January 14, 2020 Severe winter weather, avalanches in Pakistan, Afghanistan kill 70 more people The death toll continued to climb Tuesday in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and neighboring Afghanistan after severe winter weather combined with a harsh cold snap led to numerous avalanches across the region.
January 13, 2020 Severe winter weather, extreme cold kill at least 54 in Afghanistan, Pakistan Severe winter weather combined with a harsh cold snap has left dozens dead across Afghanistan and Pakistan as officials work to reopen highways and evacuate people cut off by heavy snowfall and flash flooding.
December 22, 2019 Pakistan sentences Muslim professor to death for anti-Islamic ‘blasphemy’ A Muslim professor in Pakistan was sentenced to death Saturday for allegedly spreading anti-Islamic ideas on social media.
December 19, 2019 Pakistan court calls for ex-leader Musharraf to be hanged, even if he dies before serving death sentence Pakistan is going one grisly step further in its vendetta against former president Pervez Musharraf.
December 18, 2019 Indian protests erupt as high court postpones hearing challenges to new immigration law Demonstrations erupted once again across India on Wednesday following a decision by the country's Supreme Court to postpone hearing challenges to a controversial new immigration law that grants citizenship on the basis of religion.
December 17, 2019 Pervez Musharraf, former president of Pakistan, sentenced to death for treason Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former president who has been living outside the country, was sentenced to death in absentia Tuesday on charges of high treason stemming from his decision to suspend the constitution and detain judges in 2007.
December 16, 2019 Violent protests in India over immigration law as PM Modi calls for calm Fierce protests in cities across India continued Monday over a controversial new citizenship law that gives special treatment to Hindu and other non-Muslim migrants in the Asian nation.
December 11, 2019 India expected to pass law approving citizenship for nearby refugees--unless they're Muslim Indian lawmakers approved legislation Wednesday granting citizenship to migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, but only if they are not Muslim.
December 11, 2019 Pakistan lawyers storm hospital to avenge doctors’ alleged abuse of colleague, at least 2 patients die: police At least two heart patients died at a cardiology hospital in Pakistan on Wednesday after hundreds of lawyers besieged the complex in retaliation for what they said was an assault by doctors on one of their colleagues, authorities said.
December 6, 2019 London Bridge attacker's body flown to Pakistan for burial: report The body of Usman Khan, the convicted terrorist who killed two people in the London Bridge stabbing attack has been released by the city of London and flown to Pakistan.
