Umar's resignation has turned up the pressure on Prime Minister Imran Khan, who's facing growing outrage over spiraling consumer goods prices.
Hostility toward journalists often expressed by political leaders is putting media at risk globally, the watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in its annual report published on April 18.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit China next week to meet its leaders and deliver a keynote speech at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing.
Fourteen people have been killed after unidentified attackers ambushed a bus in southwestern Pakistan, officials said.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned what it calls the "trumped-up charges" against a Pakistani journalist.
A raid by security forces on a militant hideout in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar has triggered a 17-hour firefight in which a police officer and at least six suspected militants were killed.
A Pakistani human rights watchdog has urged the mainly Muslim country to endorse and implement measures to protect its religious minorities, which it says continue to face "harassment, arrest, or even death."
Huge crowds gathered for a rally in the Pakistan's Pashtun-dominated tribal region on April 14 to denounce what they said were human rights abuses and "enforced disappearances" by state security forces.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it will send a team to Pakistan later this month to continue negotiations over a support package, amid efforts by the South Asian country to deflect an economic crisis.
Members of a pagan community in Pakistan see an existential threat to their ancient culture as influence from the sea of Islam surrounding them encroaches.
Members of Pakistan's Shi'ite ethnic Hazara minority have held a sit-in protest in the southwestern city of Quetta for a third consecutive day, following a deadly suicide bombing that appeared to target the community.
At least 18 people were killed and 48 injured in a car bombing at an outdoor market in the city of Quetta in southwest Pakistan
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