Pakistani rescuers were working to clear routes to a snow-bound resort town sheltering thousands of tourists on January 9, a day after 22 people died in vehicles trapped by heavy snow.
Authorities in northwest Pakistan say an officer from one of the country's paramilitary security forces has committed suicide after shooting dead at least other Pakistani soldiers near the border with Afghanistan on January 9.
At least 21 people have died of hypothermia in Pakistan, including nine children, after they were stranded by heavy snowfall near a mountain resort town.
This week's Gandhara Briefing brings you insights on Afghan opposition to the Taliban’s religious policing, what's behind the border clash between the Taliban and Turkmenistan, and Pakistani university students who are volunteering to educate child laborers.
A group of university students have started giving free evening lessons to poor working children in a park in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. Members of the organization called Each One, Teach One say they educate children who must work to feed their families instead of attending schools.
Pakistan is set to start administering booster shots to fully vaccinated people aged over 30 years after the country reported more than 700 COVID-19 cases in a single day, its highest tally in two months.
Dozens of Hindu pilgrims from India have traveled to neighboring Pakistan this month in a development that one lawmaker called “a big change” for Pakistan.
At least four people were killed and 15 others injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan, officials said on December 30.
The banned Islamist group Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the December 30 attack in the Karkanra area of the Mir Ali subdistrict.
Police in Pakistan say a man has confessed to killing his former wife, an American national of Pakistani origin.
The government of the Pakistan-administered portion of the disputed region of Kashmir has barred entry to the leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), an organization that campaigns for Pashtuns in the South Asian country.
The humanitarian situation in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan was discussed at a December 19 extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
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