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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s transgender community has gotten its first ride-sharing service in the latest effort to https://apnews.com/article/religion-pakistan-discrimination-gay-rights-islam-cb43f5b7071aef208d773b1d67ca4460, the business' founder said on Wednesday. The new ride-share was launched [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Millions of people in Pakistan continue to live along the path of floodwaters, showing neither people nor the government have learned any lessons from the 2022 devastating [...]

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A separatist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for the https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-baluchistan-violence-explainer-ec59317765a0aa49a5434097a5e9cb48 in Pakistan's Balochistan and warned that “even more intense and widespread' attacks were coming, while the prime [...]

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen in southwestern https://apnews.com/hub/pakistan killed at least 38 people in three separate attacks on Monday, officials said, while the military said security forces killed 21 insurgents, [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Two separate bus crashes hours apart in Pakistan on Sunday left at least 36 people dead and dozens more injured, officials said. The first happened when a [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan brought home Friday the bodies of https://apnews.com/video/automotive-accidents-iran-pakistan-iraq-tehran-2b569073623c4a91bc7c77f630defbf2 while heading to Iraq for a pilgrimage. A Pakistani military aircraft also flew back 23 pilgrims injured in the [...]

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants hurled hand grenades at a house and a store selling Pakistani national flags in the restive southwestern Baluchistan province on Tuesday, killing three people [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's former spy chief has been arrested and will be court-martialed, the country's military announced Monday without disclosing charges against the retired army general implicated in a [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Protests over skyrocketing power bills shut down a major road into Pakistan's capital on Monday as some 3,000 supporters of a major Islamist party continued a sit-in […]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The bodies of four Pakistanis killed in an https://apnews.com/article/oman-mosque-shooting-e6d78182f9739c2eb716c980c3fa6547 in Oman this week have been repatriated and handed to their families, officials said Friday. Relatives of the [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's government plans to ban the party of https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-imran-khan-wife-bibi-graft-81c07a9d35fbe8d942abb9347bb9acb3 former Prime Minister Imran Khan on charges of illegally receiving funds from abroad and involvement in https://apnews.com/article/imran-khan-pakistan-arrest-unrest-9132cc405262531fc472c3f4eb1ea07e following [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court on Saturday overturned the convictions and seven-year sentences of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, but officials quickly moved to prevent his [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Authorities in Pakistan on Tuesday urged people to stay indoors as the country is hit by an extreme heat wave that threatens to bring dangerously high temperatures [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military on Tuesday said https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-suicide-bombing-chinese-killed-1d034ad3f21143bd5f2e8ffdb7c23265 that killed five Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver in March was planned in neighboring Afghanistan and that the bomber was [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi met with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday soon after arriving in the capital, https://apnews.com/hub/islamabad, for a three-day visit, officials said. The [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-x-twitter-disruption-1f782388be6445de8e592ba1c71d045a, saying on Friday that it violates citizens' right to speech and [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Lightning and heavy rains have killed at least 36 people, mostly farmers, across Pakistan in the past three days, officials said Monday, as authorities in the country's [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A delegation from Pakistan's Ministry of Commerce arrived in Kabul on Monday to meet its Afghan counterparts to discuss how to improve trade relations, after tensions have [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund reached a preliminary agreement for the release of $1.1 billion from a $3 billion bailout following dayslong talks in Islamabad, the [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani airstrikes targeted multiple suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban inside neighboring Afghanistan early on Monday, killing at least eight people and drawing return fire from the [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Lawmakers in Pakistan’s National Assembly on Sunday elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister for the second time as allies of imprisoned former premier Imran [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's National Assembly swore in newly elected members on Thursday in a chaotic scene, as allies of jailed former Premier Imran Khan protested what they claim was [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife pleaded not guilty Tuesday in a graft case alleging they accepted a gift of land from a [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s imprisoned https://apnews.com/hub/imran-khan is writing a letter to the International Monetary Fund urging it to link any talks with Islamabad to an audit of the country's https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-election-takeaways-c6b70984767161ae17b12778452258f9, [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The party of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and its allies announced late Tuesday that they will jointly form a coalition government, ending the uncertainty since [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's caretaker prime minister on Monday defended https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-elections-international-criticism-7c49e2374041ef6a8b626531f71dd6ae in announcing the results of https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-election-explainer-khan-sharif-089949a2f225c272aba2ba3000d7df5c saying authorities took only 36 hours to count over 60 million votes while [...]

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The former prime minister of Pakistan expected his party would claim an easy victory in the country’s parliamentary elections, sending him to the top job for [...]

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed confidence his party would win https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-elections-key-players-1a598d0e6b897f4c90deff495b6c09e7 Thursday, a vote that has been marred by violence and controversy, especially a [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nation's top human rights body warned Tuesday of a “pattern of harassment” against members of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party ahead of this [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was found guilty of corruption on Wednesday and sentenced to 14 years, yet another blow to the imprisoned populist leader days [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and one of his party deputies to 10 years in prison each, after finding them guilty [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and Iran on Monday agreed to work together to improve security cooperation in the wake of deadly https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-iran-air-force-strikes-638f2ee4ccfb1a56d26e8f28f7e91699 earlier this month that killed at least 11 [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan launched airstrikes against alleged militant hideouts inside Iran on Thursday, killing at least nine people as it retaliated for a similar attack days earlier by Iran [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan recalled its ambassador to Tehran on Wednesday, a day after https://apnews.com/article/iran-iraq-militant-bases-attack-05c7530d66fb05dd6f2868527003ba2d on Pakistan that it claimed targeted bases for a militant Sunni separatist group. Islamabad angrily [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Iran launched attacks Tuesday in Pakistan targeting what it described as bases for the militant group Jaish al-Adl, potentially further raising tensions in a Middle East already [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s independent human rights commission said Monday there is little chance of free and fair parliamentary elections in the country next month because of “pre-poll rigging.” It [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police Monday freed 290 Baloch activists who were arrested when they attempted to hold a protest last week in the capital, Islamabad. Their release came days [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's former premier Imran Khan will run in upcoming parliamentary elections from prison, his party said Wednesday, which legal experts said is possible while his appeal of [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court Tuesday ordered a public trial in prison of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on charges of https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-imran-khan-indictment-official-secrets-a3f267ef56991ec99f1f3e07264f4d2c his lawyer said. The popular opposition politician [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An international media watchdog is urging Pakistan not to deport more than 200 Afghan journalists who fled their homeland after the Taliban regained control in August 2021 [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s election oversight body on Thursday postponed the country's upcoming parliament elections for the second time, saying the vote — originally expected in November and https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-parliamentary-elections-january-imran-khan-census-d955721b49fdcb15243e7cee322a0e52 — [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani security forces on Wednesday rounded up, detained and deported dozens of Afghans who were living in the country illegally, after a government-set deadline for them to [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan is setting up deportation centers for migrants who are in the country illegally, including an estimated https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-afghans-illegal-migrants-deportation-2c6beee6f73db4678d127cc4752729e4, officials said Thursday. It's the latest development in https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-illegal-immigrants-afghans-crackdown-deadline-bb00216d688b1c70d1438d5c28f4031a [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court on Monday indicted Imran Khan on charges of revealing official secrets https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-pakistan-religion-elections-c01ccef08677bf8579bd7cdfe01a3d24 in another dramatic move against the former prime minister who could now [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's thrice-elected former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned home Saturday on a chartered plane from Dubai, ending four years of self-imposed exile in London as he seeks [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A group of former U.S. diplomats and representatives of resettlement organizations asked Pakistan not to deport thousands of Afghans who have been waiting for U.S. visas under [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday sought protection from arrest from a court in Islamabad ahead of his planned return to the country, his attorney [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan will carry out its recently announced plans to deport all illegal immigrants, including 1.7 million Afghans, in a “phased and orderly manner,” the foreign ministry said [...]

Byline: MUNIR AHMED; ASSOCIATED PRESS ISLAMABAD -- Saudi Arabia has deposited US$2-billion into Pakistan's central bank, the government said Tuesday, a much-needed financial boost ahead of a critical meeting of [...]

Byline: MUNIR AHMED, RIAZAT BUTT; ASSOCIATED PRESS ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan was arrested and dragged from court Tuesday as he appeared to face charges in multiple [...]