Pakistan

Khan was not in the home, having traveled to Islamabad to appear before a judge to face charges he sold state gifts while in office and hid his assets.

The brothers’ release was the latest U.S. move toward emptying and shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

The general seized power in a 1999 bloodless coup and later led his country into aiding the U.S. in its war in neighboring Afghanistan.

Pakistani officials say the death toll from a suicide bombing at a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar has risen to 88.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives during crowded prayers at a mosque inside a police compound in Pakistan Monday, killing dozens and wounding at least 150 people.

Officials say a suicide bomber struck a crowded mosque inside a police compound in Pakistan, killing at least 59 people and wounding over 150 more.

The United States has added the key Pakistani militant group and the al-Qaida branch to its list of “global terrorists,” triggering sanctions against the groups amid a resurgence of militant violence in this Islamic nation.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it is committing $1.2 billion to efforts aimed at ending polio worldwide.

A new study says human-caused climate change juiced the rainfall that triggered Pakistan’s floods by up to 50%.

Months of heavy monsoon rains and flooding have killed 1,391 people and affected 3.3 million in this South Asian nation while half a million people have become homeless.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived before dawn Friday on a two-day visit aimed at expressing his solidarity with Pakistan’s government and people over climate-induced floods that have killed 1,391 people since mid-June.

In flood-stricken Pakistan, where an unprecedented monsoon season has killed hundreds of people, the rains now threaten a famed archeological site dating back 4,500 years, the site’s chief official said Tuesday.

More than 1,300 people have been killed and millions have lost their homes in flooding caused by unusually heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan this year that many experts have blamed on climate change.

Pakistani police have filed terrorism charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, escalating political tensions in the country as the ex-premier holds mass rallies seeking to return to office.

A lawyer says a Pakistani man sentenced to life in prison in 2019 for strangling his sister — a model on social media — has been acquitted of murder.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met Sunday with leaders from Poland and Pakistan in a flurry of diplomacy on the sidelines of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

Among the tightened social-distancing rules taking effect for two weeks from Friday are a ban on eating in restaurants after 6pm

A report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence warns “climate change will increasingly exacerbate risks to U.S. national security interests.”

Ricult is helping small farmers in Thailand and Pakistan boost yields through artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The Chinese Communist Party has previously said that it does not engage in industrial espionage.