Hungry victims of floods in southwestern Pakistan rioted, protesting slow, meager aid reaching their marooned villages.
TURBAT, Pakistan (AP) -- Hungry victims of monsoon-spawned floods in Pakistan rioted over the slow, meager aid reaching their marooned villages, where many feared the receding waters will yield numerous bodies.
Representatives of India, Iran and Pakistan are set to meet for a second day here amid reports they were getting closer to a deal on a multi-billion dollar pipeline to transport gas from energy-rich Iran through Pakistan.
Pakistan's Interior Ministry has warned that Islamic militants and Taliban fighters were rapidly spreading beyond the country's lawless tribal areas.
India, Pakistan and Iran are close to signing an agreement on transporting natural gas from Iran to the two South Asian countries via a land pipeline by 2011, Indian officials said Friday.
The BBC Urdu service's Masud Alam looks at how Pakistan's press has resisted attempts to control it.
The Pakistan Cricket Board is trying to resolve a split over who should be the next coach of the national team.
Pakistan remained reluctant to lift bans on Indian films and television after a two-day conference between the country's' cultural secretaries in Islamabad.
ISLAMABAD, Jun3 30 (Bernama) -- Indian films and TV channels will remain banned in Pakistan, as Islamabad showing reluctance to lift the restriction on these at the two-day talks between the Cultural Secretaries here Friday.
TURBAT, Pakistan (AFP) - Pakistani police fired tear gas to disperse a protest by some of the 1.1 million victims of a cyclone Friday, as fresh storms hit India and flooded villages awaiting help in Afghanistan.