Pakistan

Pakistan to hold national election in January, not November

ISLAMABAD, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Election Commission of Pakistan on Thursday announced that the national election will be held in last week on January, 2024 instead of in November. The…

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Suicide bomb at political rally in Pakistan kills more than 40

By Jibran Ahmad and Saud Mehsud More than 130 injured in blast, police say Pakistan PM calls bombing an attack on democratic system Pakistani Taliban condemn bombing in statement DERA…

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Pakistan expects heavy monsoon rain raising risk of floods

ISLAMABAD, July 3 (Reuters) - Heavy monsoon rain is expected to hit Pakistan on Monday and last for several days, the weather office said, raising the risk of flooding in…

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Pakistan clinches crucial $3 billion IMF bailout

Deal is more than Pakistan's expectations Stand-by arrangement is spread over nine months Pakistan economy was on the brink of default IMF points out power sector's "acute" conditions IMF wants…

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Pakistan’s economic meltdown spurs more people to risk lives to reach Europe

By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam KHUIRATTA, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, June 23 (Reuters) - Hameed Iqbal Bhatti had prospered over two decades working in Saudi Arabia, but after returning to Pakistan three years…

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Fourteen suspects arrested in Pakistan over Greece boat disaster

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, June 19 (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities have arrested 14 people in connection with the alleged trafficking of several migrants who drowned last week after their overloaded boat capsized…

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Seven die as cyclone barrels towards western India, Pakistan

Four boys drowned in rough seas off the western Indian financial hub of Mumbai on Tuesday as India and Pakistan began evacuating people from coastal areas, two days before a cyclone is expected…

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Pakistan economy to slow significantly with high inflation, central bank says

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD, May 19 (Reuters) - Pakistan's central bank said on Friday GDP growth was likely to remain significantly lower this year than the previous year, with elevated…

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Pakistan PM orders arrest of those involved in violence

By Ariba Shahid KARACHI, Pakistan, May 13 (Reuters) - Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday gave authorities 72 hours to identify and arrest all those involved in violent acts after former…

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Former Pakistan PM Khan appears in court as supporters clash with police

ISLAMABAD, May 12 (Reuters) - Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived at an Islamabad court on Friday under heavy security cover as his supporters clashed with police elsewhere in…

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What is the corruption case against Pakistan’s Khan?

By Asif Shahzad May 10 (Reuters) - Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested on Tuesday by an anti-graft agency on corruption charges. Government officials alleged that Khan and…

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Tension in Pakistan as supporters of ex-PM Khan plan march to capital to protest arrest

ISLAMABAD, May 10 (Reuters) - Supporters of Imran Khan were planning to march to Islamabad on Wednesday where the former Pakistan prime minister is in custody in a corruption case,…

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Pakistan confirms its first case of mpox

KARACHI, Pakistan, April 26 (Reuters) - The first case of mpox in Pakistan has been confirmed by the National Institute of Health in the capital Islamabad. A traveler who recently…

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Explosions at Pakistani counter-terrorism office kill eight

Two explosions rocked a counter-terrorism office in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least eight people, police said, and wounding several others. Provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat said it was…

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Pakistani professionals struggle with higher costs as economy teeters

By Ariba Shahid KARACHI, (Reuters) - Naureen Ahsan earns more than twice the average wage in Pakistan, but the school administrator says she has no choice but to homeschool her…

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UPDATED: Pakistan police postpone arrest of ex-PM Imran Khan, easing unrest

By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan, March 15 (Reuters) - A Pakistan court ordered police on Wednesday to suspend an operation to arrest former Prime Minister Imran Khan, bringing a halt…

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Pakistani police serve arrest warrants to former PM Imran Khan

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police served arrest warrants to former prime minister Imran Khan to ensure his appearance in court on charges of misusing his office to sell state…

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Three Islamists, two others killed in storming of Karachi police station

KARACHI, Pakistan, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Islamists stormed a police station in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday, killing two people in a hail of gunfire and a series of loud explosions before they themselves…

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Mob storms Pakistani police station, lynches man accused of blasphemy

By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan, Feb 11 (Reuters) - A mob in eastern Pakistan stormed a police station on Saturday and lynched a man under custody and accused of blasphemy,…

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Pakistan former President Pervez Musharraf dies in Dubai

Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf has died after a prolonged illness at a hospital in Dubai, Pakistani local media reported on Sunday. Musharraf, 79, died in hospital after a long…

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Suspects arrested over Pakistan mosque blast, police focus on how bomber got in

By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Police investigating a suicide bombing that killed more than 100 people at a Pakistan mosque said on Tuesday that several people…

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Pakistan mosque blast death toll reaches 87

The death toll in the suicide bombing that tore through a mosque in Pakistan rose to 87 on Tuesday, a hospital official said, a day after the one of the…

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Suicide bombing at mosque in Pakistan kills 32, targeted police

A suicide bombing at a crowded mosque in Pakistan's Peshawar killed at least 32 people on Monday, the latest attack targeting police in this northwestern city where Islamist militants remain active.…

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Bus crash in southern Pakistan kills at least 41

(Reuters) -More than 40 people were killed after a bus fell into a ravine and caught fire in the southern Pakistani province of Balochistan on Sunday, officials said. Forty-one bodies…

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Pakistan suffers major power outage after grid failure

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Pakistan suffered nationwide power outages on Monday morning due to a "major breakdown" of the national grid, the power ministry said, with…

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Pakistan PM Sharif makes conditional talks offer to arch-rival India

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has made a conditional offer to his Indian counterpart to open talks on all outstanding issues between them, including disputed Kashmir, which…

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UN chief calls for ‘massive investments’ for Pakistan recovery

GENEVA, Jan 9 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for massive support to help Pakistan with a $16 billion rebuilding effort following devastating floods, saying the country…

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Taliban militants in Pakistan end ceasefire with government

Taliban militants in Pakistan will no longer abide by a months-long ceasefire with the Pakistani government, a spokesman for the militant group said on Monday. The Afghan Taliban have been…

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Photo Story: Money Heist-inspired cafe in Peshawar, Pakistan

A Bella Ciao Cafe staff, dressed up in the iconic red jumpsuit and Savlador Dali mask worn by the robbers in the Netflix series Money Heist (La Casa de Papel),…

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Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan’s party to hold protests after ‘assassination attempt’

WAZIRABAD, Pakistan, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The party of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was shot and injured in an apparent assassination attempt, said country-wide protests would be…

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UPDATED: Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan wounded in ‘clear assassination’ attempt

LAHORE, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was shot in the shin on Thursday when his anti-government protest convoy came under attackin the east of the…

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Malaria and diseases spreading fast in flood-hit Pakistan

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - The death toll from malaria and other diseases tearing through Pakistan's flood-ravaged regions reached 324, authorities said, and actress Angelina Jolie said she feared many people…

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Fear Pakistan flood-borne diseases could get ‘out of control’

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least nine more people have died from water-borne diseases in flood-hit areas of Pakistan, officials said, as actress Angelina Jolie made a surprise visit to…

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Pakistan floods’ death toll nears 1,500

ISLAMABAD, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Pakistan's unprecedented floods, which have submerged huge swathes of the South Asian nation, have killed nearly 1,500 people, data showed on Thursday, as authorities looked…

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Pakistan races to keep floodwaters out of power station that supplies millions

DADU, Pakistan, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Authorities in Pakistan are scrambling to protect a vital power station supplying electricity to millions of people against a growing threat of flooding, officials…

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Pakistanis throw up barriers against rising floodwaters; 12 more die

BHAN SYEDABAD, Pakistan, Sept 8 (Reuters) - People were building barriers in some parts of Pakistan on Thursday to hold back rising waters that have engulfed nearly a third of…

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Pakistan looks ‘like a sea’ after floods, PM says, as 18 more die

SEHWAN, Pakistan, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Parts of Pakistan seemed "like a sea", Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday, after visiting some of the flood-hit areas that cover as…

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Pakistan struggles to avert danger as floods rise, death toll tops 1,300

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities are struggling to prevent the country's biggest lake bursting its banks and inundating nearby towns after unprecedented flooding, while the disaster management agency…

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South Pakistan braces for yet more flooding as waters flow down from north

DADU, Pakistan (Reuters) - Southern Pakistan braced for yet more flooding as a surge of water flowed down the Indus river, threatening further devastation in a country already a third…

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Cataclysmic floods in Pakistan kill 1,100, including 380 children

CHARSADDA, Pakistan, (Reuters) - Torrential rains and flooding have submerged a third of Pakistan and killed more than 1,100 people, including 380 children as the United Nations appealed for aid…

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Pakistan floods have affected over 30 million people

Historic monsoon rains and flooding in Pakistan have affected more than 30 million people over the last few weeks, the country's climate change minister said, calling the situation a "climate-induced…

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Pakistan police charge ex-PM Imran Khan under terrorism act

ISLAMABAD, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Hundreds of supporters of Pakistan's former prime minister, Imran Khan, gathered on Monday outside his hilltop mansion in the capital, vowing to prevent his arrest…

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Flash floods kill 550 in Pakistan in heaviest rains in decades

ISLAMABAD, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished…

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Flooding in Pakistan kills dozens as heavy monsoon rains lash the country

Intense floods killed dozens of people and left hundreds homeless in Pakistan, officials said, as heavy monsoon rains battered the country. In the southern province of Balochistan, 57 people, including…

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Updated: Afghanistan earthquake death toll hits 1,000; toll seen likely to rise

KABUL, June 22 (Reuters) - The death toll from the earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has hit 1,000, according to a local official in province of Paktika, one of the hardest-hit areas. "1,000…

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FATF keeps Pakistan on ‘grey list’

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A global dirty money watchdog said it was keeping Pakistan on its "grey list" of countries under increased monitoring but said it might be removed after an on-site visit…

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Pakistan, India reel under intense heat wave

PESHAWAR, Pakistan/AHMEDABAD,India (Reuters) - Pakistan issued a heat warning after the hottest March in 61 years while in parts of neighbouring India schools were shut and streets deserted as an intense heave…

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Pakistan’s parliament votes in Sharif as prime minister

Pakistan's parliament on Monday elected Shehbaz Sharif prime minister after a week-long constitutional crisis that climaxed on Sunday when his predecessor Imran Khan lost a no-confidence vote. Shehbaz, 70, who…

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Shehbaz Sharif submits nomination for prime minister to Pakistani parliament

ISLAMABAD, April 10 (Reuters) - Opposition politician Shehbaz Sharif submitted his nomination to be Pakistan's next prime minister to the legislature on Sunday, his party said, after incumbent Imran Khan lost a…

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UPDATED: Fresh elections in Pakistan to be held in 90 days

ISLAMABAD, April 3 (Reuters) - Fresh elections in Pakistan will be held in 90 days, State Minister for Information Farrukh Habib said on Sunday. Habib made the announcement in a…

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UPDATED: India says it accidentally fired missile into Pakistan

NEW DELHI, March 11 (Reuters) - India said on Friday it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan because of a "technical malfunction" during routine maintenance. "On 9 March 2022, in the course…

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At least 56 killed in suicide bombing at Shi’ite mosque in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -A suicide bombing at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque during Friday prayers in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar killed at least 56 people and injured nearly 200,…

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Attacks on Pakistan army bases kill four soldiers, 15 insurgents

ISLAMABAD, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Pakistan's army successfully repulsed night-time attacks on two southwestern bases that killed four soldiers and 15 insurgents, Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad said on Thursday.…

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Pakistan records most daily COVID cases since pandemic began

KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Pakistan reported on Friday over 7,000 COVID-19 cases in a single day, its highest daily number of infections since the pandemic began, as the…

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Deadly weather traps hundreds of drivers in Pakistan

At least 21 people have died after heavy snow trapped them in their vehicles in northern Pakistan. As many as 1,000 vehicles became stranded as would-be tourists reportedly rushed to…

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Pakistan sees most COVID-19 cases in two months, concern about Omicron

KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Pakistan reported on Monday more than 700 COVID-19 cases in a single day, its highest tally in two months, as authorities warned of a…

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Pakistan may have first Omicron case

KARACHI, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Authorities in Pakistan are investigating the first possible case of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in the South Asian nation, a provincial health ministry official…

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