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A Christian man is in hiding in Pakistan after a neighbor accused him of blasphemy for sharing a Bible passage on Facebook.

Israel on Tuesday banned the Pakistan-based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, perpetrators of the Mumbai massacre in November 2008.

Miss Pakistan, Erica Robin, wore a burkini during the swimsuit competition at the Miss Universe pageant on Saturday.

The Taliban regime in Afghanistan sent a high-level trade delegation to Pakistan on Tuesday for trilateral talks that included Uzbekistan.

November 1 is Pakistan’s deadline for all undocumented migrants to leave the country, or else authorities will forcibly deport them.

Three people were killed and one more injured during a raging hours-long battle between migrant smuggling gangs at the Serbia-Hungary border.

Pakistani media reported on Monday that the government has deported 59,561 Afghan migrants in less than a month, with seven days to go until Islamabad’s deadline for all illegal migrants to return to Afghanistan.

A powerful suicide bomb was detonated near a mosque in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Friday, killing at least 52 and injuring 70 more at last report.

Prime Minister of Pakistan Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar used his address to the United Nations to demand that nations outlaw “Islamophobia.”

Tom West, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan, said on Tuesday that the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan have “significantly degraded” their rivals in the Islamic State, including the liquidation of several top ISIS leaders since the Taliban took over in 2021.

Pakistan accused the Afghan Taliban of building “unlawful structures” on the border and engaging in “indiscriminate firing” at Pakistanis.

A Pakistani international cricketer was sentenced for placing a bounty on the head of Geert Wilders, but the Netherlands doesn’t have an extradition treaty with Pakistan. 

The Pakistani military said on Wednesday that its border forces repelled an attack from a “large group of terrorists” from Afghanistan. The invaders attacked two Pakistani outposts in the Kalash valley using the “latest weapons,” which is how Pakistani officials often refer to the American equipment abandoned in Afghanistan during President Joe Biden’s disastrous 2021 withdrawal.

American taxpayers are being forced to pay for illegal immigrants to be housed in NYC at the Roosevelt Hotel, which is owned by Pakistan.

Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan, told a state television audience on Friday that President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 unleashed a wave of terrorist attacks in the Pakistani border region – and some of those terrorists used American equipment abandoned by Biden.

The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday suspended former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s conviction on corruption charges.

A mob reportedly made of up as many as 10,000 men began burning down, looting, and otherwise violently assaulting Christian communities in Jaranwala, Pakistan, on Wednesday in response to reports that a Christian man had allegedly desecrated a Quran.

The Intercept on Wednesday published a report on a long-rumored Pakistani government document that supports former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s claim that the U.S. government wanted to force him out of office.

India has quietly banned its growing domestic drone industry from using Chinese parts due to fears of security vulnerabilities.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested on Saturday within minutes of a court sentencing him in absentia to three years in prison on corruption charges.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan awoke Sunday in a high-security prison after a court handed him a three-year jail sentence,

Gangs do battle with police and each other, leaving at least one dead and locals sleeping on the floor so not to catch a stray bullet in bed.

A suspected suicide bombing killed at least 46 people and injured over 150 at an Islamist political event near the Afghan border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan, on Sunday, believed to have been attended by hundreds of people.

After weeks in Libya trying to reach Europe illegally, Muhammad turned back, abandoning a journey that’s cost hundreds of lives this year.

Muslim-majority nations expressed outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden. Some prepared for street demonstrations.

United Nations votes to adopt resolution on Qur’an burning at ‘urgent meeting’ convened for Pakistan, a cheerleader for global blasphemy laws

Peruvian officials on Sunday announced they had intercepted 23 Afghans in the custody of migrant traffickers operating along the border with Brazil. The migrants included four children, one of them a two-month-old baby.

India asserted itself as the lone member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) not to endorse communist China’s predatory Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) during a virtual summit Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted on Tuesday.

The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday called for international laws to punish burning the Quran, following a demonstration in Sweden last week in which a man burned a copy of the Muslim holy book on the first day of the Eid al-Adha holiday.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), an international organization heavily funded by the United States, on Friday reached an agreement with Pakistan to provide $3 billion in short-term financial aid. The Pakistani bond market perked up at news that a potential debt default crisis has been delayed, but not enough to suggest that investors see a bright future for Pakistan’s finances.

According to U.N. investigators, at least three high-ranking officials in the Taliban regime have strong links to al-Qaeda.

Pakistan widens manhunt for human traffickers after a tragedy off the Greek coast last week that left more than 500 migrants feared drowned.

Anastazja Rubinska was found dead after a search for the missing Polish citizen, with a 32-year-old Bangladeshi citizen arrested.

Petroleum Minister Musadik Malik of Pakistan confirmed on Monday that his country made a major purchase of Russian crude oil using the Chinese yuan currency, presented as a rare public relations victory for a government struggling to contain routine riots.

The government of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif appears to have found a temporary solution, at least, to the problem of his predecessor and rival Imran Khan: a directive requiring the media to screen out “hatemongers, rioters, their facilitators and perpetrators” has effectively blacked out news coverage of Khan and his political comeback campaign.

Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said on Wednesday that his government is considering a ban on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the political party of Imran Khan.