Pakistani authorities arrest man accused in $126m US postage fraud
Faheem Akram has been charged with several offences including conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Faheem Akram has been charged with several offences including conspiracy to defraud the United States.
At least 29 people, mostly children, have been killed after the school collapsed on them in Pakistan’s Peshawar.
A teacher and twenty-seven pupils were killed when a school roof collapsed in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday, a hospital official said. More than thirty people were injured, with six of them believed to be in a critical condition.
Pakistan says it intercepted 23 suicide drones launched from Afghanistan into Pakistani airspace in September alone. Since the conflict began in February 2026, the Taliban have increasingly used drones to attack Pakistan, raising concerns in Islamabad.
Sunday's strike on King Khalid International airport kills a Pakistani national.
A fresh Houthi strike hit Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on Sunday, killing a Pakistani resident and wounding 11, Saudi authorities said. The attack followed a strike that killed at least 12 people and halted airport operations on Saturday. The Iran-backed group threatened further attacks on Saudi Arabia’s transit hubs.
Saudi authorities say a Pakistani national was killed and several people injured in a second strike on Riyadh’s Airport.
Thousands of Imran Khan supporters are on the way to Islamabad to demand his release from prison.
The pull between leaving Pakistan and staying rooted there drives “Dancers,” writer-director Eshah Shakeel’s coming-of-age drama about two young people in a Punjab town near Lahore who bond through clandestine dance lessons. The project is part of the Asian Project Market, which runs within the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents & Film Market. Paras […]
Army of internationally recognised gov't claims key gains near strait before Saudi, Pakistani, Turkish officials meet.
Supporters of jailed former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan have launched a long march towards Islamabad.
Afghan officials say at least nine women and children were killed and 11 people wounded by Pakistani air attacks.
The Taliban government in Afghanistan said at least nine civilians were killed in Pakistani airstrikes on two provinces overnight. Pakistan said it had struck militant hideouts, killing 22 fighters.
A former Fullbright scholar, Junaid Hafeez was sentenced to death under Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws. His family and lawyer told DW there is now hope a court will overturn the conviction.
The blast was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, which has stepped up attacks on Pakistani security forces in recent years.
Pakistan's security forces report ongoing cross-border fire in latest fighting with Afghanistan.
Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan move to deepen defence coordination as Houthi attacks and Yemen fighting intensify.
Pakistan says it struck 10 targets, adding the strikes were "strictly limited to identified military objectives".
Four civilians have been killed in the latest Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan.
The sons of jailed Pakistani ex-PM Imran Khan told DW their father is in ill health while being isolated from family and doctors. Other relatives have been detained ahead of a planned opposition protest.