ISLAMABAD — The leaders of Iran and Pakistan agreed to strengthen economic and security cooperation in a meeting on Monday that sought to smooth over a diplomatic rift. Ties were strained between the neighbors in January when each carried out strikes in the other’s territory, targeting militants accused of attacking security forces. Iran’s President Ebrahim […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying on Friday that it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression. The ban on X has been in place since February, when the party of imprisoned former Prime Minister […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan‘s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife appeared in a court near Islamabad on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty in a graft case alleging they accepted the gift of land from a real estate tycoon in exchange for large sums of laundered money, officials said. The case is the […]
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court on Saturday convicted and sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to seven years in prison on a charge that their 2018 marriage violated the law, officials and a lawyer said. The latest verdict follows another case in which Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were sentenced to […]
Pakistan has forced nearly 500,000 Afghans to return home over the last four months, complicating life for Afghan refugees who worked with the U.S. and who were promised a special visa to rebuild their lives in America. Many of the refugees fled to Pakistan to try to connect with U.S. authorities and now find themselves […]
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