Pakistan need not worry about the safety of their cricket teams in the ongoing World Twenty20 in India, Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh said.
Pakistan said on Thursday its cricket team would not take part in the World Twenty20 tournament in India without a public guarantee from the host country over the safety of its players.
The Pakistan-India World Twenty20 cricket match has been switched away from the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala after Pakistan expressed concerns over security.
The kidnapped son of a liberal Pakistani governor assassinated by his bodyguard was found, senior officials said Tuesday, just over a week after his father's killer was hanged.
A suicide bomber killed 13 people and injured 23 in northwest Pakistan Monday, in an attack which the Taliban said was revenge for the hanging of an Islamist assassin last week.
A powerful Pakistani religious body that advises the government on the compatibility of laws with Islam on Thursday declared a new law that criminalises violence against women to be ‘un-Islamic.’
A top Pakistani official has said for the first time publicly that the Afghan Taliban's leadership enjoys a safe haven inside his country, which Islamabad uses as a "lever" to pressure the group into talks with Kabul.
Bangladesh's lower-order batsmen kept their cool under pressure to beat Pakistan by five wickets in Dhaka on Wednesday, securing them a place in the Asia Cup final.
Pakistani police are hunting a 29-year-old man who shot his two sisters dead in a suspected honour killing, officials said on Wednesday, two days after a Pakistani filmmaker won an Oscar for a documentary on such murders.
Tens of thousands of supporters of a Pakistani Islamist executed for gunning down a liberal governor gathered for his funeral on Tuesday, sparking fears of violence.
Thousands protested in Pakistani cities Monday against the execution of a man hailed by hardline Islamists as a hero for killing a provincial governor who was seeking reform of the blasphemy law.
Pakistan has hanged the assassin of a governor who sought reform of the country's blasphemy law. Mumtaz Qadri - feted as a hero by Islamist supporters - was executed at a prison in Rawalpindi.
