May 2, 2023 Biden offers $500K grant for English teachers in Pakistan that focus on transgender youth The Biden administration is set to spend up to $500,000 on a program in Pakistan that includes "intensive professional development courses for Pakistani transgender youth."
April 28, 2023 Overnight Pakistan attacks kill 3 troops, 7 militants Overnight Pakistan attacks late Thursday night killed three troops and seven militants. Attackers were repulsed in Lakki Marwat region.
April 28, 2023 Pakistan releases Chinese national who was arrested on blasphemy charges from high-security prison Pakistan released a Chinese national from a high-security prison. The Chinese national was arrested on charges of blasphemy. The man allegedly insulted Islam.
April 27, 2023 7 die in passenger train blaze in southern Pakistan A southern Pakistan passenger train that caught fire overnight killed seven people. One of the people that died jumped out the window of the moving train.
April 27, 2023 China's railroad to world domination: $58 billion rail link with Pakistan will reduce reliance on West China has proposed its most expensive Belt and Road Initiative yet with a $58 billion railway system that would connect Pakistan to western China in a move to further reduce Western trade dependence.
April 25, 2023 Pakistan reports first monkeypox case A Pakistani man has tested positive for monkeypox, making him the first confirmed case of the disease in the country. Authorities have been advised to watch for further cases.
April 25, 2023 Deadly blasts that struck Pakistan’s counterterrorism facility caused by electrical shorts A deadly explosion that struck a counterterrorism facility in Pakistan was not a terror attack. The blasts that killed 16 people and injured 50 others were caused by short circuits.
April 24, 2023 Pakistani police say 2 blasts at counterterrorism facility kill at least 12 Pakistani police said that two blasts Monday at a northwestern counterterrorism police facility killed at least 12 people. Police said they rescued nearly 30 of the wounded people.
April 18, 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai working on new memoir, her ‘most personal book yet' Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani Nobel laureate who escaped an assassination attempt from the Taliban, announced that she is working on a new book.
April 18, 2023 Massive landslide in Pakistan buries 2 dozen trucks, kills 2 A massive mudslide near a highway in Pakistan has buried several trucks and killed at least two people. More than 100 first responders arrived to save the victims.