Turmoil is never far away in South Asia, between disputed borders, acute resource shortages, and threats ranging from extremist violence to earthquakes. But in 2019, two crises stood out: an ...
Ever since the partition of British India in 1947, Kashmir—caught between the two successor nations of India and Pakistan—has remained unsettled. In the Indian-controlled part of the region, an at-times ...
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced the country’s former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf to death in a treason case related to the state of emergency he imposed ...
Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup and later ruled as president, is not in Pakistan and was not available for comment on the sentence, handed down by an ...
A special court in Pakistan has sentenced former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to death on charges of high treason and subverting the constitution. “Pervez Musharraf has been found guilty of Article ...
A Rockland County beauty queen — crowned Miss Pakistan World in 2012 — was killed over the weekend when her car hit a curb and overturned into oncoming traffic, police ...
At least 13 Pakistanis have died when a fire swept through their makeshift residences on a farming estate in the Jordan Valley, officials said. The Middle Eastern country’s civil defence ...
Amnesty International is urging global support for a campaign on behalf of residents in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab city of Lahore where a thick smog continues to loom over the region. The ...
Patriarchy is deeply entrenched in Pakistani society, with most people looking down upon the feminist movement. Earlier this year, when hundreds of women protested against gender discrimination and demanded their rights, ...
A court in Pakistan has allowed ailing former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to travel abroad for four weeks for medical treatment. Sharif, 69, was given a seven-year jail term by ...
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