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Five Pakistani soldiers killed as Taliban-led Afghanistan resists cooperation with IslamabadThe Pakistani-Afghan border, running along Britain’s colonial-era Durand Line, is a centre of the increasing tensions between Islamabad and the Taliban, with a …
Read MoreExiles advised to keep a low profile as hitman is convicted in LondonPakistani exiles seeking refuge in the UK are being advised by counter-terrorism police to keep a low profile following warnings that their lives may be at risk after criticising Paki…
Read MoreOfficial says separatists’ assault timed to ‘sabotage’ prime minister Imran Khan’s visit to ChinaPakistani troops battled separatist militants for a third day on Friday in the troubled province of Balochistan, where hundreds of residents in a town near…
Read MoreFather William Siraj killed while on his way home after celebrating Sunday Mass in Peshawar while no group claimed responsibilityPakistani police have widened their manhunt for two unidentified assailants who shot and killed a Christian priest and woun…
Read MoreIn rural provinces, women have always reared animals but are excluded from selling them. A new market is changing attitudesOn Saturday, Rozina Ghulam Mustafa arrived at the market in Tando Allahyar city, Pakistan’s Sindh province, to sell the goats she…
Read MoreAneeqa Ateeq says she was dragged her into a religious discussion so her accuser could take revengeA court in Pakistan has sentenced a woman to death over allegedly blasphemous messages sent over WhatsApp and Facebook.Aneeqa Ateeq, 26, was found guilty…
Read MoreAfter the collapse of the Afghan capital, Amina says what followed was worse than she could imagineAmina* used to work for an NGO in Kabul while studying at university. She was forced to flee to Pakistan with her family once the Taliban took over. She …
Read MoreIn such a conservative country, young women often have to fight their own families first just to play the sport they loveBisma Amjad plays cricket. She aspires to play internationally and was picked for Pakistan’s under-19 World Cup squad.But when the …
Read MoreAt least 22 tourists died in freezing temperatures after being stranded in their vehicles in northern Pakistan, where thousands had flocked to enjoy the snow. Some 1,000 vehicles are still stranded in Murree, 40 miles north-east of the capita…
Read MoreThousands affected at popular destination of Murree with eight of those killed from same family At least 22 people have died after heavy snow trapped them in their vehicles as tens of thousands of visitors thronged Pakistan’s hill town of Murree, offic…
Read MoreMove to appoint Justice Ayesha Malik, who banned virginity tests for rape survivors, described as ‘defining moment’ for the countryPakistan’s top judicial commission has nominated a female judge to the supreme court for the first time in the country’s …
Read MoreBlast at branch in industrial area of city also leaves 16 injured as cause is investigated At least 15 people were killed and 16 others injured in an explosion on Saturday at a bank branch in Karachi’s industrial area, police said.A senior police offic…
Read MoreFrom a Jacobean traveller’s travails in Sindh to the tangled roots of Nigeria, our pick of new nonfiction books that shine a light on Asia, Africa and South America• Share your top recommendations for books on the developing world in the comments below…
Read MoreI wanted to stay and tell the world what it was like living in a city besieged by extremists, but as my neighbourhood fell I had no choice but to leave. Soon, I was being pushed across the border in a wheelbarrowI have bundles of cash stuffed into my s…
Read MoreFrom fragile leaders to invisible workers, anger is shimmering throughout the serpentine politics of Pakistan and IndiaOn the morning of 3 December, Priyantha Kumara, the 49-year-old export manager of Rajco Industries, asked his workers to remove a sti…
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