A suicide bomber reportedly attacked a vehicle in northwest Pakistan, killing five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver on Tuesday. The attack occurred in Shangla, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, bordering Afghanistan, where Pakistani Taliban activities have intensified. This attack follows the killing of
Pakistani security forces Wednesday killed at least eight insurgents as they repulsed an attack by a separatist group on a sprawling government building outside the Chinese-funded Gwadar port in the volatile southwest, officials said. Three security forces were also killed in the
A three-story residential building collapsed in central Pakistan early on Tuesday, killing nine people and injuring at least two others, authorities said. VISITATION PRIVILEGES REVOKED FOR IMPRISONED EX-PAKISTANI PM IMRAN KHAN AFTER REPORTS OF POSSIBLE ATTACK The collapse took place in Multan,
The 19-member Cabinet of Pakistan’s newly-elected Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif was sworn in Monday during a brief ceremony. President Asif Ali Zardari administered the ministers’ oaths at the President’s Office — a sprawling white-marble building — in the capital, Islamabad, with Sharif
CHINA has been surreptitiously supplying Pakistan with key elements for its nuclear weapons programme. It comes as Beijing, which currently in the midst of an economic crisis, seeks to find ways to replace decreasing financial leverage around the world by other means.
Pakistan’s National Assembly swore in newly elected members of parliament on Thursday in a chaotic scene as allies of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan shouted and protested what they claim was a rigged election. Lawmakers from Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party repeatedly
A senior police officer and two wanted Pakistani Taliban members died in an intense shootout set off when police raided a militant hideout early Tuesday in the country’s northwest, a local police official said. PAKISTAN’S IMRAN KHAN AND HIS WIFE PLEAD NOT
Pakistan heads to the polls Thursday with one of the leading candidates languishing in prison as some reports claim that voter enthusiasm is lacking among the country’s nearly 128 million voters. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has
A couple of bombings in Pakistan at the election offices of a political party and an independent candidate killed at least 24 people and wounded more than two dozen others on Wednesday, the day before parliamentary elections. The first attack happened in
Pakistan and Iran have agreed to enhance security cooperation following deadly airstrikes by both countries earlier this month. The airstrikes, initiated by Iran in Baluchistan province targeting Jaish al-Adl, led to multiple casualties, escalating tensions. Pakistan retaliated with airstrikes in Iran’s Sistan