Pakistan's Supreme Court has ruled to disqualify Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from his position as leader of the country's government. Friday's landmark ruling comes after months of hearings in a case instigated by the "Panama Papers" leaks, related to alleged corruption during his previous two terms in office. A five-member bench of the Supreme Court announced the verdict to a packed courtroom in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. Sharif's ouster means […]
At least nine people have been killed and 12 wounded in a car bomb attack near the provincial police chief’s office in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, officials say. The explosion on Friday morning targeted a police checkpost near the complex housing the Balochistan police chief's office, local police officer Muhammad Akbar said. At least five police officers were among those killed, Ali Mardan, a senior police officer, told […]
Critics say a bill currently before Pakistan's Parliament to increase fines for eating and drinking in public during Ramadan, alongside jail terms of up to three months, is evidence of increasing intolerance in the country. With temperatures on the eve of Ramadan in much of Pakistan 40 degrees or above, opponents of the hiked penalties for public eating or drinking in daylight hours have warned the vulnerable will suffer. "People […]
At least 20 people have been murdered and others wounded at a Sufi shrine near the city of Sargodha, in Pakistan's Punjab province, police say. Deputy police commissioner Liaquat Ali Chatta said the main suspect was the shrine's custodian, Abdul Waheed. The shrine was run by a Sufi saint, Muhammad Ali Gujjar, who was not there on the day of the murders. One survivor told police Mr Waheed had called […]
In Pakistan's deadliest attack in more than two years, a suicide bomber has struck a crowded Sufi shrine, killing at least 75 people including women and children. Hundreds of others were also wounded in Thursday's attack as they performed a ritual at the famous Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in Sehwan in the southern Sindh province. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group claimed […]
At least nine civilians were killed and nine injured in Pakistan-administered Kashmir when an Indian artillery shell hit a passsenger bus in the disputed region on Wednesday, Pakistani officials said. "The passenger bus was attacked by Indian shelling at 8.30 in the morning, resulting in the death of nine people on-board," DSP Neelum Valley Mqsood told Al Jazeera. "The ambulance heading to the site came under attack as well and locals […]
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