Pakistan

A small residential street in Rawalpindi gives little indication of industrial activity. Shop shutters clatter open in the morning, and behind one of the low gates, another world unfolds, the world of Sharjeel Minhas, the artist behind…

The death toll from a fire at the Gul Plaza shopping mall in Karachi, Pakistan, has risen to 14 as search operations continue for more than 70 missing people. Police official Asad Raza said several recovered bodies remain…

Peshawar, with its old bazaars and narrow lanes, makes history speak, and a sound is born which expresses the pulse of the Pashtoon nation, the Rubab. It starts as a humble mulberry log in the workshop of a woodcutter long before its warm…

A suicide attack on a Border Guard headquarters in Peshawar, Pakistan, left three police officers dead and five people injured. Police said three attackers opened fire while trying to enter the compound. One detonated himself at the main…

From Gujranwala to Multan, in the center of Punjab, Pakistan, there is a sweetness that has spread throughout the world. Made from sugar, jaggery, and sesame seeds, rewri is a traditional dry sweet that tells a tale of trade, community, and…

A suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the Islamabad High Court, killing at least 12 people, mostly lawyers and plaintiffs, and injuring 27, officials said. The attacker tried to enter the building, then exploded near a police…

Swat wakes beneath a curtain of morning mist, Mingora's rooftops, orchards, and the road that winds to Marghazar. On this ridge sits the White Palace (Sufaid Mahal), started in 1940 and finished in 1941 for the Wali of Swat as a summer…

Renewed clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan have once again closed key border crossings, leaving hundreds of cargo trucks stranded. Following the brief 48-hour ceasefire declared on October 15, fighting resumed, forcing the closure of…

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) announced that 18 civilians were killed and 361 injured in cross-border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan since October 10. Most casualties occurred in Kandahar’s Spin…

A truck carrying members of the same family plunged into a ditch on the Swat Highway in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing 15 people and injuring eight others. The family was reportedly traveling from Gabral to Punjab.…