakers voted in opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif as the country's new Prime Minister on Monday, after Imran Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote over allegations of poor governance.
Sharif, the former chief minister of Punjab (...)
