Sources: AP
Pakistan bans the Tehreek-e-Labbaik party after deadly clashes between party members and Pakistani police during a protest march led by the party over the past two weeks. 2025-10-24
At least seven people are killed by a fire on a train car in Khairpur District, Sindh, Pakistan. 2023-04-27
The Taliban claims to have captured the strategic city of Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, on the border with Pakistan. One of the group's spokesmen, Zabihullah Mujahid, says that the city was "under mujahideen control". Pakistan confirms the capture, saying that the Taliban removed the Afghan flag and raised theirs. The Afghan Ministry of Defense says that they were checking information. If this is confirmed by the Afghan government, it would be the latest territorial gain by the armed group. 2021-07-14
The United Nations General Assembly votes on a slate of new members of the Human Rights Council. The election of certain countries—China, Russia, Cuba, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan—draws strong criticism over their human rights records, including from UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer, who described the election as "making a gang of arsonists into the fire brigade". 2020-10-13
Heavy snow and avalanches kill dozens of people in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, while Kabul International Airport is closed due to snow and ice on the runway. 2017-02-5
At least four are killed in an attack in Quetta, Pakistan. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility. 2016-11-19
At least 37 people are killed, including 30 schoolchildren, and another seventy critically injured following a school bus accident at Kallar Kahar in the Punjab province of Pakistan. 2011-09-27
Newly released cables document an alleged al-Qaeda "assassin" working for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) while suspected of bombing Christian churches and a hotel in Pakistan. 2011-04-26
Tribal leaders in Pakistan issue a statement vowing action against the United States after yesterday's botched U.S. drone attack which killed more than 40 civilians, mainly elders and police at an open-air meeting, the deadliest such attack by the United States on Pakistan since 2006. 2011-03-18
A Christian woman, Asia Bibi, is sentenced to death for blasphemy by a court in Lahore, Pakistan. 2010-11-11