A pre-monsoon thunderstorm knocked down houses, severed electrical cables and killed 228 people in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, officials said.
Pakistan evacuated thousands of people from southern coastal areas ahead of a possible cyclone, two days after a storm killed at least 235 people in the port city of Karachi, officials said.
Collapsed houses and severed electrical cables killed at least 228 people after heavy rains and thunderstorms lashed Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, an official said Sunday.
A security guard shot dead a Taliban militant when rebels tried to attack the foreign principal of a school in northwest Pakistan, police said.
Italy agreed Monday to return 96 ancient looted items to Pakistan, urging other countries to do the same.
A 32-year-old Afghan woman living in southwest Pakistan has given birth to quintuplets, in what is thought to be the first such case for the country's huge refugee population, doctors said Monday.
Pakistan says that Nato needs to act more carefully after civilians are killed in Pakistan from cross-border fire.
A 32-year-old Afghan woman living in southwest Pakistan has given birth to quintuplets, in what is thought to be the first such case for the country's huge refugee population, doctors said.
_ Pakistan has decided to embark on the indigenous manufacture of 300-megawatt commercial nuclear power plants to meet growing energy needs, reliable official sources have said.
One person was killed as enraged residents rioted over widespread power outages in the wake of a storm that left more than 200 dead in Pakistan's largest city, police said Monday.