British boxer Amir Khan Wednesday hailed the decision to allow professional boxers at the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, saying he would love to represent the country of his parents' birth, Pakistan.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif successfully underwent open heart surgery in London on Tuesday, his daughter said.

A suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan on Friday accidentally detonated his vest while riding a motorcycle on an empty road, killing himself and two other militants also on bike, police said.

Pakistan leg spinner, Yasir Shah, needs four to five weeks to recover from a knee injury, officials said yesterday, putting him on track for the team’s summer tour of England.

Pakistan has eliminated "almost all" militants from China's Uighur ethnic minority on its territory, the country's president said Wednesday, as China conducts a crackdown within its own borders. President Mamnoon Hussain told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that recent anti-terror operations struck against members of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM). The group -- whose…

At least 8 people including a senior army officer were killed on when a train carrying soldiers and military hardware fell into a canal in Pakistan following the partial collapse of a bridge

A Taliban suicide bomber targeted a senior police officer in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least two policemen and wounding five other people

Gunmen on motorbikes attacked a bus in Pakistan carrying members of a religious minority, killing 43 people and wounding 19 others

A court in the Pakistani city of Mingora sentenced 10 men to life imprisonment for attempting to kill Nobel-prize winning activist Malala Yousafzai

A severe storm in northwest Pakistan, dubbed a "mini-cyclone", has killed 44 people and injured more than 200

Pakistani authorities have freed the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks on bail, sources said Friday, a move that swiftly drew furious condemnation from India. Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, accused over the terror siege that left 166 dead, was released late on Thursday, according to an official at Adiyala Prison in Rawalpindi, next to Islamabad. India…

Eight Iranian border guards have been killed in a clash with Sunni rebels who had infiltrated from neighbouring Pakistan, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.