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Pakistani officials say two police officers and four paramilitary troops have been killed in clashes with Imran Khan supporters.

A passenger on a flight from Dubai to Islamabad on Sunday has been accused of head-butting a flight attendant.

The Taliban blasted Pakistan Wednesday for ordering roughly 1.73 million Afghans living in the country illegally to leave by November 1.

The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday suspended former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s conviction on corruption charges.

Islamist former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested outside the High Court in Islamabad on Tuesday.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), held nationwide protests on Friday, blocking roads and scuffling with police in some areas.

A court has convicted a former employee of the Swedish migration agency and the foreign ministry of misconduct after issuing bogus visas to Afghan nationals while working at the Swedish embassy in Pakistan.

The Indian government denied U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim on Tuesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked him to mediate the territorial dispute over Kashmir between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, arguing that it is a bilateral issue no third party can help resolve.

A video disseminated this week by the former chief minister of the disputed New Delhi-administered Kashmir region purportedly shows an Indian Border Security Force (BSF) commander manhandling a local man for refusing to cast a vote for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Officials in India dismissed as “irresponsible and preposterous” on Sunday a claim by Pakistan’s foreign minister that New Delhi is plotting military action against Pakistan later this month.

There have been over 500 casualties so far in 2018 in just the India-administered portion of the disputed Muslim-majority region of Kashmir in the Himalayas, marking the deadliest year in the area in almost a decade, Al Jazeera reported over the weekend.

Up to 200 businessmen from China’s top ally Pakistan are complaining that their Uighur Muslim wives have been caught in the net of Beijing’s crackdown on Islam adherents and are urging Beijing to release them, the Associated Press (AP) reported Monday.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s administration is kicking out 18 international charities based in the United States and Europe after refusing their final appeal to remain in the country, the latest move in a “systematic crackdown” on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in the nation, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Thursday.

Pakistan this week welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to make political reconciliation between the Afghan Taliban and Kabul the primary goal of America’s strategy to end the more than 17-year-old war in Afghanistan.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday reportedly told his federal cabinet that his recent visit to China was “more successful than expected,” noting that Beijing has “assured every kind of assistance to Pakistan.”

Pakistan’s foreign ministry claimed to annul its alliance with the United States after the Trump administration reportedly suspended an estimated $1 billion in security aid for refusing to take decisive action against jihadists who are fighting American troops and their allies in Afghanistan.

Pakistan’s central bank has adopted a Chinese proposal to use the yuan currency for bilateral trade and investment transactions, replacing the U.S. dollar amid Islamabad’s ongoing feud with American President Donald Trump.

Pakistani opposition and ruling party politicians have suggested Islamabad is willing to reconsider its relationship with Washington after U.S. President Donald Trump accused the Muslim-majority country of sheltering jihadist groups that operate in Afghanistan.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly backing its assertion that Pakistan is harboring jihadists by depriving Islamabad of $255 million in military aid funded by American taxpayers, according to a report published Tuesday.

China has come out in defense of its ally Pakistan, defending its alleged “great efforts and sacrifices” to combat terrorism, in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent assertion that the Muslim-majority nation continues to harbor jihadists.

President Donald Trump lashed out at Pakistan on Twitter just a few minutes past 7:00 a.m. Eastern time on New Year’s Day, expressing frustration at Islamabad’s inadequate efforts against terrorism and implying that U.S. foreign aid will be terminated as a result.

The embassy of Islamabad’s ally China, in an unsual security warning, cautioned its nationals in Pakistan that “terrorists” are planning to target them in a “series of attacks” soon.

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Pro-blasphemy law protests in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, killed at least six and injured more than 200 people, including security forces and civilians, before forcing the government to capitulate to the demonstrators’ demands on Monday.

Pakistani authorities have issued an ultimatum to an anti-blasphemy Islamist political party, urging them to stop obstructing the main entrance to Islamabad or face repercussions, a move that potentially spark clashes between the two sides.

The Pakistani capital of Islamabad has been “under siege” by hundreds of Muslim extremists demanding strict adherence to the country’s anti-blasphemy laws and the resignation of the federal law minister accused of breaking them.

Pakistan’s ongoing plan to build a fence to prevent cross-border jihadi attacks along most of the porous international boundary it shares with Afghanistan continues to dismay U.S-backed Kabul, which claims the barrier would break up families and friends.

Pakistan has rebuked a declaration by the BRICS nations, supported the Muslim-majority country’s ally China, that denounces Islamabad-affiliated terrorist groups as a threat, bringing the alliance of deveoloping countries closer in line with positions of the United States and its allies.

Thousands of extremists in Muslim-majority Pakistan took to the streets in defiance of a ban on protests to rally in support of a man executed for killing a governor, who called to change the country’s strict blasphemy laws that primarily target Christians and other minority groups.

Pakistan has reaffirmed Islamabad’s stance against any foreign actors seeking to undermine ally China’s sovereignty and thanked Beijing for its support on national security.

Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a terrorist group considered to be a front organization for the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) jihadist group, organized protests across Pakistan after authorities placed its leader, one of the alleged masterminds behind the 2008 massacre in India’s Mumbai, under house arrest.

The 2007 free trade agreement (FTA) between the People’s Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan continues to favor the communist country, fueling its penetrating influence over its Muslim-majority neighbor, reveals a detailed analysis by current affairs magazine the Herald.

The United States is working with Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China to bring the Taliban terrorist group to the peace negotiation table, according to Islamabad.

The Afghan Taliban says it has sent a “high-level” delegation to Pakistan, a spokesman for the jihadist group has confirmed to Voice of America (VOA).

Pakistani Minister for the Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has ordered a ban on Valentine’s Day for the capital city of Islamabad, promising “strict action” against anyone caught engaged in outward celebration of the festivity.

An angry brother shot his elder sister dead because she voted in Pakistani local elections after he tried to forbid her from doing so, police said Wednesday. The murder occurred in the town of Taxila 25 kilometres (15 miles) west