Salman Masood

Retaliation could risk drawing the country, which is already mired in political and economic crises, into Middle East upheaval that it has so far avoided.

Tensions have been rising between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and violence in the border area has increased since Pakistan directed all undocumented foreigners to leave the country.

An express train carrying at least 950 passengers was traveling from Karachi to Havelian when 10 carriages fell off the tracks, officials said.

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The former prime minister accused military and government officials of plotting the attack that wounded him as political violence welled up around Pakistan.

Stranded in their cars on snow-covered roads, some in the mountainside town of Murree froze to death and others died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

The agreement between the nuclear-armed neighbors to keep a lid on tensions along the so-called Line of Control was welcomed in the region.

At least some of the passengers were engineers traveling to a Chinese-funded hydropower project in the country’s remote northwest.

An inoculation push, plagued with limited supplies and red tape, makes doses available to those who can pay for them. In a country with a struggling economy, most can’t.

The F-16 crash in Islamabad occurred during preparation for the annual Pakistan Day commemoration.