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Pakistan pitches Nobel, crypto and rare earths to woo Donald Trump

 19:19 03/07/2025

Cash-strapped Islamabad tries to stave off trade tariffs and deepen ties with White House

India's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri tells a media briefing in New Delhi on Saturday that the heads of military operations from India and Pakistan spoke in the afternoon. (Karma Bhutia/The Associated Press)

Pakistan, India agree to immediate ceasefire following weeks of deadly clashes

 10:51 10/05/2025

Tensions soared after last month's attack at tourist site in India-controlled Kashmir

Pakistan’s security forces stand outside a damaged building at the site of a suspected Indian missile attack near Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Wednesday © M.D. Mughal/AP

India launches military strikes on Pakistan

 22:14 06/05/2025

New Delhi takes action after linking Islamabad to militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir

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Pakistan shuts airspace to Indian airlines and suspends trade

 10:00 24/04/2025

The move comes after New Delhi halted a water-sharing treaty following a deadly terrorist attack 

Pakistan's former prime minister, Imran Khan gestures after arriving at a registrar office in Lahore High court to sign surety bonds for bail in various cases, in Lahore on July 3, 2023. ©  Arif ALI / AFP

Ex-Pakistani PM Imran Khan sentenced to ten years in prison

 06:20 30/01/2024

Prosecutors have argued that the politician mishandled a classified cable sent to Islamabad by the country’s ambassador to the US
File photo: In this photo released Wednesday, April 22, 2020, by Sepah news, an Iranian rocket carrying a satellite is launched from an undisclosed site believed to be in Iran's Semnan province. © Sepah / AP

Iran announces successful satellite launch, heightening Western concerns over missile program

 19:48 20/01/2024

Iran said Saturday it had conducted a successful satellite launch into its highest orbit yet, the latest for a program the West fears improves Tehran’s ballistic missiles.
Pakistan carries out military strikes on separatist targets in Iran following deadly attack on its own soil by Tehran

Pakistan carries out military strikes on separatist targets in Iran following deadly attack on its own soil by Tehran

 06:50 18/01/2024

Akhtar Soomro/Reuters Pakistan and Iran have now taken extraordinary step of attacking militants on each other’s soil at a time of expanding conflict in the Middle East and wider region
Pakistans Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani attends an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting regarding the situation in the besieged Gaza Strip in Jeddah on October 18 2023. © Amer Hilabi AFP

Pakistan condemns deadly Iranian missile strike on its territory as an ‘unprovoked violation’

 06:57 17/01/2024

Authorities in Balochistan province told CNN two girls had died and at least four people were injured. 
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan speaks with reporters at his residence, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday. (K.M. Chaudary/The Associated Press)

Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan arrested after court gives 3-year prison sentence

 05:57 05/08/2023

Cricketer-turned-politician, 70, was accused of misusing his premiership to buy and sell gifts
FILE PHOTO: Former Pakistani president, Pervez Musharraf, in Islamabad, Pakistan, 2013. ©  Aamir Qureshi / AFP

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf dies at 79

 06:03 05/02/2023

The ex-leader has passed away in a hospital in the UAE
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Imran Khan: Pakistan police open investigation into former PM

 21:53 21/08/2022

Pakistan's police have said the country's former prime minister, Imran Khan, is under investigation.
New Pakistani leader chosen

New Pakistani leader chosen

 16:37 11/04/2022

Parliament confirms Shahbaz Sharif as next PM amid allegations of US meddling
FILE PHOTO: A live address to the nation by Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan. © AP / Anjum Naveed

Pakistani PM calls early election

 08:46 03/04/2022

The people should decide the future of their country, “not the corrupt or the foreigners,” Imran Khan has said
Pakistani Kashmiri people shout anti-Indian slogans during a demonstration in Islamabad. Picture: AFPSource:AFP

Pakistan unleashes fury over Kashmir

 17:04 07/08/2019

Pakistan has fired back at India after it reduced the status of the disputed Kashmir region, saying it will suspend bilateral trade and downgrade diplomatic ties.
Tourists wait for buses to leave Kashmir on August 3 / GETTY IMAGES Image caption Tourists wait for buses to leave Kashmir

India orders tourists to leave Kashmir over 'terror threat'

 01:29 04/08/2019

Thousands of people, including tourists and Hindu pilgrims, are leaving Indian-administered Kashmir after local officials issued a security alert.
A man looks at television screen, airing live transmission of released Indian pilot Wing Commander Abhi Nandan, at Wagah border, in Karachi © REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

First VISUALS of Indian pilot handover by Pakistan released

 12:05 01/03/2019

The first video of captured Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman crossing the border back into India after he was released by Pakistani authorities has been unveiled.
Indian fighter jets have crossed the ‘line of control’ in Kashmir and attacked ‘terror camps’ in a rare ratcheting up of tensions with Pakistan. Photograph: Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images

India-Pakistan tensions escalate with airstrikes across Kashmir border

 10:42 26/02/2019

India’s first attack across ceasefire line since 1971 did not result in casualties or damage, Pakistan says
GETTY IMAGES / Pakistan has previously rejected US accusations that it provides a safe haven for militants

US military to cancel $300m in Pakistan aid over terror groups

 04:15 02/09/2018

The US military says it is cancelling $300m (£230m) in aid to Pakistan over what it calls Islamabad's failure to take action against militant groups.
© Rizwan Tabassum, AFP | Pakistani election officials outside a distribution centre to collect ballot boxes and voting materials in Karachi on July 24, 2018.

Polls open in Pakistan vote marred by allegations of ‘silent coup’ military meddling

 08:29 25/07/2018

Pakistani voters began casting their ballots amid tight security Wednesday following an election campaign marred by rumours of a “silent coup” by the military. Election violence has already broken out, with dozens reported dead in a blast in Quetta.
Transgender TV anchor challenges Pakistani culture from a news desk

Transgender TV anchor challenges Pakistani culture from a news desk

 17:13 28/06/2018

Abandoned by her family and stigmatized by society, trans journalist Marvia Malik breaks barriers and challenges discrimination as Pakistan’s first transgender news anchor.
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