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The Taliban regime responded angrily to Pakistani airstrikes against targets in Afghanistan on Friday, denouncing the attacks as violations of Afghanistan’s territorial integrity and warning of “dire consequences” if such operations continue.

Tens of thousands of people gathered on Sunday night across dozens of Pakistani cities to protest against the removal of Imran Khan from the office of Pakistan’s prime minister through a “no confidence” vote earlier Sunday, with “more than 20,000 people” taking to the streets of the southern port city of Karachi, Al Jazeera reported.

Chinese state media outlets insisted on Sunday that the ouster of radical Islamist Prime Minister Imran Khan in neighboring Pakistan – a close friend and ally of the Communist Party – would have no effect on bilateral ties.

The Parliament of Pakistan speedily elected Shehbaz Sharif, younger brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, to replace the ousted Imran Khan on Monday.

Pakistan’s predominantly Christian sewage workers regularly risk their lives to unclog sewers with their bare hands while enduring daily public discrimination for partaking in the dangerous labor, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Wednesday.

The government of Russia complained in anticipation of a vote to expel it on Thursday that its potential exit from the United Nations Human Rights Council would “discredit” the body and erode public “trust” in it, despite some of the world’s worst human rights violators remaining on the Council even with Russia’s ouster.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday halted a planned “no-confidence” vote against him by Pakistan’s National Assembly, the Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported, noting the action took place shortly before Khan additionally moved to dissolve Pakistan’s parliament.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that China supports “Islamic countries using Islamic wisdom to solve contemporary hotspot issues” during a meeting in Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad on Thursday.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi landed in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday to meet with senior Taliban officials, a sign of approval that Taliban leaders expressed hope would yield significant economic benefits to them.

A child sexual abuse whistleblower claims that police tried to discourage her from reporting grooming gang activity in Rotherham.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Islamabad on Tuesday for the opening of this year’s Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting.

The Islamist government of Pakistan, through its envoy at the United Nations, claimed this weekend it was ready to recognize the Taliban jihadist organization as the government of Afghanistan “when there’s a consensus” globally that the Taliban is legitimate.

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Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday rejected as “incomplete and insufficient” India’s explanation for its firing of an unarmed missile into its neighbour’s territory last week, which New Delhi said was an “accident.”

The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution to declare March 15 the “International Day to Combat Islamophobia.”

India on Friday officially confirmed that one of its missiles was launched into the territory of its rival Pakistan. India said the launch was “accidental” and “deeply regrettable.” Pakistan did not accept the apology, denouncing the launch as a “flagrant” offense that should be investigated with “urgency, sensitivity, and alarm.”

India’s Defense Ministry said on Friday it accidentally fired a missile into neighboring Pakistan on Wednesday due to a “technical malfunction.”

A consortium of international journalists began reporting this weekend on the contents of a massive data leak from Credit Suisse that exposed 18,000 formerly secret bank accounts valued at over $100 billion in total.

A Pakistani court acquitted Muhammad Waseem on Monday for the 2016 “honor killing” of his sister, a social media celebrity named Qandeel Baloch, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

A Muslim mob stoned to death a 41-year-old man accused of blasphemy in Pakistan Saturday evening, before hanging his body from a tree.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed Pakistan’s “support for China on … Xinjiang” during a meeting with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Sunday, the Hindustan Times reported on Monday.

Abdallah bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden — the former leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group — allegedly traveled to Afghanistan in October 2021 to meet with the Taliban, India Today reported on Sunday citing a United Nations (U.N.) report published February 3.

Unknown gunmen opened fire on three Christian priests as they exited church in their car in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar Sunday, leaving one dead and one wounded.

A trial court in northern Pakistan’s Rawalpindi city sentenced a 26-year-old Muslim woman to death on Wednesday for blasphemy against Islam after finding her guilty of “sharing images deemed to be insulting to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad and one of his wives.”

At least 22 people died in an icy traffic jam near Muree, Pakistan, from Friday to Saturday after tens of thousands of cars became trapped on snowy roads while clamoring to enter the mountain resort town during a blizzard, Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reported on Sunday.

British lawmaker Alexander Stafford MP has called for Lord Ahmed of Rotherham to be stripped of his title, calling the paedophile’s peerage “an insult to his victims”.

Former Labour peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham has been found guilty of a count of buggery against a boy under 11 and attempting to rape a young girl twice in the 1970s.

A Pakistani district judge sentenced Zafar Bhatti, Pakistan’s longest-serving blasphemy convict, to death on Monday, the British Asian Christian Association reported on Tuesday.

Police in Rotherham, where the authorities failed to tackle South Asian heritage “grooming” gangs due to political correctness for years, failed to record most abusers’ ethnicity in the year to December 2019.

A mob of hundreds of Muslim men lynched a Sri Lankan factory manager in eastern Pakistan’s Sialkot district on Friday by beating him to death and then burning his body after a rumor emerged in Sialkot the man had allegedly committed “blasphemy” against Islam, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported this weekend.

Pakistan’s Islamic Council of Ideology repealed an anti-rape law clause allowing chemical castration as a possible punishment for convicted rapists on Friday, just two days after the nation’s parliament enacted the law introducing the penalty, Voice of America (VOA) reported.

Pakistan’s parliament passed a bill on Wednesday introducing chemical castration as a possible punishment for serial rapists in the country, Dawn.com reported.

India said Tuesday it has deployed 5,000 extra troops to Kashmir — an already heavily militarized region — in an effort to quell ongoing violence in the disputed territory, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

Indian official Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister for the state of Uttar Pradesh, warned on Monday that India would launch airstrikes against the Taliban if it makes a move against Indian territory.

The leaders of Pakistan and China on Tuesday urged the international community to swiftly send humanitarian and economic aid to Afghanistan, backing a similar U.N. call made just 24-hours earlier.

An Indian diplomat’s microphone conspicuously cut out during a United Nations (U.N.) transport conference in Beijing last week just as the envoy began to criticize China’s infrastructure-building Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Wednesday.