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A member of Prime Minister Imran Khan's party, threw out the no-confidence motion that Mr Khan had widely been expected to lose

Khan's dissolving of parliament before Pakistan court

Pakistan's Supreme Court has adjourned without ruling on Prime Minister Imran Khan's shock decision to dissolve parliament and call a snap election, sidestepping a no-confidence vote that would have seen him booted from office.

World • 04 Apr 22

Dozens were killed and wounded in the blast in Peshawar

Death toll from Pakistan mosque blast rises to 56

At least 56 people were killed and 194 wounded in a huge blast at a Shia mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, a hospital official has said.

World • 04 Mar 22

Noor Mukadam attended Our Lady's Grove school in Goatstown when she lived in Dublin

Man sentenced to death for murder of Noor Mukadam

A Pakistani man has been sentenced to death in Islamabad for the murder of Noor Mukadam, who spent over a decade in Ireland while her father served at the Pakistani Embassy in Dublin.

World • 24 Feb 22

Army and civil rescuers work to rescue tourists stranded after heavy snow storm in Murree

Rescue operation under way after deadly Pakistan storm

Rescue teams in Pakistan are working to clear routes to a locked-in hill town sheltering thousands of tourists after 22 people died in vehicles trapped by heavy snow.

World • 09 Jan 22

Murree has been declared a 'disaster area' following the snowstorm

21 die in vehicles trapped by Pakistan snowstorm

At least 21 people died in an enormous traffic jam caused by tens of thousands of visitors thronging a Pakistani hill town to see unusually heavy snowfall, authorities said today.

World • 08 Jan 22

A child makes clay bricks at a kiln in Kandahar

Afghanistan 'at brink of economic collapse' - Pakistan

Afghanistan is "at the brink of economic collapse", Pakistan's foreign minister has warned US, Chinese, Russian and Taliban diplomats.

World • 11 Nov 21

Noor Mukadam spent over 12 years in Ireland while her father worked as a diplomat at the Embassy of Pakistan

Man on trial for murder of former ambassador's daughter

A Pakistani-American man has gone on trial accused of the rape and murder of the daughter of a former diplomat posted in Ireland.

World • 20 Oct 21

Many of the victims died when roofs and walls collapsed

20 killed, hundreds injured as quake rattles Pakistan

Around 20 people have been killed and more than 200 injured when a shallow earthquake hit southern Pakistan in the early hours of this monring as people slept, government officials said.

World • 07 Oct 21

The Taliban banned women from playing all sport during their first rule in the 1990s

Afghan girls' football team flees to Pakistan

Members of Afghanistan's national girls' football team have fled across the border into Pakistan, a month after the Taliban swept back into power.

World • 15 Sep 21

Noor Mukadam spent over 12 years in Ireland

Woman killed in Pakistan remembered at Dublin event

Around 100 people have gathered in Dublin to remember a Pakistani woman who was killed in Islamabad last week.

Ireland • 26 Jul 21

The scene today after two trains collided in the Daharki area of Pakistan

At least 43 people killed in Pakistan train crash

At least 43 people were killed and dozens injured on Monday when a packed Pakistani inter-city train collided another express that had derailed just minutes earlier, officials said.

World • 07 Jun 21

Roshan carries books to four different villages in the district of Kach

Camel library brings joy to isolated Pakistani children

Roshan the camel has an important mission; trekking across the arid terrain of Pakistan's Balochistan, to a village where dozens of children are waiting for his important cargo - books.

News Lens • 28 Apr 21

A police vehicle enters the central prison Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh is serving his jail sentence

Ringleader in Pearl murder to be freed from prison

Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered the release from prison of Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, a ringleader in the kidnapping and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl by al-Qaeda and Pakistani Islamist militants in 2002.

World • 02 Feb 21

Cher poses alongside the crate used to transport Kaavan to his new home in Cambodia

Cher welcomes 'world's loneliest elephant' to Cambodia

An elephant dubbed the "world's loneliest" has landed in Cambodia from Pakistan, receiving a warm welcome from Cher who will accompany him to a sanctuary housing potential mates.

World • 30 Nov 20

Kaavan's case and the woeful conditions at the zoo resulted in a judge this year ordering all the animals to be moved

'World's loneliest elephant' moving to sanctuary

Following years of public outcry and campaigning by American pop star Cher, the "world's loneliest elephant" has embarked on a mammoth move from Pakistan to retirement in a Cambodian sanctuary.

News Lens • 29 Nov 20

Balloons and decorations for Kaavan's farewell party (EPA Images)

Pakistan's only Asian elephant packs trunk for Cambodia

With music, treats and balloons, friends of Pakistan's only Asian elephant threw a farewell party ahead of his relocation to Cambodia, following years of campaigning by animal rights activists.

World • 24 Nov 20

Muhammad Ikram has spent years honing his snooker skills

Born without arms, Pakistan snooker player masters game

Muhammad Ikram, who was born without arms, steps up to a snooker table, sizes up his options and with a firm flick of his chin strikes the cue ball and slots a red into a corner pocket.

World • 08 Oct 20

Pakistan's parliament was told last week that a government review had found 262 of Pakistan's 860 active pilots hold fake licenses or had cheated on exams

EU bans airline over fake licence controversy

Pakistan's state-run airline has been banned from the European Union for six months after nearly a third of its pilots were found to hold fake or dubious licences, officials have said.

News Lens • 30 Jun 20

Gunmen attacked the Pakistan stock exchange in Karachi with grenades and guns

Gunmen among 6 killed in Pakistan stock exchange attack

Four gunmen who attacked the Pakistani stock exchange building in the city of Karachi have been killed by security forces killed, police said.

World • 29 Jun 20

Irregularities have been found in pilot licences at the airline

Pakistan airline grounds pilots in fake licence probe

Irregularities found in pilot licences at Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) represent a "serious lapse" in safety controls, global airlines body IATA said after the carrier grounded one third of its pilots.

World • 25 Jun 20

Both of the plane's engines failed as it approached landing

Report blames human error for Pakistan plane crash

A plane crash which killed 97 people in Pakistan last month was because of human error by the pilots, who were discussing the coronavirus during the landing, according to an initial report released today.

World • 24 Jun 20

Police arrested the couple over the child's death

Pakistan couple held over death of seven-year-old maid

A Pakistan couple have been arrested for allegedly murdering their seven-year-old maid after she was blamed for letting a pet bird escape, police said, the latest case of violence against child domestic workers in the country.

World • 04 Jun 20

Pakistan International Airlines flight 8303 crashed with the loss of 97 people last month

Pakistan crash pilot ignored air traffic control

Pakistani aviation authorities have told Pakistan International Airlines that the pilot of a passenger plane that crashed into a residential district of Karachi last month had ignored air traffic control's instructions for landing.

World • 03 Jun 20

The plane crashed into a residential area of Karachi

Survivor recalls horror of Pakistan plane crash

One of the two people to survive a plane crash in Pakistan that killed 97 people has described jumping from the burning wreckage of the aircraft after it crashed into a residential area.

World • 23 May 20

Daniel Pearl was the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal

Four acquitted in Daniel Pearl murder rearrested

Four men acquitted in the kidnapping and killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan have been rearrested and will stay in jail while prosecutors appeal the ruling, officials said.

World • 04 Apr 20