Pakistan News

Drought and power shortages have decimated agriculture in parts of Pakistan's largest province, Balochistan, and driven local villagers to Quetta, the provincial capital.

The country's defense minister denies a newspaper report that engine data from the missing Boeing 777 indicated it may have kept flying for hours after its last communication.

Saudi Arabia loaned $1.5 billion to Pakistan last month to help Islamabad shore up its foreign exchange reserves, meet debt-service obligations and undertake large energy and infrastructure projects, Pakistani officials have told Reuters.

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From his home off a dirt road cluttered with trash in Pakistan's teeming city of Karachi, policeman Didar Ahmed's son shows the bloodstained jacket his father was wearing when gunmen cut him and three colleagues down in a hail of bullets last month.

A storm that swept through the Midwest and the Northeast a week before the start of spring has caused pileups on the Ohio Turnpike involving at least 50 vehicles, leaving three people dead and a state trooper... A storm that swept through the Midwest and the Northeast just a week before the start of spring caused pileups on the Ohio Turnpike ... (more)

In this Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, photo, a Pakistani man grieves outside a hospital for the death of his brother, a religious cleric who was killed by gunmen in January, in Karachi, Pakistan.

Two-month-old Mangal succumbed to pneumonia on Tuesday in Mithi, southeast Pakistan, the latest victim of a deadly web of drought, disease and malnutrition in one of the country's most deprived regions.

Street battles between two rival gangs armed with RPGs and machine guns killed at least 16 people -- including four women -- in Pakistan's Karachi on Wednesday, officials said.

ISLAMABAD: Oxfam has called for action to tackle the climate change to ensure that everyone has enough to eat and enjoys a safer climate.

Dozens of gang members angered over the killing of one of their leaders opened fire on passers-by outside a market in southern Pakistan , killing 15 people.

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Police in Pakistan say gang members angered over the killing of one of their leaders have opened fire on passers-by in southern Pakistan, killing 14 people.

Police in Pakistan say gang members angered over the killing of one of their leaders have opened fire on passers-by in southern Pakistan, killing 14 people.

Twelve people, including four women, have been killed in a violent clash between two gangs in Pakistan's Karachi, officials said, with the death toll feared to rise.

Chosen as a 'Granta Best of Young British Novelist' in 2013, Kamila Shamsie's latest page-turner explores Peshawar unlike before; there's an ode to Mumbai too, as Kanika Sharma found out in a telephonic chat with the gifted Pakistani author This book is about archaeology and Peshawar's history, which is interesting especially when it comes to the ... (more)

Islamabad, March 11: Salman Ahmad has hinted that on the request of Junoon fans, he has approached his band mates to come together again after ten years.

A British man testifying in the terror trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law said Tuesday he flew on planes over the Middle East and Europe with explosives in a shoe after the Sept.

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Though the requirement was supposed to come into effect from January, India extended the deadline to allow Pakistan to set up necessary infrastructure.