Tag: Pakistan

Many displaced by Pakistan’s flood-hit Punjab return to find homes and crops destroyed

KHANEWAL, Pakistan (AP) — Most of the 2.6 million people displaced by record floods in Pakistan’s Punjab province…

How Saudi-Pakistan defence pact reshapes region’s geopolitics

Islamabad, Pakistan – A beaming Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif – welcomed with Saudi F-15 fighter jets, a…

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia sign defense agreement to treat an attack on one as attack on both

FILE - In this Monday, March 30, 2015 file photo provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), Royal…

Saudi Arabia signs mutual defence pact with nuclear-armed Pakistan

Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a formal mutual defence pact, state media from both countries said,…

Sikh leaders urge India to lift ban on pilgrims traveling to Pakistan shrine

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Sikh community leaders urged New Delhi to lift a ban recently imposed on pilgrims traveling…

Pakistan’s security forces kill 31 insurgents in overnight raids in northwest, military says

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s security forces raided two separate militant hideouts in the country’s northwest, killing 31…

Flood survivors begin to return home in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab as water recedes

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Displaced families began returning home as floodwaters significantly receded across much of Pakistan’s eastern…

Pakistani army says clashes near the Afghan border killed 12 soldiers and 35 militants

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces raided two hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border…

Twelve Pakistan soldiers killed in militants’ ambush, officials say

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -Twelve soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan on Saturday in an ambush by Islamist militants on…

Boat capsizes in Pakistan floods, killing nine, authorities say

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) -At least nine people died when a rescue boat capsized during flood relief efforts in…

Why does Nepal’s crisis matter to South Asia – and the world?

Islamabad, Pakistan – On Sunday, Nepal’s then-Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli mocked youth protesters, who were planning a…

Pakistani security forces kill 19 militants in raids near Afghan border

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces raided three militant hideouts in northwestern Pakistan, killing 19 fighters, the…