Pakistan

Stained glass windows, a sweeping staircase and embellished interiors make Mohatta Palace a gem in Karachi, a Pakistani megacity of 20 million people.

Gunmen killed at least 37 people in separate attacks in southwest Pakistan on Monday, officials said.

Pakistan’s air force has launched retaliatory airstrikes on Iran allegedly targeting militant positions.

A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle at a police station’s main gate in northwest Pakistan early Tuesday, killing at least 22 officers and wounding 32 others.

An elite Kenyan police unit has gone on trial on charges of wrongful death in the killing an outspoken Pakistani journalist in Nairobi a year ago.

The United Nations children’s agency is warning that a year on from Pakistan’s catastrophic floods, millions of children still need humanitarian assistance and access to essential services.

Members of Pakistan’s military were deployed Tuesday to rescue six children and two adults trapped on a broken cable car, which was left dangling hundreds of feet over a steep canyon.

Pakistani authorities say all eight people trapped in a cable car suspended high above a canyon have been rescued.

Police in eastern Pakistan arrested 129 Muslims overnight after a Muslim mob angered over an alleged desecration of the Quran attacked churches and homes of minority Christians, prompting authorities to summon soldiers to restore order.

A Pakistani mountaineer says an investigation has been launched into the death of a Pakistani porter near the peak of the world’s most treacherous mountain.

An explosion at a political rally on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan killed at least 44 people and wounded nearly 200 in a Sunday attack that a senior leader called aimed at weakening the Islamist party.