Millions of Pakistanis are flocking to polling stations to vote in the country’s parliamentary elections that have been marred by violence, including targeting of candidates. At least 29 people were killed in a suicide attack on Wednesday in western city of Quetta near a polling station. People began voting on[…]
A suicide bomb attack at an election rally in the northwestern city of Peshawar, Pakistan, has killed at least 14 people, including prominent local politician Haroon Bilour, police said. The attack on Tuesday at a campaign event organised by the Awami National Party (ANP) also wounded at least 65 people,[…]
Pakistan’s foreign ministry has ruled out the possibility of a “prisoner swap” with the United States for Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to a compound in the north of the country. The denial came in response to Pakistani media[…]
A Pakistani serial killer convicted of rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl Zainab Ansari has been sentenced to death, prosecutors say. The trial was held in the eastern city Lahore by the country’s special anti-terrorism court on Saturday in the presence of the killer, Mohammad Imran Ali. Zainab was[…]
At least 13 people have been killed at a university in Peshawar, a northern city in Pakistan, in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban. Fifteen others were also wounded after gunmen wearing face veils stormed the Agricultural Training Institute on Friday, Salahuddin Mehsud, inspector general of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police,[…]
Pakistan’s federal law minister has resigned, acceding to a key demand made by thousands of protesters who have blocked a major highway into the Pakistani capital for weeks, the state radio broadcaster reported. An agreement has been signed that would see the demonstrators in Islamabad and other cities disperse, Interior[…]
The Pakistani army has been called in to restore order to the capital after clashes between anti-blasphemy protesters and police left at least 174 people injured. Thousands of riot police and paramilitary personnel on Saturday fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon at the protesters in an attempt to[…]
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled to disqualify Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from his position as leader of the country’s government. Friday’s landmark ruling comes after months of hearings in a case instigated by the “Panama Papers” leaks, related to alleged corruption during his previous two terms in office. A five-member[…]
At least nine people have been killed and 12 wounded in a car bomb attack near the provincial police chief’s office in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, officials say. The explosion on Friday morning targeted a police checkpost near the complex housing the Balochistan police chief’s office, local police[…]
Critics say a bill currently before Pakistan’s Parliament to increase fines for eating and drinking in public during Ramadan, alongside jail terms of up to three months, is evidence of increasing intolerance in the country. With temperatures on the eve of Ramadan in much of Pakistan 40 degrees or above,[…]
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