The national power grid was restored in Pakistan, the energy minister said on Tuesday, a day after a nationwide breakdown left most of the country’s 220 million people without electricity and caused tens of millions of dollars in industry losses.…
2 children killed in Kashmir blast day after four gunned down
Two children have been killed and five other civilians wounded in a blast in a village in Indian-administered Kashmir, a day after assailants sprayed bullets towards a row of homes in the same area, leaving at least four dead, police…
Suicide car bomb kills Pakistan police officer, wounds others
A suicide car bombing at a checkpoint in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, has killed at least one police officer and wounded several other people, according to officials. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) armed group, also known as the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility…
Hostage crisis persists in Pakistan counterterrorism prison
Authorities in Pakistan continued Monday to negotiate a resolution to the overnight hostage crisis at a counterterrorism police detention center where dozens of suspected militant inmates have taken multiple officers hostage. The inmates are demanding safe passage to Afghanistan in…
Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan shot and wounded at protest march
Pakistan’s former PM Imran Khan has been shot and wounded during a protest march in the eastern city of Wazirabad, in an apparent assassination attempt. Members of his PTI party said another four people were hurt on Thursday – but…
Guantanamo Bay: US releases oldest detainee Saif Ullah Paracha
Guantanamo Bay’s oldest prisoner has been released to his home country, Pakistan, after almost two decades. Saif Ullah Paracha, 75, was arrested two years after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US and accused of being an al-Qaeda sympathiser.…
Arshad Sharif killing: Prominent Pakistani journalist shot dead in Kenya
An investigation has begun in Kenya after well-known Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif was shot dead on Sunday. An initial police report said officers shot him while he was in a moving vehicle in a case of mistaken identity. Sharif was…
Bill Gates ready to meet with Taliban to help Afghanistan eradicate polio
US billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Monday said he was ready to have a meeting with the Taliban if it would help eradicate poliomyelitis in Afghanistan. “Honestly, I don’t know if there’s some sensitivity around that. I would…
Movies back in Indian Kashmir, decades after cinema closures
Silver screens lit up in Indian-administered Kashmir for the first time in a generation at the opening of a new cinema on Tuesday, decades after an armed rebellion shuttered local movie halls. India has been fortifying its control over the…
Disease warning as Pakistan flood death toll rises
Aid workers warn a lack of clean drinking is causing an increase in diseases in Pakistan, as the death toll from devastating floods passes 1,200. Access to clean water was the biggest problem for those trying to find food and…
