The United States on April 7 imposed sanctions on a Pakistani national and a smuggling organization it said he runs to help people migrate illegally from Pakistan and Afghanistan into the United States.
Soccer's global governing body FIFA has suspended Pakistan's membership amid a dispute over local representation that FIFA describes as a "hostile takeover."
Visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Islamabad on April 7 that Russia will provide unspecified military equipment to Pakistan as the two countries increase cooperation to fight terrorism.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Pakistan on April 6 for a two-day trip expected to focus on efforts to bring peace to neighboring Afghanistan.
Hundreds of teachers and private-school owners protested in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, against ongoing school closures. The April 5 protest comes as the government considers whether to further extend current closures as coronavirus deaths continue to rise.
Pakistani officials say a terrorism court judge and three of his family members have been shot dead in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Once again, Pakistan appears to hold the key to a peace settlement in Afghanistan. But its reliance on the Taliban as its main ally in Afghanistan has raised the prospects of Islamabad repeating its history of struggling to deal with the fallout from a messy Afghan civil war.
Pakistani authorities have reinstated access to the Chinese-owned video app TikTok, three weeks after it was banned in the conservative Muslim country over indecent content.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has responded to a letter from his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, saying Islamabad desires peaceful relations with New Delhi, according to an official source quoted by Reuters.
Hundreds of nurses protested in northwestern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province to demand improvements in their working conditions. Nurses from across the province gathered in Peshawar on March 30 to demand paid vacations, pension benefits, and opportunities for career progression.
Pakistani President Arif Alvi on March 29 said that he has tested positive for COVID-19 despite having been inoculated with a first dose of vaccine.
Thousands protesting the killing of four teenage boys in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have ended their demonstration in the city of Bannu following overnight talks with government officials which concluded early on March 29.
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