Pakistan
Pakistan’s three-time premier Nawaz Sharif expected home from exile
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Pakistan's three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is scheduled to arrive back home on Saturday…
Pakistani minister defends decision to expel all illegal immigrants
BEIJING, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Pakistan's foreign minister defended an order that all illegal immigrants, including 1.73 million Afghans, must leave, saying…
Pakistan orders illegal immigrants, including 1.73 mln Afghans, to leave
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) - Pakistan ordered all illegal immigrants, including 1.73 million Afghan nationals, to leave the country or face…
UPDATED: Blasts rip through two mosques in Pakistan, killing at least 57
By Saleem Ahmed QUETTA, Pakistan, Sept 29 (Reuters) - A suicide bombing and another blast ripped through two mosques in Pakistan on…
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…
Suicide bomb at political rally in Pakistan kills more than 40
By Jibran Ahmad and Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 42 people were killed and over 130 injured…
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…
Pakistan clinches crucial $3 billion IMF bailout
By Asif Shahzad LAHORE, Pakistan, June 30 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reached a staff-level pact with Pakistan on…
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…
At least 209 ‘victims’ from Pakistan in Greece boat tragedy
(Reuters) - There were at least 209 Pakistani "victims" on an overloaded boat that capsized and sank in open seas off Greece,…
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…
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…