Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif admitted that Islamabad had "violated" an agreement with India signed by him and ex-prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999, in an apparent reference to the Kargil misadventure by Gen Pervez Musharraf.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s founding chairman and jailed former prime minister Imran Khan hinted at launching a street agitation to protest what he called “political persecution” of his party workers and instructed his party’s leadership and...

Police in Pakistan’s Punjab province booked over 450 people and arrested 25 of them under terrorism and other charges for attacking members of the minority Christian community and police personnel on the issue of the alleged desecration of a...

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted bail on land corruption charges but will have to stay in jail to serve time in two other cases, his lawyer said. The former cricket superstar was indicted last week on charges that he and...

The wife of former Pakistan PM Imran Khan was moved from house arrest to the same jail as her husband, lawyers said, where the pair will serve matching prison terms for illegal marriage. Bushra Bibi, 49, and Khan, 71, have both been convicted...

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif approved $82.6 million (Pak Rs 2,300cr) for Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) in a bid to halt violent protests and strikes against escalating electricity tariffs, flour prices and taxes. The protests have left a police...

In a bid to enhance tax compliance, PM Shehbaz Sharif-led govt has directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and other telecom companies to block the mobile phone SIMs of over 500,000 people who have not submitted their tax returns.

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif expressed optimism regarding release of IMF’s final $1.1 billion tranche of a $3 billion bailout to the country, saying it would bolster economic stability. Pakistan is now eyeing a new, longer and larger economic...

Pakistan’s business community has urged PM Shehbaz Sharif to initiate trade with India and “shake hands” with jailed former PM and PTI founder Imran Khan as steps to bring economic and political stability to the country.

Former PM and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Yusuf Raza Gilani has been elected as chairman of the senate, the upper house of parliament, after Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) boycotted the elections for the top position.