Pakistan

The world at war: the flashpoints that the west ignores
While all eyes are on the Middle East and Ukraine, brutality still reigns in many other regions suffering many other conflicts
Simon Tisdall
02, Feb, 2025 @7:00 AM

Stories woven in cloth in Pakistan’s first textile museum
Nasreen and Hasan Askari open Karachi museum with her 1,000-piece centuries old collection from trade crossroads
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
27, Jan, 2025 @10:30 AM

What went wrong with ‘Pakistan’s Dubai’? – inside the Chinese initiative that is prompting terror attacks
The small port city of Gwadar has a huge new airport funded by China, but local suspicion of Beijing’s true intentions threatens to wreck the project
Shah Meer Baloch in Gwadar and Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
26, Jan, 2025 @5:00 AM

Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan sentenced to 14 years in prison in corruption case
Former leader and wife found guilty of illegally obtaining lucrative plots of land in deal with property tycoon
Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent
17, Jan, 2025 @4:18 PM

Pakistan PM orders inquiry after national airline ad accused of evoking 9/11 imagery
Online advertisement by PIA is called ‘stupidity’ by finance minister, who said PM Shehbaz Sharif had ordered an investigation
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
16, Jan, 2025 @5:49 AM

Bapsi Sidhwa obituary
Pakistani author whose novels offered an insight into the Parsi community and highlighted the challenges of reconciling different cultures
Shah Meer Baloch
10, Jan, 2025 @2:56 PM

Tory and Reform MPs accused of ‘weaponising trauma’ of grooming victims, as Farage calls for inquiry to focus on Pakistani men – as it happened
Prime minister told Commons any new inquiry into child abuse would delay progress however spokesperson says he has not ruled one out
Andrew Sparrow
08, Jan, 2025 @6:12 PM

Killed birds, rotting sculpture and a PM’s execution: the Pakistani artists who defied a dictator
A dazzling exhibition of Pakistan’s art and architecture – some of it never before loaned outside the country – shows how the repressive 11-year regime of Zia-ul-Haq triggered an extraordinary resistance
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
30, Dec, 2024 @4:34 PM

Manmohan Singh obituary
Prime minister of India who brought in economic reforms and forged a new relationship with the US
Mark Tully and Randeep Ramesh
29, Dec, 2024 @4:37 PM

At least 30 children die from drug shortages in Pakistan after sectarian violence
Key roads closed in Kurram, a hotbed of sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni Muslims for decades
Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad
20, Dec, 2024 @4:01 PM

Pakistan and Bahamas join push for global pact to phase out fossil fuels
Climate-vulnerable pair add weight to proposed treaty seeking transition from coal, oil and gas in equitable way
Nina Lakhani Climate justice reporter
18, Dec, 2024 @12:53 PM

At least five dead as migrant boat capsizes in Greek waters
Coastguard reports rescue of 39 survivors from boat that set out from Libya, but hopes fade for other passengers
Helena Smith in Athens
14, Dec, 2024 @8:39 PM
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