Pakistan

Burn victims overwhelm Pakistani hospitals after tanker fire kills 146

Pakistani hospitals on Monday struggled to treat scores of severely burned victims of a fuel tanker explosion that killed at least 146 people, as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif flew back from an overseas trip to visit the injured.

7 years, 11 months ago

Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-661 crashes into mountain and explodes

Plane ‘was already on fire’ before it crashed, says witness after plane carrying 48 people including one of the country's best known musicians among the dead crashes into Pakistan mountain, ‘killing all on board’

8 years, 6 months ago

Pakistan Express Train Collision Kills At Least 20 In Karachi

A long-distance train collided into stationary coaches in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Thursday, killing at least 20 people, hospital officials said, in the country's second major rail collision in less than two months.

8 years, 7 months ago

Quetta attack: Militants kill dozens at Balochistan Police College

At least 59 cadets and guards have been killed in an attack by militants on a police college in the Pakistani city of Quetta, officials say.

8 years, 7 months ago

Why prime minister Narendra Modi should step in to save filmmaker Karan Johar

The virtual banishment of Pakistani artistes from Bollywood is a matter urgent and serious enough to demand the personal intervention of prime minister Narendra Modi. It is a matter of national interest.

8 years, 8 months ago

Pakistan captures Indian soldier along disputed Kashmir border

Pakistan captured an Indian soldier on its side of the disputed Kashmir border Thursday, Indian officials told CNN, as tensions continue to rise between the two nuclear neighbors.

8 years, 8 months ago

India calls Pakistan a terrorist state in furious response at UN

Bluntly calling Pakistan a terrorist state and a global epicenter of terrorism, India on Wednesday told the United Nations that Islamabad's use of terrorism as instrument of state policy is a war crime.

8 years, 8 months ago

Dozens killed as tensions flare between nuclear neighbors

Almost 45 people have been killed and more than 2,000 injured in 11 days of clashes between civilian protesters and Indian security forces in Kashmir.

8 years, 11 months ago

The dishonourable killing of Qandeel Baloch

Likened to Kim Kardashian for her unapologetic sexuality, Pakistan’s first social media star was a high wire act. Her murder has divided the nation, and made her an unlikely political icon

8 years, 11 months ago

Death Toll Rises in Jammu and Kashmir During Protests Over Separatist’s Death

Protesters clashed with the police in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, the second day of widespread unrest after a separatist militant leader was killed in a gun battle with security forces on Friday.

8 years, 11 months ago

Mauritius President Invites Textile Exporters

Mauritius has invited Pakistani textile exporters to explore business opportunities in addition to arranging a fashion show of Pakistani brands in the country.

9 years, 1 month ago

World's Most Overstaffed Airline Can't Find Stranded Passengers

The world’s least productive airline has lost track of passengers that may be stranded anywhere from New York to Beijing.

9 years, 4 months ago

Militants Storm Pakistan University, Kill at Least 20

Armed militants stormed a university in volatile northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens a little more than a year after the massacre of 134 students at a school in the area, officials said.

9 years, 5 months ago

Bomb Near Pakistan Polio Centre 'Kills 15'

At least 15 people have been killed in a suspected suicide bombing outside a polio vaccination centre in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta.

9 years, 5 months ago

Afghans, Pakistan Hold Firm on Ties; India 'Extends Hand' to Pakistan

Leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan held firm to positions on their troubled ties at a conference on Afghanistan's future on Wednesday that risked being overshadowed by a Taliban attack in Afghanistan's biggest city.

9 years, 6 months ago