Authorities suspend railway services in the country’s southwest after deadly train station bombing

Pakistan’s railways suspended all train services yesterday to and from a restive southwestern province where a suicide bombing at a train station over the weekend killed

Gunmen kill 21 miners in the southwest ahead of an Asian security summit

Gunmen killed 21 miners and wounded six others in Pakistan’s southwest, a police official said this weekend, drawing condemnation from authorities as a search was launched for the

A Pakistani separatist group claims bombing that killed two Chinese near Karachi airport

A Pakistani separatist group claimed responsibility for a late night bombing that targeted a convoy with Chinese nationals outside the country’s largest airport, killing two workers from China

The IMF approves a $7 billion loan to country, which will get $1 billion immediately

The executive board of the International Monetary Fund has approved a new $7 billion loan for cash-strapped Pakistan, authorities said yesterday , more than two months

Taliban deny attacking a convoy of foreign ambassadors

The Pakistani Taliban yesterday denied involvement in a bombing attack on a police convoy that was escorting foreign ambassadors in the restive northwest, as authorities said

Moscow will support Islamabad’s bid to join BRICS, says Russian deputy prime minister

Moscow will support Islamabad’s bid to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies, the Russian deputy prime minister said yesterday while visiting the Pakistani capital. Pakistan applied

Gunmen kill 31 people in two separate attacks

Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 31 people in two separate attacks yesterday and security forces killed 12 insurgents, officials said, in one of the deadliest days

Two separate bus accidents in Pakistan leave at least 36 people dead, officials say

Two separate bus accidents hours apart in Pakistan yesterday left at least 36 people dead and dozens more injured, officials said. The first happened when a bus

Unusually heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan will affect 200,000 people: UN

An estimated 200,000 people in Pakistan could be affected by the upcoming monsoon season, which is expected to bring heavier rains than usual, a top U.N. official warned

Christian accused of blasphemy and attacked by a mob died of injuries

A Pakistani Christian accused of blasphemy and attacked by a mob last month died of his injuries yesterday, a police official said. Police in eastern Punjab province

Pakistan’s election: Who’s running, what’s the mood and will anything change?

Pakistan’s 127 million voters get to elect a new parliament today [Macau time[. The elections are the twelfth in the country’s 76-year history, which has been marred

Former PM Imran Khan gets 14-year prison sentence in third conviction

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife were sentenced yesterday to 14 years in prison each for corruption, his lawyer and prison officials said, a day after

Islamabad retaliates with airstrikes in Iran after an attack by Tehran, killing 9 people

Pakistan’s air force launched retaliatory airstrikes yesterday in Iran allegedly targeting militant hideouts, an attack that killed at least nine people and further raised tensions between the

The first two children are rescued from a cable car dangling hundreds of feet in the air in Pakistan

An official says military commandos have rescued two children stuck in a cable car dangling hundreds of meters above the ground in a remote part of

High security prison for ex-Pakistani PM Imran Khan after court sentencing

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan awoke yesterday as an inmate in a high-security prison after a court handed him a three-year jail sentence for corruption, a development

Beijing has invested $25.4B in Pakistan over the last decade, Chinese vice premier says

China has invested $25.4 billion in Pakistan over the past decade for projects ranging from roads to power plants, China’s vice premier said yesterday , as

People bury dead from massive suicide attack at political rally that killed 54

Hundreds of mourners attended funerals in Pakistan yesterday after a suicide bombing killed at least 54 people at an election rally for a pro-Taliban cleric, carrying

Pakistan’s finance minister says Beijing rolls over $2.4 billion loan for Islamabad for two years

Pakistan’s finance minister yesterday said China has rolled over a $2.4 billion loan for the cash-strapped Islamic nation for two years, a move aimed at helping

Pakistan launches $3.5 billion Chinese-designed nuclear energy project

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday launched the construction of a 1,200-megawatt Chinese-designed nuclear energy project, which will be built at a cost of

IMF deposits much-awaited $1.2b with Pakistan’s central bank under bailout

Pakistan’s finance minister yesterday said the International Monetary Fund deposited a much-awaited first installment of $1.2 billion with the country’s central bank under a recently

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