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Islamabad’s High Court overturned a corruption conviction for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Wednesday, a decision that puts him closer to being able to run for elections in February. Sharif is attempting to launch a political comeback after returning to Pakistan last month, following four years of self-imposed exile ...

Islamabad —  Pakistan's caretaker prime minister has said his country did not sell weapons for use by Ukraine in its war with Russia, calling reports of such sales a "confusion." In an exclusive interview with VOA, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said Pakistan did not sell arms to the U.S. for Ukraine. ...

Islamabad —  As Pakistan conducts a nationwide crackdown to curb smuggling of the dollar and other commodities outside the country, a senior government minister acknowledged security forces are involved in the illegal activity. Pakistan's caretaker government launched a nationwide crackdown last month to curb the illegal flight of the ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan —  In a small workshop in the bustling northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, a dozen Afghan women sit watching a teacher show them how to make clothes on a sewing machine. The skills center was set up last year by Peshawar resident Mahra Basheer, 37, after seeing ...

islamabad —  On a hot and humid Friday this month in Shahdara Town, a congested neighborhood in Pakistan’s second most populous city, Lahore, mosques began blaring calls for Muslims to demolish an Ahmadi place of worship. Hours earlier, some local clerics had called the police demanding action against the ...

Islamabad —  Pakistan's caretaker prime minister, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, has written a letter to his Taliban counterpart in Afghanistan, stressing the need to address the security and economic challenges facing both countries. Kakar's letter to Taliban Prime Minister Mullah Hasan Akhund comes amid persistent tensions over Islamabad's complaints that Kabul ...

Islamabad —  A special court in Pakistan extended former prime minister Imran Khan's jail custody for two weeks Wednesday in connection with a lawsuit accusing him of leaking a classified diplomatic communication with the United States to the public. Khan, who rejects any wrongdoing, is being tried behind closed ...

Islamabad —  Police in Muslim-majority Pakistan confirmed Monday that a leader of a local Christian congregation was shot and wounded in an eastern district where mob-led attacks on a Christian neighborhood burned around two dozen churches and scores of homes last month. The victim, identified as Pastor Vicky, told ...

People across Pakistan are hailing local zipline expert and volunteer rescuer Sahib Khan for saving school children trapped in a cable car over a ravine in the mountainous Allai valley region of northern Pakistan. Over generations, Sahib Khan's family has built a reputation as lifesavers. Ihsan Muhammad Khan reports ...

Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, is holding an emergency ministers’ meeting Sunday to discuss the high electricity bills that have caused some people to take to the street in protest. “In the meeting, a briefing will be taken from the ministry of power and distribution companies and consultations ...