At least 35 people, including 34 children and a female teacher, were killed and more than 50 injured when the roof of a private school collapsed in Peshawar’s Dir Colony area on Thursday, officials said.
The Baloch Students Action Committee (BSAC) has condemned a police raid on a book stall in Hyderabad, Sindh, describing the action as an attempt to obstruct knowledge and intellectual awareness.
In a statement, the...
Two people have allegedly been subjected to enforced disappearance in Quetta and Khuzdar, while another person who had been missing was reportedly released from a jail in Karachi.
Qadir Bakhsh, 66, son of Muhammad...
The Taliban government on Sunday inaugurated a 121-kilometre gravel road through northeastern Afghanistan’s Wakhan region to the Chinese border, which officials said could become a major trade and transit route between the two countries.
A discussion on governance and institutional challenges held in Islamabad saw an exchange of remarks between senior Supreme Court lawyer Latif Khosa and former caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar over the case of jailed Baloch Yakjehti Committee...
Lieutenant General Inayat Hussain has reportedly been appointed commander of the Pakistan Army’s XII Corps in Quetta, replacing Lieutenant General Rahat Naseem Ahmed Khan as part of a wider reshuffle of the military’s senior command structure.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said Pakistani airstrikes in Kunar and Helmand killed at least 10 civilians, most of them children, and injured nine others.
“At least 10 civilians were killed,...
Pakistani airstrikes hit three houses in Afghanistan on Thursday, killing nine people including women and children, the Taliban government said, while Islamabad said 22 “terrorists” were killed after hideouts were targeted.
Afghan government spokesperson...
Afghanistan’s defence ministry said on Sunday that its forces killed 28 fighters and wounded 32 in Nuristan after an armed group crossed from Pakistan, alleging that Pakistani militias had supported the incursion.
The ministry...
US-made Mark 82 (Mk 82) bombs were used in Pakistani airstrikes on Afghanistan’s Kunar province on September 21, according to an analysis of bomb remnants by the BBC Afghanistan Fact Check team.
The finding...
