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FILE: Ousted Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan (C) waves at his party supporters during a rally in Islamabad on 26 May 2022. Picture: Aamir QURESHI/AFP

Pakistan

Pakistan's Khan calls for early election after state assembly victory

By AFP

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan called again Monday for an early national election after his party seized control of the state assembly in Punjab, the...

  • In this file photo taken on 15 October 2019, International Monetary Funds (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva pauses while speaking about gender equality during the IMF and World Bank Fall Meetings in Washington, DC. Picture: AFP

    IMF agrees to resume Pakistan loan after fuel, tax hikes

    An original $6 billion bailout package was signed by former prime minister Imran Khan in 2019, but repeatedly stalled when his government reneged on subsidy agreements and failed to significantly improve tax collection.

    36 days ago
  • FILE: Ousted Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan (C) waves at his party supporters during a rally in Islamabad on 26 May 2022. Picture: Aamir QURESHI/AFP

    Pakistan's ex-PM Khan issues ultimatum on elections after mass rally

    The government had attempted to prevent the convoy from reaching the capital by shutting down all entry and exit points around the city, but was forced to allow in the protesters by an emergency Supreme Court order.

    84 days ago
  • This picture taken on March 2, 2022, shows the Korangi graveyard in Karachi. In the teeming metropolis of Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, graveyards are filling up and the dead are running out of space to rest. But for the right price to the right person, a plot can be "found" for the body of a loved one by shady crews who demolish old graves to make room for the new. Picture: Asif Hassan / AFP

    Grave injustice: Not even the dead rest easy in Pakistan megacity

    But for the right price to the right person, a plot can be "found" for the body of a loved one by shady crews who demolish old graves to make room for the new.

    127 days ago
  • Pakistan's opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif (C) speaks with the media before attending a hearing outside the Supreme Court building in Islamabad on 7 April 2022. Picture: Aamir Qureshi/AFP

    Pakistan lawmakers to elect new PM after Khan ousted

    Khan was dismissed Sunday after losing a no-confidence vote, paving the way for an opposition alliance that faces the same issues that bedevilled the cricket star-turned-politician.

    129 days ago
  • Pakistan's Azhar Ali (L) and teammate Mohammad Rizwan run between the wickets during the second day of play of the first Test cricket match between Pakistan and Australia at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi on March 5, 2022. Picture: Aamir Qureshi / AFP.

    Azhar and Haq hundreds put Pakistan in driving seat in first Test

    Azhar knocked 185 and Haq a career-best 157 to guide Pakistan to 476-4 against a hapless Australian attack on a placid and unresponsive Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium pitch.

    166 days ago
  • FILE: Caricatures of Mohammed are forbidden by Islam. Picture: 123rf.com

    Pakistani woman sentenced to death for 'blasphemous' WhatsApp status

    Aneeqa Ateeq, 26, was arrested in May 2020 and charged with posting "blasphemous material" as her WhatsApp status, according to a summary issued by the court.

    211 days ago
  • Tourists’ vehicles struck toward the tourist resort Murree on the outskirts of Islamabad on 8 January 2022. Picture: AFP

    At least 21 die in vehicles trapped by Pakistan snowstorm

    At least 21 people died in an enormous traffic jam caused by tens of thousands of visitors thronging a Pakistani hill town to see unusually heavy snowfall.

    222 days ago
  • Members of Syria's top jihadist group the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) alliance, led by al-Qaeda's former Syria affiliate, parade with their flags and those of the Taliban's declared "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" through the rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib on August 20, 2021. The armed group that formally broke ties with al-Qaeda years ago is considered to be the most prominent jihadist group in Syria after a decade of war. HTS controls nearly half of the Idlib region -- the last remaining opposition bastion in Syria -- alongside other less influential groups.
OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP

    Afghanistan 'at brink of economic collapse', warns Pakistan

    Shah Mehmood Qureshi spoke at the opening of the so-called "troika plus" meeting, which included Thomas West, the new US special envoy for Afghanistan. The delegates also met later Thursday with Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.

    280 days ago
  • New Zealand's players celebrate after winning the third Twenty20 international cricket match between Bangladesh and New Zealand at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka on September 5, 2021. Picture: Munir Uz zaman / AFP.

    New Zealand call off Pakistan cricket series after security alert

    The move is a massive setback to Pakistan, which has been trying to revive tours by foreign sides after home internationals were suspended in the aftermath of a terror attack on the Sri Lankan side in 2009.

    335 days ago
  • Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard near the residence of Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani after his death at the age of 92 in Srinagar late on 1 September 2021. Picture: TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP

    Security clampdown in Indian Kashmir after death of separatist icon Geelani

    Geelani was an uncompromising campaigner against Indian rule in the Muslim-majority Himalayan region divided between India and Pakistan since 1947.

    351 days ago
  • Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul on 16 August 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the group's feared hardline brand of Islamist rule. Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP

    Taliban pledge to be 'different', as Afghans flee

    The announcements came on Tuesday night shortly after the return to Afghanistan of their co-founder, crowning the group's astonishing comeback after being ousted by a US-led invasion in 2001.

    365 days ago
  • FILE: Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the Kabul airport in Kabul on 16 August 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the group's feared hardline brand of Islamist rule. Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP

    Dirco: South Africans in Afghanistan getting the help they need

    The Taliban has taken over and President Ashraf Ghani was among the first to flee on Sunday.

    366 days ago
  • FILE: Freedom of speech advocates have long criticised creeping government censorship and control of Pakistan's internet and media.  Picture: Unsplash.

    Pakistan blocks TikTok again over 'inappropriate content'

    The Chinese-owned site has fought a series of legal battles with religious activists and authorities in the conservative Muslim nation, and was shut down for two days earlier this month on the order of a provincial court.

    393 days ago
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    Pakistani cop kills man with cleaver over Prophet Muhammad blasphemy grudge

    Ahmed Nawaz, a police spokesman, confirmed the incident, adding the victim's brother was also injured in the attack.

    411 days ago
  • Security personnel and onlookers stand at the site of a train accident in Daharki area of the northern Sindh province on 7 June 2021, as at least 34 people were killed and dozens injured when a packed Pakistani inter-city train ploughed into another express that had derailed earlier, officials said. Picture: Shahid Ali/AFP

    Toll rises from deadly Pakistan train crash as rescuers comb through wreckage

    At least 63 people were killed early Monday when a high-speed passenger train knifed through carriages of another express that had derailed minutes earlier near Daharki in Sindh province.

    437 days ago
  • Security personnel and onlookers stand at the site of a train accident in Daharki area of the northern Sindh province on 7 June 2021, as at least 34 people were killed and dozens injured when a packed Pakistani inter-city train ploughed into another express that had derailed earlier, officials said. Picture: Shahid Ali/AFP

    Pakistan express trains collision kills at least 40

    The Millat Express was heading from Karachi to Sargodha when it derailed, spilling carriages onto the track carrying the Sir Syed Express from Rawalpindi in the opposite direction. Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said the incidents were just minutes apart.

    437 days ago
  • FILE: While the clip of the incident was not uploaded to TikTok, police said friends circulated it among themselves and it soon spread further afield. Picture: Unsplash.

    Pakistan teen passes away in TikTok fake suicide stunt gone wrong

    Hamidullah, 19, who police said was well-known locally on social media, held a friend's pistol to his temple and pulled the trigger, unaware the gun was loaded.

    456 days ago
  • Labourers sit outside shuttered shops in a closed commercial market area during lockdown, following new restrictions imposed as a preventive measure against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, in Peshawar May 2, 2021. Picture: Majeed / AFP.

    Pakistan tightens borders as COVID-19 cases soar

    Pakistani officials have anxiously watched the coronavirus crisis unfolding in neighbouring India.

    473 days ago
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