Seven-time champions India set up a final clash against one-time champions Maldives in the SAFF Suzuki Cup following comfortable victories in their respective semifinals at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's Dr Arifur Rehman Alvi is elected as the 13th President of Pakistan, according to provisional results.

The “second democratic transition” in Pakistan was marred with pre-poll suicide attacks which killed three contestants as well as scores of their supporters especially in Quetta.

The army in Pakistan seems to have devised a way where a particular person is elected even without a valid cause. Imran Khan is a product of such phenomena. Long before the latest elections, his name was tossed around.

India on Saturday said it hoped the new government of Pakistan would "work constructively" to end militancy in South Asia, in its first comments following this week's general election in Pakistan.

At least 18 people are killed in a road accident this morning when a trailer ran into a bus that had stopped to change a punctured tyre on the National Highway near Hala in Pakistan, rescuers say.

Pakistan goes to polls under a caretaker government amid judicial activism and militant attacks. Former Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk, heading a six-member cabinet, took over as caretaker prime minister on June 1, 2018 to oversee the general election scheduled for July 25, 2018.

The death toll in a suicide bombing at an election rally in northwestern Pakistan rises to 20 as Taliban militants claimed responsibility, officials say, in the first major attack ahead of July 25 polls.

"I will pay extra attention to education for girls if I end up winning," Hazrat Bibi vows.

Pakistan's ruling and opposition parties announce the appointment of a former Supreme Court chief justice as caretaker prime minister.

Pakistan were fined for a slow over-rate during their rousing nine-wicket win over hosts England in the first Test at Lord’s, an International Cricket Council media release informed.

Pakistan says it will hold parliamentary and provincial assembly elections on July 25.

Pakistani authorities have barred a US diplomat involved in a fatal traffic accident from leaving the country, forcing an American military aircraft flown in for his departure to leave without him, local media report.

Officials in Pakistan say violent rainstorms in the northwest have caused at least 15 deaths and injured dozens.

Bangladesh has ruled out a serious allegation brought by Pakistan that Dhaka Declaration of the 45th OIC Council of Foreign Ministers was issued without any discussion with participating states.

Sixteen miners are killed and nine others are wounded when a coal mine collapsed due to a gas explosion in southwestern Pakistan, officials say.

An independent Pakistani watchdog criticized the country's human rights record over the past year in a new report released Monday, saying the nation has failed to make progress.

Pakistan's Supreme Court disqualified deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif from holding office for life, Dawn News TV reports.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveys to his Nepalese counterpart KP Sharma Oli India’s firm opposition to the staging of the Saarc Summit by Islamabad, given the fact that Pakistan continued to support cross-border terrorism from its territory.

Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai has left for Britain after an emotional four-day visit to Pakistan, officials say.