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…
Pakistan: IMF to provide $1.1b amid catastrophic floods
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to release $1.17 billion (€1.17 billion) in funds to the government of Pakistan as the country deals with a spiraling death toll and widespread destruction from floods that the government has deemed a…
Top Pakistan Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan roadside attack
A late night roadside bombing in eastern Afghanistan has struck a vehicle carrying members of the Pakistan Taliban, killing a senior leader and three other members of the group, several Pakistani officials and the group said. Abdul Wali, also known…
Pakistan to India: ‘Time to bury the past’ for regional peace
Pakistan’s military chief Thursday advocated a “stable” relationship with archrival India, saying unsettled disputes between the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors are “dragging the region back to the swamp of poverty and underdevelopment.” Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa told a conference of…
Bomb at seminary in Pakistan kills 7 students, wounds 112
Pakistani volunteers help an injured person at the site of a bomb explosion in an Islamic seminary in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday. The bombing occurred as a prominent religious scholar was delivering a lecture about the teachings of Islam. (Muhammad…