Pakistan news headlines

An Australia actor is among the many citizens who have been forced to take shelter after Gaza's militant Hamas rulers attacked Israel by air, land and sea.

The doctor who allegedly led the ring had been arrested multiple times before.

TV footage and videos on social media showed an open area near a mosque strewn with the shoes of the dead and wounded.

The 10-year-old's father, stepmother and uncle have been charged with her murder

They flew to Pakistan hours before Sara was found, with her father and his wife going into hiding, sparking a police manhunt.

The manhunt for Sara Sharif's runaway father and stepmother continues but the dead UK girl's five siblings have been ordered into government custody by a Pakistan court.

Dozens of police smashed into Sara's grandfather's home in Pakistan, seizing five young children and CCTV cameras

The mother and grandmother of Sara Sharif have described how they barely recognised the 10-year-old schoolgirl in the mortuary.

Sara Sharif was found dead on August 10 at her Surry home in the UK. Police believe her father, Urfan Sharif, and stepmother, Beinash Batool, travelled to Pakistan the next day.

Sara's grandfather tried to explain the reasons why his son fled the UK and has gone into hiding in Pakistan.

Urfan Sharif wanted eight plane tickets to Pakistan, and he wanted them quickly.

Islamabad High Court said it was granting bail to Khan on the completion of a surety bond of 100,000 Pakistani rupees ($508) in a legal victory for the hugely popular but embattled former prime minister.

Survivors said they would never forget their 16-hour ordeal dangling high over a valley.

The dramatic rescue efforts, 274 metres over a valley, transfixed the country for hours as Pakistanis crowded around televisions in offices, shops, restaurants and hospitals.

Sara's uncle told police about a supposed fatal accident in family's UK home, but he insists he's got no idea where the girl's wanted father is hiding.

Sara suffered extensive injuries over a sustained period before her dead body was found in home.

Sara's dad, his partner and his brother all left the UK for Pakistan one day before her fatally beaten body was discovered in her London home.

A crowd vandalised eight churches and several homes of Christians following accusations of blasphemy against Islam.

By climbing K2 that day, they became the world's fastest climbers, scaling the world's 14 highest mountains in 92 days.

An avalanche of hate is being directed the way of climbers who are accused of ignoring a dying man while trying to summit the world's second-highest mountain K2.

Women and children are among he dead and the authorities have warned the death toll could rise.

The political future of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan was thrown into doubt Saturday when police arrested him at home after a court handed him a three-year jail sentence for asset concealment.

Video showed wounded people being carried from the scene in the chaotic aftermath of the explosion.

A young girl from Pakistan battling a rare and debilitating condition has undergone life-changing surgery in Australia.

Khan was previously arrested in May by Pakistani authorities in connection with a corruption case, which sparked deadly unrest across the country.

Suleman Dawood, 19, had serious reservations about the voyage, it's been revealed, as OceanGate comes under increasing scrutiny.

A plane flying overhead has picked up "banging sounds", but the clock is ticking fast.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan tweeted that police were surrounding his house in an upscale area of the eastern city of Lahore and he could be arrested.

A high court in Islamabad on Friday granted former Prime Minister Imran Khan protection from arrest in a graft case and ordered him freed on bail.

Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, whose arrest on corruption charges earlier this week sparked a wave of violence across the country by his supporters.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan can be held for eight days, a court has ruled.

An ally denounced the arrest as "an abduction". TV broadcast images of the 72-year-old being pulled by security forces towards an armoured vehicle, which took him away.

As the world reached a human population of eight billion last November, more population milestones loom.

From an infamous passage with a morbid name in Bolivia, to the United Kingdom and USA, these are the most treacherous roads in the world.

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake has rattled much of Afghanistan and Pakistan, sending panicked residents fleeing from their homes and frightening people even in remote villages.

Riot police wielded batons and fired tear gas while Imran Khan's supporters threw fire bombs and hurled rocks at the officers.

A top Pakistani court suspended an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Imran Khan, giving him a reprieve to travel to Islamabad and face charges in a graft case without being detained.

Nuclear weapons have only been used twice in the history of warfare, but the nine countries that now have warheads of their own have a combined stockpile in the thousands.

A suicide bombing that struck inside a mosque at a police and government compound in northwest Pakistan reflects "security lapses," current and former officials said as the death toll from the devastating blast climbed to 100 on Tuesday.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives during crowded prayers at a mosque inside a police compound in Pakistan on Monday, causing the roof to cave in.

A passenger bus has crashed into a pillar and fallen off a bridge, catching fire and killing 40 people in southern Pakistan, a government official says.

Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo in his new book reveals the frantic diplomacy to rein in tensions.

Pakistan deployed police and troops to the area after the takeover.

The shooting of Pakistan's former leader was an "assassination attempt", a party spokesman told rallygoers.

This year's Diwali celebrations are underway. Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs across the world are marking the festival of lights this month.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan will be disqualified from holding political office for five years, the Election Commission of Pakistan ruled, a move likely to further inflame political tensions in the country.

More than 30,000 refugees living in Australia are still on various temporary visas, limiting their ability to work, study, reunite with their loved ones and create stable lifestyles. 

In flood-stricken Pakistan where an unprecedented monsoon season has killed hundreds of people, the rains now threaten a famed archeological site dating back 4500 years, the site’s chief official said today.

K2 is just one bad weather event away from "a massive, massive disaster" that could cause between 20-30 deaths

Pakistan is home to more of the world's glaciers than anywhere outside the polar regions - and now they're melting, adding even more impetus to the flooding that is drowning the country.