Residents of an impoverished Pakistani coastal city see the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in Chinese and domestic projects and heightened security measures as an effort to push them out of their homeland.
Dozens of teachers protested in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on January 25 to demand the cancellation of a government order to transfer them back to cities in the provinces. They say that the order is against the a law that protects a married couple from being separated by a job transfer.
A prominent Pakistani female activist who had campaigned for the rights of the country’s ethnic Baluch minority has been laid to rest in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan under high security after she died in exile in Canada last month.
Reporters Without Borders has condemned “brazen censorship” by Pakistan’s authorities after the BBC recently stopped broadcasting a daily Urdu-language news bulletin on a privately owned Pakistani television channel because of what the British broadcaster called “interference” in its programs.
Pakistan's first-ever international snowboarding championship concluded on January 24 with successes being chalked up by both Pakistan and Afghanistan during the three-day event held in Malam Jabba -- Pakistan's only ski resort.
The United Nations has warned its staff not to travel with Pakistani-registered airlines amid concern that some of the nation’s pilots may not be qualified to fly planes.
Pakistan has approved the emergency use of a Russian vaccine to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
An international treaty banning nuclear weapons has come into force, but what the accord will actually achieve remains in doubt since nuclear powers are staying away from it.
Hundreds of university students gathered in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on January 22 to demand that they be allowed to write their exams online instead of being forced to take them in person in examination halls.
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on January 21 that China has agreed to provide half a million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine free of cost to Pakistan by January 31.
At least four members of Pakistan's paramilitary corps have been killed and five wounded in a bomb blast in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province, officials say.
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