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Flight PK661 smashed into the side of a mountain near the town of Havelian, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, late on Wednesday afternoon. Photo: Reuters

Pakistan plane crash: Junaid Jamshed among 47 killed

2 min read . 08 Dec 2016

Pakistan’s PIA plane with over 40 aboard crashes near Havelian

1 min read . 07 Dec 2016

Donald Trump said that he would favour keeping nearly 10,000 US troops in Afghanistan ‘because it’s adjacent and right next to Pakistan which has nuclear weapons’. Photo: AFP

Donald Trump gives Pakistan jitters for his tilt towards rival India

4 min read . 10 Nov 2016

Pakistan’s Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Imran Khan addresses supporters outside his residence in Islamabad on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

Imran Khan backs off from threat to shut down Islamabad

3 min read . 02 Nov 2016

Supporters of Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan chant anti-government slogans outside Khan’s residence in Islamabad. Photo: Faisal Mahmood/Reuters

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf says more of its workers arrested, cancels rally

1 min read . 29 Oct 2016

Imran Khan has vowed to contest orders banning public gatherings in court but has hinted his supporters would march on the capital next week regardless of what the judiciary decides. Photo: Reuters

Pakistan’s Imran Khan calls for nationwide protests ahead of capital lockdown

2 min read . 28 Oct 2016

Doctors in 2012 certified Imdad Ali, 50, as being a paranoid schizophrenic, after he was sentenced to death for the 2001 murder of a cleric. Photo: AP

Pakistan’s Supreme Court says schizophrenia not a mental illness

2 min read . 21 Oct 2016

In its 182-page judgment, the court concluded that the appellants failed to prove wrongdoing on the part of the military authorities. Photo: Reuters

Pakistan Supreme Court dismisses civilian appeals against military convictions

1 min read . 29 Aug 2016

Rixi works by bypassing poor smartphone penetration in the low-income rickshaw market by polling drivers’ locations using cellphone towers and matching passengers’ messaged locations to points on Google Maps. Photo: Reuters

Uber’s upstart rival in Pakistan uses rickshaws, low-tech phones

3 min read . 20 Jun 2016

Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan in 2007 and led his party to a victory in a 2013 election after years in exile. Photo: Reuters

Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif undergoes open heart surgery in London

1 min read . 31 May 2016

A file photo of Imran Khan, who is expected to draw tens of thousands to a party rally in an Islamabad park later on Sunday to rail against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Photo: Reuters

Imran Khan sees Panama Papers as second chance to oust Pakistan PM

2 min read . 24 Apr 2016

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 22 April 2016 requested Supreme Court to form a commission to investigation into revelations about his finances made in the leaked Panama Papers. Photo: AFP

Panama leaks: Nawaz Sharif asks top court to probe about his finances

1 min read . 23 Apr 2016

Pakistani residents cross a flooded street following heavy rain on the outskirts of Peshawar. Photo: AFP

At least 55 killed in flash floods in northern Pakistan

1 min read . 04 Apr 2016

A file photo of security personals at Pathankot Air Force base following an attack by a Pakistan based terror group. Photo: PTI

Pathankot attack: Pakistan lodges FIR against alleged perpetrators

2 min read . 20 Feb 2016

Pakistan’s leadership on Friday said it hoped ‘the two countries would remain committed to a sustained, meaningful and comprehensive dialogue process’ in the wake of the attack. Photo: Bloomberg

Pakistan pledges to cooperate with Pathankot attack probe

1 min read . 08 Jan 2016

A labourer moves sacks of onions to a truck bound for Afghanistan at a transit depot in Peshawar, Pakistan on 15 September, 2015. Photo: Reuters

Key Pakistani-Afghan trade deals stall on India, souring ties

3 min read . 17 Sep 2015

Representatives from the two paramilitary border forces held a meeting on Tuesday at the Wagah-Attari border “to coordinate modalities of (the) September meeting”, the statement said. Photo: AFP

Pakistan Rangers, BSF to meet in New Delhi on 9 September

1 min read . 26 Aug 2015

Pakistan cancels Commonwealth conference to highlight ‘Kashmir issue’

1 min read . 20 Aug 2015

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