Pakistan’s first transgender news anchor hopes her rise will be a source of hope for her long-oppressed community.
Gunmen riding on a motorcycle have shot and killed a transgender woman and her friend in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, police say.
Protesters marched in the northwestern Pakistani city of Bannu on March 26 to demand the release of fellow activists detained over the past week.
Pakistani police have arrested 12 people for allegedly ordering a man to rape a girl in revenge for the rape of his sister.
Pakistan defended its record on nuclear non-proliferation after the United States imposed sanctions on seven Pakistani companies over suspicions that they have engaged in nuclear trade.
Afghanistan captured a seven-wicket victory over the West Indies to win the cricket World Cup qualifying tournament in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Manzoor Pashteen is leading a new Pashtun movement in Pakistan, where many are comparing him to a revered leader in the nonviolence movement during the British Raj in the 20th century.
A Pakistani court has acquitted 20 people of charges that they were part of a lynch mob who burned alive a Christian couple that had been falsely accused of blasphemy in 2014.
More than 700 reports of disappearances have been received by the United Nations from Pakistan, and hundreds more have been reported to Pakistani authorities, but nobody has ever been held accountable for an enforced disappearance in the country, Amnesty International says.
Five members of an Indian family were killed and two wounded by Pakistani shelling in disputed Kashmir on March 18.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi that his country should work more closely with the United States and do more to defeat the Taliban and other militants, the White House said.
Pakistan is doing the "bare minimum" needed to address U.S. demands that it stop the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network from operating within its borders, a senior U.S. official has said.
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