ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was granted bail by the Islamabad High Court on Friday, after his arrest on corruption charges this week sparked deadly clashes before being declared illegal. The high court also ruled that Khan, who remained on the court premises,...
(AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was remanded in custody for eight days Wednesday by an anti-graft court as violent nationwide protests over his arrest erupted for a second day. Khan was arrested during a routine hearing in the capital...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Three Pakistani soldiers and seven militants were killed in multiple clashes in the country's restive northwest, the military said on Friday. The clashes occurred in the Lakki Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which shares a border with Afghanistan. In one...
LONDON, United Kingdom -- Extreme weather events in Malawi and Pakistan have driven "very sharp" rises in malaria infections and deaths, a global health chief said ahead of World Malaria Day on April 25. Cases in Pakistan last year, after devastating floods left a third of the country under water,...
KARACHI, Pakistan - International vets "nearly lost" a 17-year-old elephant in Pakistan on Wednesday after knocking her out to perform diagnostic tests, but they now hope to treat multiple issues that have left her crippled for months. Noor Jehan has been barely able to walk around her enclosure at...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan- Pakistan's year-on-year inflation hit 35.37 percent in March -- the highest in nearly five decades -- as the government scrambled to meet International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditions to unlock a desperately needed bailout. Month-on-month inflation was 3.72 percent, according to...
JURM, Afghanistan - At least 13 people were killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan by a strong earthquake felt across thousands of kilometres, but the region appeared Wednesday to have dodged the mass casualties usually associated with a tremor of such scale. A man removes debris from a damaged a house...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan said on Saturday he expected to be arrested as he headed to court on graft charges, after days of legal wrangling and pitched battles between his supporters and police. The 70-year-old former cricket star has been tangled in a slew...
LAHORE, Pakistan - Pakistan police appeared Wednesday to have given up an attempt to arrest former prime minister Imran Khan, ending a siege of his residence after violent clashes with hundreds of his supporters. AFP correspondents and witnesses near Khan's home in the plush Zaman Park suburb of...
Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo is seen here enjoying a Pakistani breakfast. But he's not in Pakistan. And he's not in the Philippines, either. Salo found this Pakistani restaurant in Deira, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The veteran lawmaker is currently on an 11-day trip to the Middle...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A pet leopard escaped from a house in the Pakistan capital and roamed the streets for hours before being shot with a sedation dart, wildlife officials said Friday. A pet leopard captured from a residential area, reacts inside a cage in a former zoo in Islamabad on February 17,...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- An IMF team left Pakistan on Friday after crisis talks with the government failed to deliver a deal on financial aid that would help the South Asian country avert economic collapse. After months of deadlock, the International Monetary Fund arrived last week for last-ditch...
