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Twenty-six people are killed when a bus carrying a wedding ceremony participants falls into the Indus River in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
2024-11-12

Balochistan Liberation Army separatists launch rockets against security forces in Machh, Balochistan, Pakistan, killing a police officer and injuring 15 others, in response to Pakistan's Operation Marg Bar Sarmachar. Six militants are killed in the ensuing shootout.
2024-01-30

The suspect in the stabbing attack yesterday outside the former headquarters of the satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris is identified as Ali H., an 18-year-old Pakistan-born man. He confessed to his actions and said he acted in vengeance for the magazine's Muhammad caricature republications earlier this year.
2020-09-26

A Pakistani court overturns the death sentence of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy.
2018-10-31

Two buses collide head-on in Kuwait, killing fifteen oil workers from India, Egypt, and Pakistan. Six people are injured.
2018-04-1

The 2012 World Karl Popper Debate Championships are held in León, Mexico from 2 to 6 July. The results, announced on the WKPDC official website on 7 July, declare Pakistan the winner of the championship and Zainab Hameed best speaker and debater.
2012-07-7

Tens of thousands of people rally in Karachi, Pakistan to demand the release of Mumtaz Qadri, charged with killing Salman Taseer, the provincial governor of Punjab who had campaigned to amend the country's blasphemy laws.
2011-01-10

Sunni Muslim clerics organize strikes across Pakistan to protest against possible changes to the country’s blasphemy laws.
2010-12-31

Pope Benedict XVI urges Pakistani authorities to release Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman facing a death sentence on a charge of blasphemy against Islam.
2010-11-20

Atheist Ireland purposefully publishes the words of Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Salman Rushdie, Mark Twain and Pope Benedict XVI on its website despite a new law banning them on grounds of blasphemy.
2010-01-2