Four construction workers have been shot dead in Pakistan’s volatile North Waziristan tribal area, police said on November 27.
Residents of a remote region in western Pakistan say Islamabad’s failure to enforce a cease-fire between two clans threatens their security and encourages further violent clashes over conflicting land ownership claims.
Six members of Pakistan's cricket squad have tested positive for the coronavirus after arriving in New Zealand for a series of matches.
The United Arab Emirates has stopped issuing new visas to citizens of 13 mostly Muslim-majority countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran, according to a document issued by a state-owned business park.
Pope Francis has for the first time publicly named Uyghurs, a major indigenous ethnic group in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, among a list of the world's persecuted peoples.
Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan territory, part of the larger Kashmir region, has been in legal limbo for decades. But that could change as Islamabad plans to make the region the country's fifth province, a move that could have domestic and regional consequences.
Pakistan's counterterrorism police said on November 24 they had foiled a possible militant attack by killing a suspected would-be suicide bomber when he tried to sneak into a police station near the eastern city of Lahore.
Pakistan’s educational institutions are to remain closed for more than a month amid a surge in coronavirus infections and related deaths.
India on November 21 summoned a senior Pakistani diplomat over what New Delhi says was a foiled attack by a Pakistani-based militant group earlier in the week in the frontier area of the divided region of Kashmir. Pakistan has denied any connection to the attack.
Thousands of mourners gathered in the Pakistani city of Lahore on November 21 for the funeral of a hard-line Islamic cleric accused of terrorizing religious minorities for years, inciting riots, and advocating the destruction of European nations in order to fight what he had deemed to be blasphemy.
Pakistani authorities say a member of the country’s Ahmadi minority has been killed in a shooting in eastern province of Punjab.
Internet and technology companies are threatening to leave Pakistan after Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government granted blanket powers to authorities to censor digital content, a move critics charge is aimed at limiting freedom of expression.
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