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A vehicle is seen on fire at the site of an explosion that caused injures and destroyed vehicles at outside the Karachi airport, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammad Farooq)
A Pakistani separatist group claims bombing that killed 2 Chinese near Karachi airport
A Pakistani separatist group has claimed responsibility for a late-night bombing that targeted a convoy with Chinese nationals outside Karachi’s airport, killing two workers from China and wounding eight people.
 
This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo)
Pakistan suspends policemen applauded by locals for killing a blasphemy suspect
Pakistani authorities have suspended policemen who opened fire and killed a blasphemy suspect earlier this week, only to be applauded and showered with rose petals by local residents after the killing.
 
Police fatally shoot a blasphemy suspect in Pakistan in 2nd such killing in a week
Officials in Pakistan say police have shot dead a blasphemy suspect during an alleged shootout with armed men in the southern province of Sindh, the second such apparent extra-judicial killing in a week, drawing strong condemnation from human rights groups.
 
An 18-year-old Afghan boy, who asked not to use his name and not to show his face fearing his identity could lead to his capture again, pose for photograph during an interview with The Associated Press, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Born and raised in Pakistan to parents who fled neighboring Afghanistan half a century ago, an 18-year-old found himself at the mercy of police in Karachi who took his cash, phone and motorbike, and sent him to a deportation center. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
Millions of Afghans made Pakistan home to escape war. Now many are hiding to escape deportation
For more than 1 million Afghans who fled war and poverty to Pakistan, these are uncertain times. Since Pakistan announced a crackdown on migrants last year, some 600,000 have been deported and at least a million remain in Pakistan in hiding.
 
Hindu devotees get off from a bus and walk toward a mud volcano, to start Hindu pilgrims religious rituals for an annual festival in an ancient cave temple of Hinglaj Mata in Hinglaj in Lasbela district in the Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, Friday, April 26, 2024. More than 100,000 Hindus are expected to climb mud volcanoes and steep rocks in southwestern Pakistan as part of a three-day pilgrimage to one of the faith's holiest sites. (AP Photo/Junaid Ahmed)
A Hindu festival in southwestern Pakistan brings a mountainous region to life
More than 100,000 Hindus are expected to climb mud volcanoes and steep rocks in southwestern Pakistan as part of a three-day pilgrimage to one of the faith’s holiest sites.
 
CORRECTS DATE - Pakistani investigators examine a damaged van at the site of a suicide attack in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, April 19, 2024. Five Japanese nationals traveling in a van narrowly escaped a suicide attack when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest near their vehicle in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Friday, wounding three passers-by, police said. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
5 Japanese workers in Pakistan escape suicide blast targeting their van. A Pakistani bystander dies
Pakistani authorities say a suicide bomber that targeted a van carrying five Japanese nationals in the port city of Karachi has killed one Pakistani bystander. The Japanese workers narrowly escaped the blast on Friday but were all safe.
 
Human rights lawyer Moniza Kakar, right, speaks during a news conference at Karachi Press Club, in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023. Kakar said police in Sindh launch midnight raids on people's homes and detain Afghan families, including women and children. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
Pakistani police cracking down on migrants are arresting Afghan women and children, activists claim
Pakistani activists say police are arresting Afghan women and children in southern Sindh province as part of a government crackdown on migrants.
 
A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a railway station in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Sept 18, 2023. Authorities in one province of Pakistan are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison. Earlier this month, the government in Sindh introduced a law that threatens to imprison parents for up to one month if they fail to get their children immunized against polio or eight other common diseases. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
Parents in Pakistan could face prison time for not vaccinating their kids against polio
Authorities in one province of Pakistan are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison.
 
Pakistan court overturns conviction in death of Daniel Pearl
A Pakistani court has overturned the murder conviction of a British Pakistani man found guilty of the 2002 kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
 
Death toll from toxic gas leak rises to 14 in Pakistan
Pakistani health officials say a gas leak in the southern port city of Karachi has killed 14 people and sickened hundreds more.
 
Pakistani writer says his novel on ex-dictator confiscated
A prominent Pakistani novelist and New York Times columnist says security agents raided the offices of his publisher and confiscated all the copies of his book about the country’s former military dictator Ziaul Haq.
 
Pakistan forces repel attack near Karachi airport
Television stations aired footage of security guards frantically taking up positions behind buildings or earthen berms at the training facility, roughly 1 kilometer (a half mile) from Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport, where the Taliban attacked Sunday night. The Pakistani military also sent so