Islamabad

Afghanistan

Pakistan expels 165,000 Afghan migrants back to Afghanistan

Aid agencies have warned that Afghans forcibly deported from Pakistan to Afghanistan are in dire need of assisance.

03/11/2023

Pakistan

Additional police depolyed as Imran Khan appears in court

Pakistan's former prime minister has appeared before a court in Islamabad on Tuesday to seek protection from arrest in terrorism cases.

23/05/2023

Pakistan

Pakistani ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan granted bail after arrest

Islamabad high court gives ex-PM Imran Khan 2-week reprieve from arrest in graft case, grants bail.

12/05/2023

Pakistan

Islamist protests in Pakistan halt as law minister resigns

A national protest by hardline Islamists in Pakistan has been cancelled following the resignation of the law minister who was accused of blasphemy.

27/11/2017

Pakistan

Islamist protests sweep Pakistan after police crackdown

Unrest spreads from Islamabad to other major cities after police try to clear a sit-in by religious hardliners paralysing the capital.

25/11/2017

Pakistan

More than 40 feared dead in northern Pakistan plane crash

A Pakistan International Airlines flight has crashed between Chitral and Islamabad with at least 42 people on board.

07/12/2016

Pakistan

Pakistan passenger plane crashes with more than 40 on board

A passenger plane with more than 40 people on board has crashed in Pakistan on its way to Islamabad from the northern region of Chitral.

07/12/2016

Pakistan

Save the Children Fund expelled from Pakistan

The doors to the Save the Children Fund offices have been locked in Pakistan and the charity’s work stopped. Police took the action in Islamabad

12/06/2015

Pakistan

Pakistan: At least 11 killed in rare central Islamabad suicide-bomb attack

03/03/2014