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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 is going to prosecute four prominent members of the radical Islamic party Tehreek-e-Labbaik (TLP) for treason and terrorism. After the Christian Asia Bibi was acquitted for blasphemy, the party organized protests that resulted in violence. The party leadership called for the murder of the chief executives and put soldiers to mutinies.

The Pakistani police arrested the radical muslim-minded Khadim Hussain Rizvi. His son said that the clergyman was arrested in his madrassa (religious school) in the eastern city of Lahore. In the summer, Rizvi was the driving force behind protest marches against Geert Wilders' plan to hold a cartoon contest about the Prophet Muhammad.

The lawyer of Asia Bibi demands protection from the Netherlands. As counsel for the Christian Asia Bibi he successfully fought her acquittal for blasphemy in Pakistan. Furious Muslim fanatics in Pakistan, however, demand that Bibi be put to death.

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.

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.

Pakistani former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam are on their way to Pakistan. They are expected to be arrested immediately upon their arrival in Lahore. A Pakistani court sentenced the duo to years of imprisonment.

A man in Pakistan has received the death penalty for the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl. The death of Zainab Ansari raised a lot of protest in Pakistan because the government would do too little to prevent such incidents. Only after a media campaign was the suspect arrested. He turned out to be a neighbor of the girl.

The Pakistani Islamist Hafiz Saeed, on whose head the US has made a 10 million dollar reward, can move freely in the country again. The judge lifted the house arrest of the supposed brain behind the bloody attack in Mumbai, which killed 166 people.

The alleged brain behind the bloody attacks in Indian Mumbai in 2008 will soon be released in Pakistan. A Pakistani judge ruled that house arrest for the Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed must be lifted.

In several Pakistani cities, a suffocating layer of smog has been hanging for two weeks now. As a result, only 15,000 people have been hospitalized in the eastern million city of Lahore.

On a bombing in eastern Pakistan, 26 people were killed on Monday. Also, 58 people were injured, reported the government of the province of Punjab.

The death toll due to an accident with a tanker in Pakistan was raised to 206 on Monday. Dozens of casualties are still in hospitals, saying medical sources against Pakistani newspaper Dawn. In many cases they are ill.

The death toll by a bloody double bomb attack on a market in Pakistan has risen to fifty. Sunni extremists say to be behind the terrorist violence. They wanted to kill Shiite Muslims by themselves.

The United States in an air strike in Afghanistan slain a known terrorist leader of Al Qaeda. Reported that the Pentagon Saturday (local time) in a statement.

By a bomb attack in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday at least ten deaths. According to police, the explosion took place during a protest rally organized by Pakistani manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and drugstore.

Women living in the Pakistani province of Punjab, announce it now with the push of a button on their smartphones when they are harassed by men. The regional authorities in early January launched a special app. Once the button is pressed, an alarm message arrives at the police, who can read the location of the victim via GPS. Women who are abused at home by their husbands, can use the app, the police said.

The brother of Qandeel Baloch, a Pakistani celebrity social media, was arrested for the murder of his sister.

Qandeel Baloch, a Pakistani woman who tried to stretch the strict morals in her country with spicy photos and videos on social media, was strangled by her brother. He probably did that to cleanse the honor of her family. This has informed the police of Punjab.

A Pakistani woman Wednesday her 18 year old daughter fired because who was married to a man while they had not given permission.

Certainly 33 people in Pakistan deceased by eating poisoned candy. That British media reported Sunday. The candy was sold in the Punjab province and police there began a major campaign against sellers candy. There are 24 owners of shops arrested.

Twenty-four people in Pakistan deceased after laddu, fried dough balls with sugar, had eaten that contained pesticides. Dozens of others have ended up in the hospital, reported the Pakistani newspaper.

Pakistan has arrested more than 5,000 people after the suicide bombing Sunday in Lahore, leaving at least 70 people were killed. Of those arrested are still 216 firm, says a minister of the state of Punjab. The rest is released.

Social network Facebook on Sunday asked numerous Dutch users or it went well with them.

Pakistan launches a special paramilitary operation in Punjab, in response to the attack on Sunday more than seventy people killed.

Pope Francis on Monday strongly condemned the attack in Pakistan. The attack in Lahore came seventy people dead, including many Christians. The pope called the act 'horrendous' and demanded the Pakistani authorities that they protect the country religious minorities.

In a suicide bombing in the Pakistani city of Lahore are at least 28 dead and 100 wounded.

The populous Punjab province in Pakistan on Tuesday all schools closed for five days and at 22.5 million pupils and students said they should stay home. The reason for the closure is the cold, leaving many children contract the flu or pneumonia, said Education Minister Rana Khan Tuesday. Temperatures in the capital Lahore have fallen to just above zero, while many schools do not have enough fuel to heat the premises.

The Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday made a surprise visit to his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif. It is the first time in ten years that an Indian Prime Minister visits the rival nation.