#Pakistan

Pakistani firefighters began pulling bodies from the smouldering remains of a sprawling Karachi shopping mall on Monday where more than 60 people were still missing after a massive fire that killed ...

Indonesia’s defence minister met Pakistan’s air force chief in Islamabad to discuss a potential deal that includes the sale of combat jets and killer drones to Jakarta, three ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban administration said on Tuesday that nine children and a woman were killed in Pakistani air strikes and vowed to respond, ratcheting up tensions between the South Asian ...

A suicide bomber killed at least 12 people outside a court building in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Tuesday, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said. Several others were wounded and some were ...

Afghanistan and Pakistan have resumed peace talks in Istanbul, four sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday, a day after Islamabad said the discussions had ended in failure. Three ...

Pakistan banned an Islamist party for the second time in four years on Thursday, a week after five people died in clashes between its members and police. Followers of the ...

A high-level delegation from Afghanistan arrived in Doha on Saturday for peace talks with Pakistan, an Afghan government spokesperson said, after the countries extended a ceasefire to their fierce border ...

With many Arab nations feeling a rising threat from Israel, the Saudi-Pakistan defence pact announced this week brings Pakistan – and its nuclear umbrella – into the region’s security equation. The “...

The U.N. refugee agency plans to scale back its budget by nearly a fifth next year due to “financial constraints”, even as the war in Sudan and other crises ...

More than 300 people are dead in northwest Pakistan after two days of heavy rains and flash floods, local officials said on Saturday. The deluge hit the remote mountainous northern part ...

A viral video of the “honour killing” of a woman and her lover in a remote part of Pakistan has ignited national outrage, prompting scrutiny of long-standing tribal codes and ...

Authorities retrieved from Pakistan’s mountains the bullet-ridden bodies of nine passengers kidnapped by armed men in a spate of bus attacks in the troubled southwestern province of Balochistan, officials ...

An explosive-laden car rammed into a Pakistani military convoy on Saturday in a town near the Afghan border, killing at least 13 soldiers, sources said. Four Pakistani intelligence officials and a ...

Over 200 prisoners escaped in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi late on Monday after they were permitted to leave their cells following a series of earthquake tremors, local officials and ...

At least three children were among five people killed when a suicide bomber targeted an army school bus in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, the military said on Wednesday, in ...

India’s defence minister said on Thursday that the International Atomic Energy Agency should take charge of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, days after the nuclear-armed neighbours ended their worst military ...

A fragile ceasefire was holding between India and Pakistan on Sunday, after hours of overnight fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbours, as U.S. President Donald Trump said he will work ...

India’s cricket board has suspended the Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament, one of the world’s richest sports leagues, amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan, a source with ...

Pakistan’s armed forces launched “multiple attacks” using drones and other munitions along India’s entire western border on Thursday night and early Friday, the Indian army said, as conflict ...

A blast was heard in Pakistan’s Lahore city on Thursday, broadcaster Geo TV and a Reuters witness said, a day after Indian strikes on multiple targets in the country ...

India hit Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir with missiles on Wednesday and Pakistan vowed to retaliate saying it shot down five Indian aircraft, in the worst clash in more than two ...

India shut its airspace to Pakistani airlines on Wednesday, the government said, days after its nuclear-armed neighbour banned Indian airlines from flying over its territory following the killing of 26 men ...

Pakistan said on Wednesday it has “credible intelligence” that India intends to launch military action soon, as tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours escalate following a deadly attack on tourists in ...

Pakistan closed its air space for Indian airlines and rejected New Delhi’s suspension of a critical water sharing treaty on Thursday in retaliation for India’s response to a ...