Peshawar, Pakistan News

Election workers use covers of ballot boxes and polling booths to shield themselves from the sun before transporting them to polling stations, at a sports complex used as a storage area for election material in Peshawar, Pakistan, on May 10, 2013.

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Pakistanis cast ballots in Karachi on Sunday, a day after the slaying of a well-known political leader who had accused rivals of vote rigging.

Railway workers attempt to fix tracks in Lahore. In its heyday, train travel in Pakistan was an elegant, popular mode of travel for the wealthy and working classes alike.

Police say bombings at two mosques in northwest Pakistan have killed at least 10 people.

PESHAWAR: Taliban militants ambushed a military convoy late Thursday in Pakistan's troubled northwestern city of Peshawar, killing two soldiers, security officials said.

Nawaz Sharif's victory in Pakistan's general elections is being seen with some alarm in Afghanistan, where some fear it may mean more instability.

Karachi: May 16, 2013. The Central Executive Cuncil of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC have approved nomination of Jan Masih as President of PCC-Peshawar in a meeting here today.

He told the BBC that 15 of the injured were in a critical condition and being taken to hospitals in Mardan and Peshawar.

A driver was killed when unidentified militants opened fire at a NATO supply tanker in Gariza area of Jamrud tehsil, sub-division of Khyber tribal region, on Thursday, official sources said.

The party of Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan on Thursday said it would lead a coalition government in the terror-hit northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Rejecting election results, PML-N candidate on NA-40 North Waziristan Agency, Naek Amal Khan, has demanded re-polling in the presence of Army.Speaking at a news conference here at press club on Wednesday, Naek claimed that polling was not held in a free, fair and transparent manner.

ISLAMABAD: Just two days after the much-trumpeted 'free and fair' general election, widespread allegations of rigging in the polling process have raised many an eyebrow, putting the credibility of whole the exercise at stake.

Pakistan's neighbors and global powers have welcomed Nawaz Sharif's victory in the country's May 11 general elections, in the hope that he will stabilize the country and change its external outlook.

PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema e Islam-Fazl Chief, Fazlur Rehman has refused to accept the mandate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Sharif, Pakistan's former prime minister, once faced possible execution. Now he will return to the nation's highest office.

Nawaz Sharif , whose party gained most seats in Pakistan's May 11 election and is set to form the next government, plans to name Mohammad Ishaq Dar as finance minister, ahead of a national budget in June.

Not only did the mishap leave Shada widowed at the relatively young age of 37, she also sustained an injury to her back that immobilised her.

A car bomb killed at least six people and wounded over 50 others after exploding outside a police chief's house in Pakistan.

VOA reporter Mukarram Khan Aatif shown in northwest Pakistan in January 2012. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for killing Aatif in a mosque in Shabqadar, some 35 kilometers from Peshawar.