Pakistan

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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