Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is accusing Pakistani government officials of inciting a “violent smear and hate campaign” on social media against a columnist with the Urdu-language services of the British broadcaster BBC.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has appointed a new head of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency after weeks of speculation about a rift between civil and military leadership on the issue.
Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped four government employees, including a woman, in northwestern Pakistan, police and local officials said on October 26.
The leaders of Pakistan and China on October 26 launched a joint appeal to the international community calling for urgent humanitarian and economic aid to Afghanistan, where people are facing food and medicine shortages in the coming winter.
Pakistani authorities say they have released hundreds of activists of a radical Islamist party who had been arrested during deadly clashes with police at the weekend.
The chief minister of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province has resigned hours ahead of a vote of 'no-confidence' against him in the regional parliament.
The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the killing of a police officer who had taken part in guarding a polio vaccination team, a frequent target of militants in Pakistan.
A radical Islamist party in Pakistan agreed on October 24 to suspend a protest march for three days after Pakistani authorities vowed to drop pending charges against the party's leader.
Roads to Islamabad were blocked by shipping containers as Pakistan's government aimed to prevent a march on the capital by the banned Tehrik-e-Labaik Party (TLP). Police were deployed on October 22 to stop the protest related to a French magazine's caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad last year.
Pakistani police have blocked major arteries leading to the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi and deployed heavy contingents of officers as the authorities brace for a march organized by the banned Tehrik-e Labaik Pakistan (TLP) party.
A global money-laundering watchdog has called on Pakistan to "continue to make progress as soon as possible " to address the one remaining recommendation that is preventing the country from being removed from a so-called gray list of terrorism financing.
Pakistan's foreign minister has visited Kabul for the first time since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, pledging to help its neighbor avoid an economic collapse.
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