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

Imran Khan in court as more violence erupts across country

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan appeared in court yesterday, a day after he was dragged from another court and arrested in Islamabad, setting off clashes between

FM says it will skip US democracy summit amid turmoil

Pakistan announced it will not participate in this week’s U.S.-led Summit for Democracy, a move seen in part as an effort by the impoverished Islamic nation

Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan martial ruler in 9/11 wars, dies

Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, has

Death toll from mosque suicide bombing rises to 88

The death toll from a suicide bombing at a mosque in northwestern Pakistan rose to 88 yesterday, officials said. The assault, on a Sunni mosque inside a

Suicide bomber kills 20, wounds 96 at mosque in NW Pakistan

A suicide bomber struck yesterday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 20 people and wounding as many as 96 worshippers, officials said. No

In hopeful sign, Pakistan says no new flood deaths in three days

Pakistan said yesterday there have been no fatalities for the past three days from the deadly floods that engulfed the country since mid-June, a hopeful sign that

Pakistani premier promises compensation for flood victims

Pakistan's prime minister yesterday promised the country’s homeless people that the government will ensure they are paid to rebuild and return to their lives after the

UNHCR rushes aid amid to amid raging floods in country’s south

The U.N. refugee agency rushed in more desperately needed aid yesterday to flood-stricken Pakistan as the nation’s prime minister traveled to the south where rising

Flooding deaths pass 1,000 in ‘climate catastrophe’

Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan topped 1,000 since mid-June, officials said yesterday, as the country’s climate minister called the deadly monsoon season “a serious

Government steps up pressure on ex-PM Imran Khan

Pakistani government stepped up pressure on former Prime Minister Imran Khan who has been holding mass rallies, seeking to return to office, with an Islamabad court

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