Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan, told a state television audience on Friday that President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 unleashed a wave of terrorist attacks in the Pakistani border region – and some of those terrorists used American equipment abandoned by Biden.
The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday suspended former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s conviction on corruption charges.
A mob reportedly made of up as many as 10,000 men began burning down, looting, and otherwise violently assaulting Christian communities in Jaranwala, Pakistan, on Wednesday in response to reports that a Christian man had allegedly desecrated a Quran.
The Intercept on Wednesday published a report on a long-rumored Pakistani government document that supports former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s claim that the U.S. government wanted to force him out of office.
India has quietly banned its growing domestic drone industry from using Chinese parts due to fears of security vulnerabilities.
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested on Saturday within minutes of a court sentencing him in absentia to three years in prison on corruption charges.
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan awoke Sunday in a high-security prison after a court handed him a three-year jail sentence,
Gangs do battle with police and each other, leaving at least one dead and locals sleeping on the floor so not to catch a stray bullet in bed.
A suspected suicide bombing killed at least 46 people and injured over 150 at an Islamist political event near the Afghan border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan, on Sunday, believed to have been attended by hundreds of people.
After weeks in Libya trying to reach Europe illegally, Muhammad turned back, abandoning a journey that’s cost hundreds of lives this year.
Muslim-majority nations expressed outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden. Some prepared for street demonstrations.
United Nations votes to adopt resolution on Qur’an burning at ‘urgent meeting’ convened for Pakistan, a cheerleader for global blasphemy laws
Peruvian officials on Sunday announced they had intercepted 23 Afghans in the custody of migrant traffickers operating along the border with Brazil. The migrants included four children, one of them a two-month-old baby.
India asserted itself as the lone member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) not to endorse communist China’s predatory Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) during a virtual summit Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted on Tuesday.
The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday called for international laws to punish burning the Quran, following a demonstration in Sweden last week in which a man burned a copy of the Muslim holy book on the first day of the Eid al-Adha holiday.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), an international organization heavily funded by the United States, on Friday reached an agreement with Pakistan to provide $3 billion in short-term financial aid. The Pakistani bond market perked up at news that a potential debt default crisis has been delayed, but not enough to suggest that investors see a bright future for Pakistan’s finances.
According to U.N. investigators, at least three high-ranking officials in the Taliban regime have strong links to al-Qaeda.
Pakistan widens manhunt for human traffickers after a tragedy off the Greek coast last week that left more than 500 migrants feared drowned.
Anastazja Rubinska was found dead after a search for the missing Polish citizen, with a 32-year-old Bangladeshi citizen arrested.
Petroleum Minister Musadik Malik of Pakistan confirmed on Monday that his country made a major purchase of Russian crude oil using the Chinese yuan currency, presented as a rare public relations victory for a government struggling to contain routine riots.
The government of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif appears to have found a temporary solution, at least, to the problem of his predecessor and rival Imran Khan: a directive requiring the media to screen out “hatemongers, rioters, their facilitators and perpetrators” has effectively blacked out news coverage of Khan and his political comeback campaign.
Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said on Wednesday that his government is considering a ban on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the political party of Imran Khan.
Pakistan’s Federal Shariat Court ruled on Friday that key provisions of the Transgender Persons Act of 2018 are contradicted by Islamic law.
Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan on Friday denounced a “reign of terror” by the successor he wishes to unseat, Shehbaz Sharif, as police searched his home for dozens of terrorism suspects he was allegedly harboring.
Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been clashing with the government of his successor, Shehbaz Sharif, as he tries to return to power while dodging about a hundred corruption investigations, said on Wednesday he expects to be arrested again.
Imran Khan, the former Pakistani prime minister who is running for another term despite dozens of corruption cases pending against him, called for nationwide protests on Saturday night.
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) ruled on Friday that former prime minister Imran Khan must be released on bail for two weeks. The grant of bail came a day after Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled that Khan’s violent arrest by a paramilitary police unit on the grounds of the IHC was illegal.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday morning, two days after he was arrested in a paramilitary operation at a court in Islamabad.
Pakistanis living in North America held rallies on Tuesday to protest the arrest of former prime minister and current candidate Imran Khan in Islamabad, with an especially large demonstration held in Toronto.
Journalists in Pakistan reported at least six deaths and ongoing, massive destruction of property nationwide on Wednesday in nearly every major city following the arrest of radical Islamist former Prime Minister Imran Khan the day before.
Islamist former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested outside the High Court in Islamabad on Tuesday.
Maulana Nigar Alam, a 40-year-old Muslim cleric and religious scholar, was beaten to death by a Muslim mob on Sunday in the northwestern village of Sawaldher near the Afghan border.
The Taliban terrorist organization, which currently functions as the uncontested government of Afghanistan, agreed this weekend to join communist China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
A recently published U.S. State Department grant opportunity, accepting applications through Wednesday, offers tens of thousands of dollars to English teachers in Pakistan who specialize in teaching “transgender youth,” in addition to other marginalized communities such as Afghan refugees.
Multiple reports in the past week, including on the state news site Ukrinform, claimed that Pakistan is finalizing deals with Ukraine to both purchase Ukrainian military hardware and provide Kyiv with air-defense systems.
A Chinese man arrested for blasphemy against Islam in Pakistan two weeks ago was released on bail on Friday — a very unusual arrangement in Pakistan, where people accused of blasphemy are almost never released before trial for fear of enraging Muslim lynch mobs.
The Pakistani Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered snap elections to proceed in the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, overriding efforts by the administration of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to delay the votes until October.
Britain’s Labour Party is afraid of addressing Muslim child rape gangs for fear of being labelled racist, Suella Braverman has claimed.
The U.S. State Department’s second Summit for Democracy, running from Tuesday to Thursday this week, was a disappointing affair — snubbed outright by Pakistan and mocked by the rising authoritarian powers of China and Russia.
The victim of a Muslim child rape gang has been awarded a six-figure sum by a British court after suing one of her attackers.
