Authorities say a magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck northern Pakistan, killing at least one person and damaging dozens of homes.

A gas cylinder explosion early Sunday after a wedding reception at a home in Pakistan's capital killed at least eight people, including the bride and groom, police and officials said.

Pakistan was one of the first and most vocal supporters of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan after the Taliban retook Kabul in August 2021. Islamabad saw the fall of the Ashraf Ghani-led Republic as a chance to enhance its strategic influence in Afghanistan after two decades of war.

Pakistan's defence manufacturing industry is running red hot since its jets, drones and missiles earned the coveted 'combat tested' tag in a conflict with India last year, attracting a slew of interested buyers.

Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khwaja Asif has courted controversy after inaugurating a Pizza Hut outlet in Sialkot, which the company has declared ‘fake’. The nation’s ever-so-controversial minister has been brutally slammed online,

Before the First Test at Multan, England head coach Brendon McCullum said his side's 3-0 whitewash in Pakistan two years earlier had been an "outlier". When they racked up 823 for seven a few days later,

There is no formal India-UAE-Israel military alliance today, just as Turkey has not formally joined any Saudi-Pakistan defence bloc. What exists is strategic hedging.

Pakistan has launched a significant PR campaign, with support from some foreign media, to position its co-developed JF-17 Thunder as a major defense export success