Pakistani security forces have locked down two areas of the northwestern South Waziristan tribal district as they conduct search operations for militants following two recent deadly attacks claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.
The human toll of a two-decade-old simmering insurgency in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province is mounting as the region’s political problems remain unresolved.
Hundreds of employees of Pakistan's state-owned Water and Power Development Authority converged on the capital, Islamabad, to protest the planned privatization of power distribution companies.
Hundreds of employees of Pakistan's Water and Power Development Authority have taken to the streets of Islamabad against the planned privatization of the country’s state-owned power distribution companies.
Multinational naval exercises kicked off under the banner Together For Peace on February 12 in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on the Arabian Sea. The Aman-2021 exercises are held in Pakistan every two years.
The author of best-sellers chronicling the cycles of war in Afghanistan and their impact on neighboring countries, Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid talks to Gandhara about whether a fresh U.S. approach could steady and eventually resolve the crises in the two countries.
Dozens of disabled people in northwestern Pakistan rallied at a Pakistani border crossing with Afghanistan for a third straight day on February 11 to demand jobs, free health care, and education for their children.
Faisal Sultan, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s special adviser on national health services, spoke to Radio Mashaal about the country’s plans to vaccinate a majority of its estimated 220 million population.
Thousands of men regularly risk their lives smuggling cheap Iranian fuel into Pakistan. The illegal trade showcases the desperation of many in Pakistan's resource-rich but impoverished Balochistan Province.
Police in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, fired tear gas as thousands of government employees protested on February 10 near the Parliament House building to demand an increase in their monthly salaries.
Pakistan’s top court has commuted the death sentences of two mentally ill prisoners who have spent decades on death row in a landmark judgment hailed by human rights activists.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has directed regional authorities in northwestern Pakistan to rebuild a century-old Hindu shrine that was destroyed in a mob attack in late December.
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