A visiting Pakistani cabinet minister has made a plea for international cricket teams to return to playing Pakistan in Pakistan.

Pakistan has test-fired a ballistic missile able to carry a nuclear warhead to every part of India. Yesterday's test was another escalation in Islamabad's effort to keep pace with its neighbouring rival's formidable military advancements.

Having endured early miseries at the World Cup, Pakistan are at least up and moving.

The spirit of 1992 is driving Pakistan ahead of today's must-win clash with Zimbabwe at the Gabba.

Misbah believes the team who can best forget the troubled history between the nations might prevail in what is expected to be the most-watched cricket game ever.

Pakistan has been plunged into darkness after the breakdown of a key power transmission line in the southern part of the country.

For the women of Pakistan, it was cause for mourning. For the conservatives in the Muslim nation, it was cause for anger. But for the man himself, it was cause for celebration.

Man suspected of planning savage attack on Peshawar school that left 132 children dead is killed in police shoot out.

Three days after Pakistan suffered its worst ever terrorist attack, with the massacre of 132 schoolchildren in Peshawar, the country has hit back.

Horrifying pictures have emerged showing the Taliban gun squad who slaughtered 132 innocent children - as a new threat to kill schoolkids was revealed.

The first lesson of the day for 10-year-old Irfan Shah at Peshawar's Army Public School was social studies.

A Taliban attack on a school in Pakistan that killed 132 children has been widely condemned as un-Muslim, abhorrent, inhumane and disgusting.

The frontier city of Peshawar was once known as "the city of flowers".

The Black Caps' win by an innings and 80 runs on the fourth day of the third test against Pakistan will rank as one of the most comprehensive in the country's history.

For New Zealand television viewers the sight of sparsely populated grounds in the United Arab Emirates has prompted concerns about how cricket survives in Pakistan.

The second test duel between Pakistan and New Zealand continued into the fourth day with the visitors making early progress with three wickets for 31 before Pakistan fought back.

New Zealand batting coach Craig McMillan put it best: "Once you score that first test hundred, you almost feel like you belong." Tom Latham belongs.

Younis Khan was in such command heading to lunch on the third day of the second test that the New Zealand bowlers would've had to land a good length ball on a piece of real estate the size of a coaster to confuse him.

NZ have lost the opening test of the series against Pakistan by 248 runs but it came amid a fighting final partnership of 54 between Ish Sodhi and Trent Boult.

Rob O'Neill under fire from fellow SEALs after he claimed he was the shooter who put three bullets into Osama bin Laden's head.

There is something irritatingly smug and condescending about some of the coverage of "the bravest girl in the world," writes Joshua Keating

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

New Zealand's batsmen are entitled to approach their demanding series against Pakistan with a touch more confidence, now that Saeed Ajmal has been rubbed out of the game.

Qureshi Ayub Mohammed and Ali Shan Muzahir have become famous for something other than their curry: they are Pakistan's first Commonwealth Games lawn bowlers.

A young couple murdered in Pakistan barely a week after they had married for love were killed as a warning to other girls not to marry without the permission of their parents, witnesses said.

Pakistan security forces relaunched their military operation at Karachi airport last night after gunfire was heard hours after all the attackers had been declared dead.

Their relationship, now the subject of feverish worldwide interest, began some six years ago, in the fields surrounding Jhok Kallu Khan, a remote Punjab village.

A New Zealander who has come home after heading the Salvation Army in Pakistan says prohibition never works, but more restrictions can reduce the harm from drugs and alcohol.