At least four people were killed and more than 100 injured when two trains collided in central Pakistan early Thursday, officials said.
The Pakistani port megacity of Karachi on Wednesday elected as mayor a politician who is currently in jail on sedition and terrorism charges, a day after the leader of his party was charged with treason.
Pakistani paramilitary forces raided the headquarters of a powerful political party in the port city of Karachi on Tuesday after supporters of the party stormed the office of a television channel the day before.
Supporters of a powerful political party in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi fired shots at the office of a television channel on Monday before ransacking the building, police said.
Officials have poisoned hundreds of dogs in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi in the latest effort to curb a population of strays that attack thousands of people each year in the teeming mega-city of some 20mn.
Pakistani authorities on Tuesday arrested the mayor-elect of Karachi and two other prominent opposition politicians, police said, accusing them of aiding criminals and militants.
Thousands of mourners crowded the funeral procession of a beloved Pakistani singer on Thursday, a day after he was gunned down in the port city of Karachi in an attack claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.
Last summer, temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius led to more than a thousand heat-related deaths in Karachi.
Pakistani grave digger Shahid Baloch is taking no chances.
Pakistan's meteorological office is not predicting a repeat of last year's extreme heat, but officials are preparing for the worst just in case.
Gunmen shot dead a prominent Pakistani rights activist, known for his outspoken stance against the Taliban and other radical Islamist groups, in the southern port city ...
The death toll among a group of Pakistanis who drank tainted liquor rose to 23 Tuesday after more died in hospitals, police said.
