A Pakistani provincial government has appealed to the country's Supreme Court to review its decision to release the main suspect in the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, after the United States and several rights groups expressed outrage over the decision.
The leader of the Pakistan-based militant group, Lashkar-e Islam, has been killed in a mine blast in neighboring Afghanistan, according to Afghan and Pakistani security sources.
Hundreds of Mehsud tribesmen protested for a second day in northwestern Pakistan on January 28 to demand compensation for the damage caused to their homes during a massive anti-Taliban military operation carried out by the government in 2009.
The White House has expressed outrage that Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the release of a British-born man convicted for the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Pakistan will begin its COVID-19 inoculation drive next week, authorities say, with frontline health workers to be the first to receive jabs.
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.
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