Ever since 1959, a couple of hours before the sun sets border guards from Pakistan and India line up in a large stadium. Each group stands on its side of the famous Wagah border between the two countries where they perform a stunning and theatrical (...)
The Bangladesh cricket team narrowly avoided being caught up in a shooting at a mosque in Christchurch on Friday that left 30 dead and forced the cancellation of a test match against hosts New Zealand.
At least one gunman killed 49 people and (...)
The American University in Cairo (AUC) has been playing a large role in Egypt since its foundation in 1919 by Americans devoted to education and service in the Middle East.
Throughout its history, the AUC has balanced a strong commitment to liberal (...)
Impoverished daily wage laborers in Pakistan are forced to sell their body organs to make both ends meet. DW meets a brick kiln worker near Lahore, who narrates his horrifying tale of kidney selling to an illegal racket.Muhammad Iqbal (pictured (...)
A peace activist who disappeared last year after criticising Pakistan's military has returned to his home in the eastern province of Punjab, his friends said on Friday.
Liberals have long criticised what they see as the military's use of militant (...)
The deadliest attacks in Pakistan's troubled election campaign killed on Friday at least 132 people, including a candidate, just before the arrest of disgraced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif upon his return to the country.
In the southwestern (...)
Disgraced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was in custody on Saturday, a day after the deadliest attacks in Pakistan's troubled election campaign killed more than 130 people, including a candidate.
In the southwestern province of Baluchistan, a (...)
LAHORE, July 11, 2018 (News Wires) -- A suicide bomber blew himself up at an anti-Taleban political party's rally in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including a candidate in July 25 elections, police said.
The attack on a meeting (...)
LAHORE, Pakistan, July 3, 2018 (News Wires) - Torrential monsoon rains have lashed many cities across Pakistan, flooding streets and killing three people. The deaths from Tuesday's rain were reported in the eastern city of Lahore, where residential (...)
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 25, 2018 - The deeply rooted historic relations between Egypt and Pakistan were characterised by distinction and co-operation, The All-Egypt Mufti Dr Shawki Allam said.
Addressing the military academy in Lahore, Pakistan, the (...)
ISLAMABAD, March 23, 2018 (AP) — Pakistanis celebrated on Friday their National Day with a military parade in the capital, Islamabad, showcasing short- and long-range missiles, tanks, jets, drones and other hardware. Troops, including female (...)
The first translations of the Quran into European languages, in this case Latin, took place in the Middle Ages when the intentions of the translators were not always friendly. Islam was widely seen as a competitor to Christianity, and the early (...)
A suicide bomb blast ripped through a police checkpoint in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing seven people and wounding 18, officials said.
Jam Sajjad Hussain, spokesman of a state-run rescue service, told Reuters that his (...)
Pakistani cricketer-turned-politican Imran Khan has tied the knot for the third time, his party said on Sunday, confirming his marriage to a woman local media call a "faith healer".
Khan, who captained the Pakistan team when it won the Cricket World (...)
A powerful 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck northern Afghanistan Wednesday, the USGS said, sending people in Kabul rushing into the streets with tremors felt as far away as Islamabad and New Delhi.
The quake hit at 0707 GMT near Afghanistan's (...)
Two suicide bombers stormed a packed Christian church in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding up to 56, officials said, in the latest attack claimed by Islamic State in the country.
Police guards stationed at (...)
Two suicide bombers stormed a packed Christian church in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding up to 56, officials said, in the latest attack claimed by Islamic State group in the country.
Police guards stationed (...)
Hundreds of Muslims across Pakistan have rallied against President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Friday's rallied were organized by Islamist groups in Islamabad and elsewhere in the country, where protesters (...)
Thousands of protesters in Muslim-majority countries in Asia rallied on Friday to condemn the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, as authorities tightened security outside US embassies.
Leaders in Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan (...)
Based on Demographia's report, Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, came in the 16th place directly before Egypt with a population estimated at 15.7 million on an area of 360 km2, and a density of 43,500 people per sqm.
Egypt was followed by Los (...)
Pakistan's electoral commission on Wednesday barred from contesting elections a new political party that is backed by an Islamist with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, a government official said.
Haroon Khan, a spokesman for the commission, (...)
Islamabad - A blast near parked fruit trucks has wounded ten people, collapsed the roof of small school building and destroyed a truck in the eastern city of Lahore, the Pakistani police were quoted by Fox News as saying on Monday.
Senior police (...)
A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people, many of them police, in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, officials said, shattering a period of relative calm in Pakistan's second-largest city.
The blast wrought carnage near the Lahore (...)
Ronaldinho and Ryan Giggs were among several big international football names to arrive in Pakistan on Saturday to play exhibition matches.
Dutchman George Boateng, ex-French players Robert Pires and Nicolas Anelka, former England goalkeeper David (...)
What is a true indication of a successful company? One that creates value is a common definition, but value in terms of what: economic, innovation, job creation, sustainability? Why not all of the above?
Careem is a home-grown brand; from the (...)
