Pakistan News

A Pakistani teenager died on Friday after setting herself on fire after a court dropped charges against four men accused of raping her, police said.

Two bombings in separate parts of Pakistan killed 17 people and wounded dozens on Friday as judges ordered the country's former president, Pervez Musharraf, to appear in court to face charges of high treason or face arrest.

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A doctor at a hospital in southwestern Pakistan says 10 people were killed when a bomb went off near a passenger bus in the city of Quetta.

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Eight people dead and about 40 wounded, police say, in latest blast to hit city of Peshawar in Pakistan's northwest.

Khan along with his wife Sana was going to Hyderabad city when they met with an accident.

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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.

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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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