Karachi

Militants have attacked the stock exchange in the Pakistani city of Karachi, killing at least two security guards and a policeman

Pakistan’s aviation minister says “human error” on the part of the pilot, the co-pilot and air traffic control caused last month’s Pakistan International Airlines crash that killed 97 people in the port city of Karachi.

A raging fire swept through a train in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab Province on Thursday, killing 74 people, and survivors said afterward it took nearly 20 minutes for the train to stop amid contradictory reports about the condition of the train’s brakes. Three carriages were consumed by flames from a fire caused by a cooking gas stove and dozens of people...

An international cricket match between New Zealand and Bangladesh has been canceled after players from the visiting team narrowly avoided a mass shooting at a mosque in Christchurch on Friday. At least 40 people were killed in the shootings at two mosques and more than 20 people were wounded. The Bangladesh players came within minutes of being inside one of...

Armed separatists stormed the Chinese Consulate in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Friday, triggering an intense hour-long shootout during which two Pakistani civilians, two police officers and all three assailants were killed, Pakistani officials said. The Pakistani civilians killed were a father and a son had come to the consulate to pick up their visas to China, police...

A Christian woman who spent eight years on death row under Pakistan’s blasphemy law was acquitted and ordered released Wednesday by the country’s top court, a ruling that raised fears of violence by religious extremists who held angry protests over the verdict. Asia Bibi was in an undisclosed location for her safety, and her lawyer said he expected that she...

Congregations in this deeply religious community near Houston gathered Sunday for their first services since a gunman blasted his way into the high school and killed 10 people, with one pastor lamenting the grief “that none of us can comprehend.”

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called Sunday for a “hardening” of the nation’s school buildings in the wake of the attack by a 17-year-old student who killed 10 people at a high school near Houston. Patrick, a Republican, blamed a “culture of violence” and said more needs to be done to keep shooters away from students, such as restricting school...

Aasia Bibi had warned her parents time and again that if they forced her to marry her cousin, a man she disliked, she would be capable of going to any length to exit the union. She was already in a relationship, she said, and should be allowed to marry the man of her choice. Now, investigators in this tiny, remote...

An overturned oil tanker burst into flames in Pakistan on Sunday, killing 157 people who had rushed to the scene of the highway accident to gather leaking fuel, an official said. The death toll could rise further as another 50 people are still being treated at the hospital, said Dr. Nahid Ahmed at the Nishter Hospital in Multan. Local news...

Hours after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake rocked Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan, Bay Area immigrants from those countries reached out to relatives overseas, hoping they were OK.

Hours after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake rocked Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan, Bay Area immigrants from those countries reached out to relatives overseas, hoping they were OK. Michelle Roberts reports.