India’s military has launched Operation Sindoor, striking nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, prompting swift retaliation from Islamabad in the worst fighting in more than two decades between the nuclear-armed neighbours as fears of a wider, prolonged war grow.
India has begun restricting water supplies flowing from its territory to Pakistan, with more similar measures to come, the PTI news agency has claimed, citing an anonymous source.
New Delhi has imposed a ban on imports and transit of Pakistan-produced goods, the Indian Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) announced in an order.
Pakistan’s military announced it has successfully test-fired a ballistic missile as tensions with New Delhi over a deadly shooting attack in Indian-administered Kashmir last month remain high.
New Delhi shut its airspace to Pakistani airlines, the government has announced, days after its nuclear-armed neighbour banned Indian airlines from flying over its territory following the killing of 26 men in an attack on tourists in Kashmir.
Pakistan’s minister for information and broadcasting has stated Islamabad has “credible intelligence” that India intends to launch a military strike against Pakistan within the next 24 to 36 hours, as tensions between the two countries escalate following a deadly raid in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Pakistani Railways Minister Hanif Abbasi has threatened India with a nuclear strike amid growing tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi. It follows a terrorist attack in the Indian-administered Kashmir region on Tuesday that left 26 tourists dead.
Taliban fighters have targeted “several points” in neighbouring Pakistan, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense has announced, days after Pakistani aircraft carried out aerial bombardments inside Afghanistan.
The Pakistani military has conducted air attacks in neighbouring Afghanistan, targeting hideouts of the Pakistan Taliban armed group, TTP, in Paktika province, according to security officials.
At least five police and paramilitary personnel have been killed and dozens of people wounded in Pakistan as thousands of supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan forced their way through security barriers and entered the capital Islamabad.
Three days of bitter sectarian gunfights in northwestern Pakistan have killed more than 80 people and wounded dozens more, a local official stated Sunday.
At least 24 people were killed and more than 40 wounded in a bomb blast at a railway station in Quetta in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, police and other officials told Reuters.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Islamabad, demanding the release of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been behind bars for more than a year over what his party calls politically motivated charges.
A United Nations human rights panel has urged the immediate release of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, saying he has been detained “arbitrarily in violation of international laws”.
A Pakistani court has rejected an appeal by former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to suspend a ruling that their 2018 marriage violated Islamic law.
A high court in Pakistan acquitted jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday from a conviction on charges of leaking state secrets, his lawyer and his party stated, but the politician will remain in prison for now due to a conviction in another case.
Afghanistan’s Taliban government has accused Pakistan of killing eight civilians in an air raid on Monday. The group responded by opening fire on Pakistani targets, allegedly wounding seven people.
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of Pakistan's slain first female leader Benazir Bhutto and the father of former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, was voted in as president for a second time Saturday.
Pakistani legislators have elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s prime minister for a second time following a controversial election last month which was marred by allegations of large-scale rigging and delayed results.
Pakistan’s official election results were announced by the election commission on Sunday, with independent candidates affiliated with former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party securing the most seats in the parliament.
Pakistan temporarily shut some of its land borders and suspended mobile phone services on Thursday as it beefed up security for voters in a general election that has seen a surge in militant violence in the Asian country.
Two blasts near electoral candidates' offices in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan killed 26 people and wounded dozens on Wednesday, officials confirmed, raising concerns over security on the eve of a general election.
