カテゴリー: Pakistan
Authorities use boats to rescue Karachi residents trapped by monsoon rains Heavy rains have hit parts of Pakistan, including the financial capital of Karachi, for a fifth straight night, bringing further flooding to towns and villages and leaving at le…
Streets and homes flooded with sewage in Karachi as downpours overwhelm outdated waste system in country’s largest cityThree days of monsoon rains have killed at least 90 people and damaged at least a thousand homes across Pakistan, the country’s natio…
Author of Plain Tales from the Raj, and historian concerned with ’relearning’ the role of orientalists in south AsiaCharles Allen, who has died of cancer aged 80, interviewed the last generation of British administrators of India in 1974 for the BBC ra…
Fight to eradicate disease getting ‘back on track’ after surge in cases due to pause in vaccination campaignsPolio vaccination campaigns have resumed in Afghanistan and Pakistan – the last two polio-endemic countries in the world – after a “surge” in c…
The release was a condition for peace talks agreed by the US and the TalibanAfghanistan agreed on Sunday to release 400 “hardcore” Taliban prisoners, paving the way for peace talks aimed at ending almost two decades of war.Under election-year pressure …
British-Pakistani filmmaker tackles sexual stereotypes in groundbreaking new drama series, Churails A burqa-clad boxer, a high-society wedding planner and an ex-convict may sound more like the wish list for the next series of Big Brother, but they are …
Pakistan was the first to remove special status from its part of Kashmir, writes Om Prakash Shabbi – and it is time both India and Pakistan accepted the line of control as an international border between the two countriesOne factor largely missing from…
On 5 August 2019, India revoked the Muslim-majority territory’s semi-autonomous status and began a devastating crackdownFor the past year, Fayaz Tilgami’s poetry has spoken of nothing but loss: a lost home, a lost language, a lost world. “We have lost …
Governments are at a nebulous stage: past the initial shocks but still without a clear end in sight Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNobody is clapping any more. Six months since Covid-19 registered as an urgent threat, and o…
Anwar Jan shot dead in home town of Barkhan in Balochistan provinceThe murder of a reporter known for exposing corruption has set off a wave of protests across Pakistan’s western Balochistan province, one of the most dangerous places in the world to be…
Tahir Ahmed Naseem is latest victim of violence connected to blasphemy lawsA Pakistani man on trial for blasphemy has been shot dead in a courtroom, in the latest violent incident connected with the country’s blasphemy laws.Tahir Ahmed Naseem had been …
Matiullah Jan, an outspoken critic of Pakistan’s institutions, was seized by heavily armed men before being let goA prominent Pakistani journalist known for his hard-hitting criticism of the country’s military and other institutions has been released a…
A job scheme for women who may otherwise be shunned as outcasts is giving many the opportunity to rebuild their livesMargaret Heera runs her fingers through her customer’s hair. “You must manage time for yourself and your skin,” she says, as she ties t…
Petitions filed in court to block work on first Hindu temple in capital since Pakistan’s creationThe controversial construction of the first Hindu temple in Pakistan’s capital has been halted after it was challenged in the courts.Plans for the Shri Kri…
PIA will not be able to fly into the EU for at least six months because of doubts over validity of pilot licencesThe European Union’s aviation safety agency announced today that Pakistan’s national airline would not be allowed to fly into Europe for at…