The Pakistani Taliban has declared an indefinite cease-fire with Islamabad after the latest round of peace talks brokered by Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders.
A Pakistani women’s rights activist has been granted preemptive bail after the military accused her of using derogatory and hateful remarks against the country’s top general.
While Afghanistan's Taliban leadership has banned the transit of undocumented migrants across the border to Pakistan and Iran, it's nothing smugglers cannot overcome by greasing the palms of Taliban border guards and others along the way.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has called off a protest in the capital at the last moment, saying he would give the current government six days to set a date for elections.
Clashes marked protests in Islamabad between supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and Pakistani security forces late on May 25. The following day, police advanced on the remaining protesters, who largely dispersed after Khan issued a six-day ultimatum to the government to call an election.
Pakistani police fired tear gas and clashed with supporters of Imran Khan as they stopped a rally organized by the former prime minister from reaching Islamabad.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan led a convoy of vehicles and supporters in Peshawar on May 25 heading for the capital, Islamabad, to protest against Pakistan's new government and to push for early elections.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was ousted from power in Pakistan last month, has called for his supporters to march on Islamabad on May 25 to protest against the country’s new government.
Police in Pakistan have arrested six men from one family on charges of murdering two sisters in another suspected case of “honor killing” in the country.
Pakistan's former human rights minister has been arrested by anti-corruption police, authorities in Islamabad confirmed on May 21, after her daughter and another former minister said she had been mistreated during the arrest.
A senior Pakistani Army general is overseeing negotiations between Islamabad and the banned hard-line Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an official who requested anonymity told RFE/RL.
Pakistani authorities say at least six people have been killed in a suicide attack on a military vehicle in the country's restive northwestern region bordering Afghanistan.
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