A blast at a market in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore has killed at least five people

A second wife in a polygamous may be regarded as a solo parent and entitled to a solo-parent benefit.

Royal Air Force fighter jets escorted a Pakistani civilian airliner to Stansted Airport near London on Tuesday after a passenger became disruptive.

Ahmed Khan possesses a bizarre talent.

Yasir Mohib hit his wife with a hammer after she complained he wasn't holding her hand. At first he was allowed to walk free, but has now been sentenced to jail time.

Mark Nicholas is back in hospital, after suffering from severe abdominal pains.

Even in Pakistan, where hundreds of "honour killings" are reported every year, this case was extreme.

A plane carrying about 40 people has crashed in northern Pakistan, with witnesses at the site of the flaming wreckage saying there were unlikely to be any survivors.

The sister of the San Bernardino shooter has spent months trying to adopt her niece, but so far is only allowed to see her in six-hour regular visits.

A man has admitted he killed his daughter and dumped her body outside a hospital in Pakistan.

India has started constructing underground bunkers along its frontier with Pakistan in Kashmir amid fears they are preparing for a major escalation.

A district court judge discharged a man who beat his wife after she complained they weren't holding hands while watching a movie - but that decision has now been overturned.

Islamic State has suffered a blow after the leader of the group's Afghanistan and Pakistan branches was killed in a US drone strike, the Pentagon says.

The brother of a murdered Pakistani celebrity said he killed her after she refused to stop posting provocative photos and videos on Facebook.

A "bug" in Facebook's safety check erroneously sent messages to people all around the world after the Pakistan bombings.

The Anglican Archbishops of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia have condemned an Easter Sunday suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan which killed at least 70 people.

Travellers can now book budget accommodation in the Taliban hotbed of Quetta via Airbnb.

Convicted spot-fixer Mohammad Amir will join the Pakistan cricket team to tour New Zealand after he was granted a visitor visa.

Relatives of an American-New Zealand father and son who died on K2 were horrified after another climber shared a video of human remains.

Confirmation of the death of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the reclusive cleric who founded the Afghan Taliban, is likely to complicate the pursuit for peace in the country.

It may have been a joke, but two men are now locked up in Pakistan's Baluchistan province because they got married to each other - or at least acted as if they did.

The elite Seal Team Six fighting force which killed Osama bin Laden has warped and bloated into an unaccountable organisation which targets low-level militants and "street thugs", according to a new account of the secretive unit.

Zimbabwe have agreed to tour Pakistan for a five-match one-day series next month, the first test-playing nation to visit in six years.

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.