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Sikh pilgrims attend a ceremony to mark the Vaisakhi festival at the shrine of Gurdwara Janam Asthan in Nankana Sahib, some 75 kilometres (46 miles) west of Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, April 14, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Thousands of Sikh pilgrims visit Pakistan to celebrate Vaisakhi festival
Thousands of Sikhs are in Pakistan to celebrate Vaisakhi, a harvest festival that marks the start of the Sikh New Year and is mostly observed in Punjab and northern India. It marks the start of the Sikh New Year.
 
Transgender persons attend cooking class at the Culinary & Hotel Institute of Pakistan, in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/K.M Chaudary)
Pakistan’s transgender community finds hope and dignity at a culinary school
A culinary program for transgender people in Pakistan is giving members of the community professional training, as well as dignity and hope.
 
People cross a road as smog envelopes the areas of Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Pakistani province declares health emergency due to smog and locks down two cities
Pakistani authorities have declared a health emergency in the country’s east due to smog. Smog has choked Punjab for weeks, sickening nearly 2 million people and shrouding vast swathes of the province in a toxic haze.
 
Vehicles move slow due to reduce visibility caused by smog enveloping the area of Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Growing pollution in Pakistan’s Punjab province has sickened 1.8M people in a month, officials say
Officials say worsening air pollution in the past month has sickened an estimated 1.8 million people in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province.
 
People play with soccer ball in a park in the morning as smog envelops the area of Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Districts in Pakistan close parks and museums because of record-breaking smog
Authorities in a broad swath of eastern Pakistan have closed all parks and museums because of record-breaking smog that already has prompted the closure of schools and government offices and has sickened tens of thousands of people.
 
Police fire tear gas to disperse students protesting over an alleged on-campus rape in Punjab, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/W.K. Yousafzai)
Pakistan’s Punjab province shuts schools for 2 days to contain protests over alleged on-campus rape
Authorities in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province have shut all schools and universities for two days. It’s an attempt to contain the spread of protests by students over an alleged on-campus rape.
 
Police fire tear gas to disperse students protesting over an alleged on-campus rape in Punjab, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/W.K. Yousafzai).
Pakistani police fire tear gas at protesting students as anger spreads over alleged on-campus rape
Pakistani police fired tear gas and charged at student protesters who ransacked a college building Thursday as anger spread over an alleged on-campus rape.
 
Students are injured in clashes with Pakistani police over reports of an on-campus rape
More than two dozen students have been injured in clashes with Pakistani police over reports of an on-campus rape of a young woman.
 
People place wreath on the caskets of police officers, who were killed in the gunmen ambushed on a police convoy in a deserted area, during a funeral prayer, in Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Saddique Baloch)
Death toll from bandit attack on police in Pakistan rises to 12
The death toll from Pakistan’s deadliest bandit attack on police has risen to 12 after one of the wounded officers died in a hospital in the eastern province of Punjab.
 
Family members of police officers, who were killed in gunmen ambush on a police convoy in a deserted area, mourn at a hospital in Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Saddique Baloch)
Gunmen ambush and kill 11 police officers in eastern Pakistan, officials say
Pakistani officials say gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades ambushed a police convoy in eastern Punjab province, killing at least 11 officers and wounding several others.
 
Farhan Asif, center, a freelance web developer who was arrested and charged with cyber terrorism for his alleged role in spreading misinformation that led to widespread rioting in the U.K. earlier this month, waits for his court appearance, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Pakistani man to remain in officers’ custody over misinformation that sparked rioting in the U.K
Officials in Pakistan say a court has allowed investigators to question a man in their custody for four more days about his role in spreading misinformation that sparked widespread rioting in the U.K. earlier this month.
 
FILE - Members of the public gather outside the Town Hall in Southport, England, Aug. 5, 2024, during a vigil for the victims of the stabbing attack last Monday. (AP Photo/Darren Staples, File)
Pakistan authorities charge man with cyber terrorism over misinformation that sparked riots in UK
Authorities in Pakistan have arrested and charged a man with cyber terrorism for his alleged role in spreading misinformation that led to widespread rioting in the U.K. earlier this month.
 
A Pakistani waits to connect his mobile WhatsApp with a desktop as internet runs slow past several days, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
Pakistan suffers internet slowdown as government denies setting up a national firewall
People in Pakistan have reported much slower internet over the past several days with some experts estimating its speed falling to less than half its usual capacity at times.
 
Motorcyclists and cars drive through a flooded road caused by heavy monsoon rainfall in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Pakistan’s cultural capital sees record rainfall, flooding streets and affecting daily life
Officials say Pakistan’s cultural city of Lahore has seen record-high rainfall, leaving at least three people dead, while flooding streets, disrupting traffic and affecting daily life.
 
Pakistan says it arrested an al-Qaida leader who was a close aide to Osama bin Laden
Pakistan counterterrorism police say they have arrested an al-Qaida leader who was a close aide to Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
 
A Pakistani Christian accused of blasphemy and attacked by a mob has died of injuries
Pakistani police say a Christian man who was accused of blasphemy and attacked by a mob has died of injuries.
 
100 Muslims arrested for attacking 2 Christian men on allegations of desecrating Quran in Pakistan
Officials in eastern Pakistan say they have arrested more than 100 Muslim men and charged them with attacking a Christian father and son over allegations they desecrated pages of Islam’s holy book.
 
A mob in Pakistan burns down a house and beats a Christian over alleged desecration of Quran
Police say hundreds of Muslims in eastern Pakistan went on a rampage over allegations that a Christian man had desecrated the pages of Islam’s holy book, ransacking and burning his house and beating him before police officers rescued the man and his father.
 
Maryam Nawaz, newly elected lawmaker and candidate for Chief Minister of Pakistan's Punjab province, arrives to attend provincial assembly session, in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Pakistani ex-Premier Nawaz Sharif’s daughter takes over top provincial post. Rivals boycott her
The eldest daughter and close aide of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has become the country’s first-ever female chief minister in eastern Punjab province amid boycott by her rivals. Mariam Nawaz was elected on Monday with a 220 votes.
 
Police officers escort a relative and a child of a couple wanted by British police in connection with last month's death of the couple's young daughter on the outskirts of London, to appear in a court in Jhelum, Pakistan, about 175 kilometres (110 miles) northwest of Lahore, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Sara Sharif, 10, was found dead at her British home on Aug. 10. A Pakistani court ordered her five siblings put in the custody of a children's protection center. The police are continuing their search for the girl’s father and stepmother. (AP Photo/Tahir Mahmood)
Pakistan court orders 5 siblings of girl found dead near London put into child protection center
A Pakistani court has ordered the five siblings of a 10-year-old girl who was found dead with multiple injuries near London put into a children’s protection center after they were located by police.
 
Pakistani police detain relatives of the man wanted in the death probe of his daughter in UK
Police in Pakistan have detained for interrogation close relatives of a couple wanted by U.K. police in connection with last month’s death of their 10-year-old daughter in the outskirts of London.
 
This photo combination issued by Surrey Police on Friday, Aug. 18, 2023 shows Urfan Sharif, left and Beinash Batool. Pakistani police in the eastern province of Punjab are seeking to arrest a man in connection with the death of his 10-year-old daughter in the U.K. Sara Sharif was found dead at her home in Woking, on the southern outskirts of London, on Aug. 10, U.K. police said in a statement. (Surrey Police via AP)
Pakistani police seek to arrest father of 10-year-old Sara Sharif, who died in the UK
Pakistani police in the eastern province of Punjab are seeking to arrest a man in connection with the death of his 10-year-old daughter in the U.K.
 
Train hits bus carrying Sikh pilgrims in Pakistan: 22 dead
Pakistani officials say a passenger train has crashed into a bus carrying Sikh pilgrims at an unmanned railway crossing in eastern Punjab province, killing at least 22 people. Six pilgrims were also injured in Friday’s accident.