Pakistan

An ally of former Pakistan premier Imran Khan was arrested and a TV channel seen to be close to his party has been pulled off air for allegedly broadcasting "seditious" content against the South Asian country's powerful army. Pakistan's…

As many as 30 villages submerged in Sindh province in Pakistan after flash floods from Balochistan entered the province, taking the total number of drowned villages in the hilly region to 50, local media reported. As torrential rains and…

Year after year in Kausar Niazi Colony, a slum in the port city of Karachi, Pakistan, Murtaza Hussain and his neighbors watched as monsoon rains flooded into their homes, damaging furniture, televisions and other precious valuables. "It…

Voting is under way in Pakistan's most populous province of Punjab on Sunday (July 17) for several by-elections that are a litmus test for Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's government after Imran Khan was ousted in April following a…

Pakistanis have been urged to drink less tea to keep the economy afloat, as the world's largest tea importer grapples with soaring inflation and a fast-depreciating rupee. The country's Federal Minister for Planning and Development,…

When the unseasonably heavy rains flooded the fields, and then the equally unseasonable heat shriveled the seeds, it did not only slash Ranjit Singh's wheat harvest by nearly half. It put him, and nearly all the other households in his…

Tour guide Adil Lahorei was told by his clients from Eastern Europe that it was time to head north immediately as temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius in the capital city of Punjab state. In May, Pakistan witnessed its hottest April in 61…

A deadly cholera outbreak linked to contaminated drinking water has infected thousands of people in central Pakistan as the country grapples with a water crisis exacerbated by a brutal heat wave in South Asia. Temperatures in parts of…

Hundreds in Sri Lanka attend the funeral of Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, who was killed by a mob in Sialkot, Pakistan. Mourners who gathered for the funeral of Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, a Sri Lankan man lynched by a mob in Pakistan…

The death toll from Friday’s passenger aircraft crash in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi has been confirmed at 97 with two survivors, while no fatalities were reported from the dense residential neighbourhood where the aircraft…