Pakistan

At least 458 children have died as a result of the catastrophic floods in Pakistan, accounting for nearly one-third of the total fatalities recorded so far.

Eighteen more people have died in Pakistan, authorities said on Wednesday, taking to 1,343 the toll in unprecedented floods that have inundated more than a third of the South Asian nation, making hundreds of thousands homeless.

Pregnant women caught in Pakistan floods desperate for aid

Pakistani authorities are struggling to prevent the country's biggest lake bursting its banks and inundating nearby towns after unprecedented flooding, while the disaster management agency on Monday raised its toll of flood deaths by another 24.

Flood-born: Nothing but mud as mother, infant return to Pakistan home

Pakistan's armed forces have rescued a further 2,000 people stranded by rising floodwaters, they said on Friday, in a disaster blamed on climate change that has swamped about a third of the South Asian nation and is still growing.

Villagers brave snakes and hunger to protect land in flooded Pakistan

'Second life': helicopters rescue the stranded from Pakistan valleys

The NDMA said more than two million acres of cultivated crops have been wiped out.

Former Pakistan PM Khan granted bail by anti-terror court

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif travelled to Qatar on Tuesday in the hope of generating trade and investment for his cash-strapped country, his office and aides said.

A court in Pakistan will consider taking action on Tuesday against former prime minister Imran Khan on grounds of contempt, following a weekend speech in which he threatened police officers and a judicial magistrate, officials said.

Pakistan opposition warns Khan arrest would be 'red line'

As many as 21 people, including 18 women and children, died after the boat carrying more than 100 people capsized in the Indus River.

Pakistan's Khan calls for early election after state assembly victory

In a gruesome incident reported from Karachi, Pakistan, a man allegedly suffocated his wife to death before boiling her body in a cauldron.

Monsoon rains kill 77 in Pakistan

Pakistan climbing season reaches new heights

Pakistan said on Tuesday that it has received economic and financial targets from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that once agreed and ratified should pave the way for multilateral lender to unlock a suspended bailout programme.

Bunkers, barricades for showcase Hindu pilgrimage in Indian Kashmir

A stillborn baby's head was left inside its mother's womb after a botched surgery at a rural health centre (RHC) in Pakistan's Sindh province last week.

Storm in a teacup as minister urges Pakistanis to cut back on 'chai'

Pakistan military says ailing Musharraf should be 'allowed home'

Pakistan's government is set to present a budget for financial year 2022-23 on Friday aimed at tight fiscal consolidation in a bid to convince the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to release much-needed bailout payments for the cash-strapped country.

Pakistan will reduce its official work week to five days from six in a bid to reduce energy and fuel consumption as part of an energy conservation plan approved by the country's cabinet on Tuesday, the information minister said.

In a horrific incident reported from Pakistan, a woman was allegedly gangraped aboard a moving train by three men last week.

Two Pakistani-origin Spanish sisters were allegedly murdered by their in-laws after they refused to help their husbands move to Spain.

Indian authorities seized nearly 90 kg of heroin worth $58m (£46m) from Pipavav port in the western state of Gujarat last week. It had been kept in bags containing heroin-soaked yarn bales.

A female suicide bomber has been accused of carrying out the attack in Pakistan that killed four people, including three Chinese nationals, on Tuesday.

A Pakistan anti-terror court has sentenced six men to death for their role in the mob killing of a Sri Lankan factory manager accused of committing blasphemy.