At least three people have been killed in the explosion of an improvised device in Quetta, the capital of southwestern Pakistan's restive Balochistan Province, despite heightened security as opposition parties held a large rally in another part of the city.
Police in Pakistan's southwestern province of Pakistan say they have killed four "terrorists" from banned group during an overnight security operation.
A television journalist in Pakistan has gone missing after reporting on the presence of paramilitary troops during the controversial arrest of a relative of Nawaz Sharif, the country's exiled former prime minister.
A global financial watchdog has decided to keep Pakistan on its terror financing watch list, saying the country had not completely implemented a set of guidelines.
Dozens of Pakistani journalists were joined by parliamentarians in Islamabad on October 22 to protest against what they call "enforced censorship" and to demand the reopening of television channels suspended from broadcasting by Pakistan's state media regulator.
The United States is urging countries that have ratified a UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons to withdraw their support as the pact nears the 50 ratifications needed to trigger its entry into force, which supporters say could happen this week.
Pakistani authorities on October 21 warned they could reimpose strict lockdown measures, as millions of people flouted guidelines despite fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections.
A powerful blast ripped through a multistory building in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on October 21, killing at least three people and wounding 15 others, police and rescuers said.
At least 15 people were killed and 10 injured in a stampede that occurred inside a football stadium in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province, where thousands had gathered on October 20 to secure visas from the Pakistani consulate, officials said on October 21.
More than a dozen top police officials in Pakistan’s province of Sindh have applied for leave following the controversy over the arrest of the son-in-law of exiled ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the provincial capital.
A Cabinet minister says Pakistan has witnessed a 140 percent increase in fatalities from COVID-19 in recent weeks due to widespread violations of social-distancing rules.
Pakistani police have detained the son-in-law of exiled ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after he led a crowd in chanting against the military at the tomb of the country's founder.
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