A major border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan remained closed on October 15 following clashes between the two countries’ security forces, leaving hundreds of people and vehicles stranded on both sides.
Unofficial by-election results show that the ruling Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf party (PTI) and the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) each appear to have won four seats in the lower house of parliament.
Thai golfer Tirawat Kaewsiribandit has won the first international golf event to be held in Pakistan in 11 years.
Pakistani voters headed to the polls on October 14 to elect 11 members of the lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, and fill 24 seats in provincial assemblies.
Pakistan is holding parliamentary and provincial by-elections in a total of 35 constituencies on October 14.
Relatives of a Christian mother who faces becoming the first person to be executed for blasphemy in Pakistan have expressed hope that the Supreme Court will set her free.
Pakistan has released a leading campaigner for women's rights and Pashtun rights after detaining her for nearly nine hours in Islamabad, activists said.
Pakistan has fired a senior judge who accused the country's powerful spy agency of manipulating elections in July.
A primary school in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province is so overcrowded and underfunded that most students attend classes while sitting in the dirt of an empty lot.
Amnesty International has urged Pakistan to release a Pashtun rights activist who was detained immediately after her arrival in the country.
The head of the International Monetary Fund said she is sending a team to Pakistan in the coming weeks after the government requested emergency bailout loans.
Opposition lawmakers staged a sit-in outside the parliament building in Islamabad, to protest against the decision by the new Pakistani government to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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