PROTESTS ENTER 2ND DAY IN PAKISTAN, BUT REMAIN LARGELY PEACEFUL

It is part of the mainstream Barelvi sect of Sunni Islam, has disavowed violence and focuses on reverence for Muhammad... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN BRACES FOR MILITARY RESPONSE AFTER VIOLENT CLASHES WITH ISLAMISTS

Pakistan's capital was bracing Sunday for a possible military response to anti-blasphemy protests by Islamists that have already claimed at least half a dozen lives... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN DEPLOYS MILITARY TROOPS AFTER VIOLENT CLASHES IN ISLAMABAD

The Islamabad high court ordered the government last week to clear the interchange... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN ANTI-BLASPHEMY ROW CONTINUES AFTER CRACKDOWN

Hundreds of anti-blasphemy protesters continue to block Islamabad highway after police action kills five people... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN CAPITAL TENSE AS MILITARY SILENT ON PROTESTS

Only Allah is running this country, he added, complaining that the only channel working was Pakistan state TV... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN CAPITAL TENSE AS MILITARY SILENT ON PROTESTS

Only Allah is running this country, he added, complaining that the only channel working was Pakistan state TV... READ MORE›

DEADLY CLASHES AS PAKISTANI POLICE DISPERSE ISLAMIST DEMONSTRATORS

But government inaction has drawn the fury of the courts as well as millions of residents in Islamabad and neighbouring Rawalpindi... READ MORE›

PAKISTANI COURT ORDERS ANTI-BLASPHEMY SIT-IN BE CLEARED

In Pakistan, they are forbidden from referring to themselves as Muslim and are frequently the target of violent attacks... READ MORE›

TILLERSON GETS FROSTY RECEPTION IN ISLAMABAD AFTER U.S. WARNS PAKISTAN ABOUT PROVIDING TALIBAN HAVENS

The rescue was followed by drone strikes on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border targeting long-time foes of both Washington and Islamabad... READ MORE›

CANADIAN SAYS CHILD KILLED, WIFE RAPED IN AFGHANISTAN

Former hostage Joshua Boyle says Haqqani network killed his infant daughter and raped his wife while in captivity... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN DENIES ALLEGATIONS OF SUPPORTING ARMED GROUPS

In response to US general's comments, the Pakistani army rejects notion it backs groups such as the Afghan Taliban... READ MORE›

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PAKISTAN TARGETS AFGHAN PASHTUNS AND REFUGEES IN ANTI-TERRORISM CRACKDOWN

We never said all Punjabis are terrorists, though Punjabi Taliban were involved in bombings... READ MORE›

MUSHARRAF DECLARED FUGITIVE IN EX-PM BHUTTO'S MURDER

Pakistan's former military ruler charged with Bhutto's 2007 assassination in 2013, but has been in self-imposed exile... READ MORE›

PAKISTANI CAPITAL UNDER TIGHT SECURITY WHILE MUSLIM DEVOTEES HONOR MAN WHO ASSASSINATED A LIBERAL GOVERNOR

His elder brother Malik Qadri, a telecommunications technician, stressed that their religious movement, Invitation to Islam, opposes violence... READ MORE›

QUAKE ROCKS AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN; AT LEAST 263 DEAD

LAHORE Pakistan More than 260 people were killed when a magnitude-7.5 earthquake centered in Afghanistan rocked neighboring Pakistan and rattled buildings as far away as India... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN GETS NEW COAS: GENERAL QAMAR JAVED BAJWA

Bajwa's appointment comes at a time when relations between India and Pakistan are under stress amid prolonged cross-border shelling along their international border... READ MORE›

POWERFUL 7.5-MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE STRIKES ACROSS AFGHANISTAN AND INDIA

At least 29 people have been killed in a 7.5-magnitude earthquake in northern Pakistan... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN IN MOURNING AS TOLL FROM LAHORE SUICIDE BOMBING RISES

Lahore, widely considered the cultural and political capital of Pakistan, appeared to be in mourning on Monday... READ MORE›

BEIJING NOT THE MOST POLLUTED CITY IN THE WORLD

While certainly wretched by American standards, Beijing's average air pollution level is 53, on a scale from 26 to 208... READ MORE›

SHAHID KHAQAN ABBASI: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PAKISTANS NEW PRIME MINISTER

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, a politician educated in the United States, was elected prime minister of Pakistan on Tuesday... READ MORE›

HAMID GUL PAKISTANS FORMER SPY CHIEF DIES AT 78

General Gul helped to cobble together an alliance of right-wing political parties in the 1988 general elections... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN SCHOOL ATTACK: POLITICAL RIVALS AGREE ANTI-TERRORISM PLAN A ROLLING REPORT

But for Pakistan, meaningful cooperation would require Afghanistan to take action against Pakistan Taliban groups in Afghanistan... READ MORE›

'EVERYTHING CHANGED': READERS' STORIES OF INDIA'S PARTITION

And I had extended family to look after me... READ MORE›

ANALYSIS | SUPREME COURTS EXPOSE THE FRAILTY OF DEMOCRACIES AROUND THE WORLD

Last week, the opposition-controlled National Assembly named 33 magistrates to replace the entire Supreme Court... READ MORE›

NEARLY 30 CHRISTIANS IN PAKISTAN DIE AFTER DRINKING TOXIC ALCOHOL ON CHRISTMAS

Most residents of the Mubarakabad neighborhood of Toba Tek Singh, where the alcohol was consumed, are Christians, a minority in Pakistan... READ MORE›

AFGHANISTAN EARTHQUAKE: PAKISTAN ARMY LEADS RESCUE AS DEATH TOLL RISES

In September 2013, a 7.7 magnitude quake struck Balochistan province in Pakistan, killing about 800 people... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN ARMY CALLED IN TO QUELL BLASPHEMY LAW PROTEST

They were demonstrating in support of Mumtaz Qadri, who was executed for the murder of Punjab governor Salman Taseer... READ MORE›

SALMAN TASEER MURDER: PAKISTAN HANGS MUMTAZ QADRI

Mumtaz Qadri killed Salman Taseer in Islamabad in 2011, in a murder that shocked the country... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN ON ALERT AS LIBERAL GOVERNOR'S KILLER IS HANGED

Qadri was unrepentant and said he acted because Taseer advocated reform of Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws... READ MORE›

A civil court judge on Tuesday morning allowed the Islamabad police to detain Mr... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN HANGS MUMTAZ QADRI FOR MURDER OF SALMAN TASEER

Qadri, a bodyguard of Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province, shot him dead in the capital, Islamabad, in 2011... READ MORE›

AGENCY CONDUCT WAS DRIVEN BY PRESSURE TO LINK IRAQ TO AL-QAEDA FOLLOWING 9/11

CIA 'torture report' Agency conduct was driven by pressure to link Iraq to al-Qaeda following 9 11... READ MORE›

FIVE CLEARED OF EX-PAKISTAN PM MURDER

A Pakistani court has acquitted five men of conspiracy to murder the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007... READ MORE›

AFGHAN PRESIDENT ASHRAF GHANI ARRIVES IN ISLAMABAD TO BUILD PAKISTAN TIES

Despite repeated visits to Pakistan by the former president, there was little improvement in relations during Karzai's 13 years in power... READ MORE›

TALIBAN ATTACK SHOWS LIMITS OF CRACKDOWN

CAIRO -- Only a few months ago, Pakistan's military leaders openly boasted they had the Taliban on the run... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN COURT GRANTS BAIL TO ALLEGED LEADER OF MUMBAI TERROR ATTACK

Court says it has insufficient evidence to link Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi to 2008 assault in which 166 people died... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN OPENS PROBE INTO DEADLY PLANE CRASH

Azam Sehgal, the PIA chairman, told a news conference at the Islamabad airport on Wednesday that the plane's black box recorder had been found... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN IS FOCUS IN HUNT FOR CLUES TO CALIFORNIA SHOOTERS RADICAL TURN

Khan accused the media of trying to defame Pakistan by attempting to link Malik to the Red Mosque... READ MORE›

Zohra Yusuf, chairwoman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said Mr... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN ON EDGE AHEAD OF SC VERDICT ON PRIME MINISTER NAWAZ SHARIF IN PANAMAGATE

Pakistan on edge ahead of SC verdict on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Panamagate... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN'S PLAN FOR TACKLING DEFORESTATION

A woodcutter chops a log with his ax to sell at a timber yard in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Sept. 13, 2013... READ MORE›