Pakistan on Friday called on Israel to withdraw from Lebanese and Syrian territories, including Golan Heights, and allow UN peacekeepers to operate without obstruction to ensure compliance with international agreements for advancing sustainable peace and stability in the Middle East.

A recent investigation raises serious questions about the role Pakistani authorities and institutions are playing in global cases of human trafficking.

Speaker National Assembly Raja Pervaiz Ashraf held a meeting with the outgoing Syrian Ambassador Ramez Alraee at the Parliament House in Islamabad on Friday and offered condolences over the deaths and destruction caused by the earthquake in Syria.

Once, or rather if, the dust in Gaza starts settling down, the extremist narrative would be: "We were right, and the Muslim world or ummah just sat by and let this happen - they had no answer to this.

Pakistan announced that the US is committed to resettling a significant number of Afghan refugees currently residing in Pakistan. This follows the US's suspension of the Refugee Admissions Programme.

Pakistan on Thursday said that the US is committed to take in a large number of Afghan refugees now staying in Pakistan, days after the new Trump administration suspended the US Refugee Admissions Programme from January 27 for at least three months.

A French court on Thursday sentenced a Pakistani man to 30 years in prison for his attempt to stage an attack on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for its depictions of the

The Foreign Office on Thursday disclosed for the first time that the United States had agreed to resettle all Afghans, currently in Pakistan, by September 2025 and said Washington had yet to officially communicate about the new administration's move to suspend the Afghan refugee settlement plan.

China has asserted its international right to take on insurgents threatening the lives of its citizens after an attack claimed by the Islamic State militant group ( ISIS) killed a Chinese citizen in northeastern Afghanistan.

"The terrorists get a vote, and they're voting to keep fighting," former Trump counterterrorism envoy Nathan Sales told Newsweek.

The situation in Afghanistan is growing dire. The aversion of Americans to working with the Taliban is holding back opportunities for economic development and advancing women’s rights. Meanwhile, Russia and China are actively vying for influence in the country.

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national transit hub. But more than a decade of war left it a wasteland of bullet-scarred walls and twisted steel.