A court in Pakistan has sentenced a 22-year-old student to death on charges of blasphemy over Whatsapp messages.
The court in Punjab Province said he had shared blasphemous pictures and videos with the intention to outrage the religious feelings of (...)
An angry mob in Pakistan accused a woman who wore a dress adorned with Arabic calligraphy of blasphemy, after mistaking them for Qur'an verses.
She was saved by police who escorted her to safety after hundreds gathered. She later gave a public (...)
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 (...)
Pakistan's former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif only returned from self-imposed exile last year but is now the clear front-runner to win the Feb. 8 election.
Few could have predicted his return to the top, despite his dominance in Pakistani (...)
Courts in the UK and Pakistan are involved in a complex legal tussle to decide what should happen to the siblings of Sara Sharif.
Sara, 10, was found dead at her home in Woking, Surrey, in August. Her father, stepmother and uncle deny her (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Toxic smog in eastern Pakistan has made thousands of people sick, forcing authorities to shut some cities for the rest of the week. Smog in the country's second-largest city Lahore has risen to dangerous levels. The Punjab provincial government has (...)
A prominent Sikh leader was brazenly murdered this summer outside a temple in British Columbia (BC), Canada. The death has outraged his supporters and intensified global tensions between Sikh separatists and the Indian government.
On a mid-June (...)
Multiple doctors have advised Farah Nurfirman to leave her hometown Jakarta for her health's sake.
The 22-year-old asthmatic often wears a mask and carries an inhaler, but the air quality in the city is not helping.
The Indonesian capital, which has (...)
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been given a three-year jail sentence over corruption allegations.
Khan was found guilty of not declaring money earned from selling gifts he received in office. He denies the charges and says he will (...)
An air of melancholy engulfs the small village of Bandali in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, where hopes are fading fast for nearly two dozen residents who went abroad in search of a better life and have since disappeared.
Families fight back tears (...)
Pakistan's government has restricted former Prime Minister Imran Khan, his wife and hundreds of political aides from traveling abroad amid a standoff with the country's powerful military, officials said.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), (...)
For many years, Pakistan's military establishment believed that in Imran Khan they had found a savior for the country. But, writes author and journalist Mohammed Hanif, after only a year out of power he is threatening to become their nemesis — and (...)
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 (...)
Pakistan's ex-prime minister Imran Khan has been freed from custody, a day after the Supreme Court ruled his dramatic arrest on corruption charges was illegal.
Judges released Khan on protected bail, meaning he can not be re-arrested for at least (...)
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges a day after his arrest sparked nationwide protests.
Eight people have died nationwide in the protests and about 1,000 have been arrested, police say.
The army (...)
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's main opposition leader Imran Khan says the authorities are acting outside the law in their attempt to arrest him.
"They should all be subject to the law of the land," he told the BBC.
On Tuesday police clashed with supporters of Khan, a (...)
Pakistani security personnel withdrew from around Imran Khan's residence in Lahore on Wednesday, putting a halt to clashes that had erupted after police tried to arrest the former prime minister for not showing up in a case against him related to (...)
Supporters of Pakistan's main opposition leader Imran Khan have clashed with police outside his home as officers try to arrest him.
Police fired tear gas shells to disperse the supporters, who threw stones and bricks. There is a tense situation (...)
Pakistan suffered a huge power cut early on Monday following a breakdown in its national electricity grid, the energy ministry said.
Power was out in all the country's major cities, including the biggest city Karachi, the capital Islamabad as well (...)
A YouTube channel that connects Indians and Pakistanis who were separated by the 1947 partition has gained hundreds of thousands of followers from both countries.
Nasir Dhillon, 38, started Punjabi Lehar in 2016 with a friend — since then, he says (...)
A fiery crash between an oil tanker and a passenger bus killed at least 20 people in Pakistan, a police spokesperson and media said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
The accident occurred on a motorway in Multan, some 350 km from Lahore reportedly (...)
Sir Ganga Ram's contributions spanned the fields of architecture, engineering, agriculture and rights of widows
There are few personalities in India and Pakistan who left a legacy as lasting on both sides of the border as iconic engineer and (...)