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ISLAMABAD —  At least 47 people were killed and 66 injured in southwestern Pakistan Friday when a suspected suicide bomb blast ripped through a religious procession. The attack near a mosque in Mastung, a volatile district in Baluchistan province, targeted a rally of Muslim devotees marking the birthday of ...

At least 30 people were injured when a freight train and a passenger train collided in eastern Pakistan early Sunday. Authorities say an investigation has been launched and that one train’s driver, his assistant and two other workers have been suspended following the collision. Railway official Shahid Aziz said ...

Investigators scoured the wreckage on Monday of a weekend train derailment that killed at least 34 people, the latest deadly crash to hit Pakistan's antiquated railway network. More than 1,000 passengers were aboard the Hazara Express when it came off the tracks in a flat, rural part of Sindh ...

At least 13 people were killed across Afghanistan and Pakistan by a powerful earthquake that struck northeast Afghanistan Tuesday. The U.S. Geological Survey says the 6.5 magnitude quake struck about 40 kilometers southeast of the town of Jurn in the mountainous Hindukush region, at a depth of 118 kilometers. ...

ISLAMABAD —  A magnitude 6.5 earthquake rattled much of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday, sending panicked residents fleeing from homes and offices and frightening people even in remote villages. At least nine people died. More than 100 people were brought to hospitals in the Swat valley region of Pakistan's ...

UNITED NATIONS —  At United Nations meetings Wednesday to mark International Women’s Day, there was much talk but no discernible action on advancing and protecting women’s rights. A meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Afghanistan offered verbal support to Afghan women, who are among the most oppressed in ...

srinagar, india —  For decades, India has tried to thwart Pakistan in a protracted dispute over Kashmir, the achingly beautiful Himalayan territory claimed by both countries but divided between them. That relentless competition made Pakistan always the focus of New Delhi’s foreign policy. But in the last two years, ...

ISLAMABAD —  At least 22 people, including 10 children, died in a popular mountain resort town in Pakistan after being stuck in their vehicles overnight during a heavy snowstorm as temperatures plummeted, officials said Saturday. Most of the victims died of hypothermia, officials said. Among them was an Islamabad ...

KARACHI, PAKISTAN —  At least 10 people were killed and 11 others injured in an explosion Saturday at a Karachi bank branch constructed on a sewage drain in the city's industrial area, police said.The cause of the blast, at a branch of Pakistan's largest bank, Habib Bank Limited, could ...

Officials say at least 23 people have died and more than 40 others were injured when a bus overturned in southwestern Pakistan and fell into a ravine.   The accident happened Friday in the Khuzdar district of Balochistan province.   The Associated Press reports that a passenger said they had cautioned the driver several times to drive more carefully.   The passengers ...