Air traffic from and to Pakistan is being reopened step by step. It was closed after air battles over the region of Kashmir, which was disputed by India and Pakistan. Pakistani internet media reported...
The rising tensions between India and Pakistan can have 'serious and dangerous' consequences for the region. The EU expects the two core states to exercise 'extreme restraint'...
Pakistan closed its airspace on Wednesday until further notice due to flared tensions with neighboring India over the controversial region of Kashmir. The Pakistani Civil Aviation Service (CAA)...
Pakistan has carried out air strikes on targets in India-led Kashmir on Wednesday and claims to have shot two Indian planes in its own airspace.
Pakistan has carried out air strikes on targets in India-led Kashmir on Wednesday and claims to have shot two Indian planes in its own airspace. One of the…
The Indian Air Force has admitted that it has carried out attacks on terrorist camps in Pakistan on Tuesday. In doing so, Pakistani airspace was violated.
Pakistani chief judges rejected the appeal that had been lodged against Asia Bibi's acquittal. The Christian woman was previously prosecuted and convicted of blasphemy....
Asia Bibi can leave Pakistan quickly, according to her lawyer. The Christian Pakistani, who spent years on the death row because she would have insulted the Prophet Mohammed, is probably going to...
A Pakistani anti-corruption court sentenced the former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for corruption. Sharif, who has been in jail for 7 years, says the verdict of the court...
The family of the liberated Christian Pakistani Asia Bibi is threatened and chased by Muslim extremists.
The Christian Pakistani woman Asia Bibi, who was on death row for years on suspicion of blasphemy, is still in Pakistan. This is what a spokesperson for the Pakistani Foreign Ministry told Reuters news agency.
Radical Muslims in Pakistan, who have been protesting for days against the release of Asia Bibi, have suspended their actions because they have concluded an 'agreement' with the government. The government confirmed that there is an agreement.
Angry Pakistani Muslims took to the streets for the third day in a row to demonstrate. They are furious that earlier this week the Supreme Court released the Christian woman Asia Bibi from insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
Also on Friday, radical Muslims took to the streets in Pakistan to protest against the release of Asia Bibi. The protesters are fierce because the Christian woman was acquitted of blasphemy by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Protesters have blocked roads in Pakistan for the second day in a row. They are furious because the Christian Asia Bibi has been acquitted of blasphemy by the Supreme Court. Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned protesters not to go too far.
At least seventeen people were killed in a bus accident in Pakistan. The vehicle hit the north of the country off the road and landed in a ravine, the Pakistani newspaper Dawn reports.
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The Pakistani government has sold over sixty cars by auction. Among other things luxury and bulletproof vehicles were put under the hammer. The new Prime Minister Imran Khan wants to tighten the belt with such actions, but is himself under fire because he regularly flies to his work with a helicopter.
The US Department of Defense has taken a final decision to stop $ 300 million (258 million euros) of aid to Pakistan. According to the Americans Islamabad continues to do little against militants in the country.
In Pakistan thousands of supporters of the strict Islamic party TLP celebrated exuberantly after it became known that Geert Wilders had withdrawn his plan for a cartoon contest about the Prophet Muhammad. The Pakistani Minister of Information, Fawad Chaudry, spoke of a 'great victory': 'Long live the Prophet!'
Pakistani politicians have responded with delight to the blowing off of the Geert Wilders cartoon contest. Minister Fawad Chaudhry (Information) spoke of a 'great victory' for his government and the Pakistani people.
The protest march in Pakistan against Geert Wilders' cartoon contest was called off on Thursday, shortly after the Dutch MP broke down his plans. The extreme Muslim party Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) organized the march from the city of Lahore to capital Islamabad.
Hundreds of Islamists are on a march on Wednesday to the Pakistani capital Islamabad in protest against Geert Wilders' cartoon contest in the Netherlands. That reported the British newspaper The Guardian. The demonstrators demand that the new government of Imran Khan break diplomatic relations with the Netherlands.
Pakistan has called the envoy of the Netherlands on the carpet. The country is angry about a cartoon contest of PVV leader Geert Wilders. 'Deep concern has been conveyed about this willful and malicious attempt to put Islam in a bad light,' said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad.
The Pakistani parliament has chosen Imran Khan Friday as the new prime minister. As expected, with 176 against 96 votes, he was clearly preferred over rival Shehbaz Sharif.
The former cricket patrol Imran Khan has almost certainly become the winner of the parliamentary elections in Pakistan. After counting 96 percent of the votes, his party, the Poor Justice Movement, had won in 115 of the 272 electoral districts and secured just as many seats in parliament.
More than twenty people were killed by an attack near a polling station in Quetta in western Pakistan. There were also about thirty injured. That's what the health authorities said.
The death toll due to a suicide attack on a Pakistani election meeting, has risen to about 150. Terrorist group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the massacre in the southern province of Baluchistan, where, according to a high police officer, more than 180 people were injured on Friday.
Pakistani former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appealed against his conviction in a corruption case. The authorities arrested Sharif and his daughter Maryam when they returned to Pakistan late last week. Thousands of Sharif's supporters then took to the streets to express their support.
Friday, dozens of people were killed by two bombings at election meetings in Pakistan. Most of the victims, 128, fell through an attack in the southern province of Baluchistan.
