The chairman of Pakistan's senate says the body will not welcome any U.S. delegation, member of Congress or dignitary in Islamabad. The move comes after the U.S. failed to issue a visa to the senate's deputy chairman, a member of the right-wing Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam political party. Chairman Raza Rabbani says in a statement that no Pakistani senate delegation will visit the U.S. until an explanation for the delay in issuing a visa to Maulana Ghafoor Haideri is given by U.S. authorities.

A young woman, who was three-months pregnant, was mercilessly killed by her husband and accomplices over a domestic dispute in Karimabad Muhalla of Jacobabad on Monday night. The victim, 20-year-old Hawa, was married to a man named Mehram Panhwar, while her brother was married to Mehram’s sister as per the watta-satta tradition. “Following some domestic dispute a few days ago, Mehram sent my daughter to my house and took away his sister,” said Hawa’s father, Ghulam Nabi Jakhro.

Pakistani police say masked gunmen have shot and killed a journalist in southwestern Baluchistan province. Police officer Muhammad Ali said Friday that 37-year-old Muhammad Jan was returning home late Thursday night when targeted in Kalat, some 160 kilometers south of the provincial capital Quetta.

Mohammad Ramzan is deaf and mute and has a childlike mind. But he knew his wife, Saima, was too young when she was given to him as a bride. The 36-year-old uses his fingers to count out her age when they married. When he reaches 13, he stops and looks at her, points and nods several times. The girl’s father, Wazir Ahmed, says she was 14, not 13, but her age was beside the point. It mattered only that she had reached puberty when he arranged her marriage as an exchange...

Kabul’s foreign policy approach has shifted between favoring India and Pakistan since the partition. By Ahmad Bilal Khalil.

I am standing near the roundabout at Karachi’s famed Hassan Square, trying to decide if walking in the brutal afternoon heat is a good idea. I haven’t walked the length of this street in over a decade. There is a sign for Mukka Chowk, a roundabout that features a fist, built to commemorate the first prime minister and a symbol of the strength of Karachi’s immigrant population. I stop to stare at my old apartment building. I cross pedestrian bridges; steel traps that I am convinced will one day collapse and send me plummeting to the ground.

Every second woman in Pakistan suffers from some form of domestic violence that has an extremely damaging effect on her physical and mental well-being, said Dr Tazeen Saeed Ali during a session held on Saturday as part of the three-day national health sciences research symposium being organised at the Aga Khan University (AKU).

Two Pakistan men allegedly gouged their sister’s eyes out and cut her feet off in an “honour killing” after they suspected her of kidnapping. The pair are believed to have cut out the eyes of 40-year-old Shareefan Bibi with a “sharp knife” and sliced away her limbs before fleeing from the scene. She was reportedly taken to a rural health centre on Tuesday, and in turn, a hospital in the city of Multan, where she was placed in a critical condition.

Police in Muslim-majority Pakistan tortured a 9-year-old Christian boy accused of burning the Quran while he and his mother were detained for four days, reveals the London-based charity British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA). In a move described as unprecedented by the charity, the Pakistani authorities dropped the blasphemy charges against them after some human rights activists and politicians in the country intervened and joined forces to secure their release four days after they were arrested on October 21.

A Pakistani court on Thursday ordered the closure of all liquor shops in the southern province of Sindh, officials said, cutting off one of the few legal alcohol sources in the Muslim-majority country. Although Pakistani Muslims are banned from drinking alcohol, the country's minorities, mainly Hindus and Christians, face no such prohibition. However, critics argue that the licensed liquor shops also sell to Muslims.

Malala Yousafzai may only be 19 years old, but she’s already accomplished more than most people aspire to in a lifetime. In addition to being a staunch advocate for girls’ education rights around the globe, the Pakistani native is the youngest person to ever win a Nobel Peace Prize and she also has a bestselling memoir under her belt. Now, she’s revealing one more goal: to one day become the prime minister of Pakistan. Speaking at the Investing in the Future conference in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday...

The world must stamp out child marriages and provide young girls with an education so they can live a better life. Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai told a conference in Sharjah yesterday, that too many people in her homeland of Pakistan, and other countries, allow the archaic practice to continue. The 19-year-old Pakistani campaigner, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for speaking out about children’s education, said learning

Delhi: Pakistan's chief justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali has hit out at some political parties of the country for endorsing terrorism. As per India Today, Justice Jamali told a Pakistani TV channel, "It is disappointing to see some political parties supporting terrorists for their own interest." He added that terrorists were targeting courts in Pakistan to instill fear among lawyers and judges and pointed out that terrorism was flourishing in Pakistan due to internal patronization.

Bluntly calling Pakistan a terrorist state and a global epicenter of terrorism, India on Wednesday told the United Nations that Islamabad's use of terrorism as instrument of state policy is a war crime. "The worst violation of human rights is terrorism. When practiced as an instrument of state policy it is a war crime," a junior Indian diplomat tasked with exercising India's right of reply to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's speech, in which he had raised the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir, said.

A teenage boy has been arrested in Pakistan after “liking” an allegedly blasphemous Facebook post. Police say the teenager, who is Christian, has been jailed pending trial in the province of Punjab for sharing the post on social media. Some reports said the defendant was 16, while others named him as 18-year-old Nabeel Chohan.

In a shocking setback to Islamabad, two US lawmakers have moved a bill to designate Pakistan as a ‘state sponsor of terrorism’, Times of India reported Wednesday. The move testifies to growing complexity of relations between the two ostensibly major allies in the ‘war against terror.’ The bill, HR 6069 or the Pakistan State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act, enjoins the US administration to make a formal call on the matter within four months of its passage.

A British woman who died in Pakistan in a so-called honour killing was raped before her death, the officer in charge of the investigation has said. Samia Shahid, 28, from Bradford, died in July in northern Punjab. The Pakistani chief investigator also told the BBC Ms Shahid's father and former husband carried out her murder. He added he was seeking to have her mother and sister returned to Pakistan to be questioned about their role in the murder.

Pakistan has told all three million Afghan refugees within its borders to leave - causing chaos on its borders, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan reports.

Two rare and ancient Buddha statues have been unearthed at the Bhamala Stupa site in Pakistan. The largest ever statue found at the site depicts the death of ancient sage Buddha.

Pakistan's ruling party plans to pass long-delayed legislation against "honor killings" within weeks in the wake of the high-profile murder of an outspoken social media star, the daughter of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Wednesday. The bill will go before a parliamentary committee as early as Thursday, said Maryam Nawaz Sharif, who is an increasingly influential member of her father's ruling party.