The Pakistani Taliban claimed a brazen overnight raid on an army outpost near the border with Afghanistan on Saturday, which intelligence officials said killed 16 soldiers and critically wounded five more

A senior White House official on Thursday said nuclear-armed Pakistan is developing long-range ballistic missile capabilities that eventually could allow it to strike targets well beyond South Asia, making it an “emerging threat” to the United States.

Sri Lanka’s navy said yesterday it had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, bringing them safely to port.

Provincial authorities in northwestern Pakistan said yesterday they planned to collect heavy weapons to stop sectarian clashes that have killed hundreds, but tribesmen in the historically lawless region said they would not give up their arms.

Sri Lanka's navy said Friday it had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, bringing them safely to port

Gunmen attacked a Pakistani army base near the border with Afghanistan and killed six soldiers, the army reported yesterday.

Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has called on his supporters to hold a rally next week and threatened to start a civil disobedience movement days after his party led a deadly protest march in Islamabad.

Imran Khan was booked in a murder case over the death of paramilitary personnel who were run over by a speeding vehicle

Sectarian feuding in northwest Pakistan killed 13 more people, a local government official said yesterday, as warring Sunnis and Shias defied repeated ceasefire orders in recent conflict claiming 124 lives.

She is running for the post of mayor of Kirtipur, a settlement on the outskirts of the capital Kathmandu, in Sunday's elections.

Pakistan police said yesterday they had arrested nearly 1,000 protesters who marched on the capital demanding the release of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, after crowds were evicted from the city centre in a sweeping security crackdown.

At least six people, including four paramilitary soldiers, were killed before the night raid was launched

The convoy of the PTI leaders and workers coming from KP comprised over 34,000 persons

Protesters battled security forces and ignored a government threat to respond with gunfire

At least one policeman was killed and dozens on both sides wounded as supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan clashed with security forces outside Pakistan’s capital Islamabad yesterday, a government minister and Khan’s party said.

Security personnel used batons and tear gas before rounding up scores of people in several cities

Around 300 families yesterday fled sectarian violence in northwest Pakistan as fresh sectarian clashes killed another 32 people.

Angry crowds gathered in the remote Pakistani mountain town of Parachinar yesterday, incensed by an attack on an escorted convoy of buses in which 40 Shia Muslims died after being sprayed with automatic fire in an ambush.

A court in Pakistan has granted bail to jailed former prime minister Imran Khan in a case relating to the illegal sale of state gifts, his party said yesterday.

The letter, sent by 46 Democrat and Republican lawmakers on Friday, was the second such communication in less than a month