Pakistan

Last Monday, the country was plunged into darkness after the national power grid collapsed. By Thursday, the country had veered dangerously close to economic chaos. Then, on Monday, a suicide bomber took his place among worshipers in a mosque in…

Many young skilled professionals are leaving Pakistan because of the country’s economic turmoil in search for better job opportunities abroad. Last year’s nationwide floods made the economy much worse. In 2022 alone, more than 800,000 people relocated to work abroad.…

Forty-nine children died when their overloaded boat capsized in north-west Pakistan, police have said, after divers spent three days dragging bodies from freezing waters. The boys, aged between seven and 14, were all students of a madrassa and had been…

The International Nonviolence Organization (Free Muslim) expressed its strong condemnation of the terrorist attack that targeted a mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, on Monday, extending heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims and the Pakistani people afflicted…

More than two dozen people have been martyred and about 150 others wounded in an explosion at a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to officials. Muhammed Asim, Lady Reading Hospital spokesperson in Peshawar, told media outlets…

More than 40 people were killed after a bus fell into a ravine and caught fire in the southern Pakistani province of Balochistan on Sunday, officials said, Reuters reported. Forty-one bodies had been recovered from the wreckage, some burned beyond…

The Shia Hazara community continued its sit-in against the target killing of its members on second day in DI Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) on Thursday, the Tribunal reported. The participants in the sit-in spent the night on road despite…

Pakistan has for the past several decades been battling sectarianism. While targeted killings and sectarian acts of terrorism may currently be down, in the past the nation has witnessed grotesque massacres of innocent people carried out by sectarian death squads,…

Many Afghan social activists and refugees in Islamabad protested on Saturday against Pakistan’s forceful deportation policy and asked the host country to treat refugees with decency. Pakistani press has received footage from the gathering showing some Afghan women gathered in…

Every day thousands of Pakistanis are losing jobs as the ongoing economic crisis deepens further. Just how many millions will become jobless in 2023? Estimates vary. But given the current pace of business closures, temporary shutdowns, and planned reduction in…