The wife of ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has won a parliament seat in a closely watched by-election caused when Sharif stepped down in July, unofficial results suggest.
Voters in the Pakistani city of Lahore are heading to the polls for a closely watched by-election caused when former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif stepped down in July.
Pakistani officials say a roadside bomb blast has killed a government administrator and six tribal police officers in a tribal area on the border with Afghanistan.
Officials in Pakistan have reopened the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan, one day after a grenade attack injured more than a dozen people.
A regional official in Pakistan says a suspected U.S. drone strike targeting a house used by militants has killed three people in the northwest of the country.
Pakistan's Supreme Court has rejected petitions for a review of a decision it made on July 28 that disqualified former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office over allegations of corruption.
The international medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says the government of Pakistan is forcing it to pull out of a violence-plagued northwestern tribal region after a 14-year presence.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on September 13 held its first hearing in a review of a decision that removed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office over allegations of corruption.
Play has concluded in a cricket match conducted under heavy security in Lahore, the first top-level competition held in Pakistan since a terror attack in 2009 scared off the sport's top teams.
Pakistani police are searching for some 30 members of a tribal council who ordered a teenage couple to be electrocuted by their families as a so-called "honor killing" after they eloped.
Police in Pakistan say gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on a Shi'ite family in southwestern province of Balochistan overnight -- killing four people, including a child.
Amid extreme levels of security, Pakistan is set to reenter the world of international cricket, hosting world-class competition for the first time since a deadly terror attack in 2009 scared off the sport’s top teams.
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