Pakistan News

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain said on Sunday that it is high time terrorism and corruption are eliminated from the country.

The Obama administration said Friday it will allow some companies to kill or injure bald and golden eagles for up to 30 years without penalty, an effort to spur development and investment in green energy while... Under pressure from the wind-power industry, the Obama administration said Friday it will allow companies to kill or injure eagles ... (more)

In 2007, Benazir Bhutto - twice prime minister of Pakistan and then-leader of the Pakistan People's Party - was killed in a suicide bombing attack that claimed 38 lives.

NATO shipments from Afghanistan via Pakistan are due to resume after the end of anti-drone protests, officials said, as US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel headed to Islamabad for talks on Monday.

A model presents a creation by Pakistani fashion designer Kamiar Rokni during the Paris-Lahore-Karachi fashion show on October 30, 2013 in Paris "One of the things we feel diminishes our work is whenever our story is linked to Talibanisation and whether we are doing this to fight extremism," he told AFP in Paris.

ROUGH CUT STORY: Thousands of activists and supporters of a Pakistani Sunni sectarian group took to the streets of Lahore to condemn the killing of their leader as his funeral was held in the city on Saturday.

1890 - Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux is killed during an attempt to arrest him by reservation police in the U.S. state of South Dakota.

This photograph taken on December 6, 2013 shows a Chinese engineer supervise workers building a bridge over a river in Ghari Dopatta, some 22km from Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-administered Kashmir.

The "Youth Business Loans" is designed to provide subsidized financing at an 8 percent mark-up per annum for 100,000 beneficiaries through the state-run National Bank of Pakistan and First Women Bank.

Staff Report LAHORE: Saadi Abbas of Pakistan won a bronze medal in the 67kg weight category at the 12th Asian Karate Championship, which was held, from December 3 to 6 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Saturday identified six 'missing persons' who relatives say were disappeared by the country's powerful army from a detention centre.

Naeem Anwar, Minister , High Commission of Pakistan, appreciated the efforts made by PHD Chamber to foster bilateral ties.

The Gilgit-Baltistan Council unanimously approved the Protection of Pakistan Bill in a session presided over by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his capacity as chairman of the council.

Steve King with Khan of Kalat Mir Suleman Daud Ahmadzai and Hyrbyair Marri, chief of the Baloch Liberation Army, in London on September 22, 2013.

At least one man was killed and 22 others were injured in two separate blasts that went off in Pakistan's southwest Chaman district on Thursday night, local media reported.

Via The Express Tribun e, a December 7 report: Whisked away: Chief polio paramedic kidnapped .

Staff Report KARACHI: Civil society, human rights and minorities rights organisations on Friday staged a protest demonstration in front of Karachi Press Club against cold-blooded murder of Scheduled Caste Hindu girl Kaku Kolhi in Shadi Palli, Umerkot district and demanded to provide justice to the Dalit family.

Mohsin Ikram drives a 1954 Austin-Healey across Pakistan. As the head of Pakistan's Vintage and Classic Car Club, he's doing it mostly because he loves the open road.

ISLAMABAD: The legislators in Upper House of parliament on Thursday said the masses had rejected the PPP-led coalition government in the May 11 general elections and the PML-N government will meet the same fate if it failed to control rising price hike.

Police say gunmen riding on a motorcycle have opened fire on a vehicle carrying a leader of a hard-line Sunni group in eastern Pakistan, killing him and wounding a passer-by before fleeing.