Pakistan News

Islamabad - Pakistan has hailed progress in peace talks with the country's main Taliban faction, but attacks claimed by mysterious splinter factions are threatening to undermine the process.The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) declared a one-month ceasefire last w...

Lahore - It's a city better known for its history and culture, but a new generation of mobile game developers is bringing a slice of Silicon Valley to Pakistan's Lahore.With open plan offices, mixed gender teams, gourmet catering and an emphasis on a fun atmosp...

Lahore - It's a city better known for its history and culture, but a new generation of mobile game developers is bringing a slice of Silicon Valley to Pakistan's Lahore.With open plan offices, mixed gender teams, gourmet catering and an emphasis on a fun atmosp...

Cheering for your favorite cricket team is a lot harder to do when you live amid political and state tensions. Sixty-seven students in a university in Uttar Pradesh sent students home from Kashmir for celebrating Pakistan’s win against India.

Mingaora - Five years after it collapsed under Taliban rule, the once-thriving silk industry in the Swat valley of northwest Pakistan is still in shreds, leaving thousands without work and entrepreneurs like Shaukat Ali counting the cost.Ali's family moved from t...

Sydney - An Australian warship has rescued 13 Iranians shipwrecked off Pakistan on its way to the Middle East to join an international force conducting counter-terrorist and anti-piracy operations, officials said Wednesday.HMAS Darwin came across the men on Sat...

Jalalabad - Trundling across the Afghan-Pakistani border in a handcart, Shayma dismisses militant threats and conspiracy theories about polio vaccinators while her four children receive drops that could finally eradicate the crippling disease.About 1.3 million ora...

Islamabad - At least 11 people were killed and 24 wounded Monday in a gun and suicide attack at a court complex in the heavily-secured Pakistani capital Islamabad, police said.Pakistan has been in the grip of a bloody homegrown Taliban insurgency since 2007 but at...

Islamabad - Pakistan on Sunday said it was halting air strikes against Taliban militants in response to a month-long ceasefire announced by the insurgents a day earlier."After the positive announcement yesterday by the Taliban, the government has decided to suspen...

Islamabad - Pakistan plans to bring all of its madrassas, or religious schools, under its national education system within one year under a landmark security policy aimed at combating extremism.The first "National Internal Security Policy", a copy of which was see...