Pakistan

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports that around 525,000 Afghan migrants have returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan and require assistence. According to IOM, Afghan refugees returning from Iran and Pakistan face challenges in Afghanistan, including food, shelter, water, and…

Pakistani security forces successfully neutralized eight attackers on Wednesday after they launched an assault on a government complex in the strategic port city of Gawadar in southwestern Balochistan province, as reported by police and local media. According to the Pakistan…

Twelve miners lost their lives and eight were rescued after an explosion in a coal mine in Balochistan’s Harnai district, Pakistan, Dawn website reported on Wednesday. The miners were trapped after a big portion of the mine caved in when…

The Pakistani government plans to resume deporting undocumented Afghan migrants from Punjab province on April 15, Amu TV reported. According to the article, Afghan migrants in Punjab and other provinces are worried about their future due to security issues and…

Pakistan has conducted overnight air attacks inside Afghanistan, while the Taliban claimed hours later to have fired across the border, the Al Jazeera reported. Tensions flared on Monday between Islamabad and Kabul following the overnight raids, with Pakistan claiming the…

A military post in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border was targeted by an armed group using a vehicle filled with explosives and suicide bombers, resulting in the death of seven security force members, as reported by Al Jazeera. In…

Two children were tragically burned alive, and nine others sustained injuries in Rawalpindi due to separate gas cylinder explosions, Dawn online newspaper reported. In the first incident at Bhabra Bazar, a gas leak explosion occurred when a matchstick was lit…

At least two people lost their lives in a motorcycle blast in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, Al Jazeera reported. The blast near the Board Bazaar area of the city also wounded one person who has been admitted to Lady…

Pakistani legislators on Saturday elected Asif Ali Zardari, the co-chairman of center-left Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), as the country’s 14th president, Anadolu Agency reported. Zardari, 68, the widower of the two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the candidate of the…

Four terrorists were eliminated by security forces in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district, Dawn newspaper reported on Friday. The operation also resulted in the recovery of weapons, ammunition and explosives, the military statement said, adding…