Pakistan News

The Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan has ruled that death is the only punishment for blasphemy and ordered the removal of an option for life imprisonment that had been permitted under Pakistani law, the Lahore-based Pakistan Today reported.

Close aides to the main lawyer for a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has fled Pakistan after receiving death threats from militants.

Afghan Shi'ite Muslim Hazara women participate in a hunger strike to protest a bombing in Pakistan targeting Shi'a that killed 89 people in February.

About 75 percent of young women believe the U.S. needs to do more to bring about equality in the workplace, a new study finds, despite a narrowing pay gap and steady employment gains for women at higher levels of... About 75 percent of young women believe the U.S. needs to do more to bring about equality in the workplace, a new study finds, despite ... (more)

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Ministry of Finance has set up a committee to explore areas to promote Islamic banking in the world's second most populous Muslim nation, including studying converting conventional banks into sharia-compliant ones.

In this file photo taken Monday, Nov. 11, 2013, a Pakistani child suffering from the mosquito-borne disease, dengue fever, lies in a bed, next to his mother, covered with a net at an isolation ward of a hospital in Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

For news details visit : http://www.nation.com.pk/islamabad/10-Dec-2013/na-passes-anti-drone-resolution-urged-us-to-halt-drone-attacks For news details Read on : NA passes anti-drone resolution urged US to halt drone attacks The lower House of the Parliament on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution demanding an immediate halt to drone attacks on ... (more)

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Amina Masood Janjua, chairwoman of Defense Of Human Rights Pakistan, and family members of the missing address the press outside the Supreme Court building after a hearing in Islamabad on December 6. Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered the release of 35 so-called "missing persons" allegedly being held at a military detention center without charge.

A Pakistani doctor won a $1 million grant Tuesday to fight early child mortality in a small fishing village in southern Pakistan in a contest financed by an American entrepreneur to find innovative ways to save lives, The Caplow Children's Prize said.

By The Associated Press Another round of snow is in the forecast for the mid-Atlantic region, just in time for the morning commute.

A polio worker administers polio vaccine to a child in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

Pakistan will push forward with a controversial pipeline to import natural gas from neighboring Iran, Pakistan said Tuesday, a project opposed by the United States.

Mohabat Shah has stood silently before the bench at Pakistan's Supreme Court nearly every day last week.

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Visiting US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel Monday warned Pakistan over a blocked NATO supply route to Afghanistan as Islamabad raised the issue of American drone attacks on militants in remote areas of the terror-hit nation.

A Pakistani political party chaired by Imran Khan has vowed to continue a blockade established as part of a protest against CIA drone strikes, despite a warning from the United States that aid could be cut off if it is not halted.

The Asian Development Bank will lend $900 million to build a 600 megawatt coal-fired power generation unit in Pakistan as part of efforts to provide cheap and reliable power.

Pakistani institutions are evolving rapidly. With executive authority increasingly in the hands of elected representatives, rather than dispersed among various competing institutions, the political establishment has been revitalized - and it has taken three important steps toward strengthening democracy and the rule of law.

ISLAMABAD: As Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is retiring this week, pro-Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz lawyers have been active to replace Attorney General of Pakistan Munir A Malik.

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