Pakistan News

Lahore, Pakistan, Aug 1, 2014 / 08:05 pm .- Catholics in Pakistan reached out to the local Islamic community in an effort to promote peace between the religious groups in their nation and throughout the Middle East.

The alleged beheading of an Indian soldier, Lance Naik Hemraj, by Pakistani soldiers along the Line of Control in Poonch sector on January 8, 2013 came under highlight.

Salman Khan is on a high as 'Kick' box office collections have clocked a whopping Rs 164 cr during Week 1 in India.

Scientists and opposition politicians in Pakistan have strongly criticised the government for what they say is its neglectful attitude towards coping with the challenges posed by climate change.

Rescuers have recovered 14 more bodies in rough seas off Pakistan's biggest city Karachi as the search for a group of bathers who drowned earlier this week resumed Friday, officials said.

Nas Khan owns the Jennings motor group and has raised money to build a village for flood victims in Pakistan.

Thousands of women displaced by fighting in Pakistan are struggling to get food and other aid because they lack identity cards and conservative Muslim elders have forbidden them from going to distribution centers.

At least four people were killed and 12 injured Friday when a passenger coach fell into a gorge in Pakistan.

Washington : Most of the American military aid to Islamabad for counterinsurgency has gone into buying equipment to fight India, a former US diplomat has told lawmakers as he described Pakistan as a country which is "on the edge in many ways of being a failed state".

A stable Afghanistan could go a long way to lowering the temperatures and the tensions in the Afghan-Pakistani relationship.

"When a body is pulled out from the water, we pray that it is the last one. We don't know how many drowned.

An officer from the Federal Investigation Agency who works specifically on kidnapping cases said the splintering of the Pakistani Taliban, formally known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, has led to more such crime in the past two years.

Pakistani Rangers, seen in black uniform, and Indian Border Security Force personnel, in khaki, perform the "flag off" ceremony at the Pakistan-India Wagah border post in January 2013.

A view toward the Afghan border, just across the hills, Parachinar, in Kurram in the tribal area, Pakistan.

Last week, two teenage sisters suffered burn injuries on the face and neck when masked men sprayed acid on them in Mastung.

Nineteen bathers have drowned and four are missing in rough seas off Pakistan's biggest city Karachi, officials said on Thursday, after defying a ban on swimming during the monsoon season.

Farooq Baluch, the director of Pakistan's largest private emergency service, said Thursday that rescuers had pulled 19 bodies from the water near the southern city of Karachi.

Turkmenistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Rashid Meredov will head Turkmenistan-Pakistan intergovernmental commission from this country, according to the order of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.

This photograph taken on July 23, 2014, shows Pakistani activists from a regional Baluchistan Nationalist party as they chant slogans during a demonstration outside the Bolan Medical Complex where in Quetta in southwestern Baluchistan province, the female A recent spate of acid attacks in a region of Pakistan previously untouched by the crime has ... (more)

At least 12 tourists who were celebrating Muslims' Eid festival died as they drowned in sea view area in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, officials said.