Pakistan

A Pakistani court on Tuesday suspended former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s three-year sentence, ordering his release on bail. A two-judge bench of the Islamabad High Court led by Justice Aamer Farooq, which reserved the judgement on Monday, announced the short…

UNICEF has expressed concern about the situation of needy children in the flooded areas of Pakistan one year after the devastating floods in this country, with millions of children still in need of emergency assistance with health, food and shelter.…

Eleven laborers were killed in a bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, a local government official said Sunday. The device exploded after being attached to the vehicle they were traveling in on Saturday evening, Rehman Gul…

Anwar Haq Kakar has been appointed as Pakistan’s interim Prime Minister; local media have reported. According to reports, Mr. Kakar was proposed to the President of Pakistan as the interim Prime Minister after the agreement between the Prime Minister Shahbaz…

Local officials said on Monday that a roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying a local politician and his friends in southwestern Pakistan, killing him and six others. The attack occured in Kech, a town in Balochistan province, local police officer…

News sources reported that Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, was sentenced to three years in prison. Pakistan’s deposed Prime Minister Imran Khan was sentenced to 3 years in prison and 5 years of disqualification from holding political…

A suicide bombing killed at least 44 people and wounded nearly 200 on Sunday at a political gathering of conservative Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) party in northwestern Pakistan, according to officials. Abdul Rasheed, the regional chief of the party, said the…

The President of the Association of Muslim Scholars of Pakistan, Sheikh Hamid ul Haq Haqqani, urged all Muslims to honor the memory of Ashura of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, and maintain its peaceful atmosphere throughout the country. Haqqani…

A number of Shia leaders and clerics in the Parachinar region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan accused the Taliban movement in the country of fomenting conflict and fueling sectarianism in the region to create division between Shia and Sunni…

The Shia Ulema Council has announced in a statement that, as in previous years, there are programs to hold nationwide conventions on the occasion of Eid Ghadir and welcoming the month of Muharram. The statement notes that the Council’s missionaries…