Pakistan

The country has reported its first polio case of 2023, at a time when delegations of the French Agency for Development and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are in the country to analyse efforts to eradicate the disease

Textile exports fell for the fifth consecutive month in February, down 28% to USD 1,2 billion, according to data from the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association; textiles are most important sector of the economy in terms of employment

A case has been registered against unknown assailants after Marvia Malik, Pakistan's first transgender TV presenter, escaped a gun attack in Lahore on Thursday night

Former army chief and military ruler General Pervez Musharraf’s funeral was held at Polo Ground in Karachi’s Malir Cantonment, with thousands of worshippers present and many political leaders absent

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan denied involvement in the suicide bomber attack who struck a mosque inside a police compound in Peshawar killing over 100 people, saying acts against religious sites would also be condemned under TTP rules

As government struggles to arrest deepening economic crisis, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar to allay concerns sayid that the country is the only one founded in the name of Islam "and Allah Almighty cares for its development and prosperity"

The Islamist political party Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan accused the police of desecrating the Ahmadi community's place of worship in Punjab province

The country raised more than $9 billion at an international conference to support its recovery from last year's devastating floods, a billion more than requested

The Federal Sharia Court has ordered the Ministry of Human Rights to form a protection unit for transgender children to ensure that they get their due rights

United Nations said emergency food aid for flood-ravaged communities in Pakistan will run out in January, after a funding appeal received only a third of its target

The Punjab government has launched a Web 3.0 portal to become the first province in the country to introduce the third generation of the World Wide Web

UN General Assembly adopted by consensus a resolution introduced by Pakistan on cooperation with the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, urging the United Nations to strengthen collaboration in areas of mutual interest

This summer, floods destroyed or damaged 27.000 schools and triggered a humanitarian disaster that saw another 7.000 schools requisitioned as care centres, according to the United Nations Children's Fund