Pakistan

Pakistan has decided to send its cricket team to India to participate in this year’s 50-over World Cup, the foreign office said on Sunday. The neighbouring countries, who share fraught relations, have played each other only in multi-team…

Ten cars of a passenger train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 30 people and injuring more than 90 others, officials said. Some of the derailed cars on the Hazara Express train overturned in the crash near the town of…

Ousted Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan given three-year jail sentence over corruption allegations he denies. A court in Islamabad found him guilty of not declaring money he had earned from selling state gifts. Mr Khan’s team says…

At least 39 people were killed and dozens more wounded Sunday by a bomb blast at a political gathering of a radical Islamic party in northwest Pakistan, officials said. “I can confirm that in the hospital we have 39 dead bodies, with 123…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reached a staff-level pact with Pakistan on a $3 billion stand-by arrangement, the lender said, a decision long awaited by the South Asian nation which is teetering on the brink of default. The…

Sri Lanka Customs has impounded nearly 16kg of heroin smuggled in from Pakistan. The contraband was found concealed in a stock of potatoes stored inside a container in Colombo.

Pakistan and China signed a $4.8 billion deal on Tuesday to build a 1,200-megawatt nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said, hailing the investment by a country that Pakistan views as its most dependable ally. Work on the…

More than 300 Pakistani nationals have been killed in the sinking of a packed trawler off the coast of Greece, the latest tragedy to expose the refugee crisis confronting the European Union as tens of thousands seek sanctuary from war,…

Testifying before the Senate’s standing committee on finance, he once again stressed that the country would meet its obligations with or without the Fund’s bailout package, Dawn news reported.

Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) in Pakistan, Ehsan Ur Rehman Mazari and Sports Minister of Sri Lanka Roshan Ranasinghe on Thursday (15) agreed to deepen the existing people-to-people contacts between the two…