By Faseeh Mangi Bloomberg

Pakistan is facing the risk of fresh floods and more deaths, after unusually severe torrential downpours triggered by climate change submerged a third of the country and killed more than 1,500 people.

The startup scene in the world's fifth-largest nation is having a breakout year. More money has flowed into Pakistan's nascent technology sector during 2021 than in the previous six years combined.

Targeting the BJP over the recently-held panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh that saw widespread violence and allegations of rigging, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra started her two-day visit to the state with a silent protest in fr

India is restricting coronavirus vaccine exports, a move that will likely hit the world's most disadvantaged nations hardest and exacerbate what the World Health Organization's head this week called a "grotesque" supply chasm between rich and poor countries.

A high-profile kidnapping of a police chief in Pakistan -- allegedly by official paramilitary troops -- has signaled deepening of the political turmoil in a country bracing for further opposition protests aimed at ousting Prime Minister Imran Khan.

China's Belt and Road program has found new life in Pakistan with $11 billion worth of projects signed in the last month, driven by a former lieutenant general who has reinvigorated the infrastructure plan that's been languishing since Prime Minister Imran Khan took office two years ago.

Perween Rahman was returning home one evening in March 2013 from her job as head of the Orangi Pilot Project, which for years has pushed land title claims for Karachi's poor, when she was shot three times by a gunman on a motorcycle.

"Doesn't it just look like Mars?" says a Pakistan Army lieutenant colonel, as laborers toil under the blinding sun, building a road across the barren deserts of Balochistan.

Pakistan is facing the risk of fresh floods and more deaths, after unusually severe torrential downpours triggered by climate change submerged a third of the country and killed more than 1,500 people.

The startup scene in the world's fifth-largest nation is having a breakout year. More money has flowed into Pakistan's nascent technology sector during 2021 than in the previous six years combined.

Targeting the BJP over the recently-held panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh that saw widespread violence and allegations of rigging, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra started her two-day visit to the state with a silent protest in fr

India is restricting coronavirus vaccine exports, a move that will likely hit the world's most disadvantaged nations hardest and exacerbate what the World Health Organization's head this week called a "grotesque" supply chasm between rich and poor countries.

A high-profile kidnapping of a police chief in Pakistan -- allegedly by official paramilitary troops -- has signaled deepening of the political turmoil in a country bracing for further opposition protests aimed at ousting Prime Minister Imran Khan.

China's Belt and Road program has found new life in Pakistan with $11 billion worth of projects signed in the last month, driven by a former lieutenant general who has reinvigorated the infrastructure plan that's been languishing since Prime Minister Imran Khan took office two years ago.

Perween Rahman was returning home one evening in March 2013 from her job as head of the Orangi Pilot Project, which for years has pushed land title claims for Karachi's poor, when she was shot three times by a gunman on a motorcycle.

"Doesn't it just look like Mars?" says a Pakistan Army lieutenant colonel, as laborers toil under the blinding sun, building a road across the barren deserts of Balochistan.