Pakistan has ordered a South Korean man to leave the country, accusing him of involvement in “illegal preaching activities”, after two of his students at an Urdu-language school were abducted and killed by the Islamic State group, which claimed they had been secretly preaching Christianity. “Investigations have revealed that [JuanContinue Reading
Sindh: A Pakistani Christian sewerage cleaner has died after three doctors refused to treat him until his sludge-covered body had been washed.The physicians said their Ramadan fast would be invalid (“makruh”) because he was “unclean” and belonged to a low caste. The word for low caste, “chuhra”, especially derogatory, isContinue Reading
Archaeologists are trying to save the remains of a nearly 5,000-year-old city in Pakistan by burying it again. The buried city, known as Mohenjo Daro or “mound of the dead”, was first discovered in the 1920s by an officer at the Archaeological Survey of India in what is now Sindh,Continue Reading
App-based service allows female passengers to travel around Karachi without fear of harassment from male driversContinue Reading
New Delhi: Two Indian clerics, including the head priest of New Delhi’s Nizamuddin Dargah, have gone missing in Pakistan, prompting India to take up the matter with the Pakistani government. According to official sources in New Delhi, Asif Nizami, the chief priest, and Nazim Nizami had gone to visit the famousContinue Reading
Pakistan’s seven tribal districts are home to some eight million residents, mainly ethnic PashtunsContinue Reading
Pakistanis call for greater security as they mourn 13 victims of suicide attack while flags fly at half-staff in Punjab.Continue Reading
A court in Pakistan on Saturday cited lack of evidence to acquit all 115 suspects in the burning of more than 150 houses of Christians in 2013 over alleged blasphemy of the Prophet Muhammad. Chaudhry Muhammad Azam, Lahore’s anti-terrorism court judge, said the prosecutors failed to produce sufficient evidence againstContinue Reading
PESHAWAR: 20 people were killed and 50 were wounded when a bomb struck a market in Pakistan’s tribal belt bordering Afghanistan on Saturday, Pakistani health and government officials said. The bomb hit the crowded vegetable market in Parachinar city, the capital of Kurram tribal district on the Afghan border whereContinue Reading
The couple’s son died in the attack by Pakistani Taliban group Jaamat-ul-Ahrar on Easter SundayContinue Reading
