Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar to protest power outages.
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is calling on Pakistani authorities to take immediate action to stop online harassment against female journalists that puts their professional duties and lives at risk.
Pakistani regulators have approved final-phase testing of a Chinese-developed potential vaccine against the coronavirus.
The Pakistani Taliban have brought two splinter groups back into their fold, they announced in a statement, days after the army said anti-militant operations nationwide had brought "hard-earned success".
Hundreds of private schoolteachers rallied in the northwestern Pakistani region of Swat on August 17 to demand an immediate reopening of schools that were closed to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
Pakistan's army chief has arrived in Saudi Arabia on August 17 amid a row between the two countries that has threatened Riyadh's financial lifeline to Islamabad.
A bomb targeting a vehicle from Pakistan's Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) exploded in a busy market in southwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on August 10, killing at least five people and wounding 10 others, police and hospital officials said.
Pakistan has announced that it will fully resume international flights from August 9, more than four months after it suspended the operations because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Pakistan said it will lift most of the country's remaining coronavirus restrictions after seeing a gradual drop in new cases during the past month.
The Pakistani military said one of its soldiers was killed and two others wounded by cross-border shelling from Afghanistan.
An international human rights watchdog has urged Pakistani authorities to observe a recent ruling from the country's Supreme Court and stop using the country's anti-corruption agency as a tool to detain government critics.
Thousands of people rallied in Pakistan's major cities on August 5 to mark the date a year ago when neighboring India scrapped the special status of territory under its administration in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
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