Pakistan’s upper house of parliament has passed a controversial bill that critics say threatens freedom of speech.

Pakistan's lower house of parliament has passed a bill with sweeping controls on social media that includes blocking platforms and sending users to prison for spreading disinformation.

A defense lawyer says a Pakistani court has sentenced the country’s already-imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to 14 and seven years in jail after finding them guilty of corruption.

The United States and the United Kingdom have expressed deep concern over the recent handing down of convictions by Pakistani military courts to 25 civilian supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan over last year's riots.

Pakistani police have levelled multiple charges against imprisoned former premier Imran Khan, his wife and others for inciting people to violence.

Authorities have reopened roads linking Pakistan’s capital with the rest of the country, ending a four-day lockdown, after using tear gas and firing into the air to disperse supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan who demanded his release from prison.

Thousands of people are in the heart of Pakistan’s capital to demand the release of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan.

Pakistani security forces are clearing the capital of Imran Khan supporters who gathered in their thousands to demand his release from prison.

Authorities say police are firing tear gas canisters at supporters of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

A Pakistani security officer says police have arrested thousands of Imran Khan supporters ahead of a rally in Islamabad to demand the ex-premier’s release from prison.

Police say gunmen killed 21 miners and wounded six others in Pakistan’s southwest.

Pakistan's army says militants killed six soldiers in a shootout in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan where armed groups including the Pakistani Taliban are active.

Pakistan's Interior Ministry says police have raided the imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party office in Islamabad and arrested its spokesman for carrying out anti-state propaganda.

Pakistan’s government says it plans to file treason charges against imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan for wrongfully dissolving parliament in 2022 and to ban his political party for allegedly receiving foreign funding.

A Pakistani court has overturned the conviction and seven-year prison sentence of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife in a case relating to the legality of their marriage.

Officials in Pakistan say an appeals court has upheld the conviction and seven-year prison sentence of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife for their 2018 marriage which was found to be unlawful.

An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression.

Officials say a Pakistani appeals court has suspended a 14-year prison sentence for former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife in a corruption case.

The 19-member Cabinet of Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has been sworn into office.

Lawmakers in Pakistan’s National Assembly have elected Shehbaz Sharif for a comeback term as prime minister.

Pakistan’s National Assembly swore in newly elected members on Thursday in a chaotic scene, as allies of jailed former Premier Imran Khan protested what they claim was a rigged election.

Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan is writing a letter to the International Monetary Fund urging it to link any talks with Islamabad to an audit of the country’s recent election.

Pakistan’s media regulators have blocked the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, with users across the country enduring the sixth day of sweeping disruptions, partial and complete shutdowns.

The political rivals of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan have announced details of a power-sharing agreement, naming Shehbaz Sharif as their joint candidate for prime minister.

A lawyer for former Prime Minister Imran Khan says the legal team has appealed his recent convictions and sentences in three controversial legal cases.

The party of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and its allies have announced they will jointly form a coalition government.

Pakistan's parliamentary elections left no clear winner.

Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister is defending the widely criticized delay in announcing the results of last week's parliamentary election.

Pakistan's election body says independent candidates have secured the biggest number of parliamentary seats following last week's polls.

Pakistan has hit back at criticism over the conduct of its parliamentary elections, which were held amid sporadic militant attacks and an unprecedented suspension of all mobile phone services.

Pakistanis are electing a new parliament Thursday in a race that essentially is concentrated on two parties.

Pakistan is electing a new parliament on Thursday.

Pakistan is holding parliamentary elections this week but many voters are disillusioned and wonder if the balloting can bring any real change in a country mired in economic crisis and a resurgent militancy.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 14 years.

A Pakistani court has convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan of revealing official secrets and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.

Pakistan’s independent human rights commission says there is little chance of free and fair parliamentary elections in the country next month because of “pre-poll rigging.”.

A Pakistani court has indicted the country's former Prime Minister Imran Khan on charges of revealing official secrets after his 2022 ouster from office.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has returned home on a chartered plane from Dubai, ending four years of self-imposed exile in London as he seeks to win the support of voters in parliamentary elections due in January.

Pakistan’s interim prime minister says he expects elections to take place in the new year, dismissing the possibility that the country’s powerful military would manipulate the results to ensure that jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party doesn’t win.

A defense lawyer says Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan will remain in prison for another two weeks despite being granted bail.

A Pakistani appeals court has suspended the corruption conviction and three-year prison term of Imran Khan in a legal victory for the hugely popular but embattled former prime minister.

Officials say a top court in Pakistan’s capital is expected to issue a crucial ruling on an appeal from the country’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan against his recent conviction and three-year sentence in a graft case.

Pakistan’s top investigation agency has arrested an opposition leader, who is a close aide of convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan, alleging he exposed official secrets and harmed state interests.

Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has been sworn in as Pakistan’s prime minister to head a caretaker government that will oversee parliamentary elections.

Pakistan’s president has dissolved the National Assembly, or lower house of parliament, a first step in the countdown to a general election by mid-November.

A Pakistani lawyer says his client, former Prime Minister Imran Khan, is asking a top court in Islamabad to suspend his conviction and three-year prison sentence in a graft case.

A lawyer for Pakistan’s Imran Khan has met with him at a prison where the former prime minister is being held after his sentencing to discuss how to challenge the graft case that landed him behind bars.

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan is now an inmate at a high-security prison after being convicted of corruption and sentenced to three years.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan has spent the night in a high-security prison after a court handed him a three-year sentence Saturday for corruption, a development that could end his future in politics.

Pakistani police have arrested former Prime Minister Khan after a court handed him a three-year jail sentence for corruption.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has rejected a petition from former Prime Minister Imran Khan about halting his trial in a lingering case involving the concealing of assets after selling state gifts.

The International Monetary Fund has agreed to provide $3 billion to Pakistan — a badly needed relief to bail out the impoverished country’s ailing economy.

Pakistan’s law minister says he expects a tougher armed response in the event of any repeat of political violence in the country.

Pakistan’s military says it has fired three senior officers over their failure to prevent violent attacks on public property and military installations by supporters of the country's former prime minister.

Pakistan’s embattled former Prime Minister Imran Khan has softened his year-long demand for new elections and suggested a committee be formed for talks with the government to end the country’s lingering political turmoil.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has taken his legal battle to a court in the capital, Islamabad.

Pakistani police are keeping up their siege around the home of Imran Khan as a 24-hour deadline given to the former premier to hand over suspects sheltered inside expired.

Police have surrounded the home of former Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan, claiming he is sheltering dozens of people who were allegedly involved in violent protests over his recent detention.

Thousands of Pakistan's government supporters are heading to the country's capital for a rare sit-in to protest the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Pakistan’s prime minister says authorities will go after those involved in violent protests following the detention of his predecessor, Imran Khan, including prosecution in anti-terrorism courts.

The arrest of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan earlier this week has shown how quickly his fervent loyalists can mobilize in large numbers.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has left a high court in Islamabad after it granted him broad protection from arrest in multiple legal cases.

Pakistan is in turmoil following the arrest of popular opposition leader and former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, whose arrest earlier this week sparked a wave of violence across the country by his supporters.

Pakistan’s government has called out the military in provinces roiled by violence following the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested and dragged from an Islamabad court as he appeared there to face charges in multiple graft cases, a dramatic escalation of political tensions that sparked violent demonstrations by his supporters in major cities.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled that a decision to delay provincial elections was unconstitutional.

Police in the Pakistani capital have filed charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, 17 of his aides and scores of supporters, accusing them of terrorism and several other offenses after the ousted premier’s followers clashed with security forces in Islamabad the previous day.

Police in Pakistan have stormed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s residence in the eastern city of Lahore and arrested more than 60 people.

A Pakistani court has rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan's petition to suspend a warrant for him to appear in court in a graft case linked to his term in office.

Pakistani police have paused efforts to arrest former Prime Minister Imran Khan on graft charges after clashes continued for a second day outside his home in the eastern city of Lahore.

Clashes have erupted in Pakistan after police tried to arrest former Prime Minister Imran Khan from his home in the eastern city of Lahore.

Pakistani police say they are investigating officers after violence at a women's march in the capital, Islamabad.

Pakistan's military says security forces have killed two insurgents during a raid of a militant hideout in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold near the border with Afghanistan.

Officials say a key political ally of Pakistan’s former prime minister has won a confidence vote in the Punjab Assembly to remain in his position as the top elected official.

Pakistan’s new military chief has taken command of the country's armed forces.

A Cabinet minister says Pakistan’s premier has named the country's former spy chief as head of the army.

Pakistan's government says it is ready to appoint a new army chief for the country as political turmoil and feuding continues to grip its political elite.

Thousands of allies of Pakistan’s former prime minister are resuming their protest march on the country’s capital city.

Party officials say Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has postponed the resumption of his protest march on the capital, Islamabad, to challenge his successor's government for later this week.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan says he is pausing his march on the capital, Islamabad, after being shot and wounded in the leg.

Pakistani officials say former Prime Minister Imran Khan was slightly wounded in the leg by a gunman who opened fire at his protest convoy.

Pakistan has laid to rest a journalist crushed to death while covering a political march held by former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and thousands of his supporters have started a long-promised march to the capital, Islamabad, to challenge his successor's government and demand early elections.

Officials say Pakistan’s elections commission has disqualified former Prime Minister Imran Khan from holding public office for five years, after finding he had unlawfully sold state gifts and concealed assets as premier.

Pakistan’s foreign minister says about 50% of the water has receded in the country’s worst flood-hit province.

A defense lawyer says a Pakistani court has accepted former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s apology in a contempt case stemming from his outburst against a female judge during a rally that was seen as a threat to the judiciary.

Flooding likely worsened by climate change has submerged one-third of Pakistan’s territory and left 33 million of its people scrambling to survive.

Five month since he was toppled by parliament, former Prime Minister Imran Khan has demonstrated his continued popularity with mass rallies across Pakistan.

Officials say a Pakistani court has extended former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s protection from arrest until September 12.

A Pakistani court has barred police from arresting the country's former prime minister until Sept. 1.

Pakistani police have filed terrorism charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, escalating political tensions in the country as the ex-premier holds mass rallies seeking to return to office.

The International Monetary Fund says it has reached a preliminary agreement on a $6 billion bailout package for Pakistan.

A minister in Pakistan’s newly elected government is facing criticism following his plea to the nation to drink less tea to help save on imports amid a deepening economic crisis.

Pakistan’s defiant former Prime Minister Imran Khan cancelled a planned, open-ended sit-in in Islamabad on Thursday, temporarily assuaging fears of protracted civil conflict after he led thousands on a march toward Parliament demanding the government’s resignation.

Pakistan’s defiant former Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned the government to announce the date of the next elections in the next six days otherwise he will again march on the capital along with 3 million people.

Pakistan's new foreign minister says his country has resumed engagement with the United States after years of strained relations under former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Months of economic discontent in Pakistan have been capped by days of tense drama.

Pakistan’s parliament has elected opposition lawmaker Shahbaz Sharif as the new prime minister, following a week of political turmoil that led to the weekend ouster of Premier Imran Khan.

The ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan in a parliamentary no-confidence vote has set Pakistan on an uncertain political path.