Britain scrambled fighter jets on Friday to intercept a commercial airliner carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan, diverting it to an isolated runway at an airport on the outskirts of London...
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- Oct 4, 2013
- Updated: 12:18am
Pakistan cricket star turned politician Imran Khan sustained head injuries and was rushed to hospital Tuesday after falling off a lift taking him onto the stage for an election rally, his party...
Bangladesh have agreed to tour Pakistan early next year and become the first team to play international cricket there since the 2009 attack on Sri Lanka's team bus, officials said yesterday.
More than 310 people have perished in fires that gutted factories in Pakistan's two largest cities, in tragedies that prompted calls for an overhaul of poor industrial safety standards, officials...
Our editors will catch up on these developing stories when we return ...
Tsang to make final Beijing briefing
The classic definition of a failed state is one whose central government is so weak or ineffective that it has little practical control over its territory. I predicted, at the start of the year...
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid
Hamish Hamilton, HK$176
Direct flights from Hong Kong to Pakistan, priced at $4,600, will be available from the first week of June.
Lahore: Unidentified assailants shot dead a Shi'ite Muslim in Faisalabad, in Pakistan's Punjab province, four days after a massacre of 28 Shi'ites in the provincial capital Lahore.
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Pakistan, recognised as the second most corrupt country in the world, has another title to its credit - it stands third among the nations which have the largest number of donkeys, reports The...
THE recently restored Makli Hills at Thatta, near Lahore, is considered to be the biggest necropolis in the world with more than one million graves.
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