Pakistan

Pakistan bans ex-PM Khan’s capital march after policeman killed
Imran Khan’s planned rally in Islamabad banned after policeman is shot dead during crackdown on PTI party’s supporters.
Published On 25 May 2022
Investors start to worry as Pakistan’s IMF bailout not final yet
Without a bailout from the International Monetary Fund, Pakistan may default for the second time in its history.
Published On 25 May 2022
Pakistan: Khan’s party alleges hundreds arrested ahead of march
Imran Khan’s PTI says over 400 supporters arrested in bid to thwart major sit-in planned by former leader in Islamabad.
Published On 24 May 2022
Climate crisis made South Asia heatwaves ’30 times more likely’
Study says heatwaves in the region should be ‘rare’ but current level of global warming made them 30 times more likely.
Published On 24 May 2022

Khan says he will never accept the new government and calls on his supporters to rally peacefully on Wednesday.

Shireen Mazari, who served under former PM Imran Khan, was detained by police near her Islamabad home on Friday.

‘Torrid’ heatwave with temperatures reaching mid-40°s Celsius has renewed debate over the climate crisis.

The new Pakistan government is seeking the release of more funds from a $6bn rescue programme agreed with IMF in 2019.

The Pakistani group – known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) – is separate but allied with Afghanistan’s Taliban.

Nosheen Syed posts a clip of herself walking playfully in a silver ball gown in front of a burning hillside.

Alleged woman attacker arrested two weeks after female suicide bomber blew herself up in Karachi, killing four people.

Jacobabad in arid Sindh province is in the grip of an intense heatwave – peaking at 51 degrees Celsius at the weekend.

In a separate attack, gunmen shot dead two minority Sikhs in Peshawar city, officials said.

Parts of nation scorched by temperatures of nearly 50C as officials warn of acute water shortages.

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