投稿者: Associated Press in Islamabad
Islamabad says US president helped resolve India conflict but critic says ‘Israel’s sugar daddy in Gaza’ not candidate for any prizePakistan has said it will recommend Donald Trump for the Nobel peace prize for his work in helping to resolve the recent…
Ryan Corbett and William McKenty swapped for Khan Mohammed, who was held in California for drug traffickingA prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban has freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life …
Violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa follows killing of dozens of people in clashes between Sunnis and minority ShiasAt least 42 people have been killed and 20 wounded after gunmen opened fire on vehicles carrying Shia Muslims in Pakistan’s restive north-wes…
A group including 14 women were lashed at a sports stadium in northern Sari Pul over accusations of sodomy and theftThe UN has condemned the public flogging of more than 60 people, including more than a dozen women, by the Taliban in northern Sari Pul …
Zardari played a key role in talks to form a coalition government after February’s disputed parliamentary electionPakistan’s lawmakers have elected Asif Ali Zardari as the country’s president for the second time.Zardari is the widower of the assassinat…
Countries most responsible for climate crisis must ‘end war with nature’, says António GuterresThe UN secretary-general, António Guterres, has said the world owes impoverished Pakistan “massive” help in recovering from the summer’s devastating floods b…
Unprecedented flooding in the country during monsoon season has left at least 1,265 people dead Pakistan has appealed to the international community for an “immense humanitarian response” to unprecedented flooding that has left at least 1,265 people de…
Call for emergency funding as nearly half a million people displaced and estimated $10bn damage to economyThe United Nations and Pakistan are to appeal for $160m (£135m) in emergency funding for the nearly half a million people displaced by record-brea…
Denial contradicts US officials who say al-Qaida leader was staying at home of Taliban leader’s aideThe Taliban leadership has said they did not know that al-Qaida boss Ayman al-Zawahiri had moved to the Afghan capital, Kabul, where the US president, J…
Minister appeals for people to cut their consumption by one or two cups a day and save on importsA minister in Pakistan’s newly elected government has been criticised after appealing to the nation to drink less tea to help save on imports amid a deepen…
Move is part of hardline pivot after militants hinted at more moderate restrictions when taking power last yearAfghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun enforcing an order requiring all female TV news presenters in the country to cover their faces while …
Shireen Mazari’s daughter tweeted that her mother was beaten and taken away by police near her Islamabad home on SaturdayPakistan’s former human rights minister was arrested on Saturday in the capital over a decades-old land grabbing allegation, her da…
Imran Khan says his initiative follows talks with leaders of Afghanistan’s neighboursPakistan’s prime minister says he has initiated a dialogue with the Taliban to encourage them to form an inclusive government that would ensure peace and stability in …
Ali Sadpara of Pakistan, John Snorri of Iceland, and Juan Pablo Mohr of Chile lost contact with base campAn aerial search was under way on Sunday to find three experienced climbers who lost contact with base camp during a winter ascent of K2, the world…
Letter by Islamist militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh tells of involvement in US journalist’s 2002 deathAfter 18 years of denial the British-born militant who was convicted and later acquitted of the beheading of the American journalist Daniel Pearl has …