Pakistan's chaotic financial heart is home to 18 million people, Taliban bombers, contract killers - and one of the world's most successful stock markets.
Violence and arson once again returned to Karachi with 11 persons being killed and 16 others injured following the murder of Awami National Party office bearer Ubaidullah Yousufzai.
A Pakistan International Airlines plane flying to Saudi Arabia with 187 passengers on board made an emergency landing at Karachi airport today after its hydraulic system developed a fault, an official said.
Is Dawood Ibrahim, defamed gangster and the man wanted by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai following the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, still in Pakistan?
Unidentified miscreants hurled two hand grenades in front of a Pakistan Air Force base, in the port city of Karachi this evening, injuring at least one person, a spokesman said.
Twin factory fires claimed over 40 lives, including that of women and children, in Pakistan's two major cities on Tuesday.
Fresh violence erupted in Karachi on Saturday when at least 14 people were killed, seven of them within an hour, with armed men on motorcycles carrying out target killings in Pakistan's biggest city. The killings come at a time when an International Defence Exhibition is being held in the city and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is visiting the city with a high-level delegation.
Seven people were killed and at least 30 others were injured in a blast in an industrial area in Karachi on Monday, police and rescue workers said. The blast occurred at the busy Gul Ahmed crossing at Landhi Industrial Area in Qaidabad. Most of the victims were workers of a nearby factory. Police officials said that the bomb was hidden in a motorcycle parked in the area.
Violence rocked Pakistan's biggest city on Tuesday as 13 people were killed in targeted shootings including five suspected Taliban activists, a Shia scholar and two Moroccan students at a religious seminary.
The incident occurred late in the night on Sunday in the upmarket area of Clifton and the girl was held by the assailants for six hours before they left her near the Seaview beach area
Imran Farooq, a leading member of the Muttahida Quami Movement -- Pakistan's third largest political party, was stabbed to death outside his London home on Thursday evening, the police said. The Metropolitan Police said they were called to reports of a serious assault in Green Lane at Edgware in north London. "The next of kin have been informed." He said, adding that so far, no arrests have been made in connection with the incident.
A bid to storm the central jail in Karachi has been foiled with the police arresting seven members of a banned militant outfit that were plotting the raid.
He is only the agent that can bring them that change for they are quite aware that he has articulated no vision on how to set Pakistan back on the rails, notes Lieutenant General Gautam Moorthy (retd).
The courts in Pakistan have been flooded with petitions as candidates, mostly backed by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), challenged the results of Thursday's general elections, alleging rigging.
"The team management has not requested for his replacement at this stage," the PCB said in a statement. "Both Pakistan and England teams will travel to Karachi tomorrow afternoon."
Glimpses into the life of Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, who at 31, is Pakistan's youngest first lady.
A bomb went off outside a Pakistan navy office in the southern port city of Karachi on Thursday, killing at least one person and injuring three others.
Pakistan on Friday dismissed reports claiming Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar had fled from Quetta to Karachi, with the help of the Inter Services Intelligence, to avoid the possibility of being targeted by United States drones."This is ridiculous to say the least," Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit told reporters. He said there had been speculations about Omar's presence in Pakistan 'for years'.
Nearly 100 people have been killed and 50 others injured, some of them who jumped out of windows to save their lives, in a deadly fire in a three-storey garment factory in Pakistan's financial hub Karachi.
Shaheen Shah Afridi lashed out at those who leaked pictures and videos of his wedding on social media.
Since Sunday there have been around 50 such attacks carried out in the province and in one incident in Sibi town attackers targeted an election rally of a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party-backed candidate for the National Assembly in which four people lost their lives and six were injured.
The suicide attack on a Muharram procession in Karachi on Monday, in which 40 people were killed and over 95 sustained injuries, has added to the Pakistan government's woes, as the attack may spell more trouble by igniting massive sectarian clashes.
Tensions continue to mount on Tuesday with sporadic incidents of violence in Pakistan's commercial capital, even as the Sindh government is contemplating calling the Army to control the recent spate of ethnic and political clashes that has left 25 dead in last few days.
Shiv Sena on Friday attacked Bollywood super star Shah Rukh Khan for raising concern about the exclusion of Pakistani players from the Indian Premier League and dared him to take the players in his team Kolkata Knight Riders.
Lahore Qalandars took to Twitter and shared the pictures from Shaheen's wedding ceremony.
Leaders and members of the Hindu community rue the fact that they are not given proper representation and many are not even registered as voters.
Seventeen others were injured in the car bomb explosion.
Hasan Ali, who last played a Test against Sri Lanka in Galle in July, has picked up 77 wickets in 21 Tests.
Karachi is considered the safest place by the Taliban to hide in Pakistan. According to a Newsweek report, the Taliban is hardly worried by US' plans to send in more troops to Afghanistan, and believes that as far as they do not foment terror, they can live safely in the city.
In a crucial testimony, the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday told a special court trying the Mumbai terror attack case that Global Positioning System devices used by terrorists had indicated that they had come from Karachi.
Three pistol-waving bearded men stormed a 60-year-old temple in Karachi and desecrated the idol of a Hindu deity, leading to fear among the minority community in Pakistan's largest city, a media report said on Tuesday.
Terrorists on Friday targeted a bus carrying a group of people to a Shia religious procession as well as a hospital in Karachi, killing at least 22 people and injuring over 50, in the latest in a wave of attacks across the country.The explosion targeting the bus occurred on Shahrah-e-Quaideen, a key thoroughfare in the city, at 3.05 pm local time.Provincial Health Minister Sagheer Ahmed said 12 people were killed and 50 injured in the attack.
At least 20 people, most of them women and children, were killed and several others injured in a stampede in Karachi on Monday when a trader was distributing free ration.
Ever since Headley was arrested in US, there has been a lot of talk regarding the Karachi Project, considered to be one of the most ambitious projects staged by the ISI where it plans to combine Pakistani forces and home-grown terrorists to launch a spate of terror attacks on India, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
The initial interrogation of terrorists captured in Mumbai has yielded some basic information. According to sources, for some time the directions kept coming "live" to the terrorists in Mumbai via satellite phones
Babar Azam's decision to step down from Pakistan captaincy has evoked a mixed reaction from his teammates.
The very severe cyclonic storm 'Biparjoy' intensified into an 'extremely severe cyclonic storm' and is likely to cross Saurashtra-Kutch and adjoining Pakistan coasts around the afternoon of June 15 as a 'very severe cyclonic storm (VSCS)', the India Meteorological Department said on Sunday.
It's hard and it's green and the Pakistan Cricket Board is hoping it will produce a result.
A founder member of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party was shot dead by unidentified gunmen outside her residence in Karachi, hours before partial re-polling for the national assembly seat in the area.
