At least 23 people have died and anger among residents is rising after days of torrential downpours and widespread flooding have wrought chaos in the city. Source link
Pakistan has blocked Tinder, Grindr and three other dating apps for not adhering to local laws, its latest move to curb online platforms deemed to be disseminating "immoral content". Pakistan, the second-largest Muslim-majority country in the world after Indonesia, is an Islamic nation where extra-marital relationships and homosexuality are ...
Pakistan has one of the worst records in the world for enforced disappearances. Rights groups say thousands of political activists and human rights workers have been taken against their will and held in secret. Al Jazeera has spoken to a woman whose father was seized by armed men last ...
A court in Pakistan has sentenced to prison three leaders of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an organisation accused by India and the United States of masterminding the 2008 attack in Mumbai. The sentencing on Saturday, which was not related to the Mumbai attack itself, came ahead of a September deadline for Pakistan ...
Pakistan has urged the Taliban to start talks soon with the Afghan government to end decades of conflict, telling visiting officials of the group that an intra-Afghan dialogue could help ensure regional stability. The meeting between Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and a Taliban delegation on Tuesday came ...
Pakistan has issued sweeping financial sanctions against Afghanistan's Taliban, just as the rebel group is in the middle of a United States-led peace process in the neighbouring country. The orders, which were made public late on Friday, identified dozens of individuals, including the Taliban's chief peace negotiator Mullah Abdul ...
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said his country will not recognise Israel until there is a Palestinian state acceptable to the Palestinians. In an interview with local broadcaster Dunya News, Khan said on Tuesday Islamabad would not follow suit in recognising Israel as a state, in a thinly ...
The Pakistan Taliban has brought two splinter groups back into its fold, it announced in a statement, days after the army said nationwide operations against armed groups had brought "hard-earned success". The Pakistan Taliban, fighting to overthrow the government, is an umbrella of Sunni armed groups called Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), ...