The defeat of Prime Minister Imran Khan's finance minister in the Senate elections will have major implications for Pakistan's struggling economy. But its immediate fallout raises questions about whether Khan has the majority to stay in power.
The ruling party of Prime Minister Imran Khan and his political allies will seek to wrest control of Pakistan's Senate from opposition parties on March 3 in indirect elections for 37 seats in the 104-member upper house of the country's parliament.
A Pakistani court has granted bail to a Christian man imprisoned for more than four years on alleged blasphemy offenses committed while a teenager.
Pakistani authorities have expelled the leader of a civil rights movement campaigning for the country's ethnic Pashtun minority from the southwestern province of Balochistan after he attended a condolence ceremony for a slain political leader despite a ban on entering the region.
Gunmen have shot and killed a religious cleric, his teenage son and a student on the outskirts of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, police said, amid a rise in militant attacks.
A global money-laundering watchdog has given Pakistan an extension until June to be removed from a terrorism-financing list.
Rival neighbors Pakistan and India have pledged to stop firing weapons across the border in disputed Kashmir, promising to adhere to a 2003 accord that has been largely ignored, officials from both sides said on February 25.
Pakistani security forces have killed a Taliban commander who they suspected was involved in the murder of four women aid workers in the country's northwest, the army said on February 24.
Citizens and security forces have clashed in Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province, a day after the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) opened fire on fuel smugglers, killing as many as 10 of them.
Thousands of activists from the nationalist Awami National Party (ANP) came out on the streets of Mardan, Pishin and other cities across Pakistan February 22 to protest what is known as enforced disappearances. Family members allege that their relatives were abducted by Pakistani security agencies.
Three years after the emergence of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), a civil rights movement campaigning for the rights of the Pashtun minority, several leaders confirm to Gandhara they are launching a political party to appeal to a broader secular base across Pakistan.
Suspected militants have ambushed a vehicle carrying four women activists from an NGO in the northwest region of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan, killing them and wounding the driver.
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