At least 17 Pakistanis have died in a bus crash while traveling to a shrine in Balochistan for Eid-al-Fitr celebrations.
The accident occurred late on Wednesday officials say, when the vehicle lost control before falling into a ravine.
More than 40 (...)
Two political parties in Pakistan have reached a formal agreement to form a new government following an election mired in controversy.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) will be backed by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in a new (...)
A Pakistan politician who won a seat in last week's controversial national elections has given it up because he says the vote was rigged in his favor.
Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman of the Jamaat-e-Islami party had been named the victor of the provincial (...)
In the latest development from Pakistan's electoral battlefield, candidates affiliated with the imprisoned ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan's party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), emerged as the front-runners in the final count of the Feb. 8 general (...)
Zayn Malik's collaboration with popular Pakistani band Aur has given fans much to celebrate — with many psyched that the British singer is fluent in Urdu.
A remake of Aur's breakout hit Tu Hai Kahan features the ex-One Direction singer providing (...)
At least 23 soldiers have been killed and dozens injured in Pakistan after militants attacked a police compound.
The attack took place in the early hours when a vehicle containing explosives rammed into the building in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, (...)
Daily-wage laborer Asif Maseeh wakes up each day wondering how he will feed his family of seven.
"We just pray to God that we'll find a way to eat tomorrow," Maseeh told the BBC.
The 45-year-old is among an estimated 700,000 workers who have lost (...)
The Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani) has announced the addition of Jubail Commercial Port to the India to East Med shipping service by MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company).
With the arrival of container vessel MSC ELLEN, the Saudi ports sector is set (...)
Tens of thousands of supporters from Pakistan's main religious political party have rallied in the eastern city of Lahore against Israel's bombing of Palestinians in Gaza and what it said is the world's failure to protect Gazans.
Amid anti-Israeli (...)
At least 52 people were killed and dozens more wounded in what authorities believe was a suicide attack at a religious procession in southwest Pakistan Friday.
The explosion occurred in the Mastung district of the restive Balochistan province, as (...)
ISLAMABAD — Minister of Hajj and Umrah Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah announced the signing of a new agreement with Pakistan aimed at increasing the number of flights between the two countries as well as to reduce costs for Hajj and Umrah pilgrims from that (...)
In his 1974 novel Tamas (Darkness), a vivid portrayal of the bloody partition of India, author Bhisham Sahni vividly depicts the atmosphere changing in a violence-wracked village, as an airplane circles above it thrice.
"People ventured out. The (...)
At least 30 people have been killed and 100 injured when a train derailed in southern Pakistan, a police spokesman has confirmed.
Several carriages of the Hazara Express overturned near Sahara railway station in Nawabshah, about 275km (171 miles) (...)
Pakistan and China signed a $4.8 billion deal on Tuesday to build a 1,200-megawatt nuclear power plant, Reuters reported quoting local media.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif hailed the investment by China, a country that Pakistan views as its most (...)
More than 300 Pakistani nationals have been killed in the sinking of an overcrowded fishing trawler off the coast of Greece, the latest tragedy to expose the refugee crisis confronting the European Union as tens of thousands seek sanctuary from war, (...)
Tropical Cyclone Biparjoy has made landfall in India's western Gujarat state, close to the Pakistan border, unleashing powerful gusts of wind that ripped up trees and toppled electricity poles.
At landfall, Biparjoy was equivalent to a strong (...)
Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated as India and Pakistan brace for the impact of Cyclone Biparjoy, which is expected to make landfall in densely populated areas across the subcontinent Thursday, putting millions of lives at (...)
The western Indian state of Gujarat is on high alert as an extremely severe cyclone is due to hit parts of it on Thursday.
Biparjoy — a cyclone over the Arabian Sea — is predicted to move toward the state's coastline in the next two days.
Heavy (...)
Pakistan's provincial government on Monday announced the evacuation of over 80,000 people after the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) termed the Biparjoy Cyclone as an 'extremely severe cyclonic storm'.
The Sindh Province Chief Minister Murad (...)
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have announced the signing of an agreement to implement the 'Road to Makkah' project aimed at simplifying the immigration procedures for Pakistani Hajj and Umrah pilgrims, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
The (...)
Violent clashes have broken out in Pakistan between security forces and supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan after he was arrested on Tuesday.
Protests are erupting nationwide, and at least one person has been killed in the city of Quetta. (...)
Pakistan remains on edge ahead of former prime minister Imran Khan's hearing on corruption charges, a day after his dramatic arrest.
Local media have reported at least two deaths amid demonstrations in Pakistan.
A police guest house has been (...)
Shahida Raza, a Pakistani professional hockey player who died when the boat she was on was wrecked off the coast of Italy on Sunday, had been trying to reach Italy to get medical treatment for her three-year-old son, her sister has told the (...)
Two brothers from Pakistan who were held in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay for nearly 20 years have been released without charge.
Abdul and Mohammed Ahmed Rabbani were arrested in Pakistan in 2002.
The Pentagon said Abdul Rabbani operated (...)
The Royal Saudi Naval Forces, represented by the "Navy Infantry" and the Special Navy Security Units participated in the multinational naval exercise Aman-23 in the city of Karachi, in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, alongside 50 other (...)