The 19-member Cabinet of Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has been sworn into office.

Ten cars of an express train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 30 people and injuring more than 90 others.

The International Monetary Fund has agreed to provide $3 billion to Pakistan — a badly needed relief to bail out the impoverished country’s ailing economy.

Pakistan’s law minister says he expects a tougher armed response in the event of any repeat of political violence in the country.

Pakistan’s military says it has fired three senior officers over their failure to prevent violent attacks on public property and military installations by supporters of the country's former prime minister.

Pakistan’s interior minister says an estimated 350 Pakistanis were on board an overcrowded fishing boat carrying migrants that sank off Greece last week, and that many remain missing and may have died in one of the deadliest incidents in the central Mediterranean Sea.

Officials say Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has met with the head of the International Monetary Fund in Paris on the sidelines of the global financing summit in a last-ditch effort to unlock a $6 billion bailout package to help avoid a default.

Pakistan’s embattled former Prime Minister Imran Khan has softened his year-long demand for new elections and suggested a committee be formed for talks with the government to end the country’s lingering political turmoil.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has taken his legal battle to a court in the capital, Islamabad.

Thousands of Pakistan's government supporters are heading to the country's capital for a rare sit-in to protest the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Pakistan’s prime minister says authorities will go after those involved in violent protests following the detention of his predecessor, Imran Khan, including prosecution in anti-terrorism courts.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has left a high court in Islamabad after it granted him broad protection from arrest in multiple legal cases.

Pakistan is in turmoil following the arrest of popular opposition leader and former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

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

Pakistan’s government has called out the military in provinces roiled by violence following the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested and dragged from an Islamabad court as he appeared there to face charges in multiple graft cases, a dramatic escalation of political tensions that sparked violent demonstrations by his supporters in major cities.

Officials say thousands of mourners have attended the mass funeral of seven minority Shiite teachers who were shot and killed at a school in northwestern Pakistan.

Gunmen have stormed a school in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, killing seven teachers and gunning down another teacher from the school in a separate attack.

A fire has swept through an apartment building in an older neighborhood of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, killing at least 16 people and injuring another nine.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled that a decision to delay provincial elections was unconstitutional.

The United Nations children’s agency says that after last summer’s devastating floods, 10 million people in Pakistan, including children, still live in flood-affected areas without access to safe drinking water.

Police say hundreds of Muslims descended on a police station in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, snatched a blasphemy suspect from his cell and took him outside and lynched him.

Pakistan has lifted its ban on Wikipedia services that were blocked last week by the country’s media regulator for not removing purportedly blasphemous content that purportedly hurt the sentiments of Muslims.

Pakistan's military says security forces have killed two insurgents during a raid of a militant hideout in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold near the border with Afghanistan.

Officials say the death toll from Pakistan suicide bombing has risen to 74 after rescuers retrieved 15 more bodies from the rubble of the roof of a mosque that caved because of the impact of previous day's attack.

Pakistan is launching its first anti-polio campaign of the year, targeting more than 44 million children under the age of five.

Pakistan’s prime minister says that the United Arab Emirates agreed to extend a $2 billion loan to his country and provide a additional $1 billion as his nation struggles to recover from devastating floods this summer and a dire economic crisis.

Officials say a key political ally of Pakistan’s former prime minister has won a confidence vote in the Punjab Assembly to remain in his position as the top elected official.

Pakistan’s prime minister says several countries and international institutions have pledged $9.7 billion to help his country rebuild from record-breaking and deadly flooding.

Dozens of countries and international institutions pledged more than $9 billion to help Pakistan recover and rebuild from this summer's devastating floods to help the country through what the U_N_ chief called “a climate disaster of monumental scale.”.

Officials say Pakistani forces have expanded their search for the perpetrators in multiple attacks that killed six troops and wounded 17 civilians in a restive southwestern province the previous day.

A son of Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has returned home after four years in London to face corruption charges that were filed against him in 2020.

A Cabinet minister says Pakistan’s premier has named the country's former spy chief as head of the army.

Pakistan's government says it is ready to appoint a new army chief for the country as political turmoil and feuding continues to grip its political elite.

Pakistan’s new prime minister stepped onto the U.N. podium to spin a tale of floods and climate change.

Pakistan has deployed thousands more doctors and medics to battle the outbreak of disease as the death toll from the unprecedented floods that have gripped the country this summer surpassed 1,600.

Two of the world’s most persistent conflicts have punctuated debate at the United Nations.

Pakistan’s prime minister says his government will ensure people are compensated for homes lost to the country's worst-ever floods, which have killed 1,481 people since mid-June.

Pakistan's prime minister says his government is grappling with food shortages following months of deadly floods in the impoverished nation.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres toured Pakistan’s flood-ravaged Sindh and Baluchistan provinces a day after saying the world is obligated to provide “massive” amounts of relief to the impoverished country.

The U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has arrived in Pakistan on a two-day solidarity visit during which he will travel to flood-hit areas.

Pakistani engineers have cut into an embankment for one of the country’s largest lakes to release rising waters.

Officials say flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across much of Pakistan have killed nearly 1,000 people and displaced thousands more since mid-June.

Pakistan’s prime minister is asking for international help for the impoverished nation's flood victims.

A Pakistani court has barred police from arresting the country's former prime minister until Sept. 1.

Officials say that recent heavy rains have wreaked havoc across Pakistan since mid-June, with 903 dead and about 50,000 people homeless.

The International Monetary Fund says it has reached a preliminary agreement on a $6 billion bailout package for Pakistan.

A minister in Pakistan’s newly elected government is facing criticism following his plea to the nation to drink less tea to help save on imports amid a deepening economic crisis.

Pakistan’s defiant former Prime Minister Imran Khan has called off a planned, open-ended sit-in in Islamabad.

Months of economic discontent in Pakistan have been capped by days of tense drama.

Pakistan’s parliament has elected opposition lawmaker Shahbaz Sharif as the new prime minister, following a week of political turmoil that led to the weekend ouster of Premier Imran Khan.