Pakistan

Police say a Pakistani-British man who was on death row for 18 years before his acquittal in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl has been transferred to a government safe house for security reasons.

Frequent clashes and cross-border shelling along the Line of Control in recent months reportedly killed multiple civilians.

A new 20-member police unit will roll out next month in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city.

A Pakistani Taliban militant who is alleged to have shot Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has threatened a second attempt on her life, saying in a tweet that next time, “there would be no mistake.”

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the release of a Pakistani-British man convicted and later acquitted in the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002

Kaavan, dubbed the “world’s loneliest elephant” after languishing alone for years in a Pakistani zoo, has been readied for his flight to a sanctuary in Cambodia and the much-needed company of other elephants

An animal welfare group says that Kaavan the elephant, who has become a cause celebre for animal activists around the world, will be allowed to leave his Pakistani zoo and transferred to better conditions

Militants have attacked the stock exchange in the Pakistani city of Karachi, killing at least two security guards and a policeman

Pakistan’s aviation minister says “human error” on the part of the pilot, the co-pilot and air traffic control caused last month’s Pakistan International Airlines crash that killed 97 people in the port city of Karachi.

One of the two survivors of the Pakistan plane crash near Karachi said the flight proceeded normally until its descent, when there was a sudden jolt

A jetliner carrying 98 people crashed in a crowded neighborhood near the airport in Karachi, Pakistan, after an apparent engine failure during landing

A passenger plane with 107 people on board crashed on Friday in Pakistan.

Gorgeous spring weather across the United States and Europe is drawing people cooped up indoors for weeks outside to soak in the sun, even as additional coronavirus hot spots in places like Russia emerge

A Pakistani court has overturned the murder conviction of a British Pakistani man found guilty of the 2002 kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl

The Alpine Club of Pakistan says the military has rescued a Canadian and a Finnish climber stranded on a mountain peak

New U.S. Air Force statistics show the United States dropped more bombs on Afghanistan last year than any year since 2013, even as Washington’s peace envoy sought to boost regional support for a reduction in violence in ahead of a final deal to end America’s longest war

Pakistani officials raised the death toll from a mosque bombing in the country’s southwest to 15 people on Saturday, as the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.

The powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan province, during the evening prayers on Friday.

A powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in southwest Pakistan during Friday evening prayers, killing a senior police officer and at least 13 civilians, police said. The bombing wounded another 20 worshipers in the city of Quetta, the capital of the restive Baluchistan province, said the city’s police chief Abdur Razzaq Cheema. Several of the wounded were in critical condition,…

Four African countries have reported new cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine, as global health numbers show there are now more children being paralyzed by viruses originating in vaccines than in the wild. In a report late last week, the World Health Organization and partners noted nine new polio cases caused by the vaccine in Nigeria, Congo, Central...

Washington’s Afghan peace envoy remained in Pakistan on Tuesday as part of efforts to find a negotiated end to Afghanistan’s 18-year war, even though President Donald Trump hasn’t expressed any interest in resuming talks with the Taliban. The envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, met with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday and was expected to hold talks with the country’s powerful...