Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, has been honored as Harvard University’s humanitarian of the year. Malala, an outspoken proponent for girls’ education, was at Harvard on Friday to accept the 2013 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award. ...

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday toned down expectations for a planned meeting with Pakistani Premier Nawaz Sharif on Sunday at the United Nations, saying Pakistan remains an “epicenter of terrorism.” Singh, making what will likely be a farewell visit to the White ...

Some security officials and relief groups are coming under attack as they struggle to reach victims in earthquake-ravaged southwestern Pakistan, demonstrating the volatile conditions in areas hardest hit by Tuesday’s magnitude 7.7 temblor. As rescue efforts continued for a fourth day on Friday, officials ...

A small island of mud and rock created by the huge earthquake that struck southwest Pakistan on Tuesday has fascinated locals, but experts say it is unlikely to last long. The 7.7-magnitude quake struck Baluchistan province’s remote Awaran district, killing hundreds of people and ...

Survivors built makeshift shelters with sticks and bedsheets Wednesday, a day after their mud houses were flattened in an earthquake that killed 348 people in southwestern Pakistan and pushed a new island up out of the Arabian Sea. While waiting for help to reach ...

Pakistani rescuers hustle to reach victims of a huge earthquake that killed more than 230 people and had enough force to create a new island off the coast.

A Sunni militant group known for targeting rival Muslims has emerged as a dangerous new player in Pakistan, sending a pair of suicide bombers this week to detonate themselves inside a church in the deadliest ever attack against Pakistani Christians. The brutal assault, which ...

Thousands in Pakistan ran into the streets praying for their lives Tuesday as a powerful earthquake rocked a remote area in the southwest, killing at least 39 people and possibly creating a small island off the coast. The Pakistani military said it was rushing ...

The death toll from a twin suicide bombing on a church in Pakistan rose to 81 Monday, as Christians protested across the country to demand better protection for their community. The attack on All Saints Church in the northwestern city of Peshawar after a ...

In a move welcomed by Kabul, which hopes it will encourage peace talks with the insurgents, Pakistan on Saturday released Abdul Ghani Baradar, its most senior Afghan Taliban detainee, a senior official said. Baradar, a one-time military chief often described as the militants’ former ...