A Pakistani Muslim who was on trial for blasphemy has been shot dead in a courtroom in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
Police say five Pakistani counterterrorism commandos and two suspected militants were killed in a raid on a militant hideout in northwestern Pakistan.
The incoming president of the United Nations General Assembly says he is postponing a scheduled visit to Pakistan “due to some technical flight problems."
Dozens of protesters have staged a demonstration in Peshawar to condemn an assassination attempt on Fazal Khan, an ethnic Pashtun rights activist.
The spread of the novel coronavirus has lately been showing a downward trend in Pakistan, which is the main reason for a marked drop in daily testing, a top government official said on July 20.
Pakistan is set to resume vaccinations against polio, months after the effort was halted by attacks on aid workers and the coronavirus pandemic.
Criminal charges are being pursued after a 1,700-year-old statue of Buddha was deliberately destroyed by construction workers in Pakistan.
The Pakistani government has welcomed a UN decision to add the leader of a Taliban militant group to a sanctions list
Pakistani authorities said on July 16 they had confirmed the credentials of almost all Pakistani pilots working for foreign airlines.
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