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15 killed and dozens missing as massive fire rages for hours at Pakistan shopping plaza

Huge fire sweeps through shops and warehouses at Gul Plaza in Karachi at around 10pm local time when most shop owners were winding down their businesses

The Independent UK

Women make inroads in Pakistan as they become firefighters and barriers slowly fall

Women in Pakistan are slowly making inroads as they become firefighters and barriers slowly fall in this staunchly patriarchal and traditional Islamic nation

The Independent UK

Spirituality isn’t rigid dogma. It’s a living, breathing practice that helps make sense of an incomprehensible world

I grew up in Kabul and Karachi. In both, I learned the value of the quiet rituals observed while no one is watching

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'I Know It's Immoral': Child Workers Still Common In Pakistan

From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Pakistan's megacity of Karachi.

International Business Times

Range Rover stolen in UK turns up three years later in Pakistan

Black Range Rover Sport stolen from Harrogate in 2022 signalled its location in Karachi three years later

The Independent UK

How extreme temperatures strain minds and bodies: a Karachi case study

When the daytime air feels like an oven and night brings no relief, people in Karachi, Pakistan, say the heat “goes straight to the head”. They mean more than dizziness or sweat.

The Conversation

From Karachi’s crowded markets and Kabul’s alleys to Australia’s vast sky: budgies are for me fragments of memory

The contrast between the captive birds of my childhood and the wild flocks of my new home has become more than an observation

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How water fuels conflict in Pakistan

For ten days in April 2025, Pakistan almost came to a standstill. No freight was moving from its only port city, Karachi, towards the population centres in the north. The cause was the government’s announcement of a project to build six canals to irrigate the Cholistan Desert in the east…

The Conversation

Outrage in Pakistan after three transgender women killed and left on roadside

The victims' bodies were found on a roadside on Sunday

The Independent UK

Pakistan's Monsoon Misery: Nature's Fury, Man's Mistake

Floodwaters gushing through mountain villages, cities rendered swamps, mourners gathered at fresh graves -- as Pakistan's monsoon season once again delivers scenes of calamity, it also lays bare woeful preparedness.

International Business Times

Explosion at Pakistan fireworks storage facility injures at least 25 people

Officials say an explosion at a fireworks storage facility in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi has injured at least 25 people, some critically

The Independent UK

What’s causing Pakistan’s deadly floods?

Further flooding is predicted in cities including Karachi in the south of Pakistan.

Al Jazeera

Torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan kill over 20, including 10 in Karachi

Schools shut and villages swept away as Pakistan reels from monsoon devastation.

Al Jazeera

Girl, 7, among three killed in celebratory gunfire on Pakistan’s independence day

Aerial firing across Karachi also injured over 100 people

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UK Foreign Office advises against all but essential travel to parts of Pakistan after hotel security alert

People have been urged to avoid crowds and stay alert in places frequently visited by tourists and citizens of Western countries

The Independent UK

Pakistani actor Humaira Asghar Ali found dead in Karachi flat

Police rule out foul play

The Independent UK

At least 27 bodies recovered from collapsed Pakistan building as rescue ends

Rescuers pull 11 more bodies from rubble of the building that collapsed on Friday

The Independent UK

A multistory building collapse in Pakistan's port city of Karachi kills at least 6 people

Officials say a multistory building has collapsed in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, killing at least six people and injuring several others

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Pakistan Building Collapse Kills 7

A five-storey building collapsed in Pakistan on Friday, killing at least seven people and injuring eight, officials said, with rescuers searching through the rubble for trapped victims.

Al Jazeera

Are India and Pakistan preparing for a naval face-off in a future conflict?

Recent signals from both governments have underscored how their navies could play a central role in their next face-off.

The Independent UK

Hundreds of prisoners break out of jail after earthquake panic

At least one prisoner was killed and three guards wounded during the jailbreak in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi

The Independent UK

Over 100 inmates escape from a Pakistan prison after an earthquake evacuation in Karachi

Pakistani officials say an inmate was killed and more than 100 escaped from a prison in the southern city of Karachi overnight after they were temporarily moved out of their cells following mild earthquake tremors

Newslaundry

Noida’s fiction factory: When the supply of lies met the demand for drama

The Indian Navy didn’t attack Karachi, but your TV said it did — welcome to Noida’s finest fiction factory. In the great media bazaar, drama is demanded, lies are supplied and reality is politely ignored.

The Independent UK

Pakistan Super League game involving English trio postponed amid India tensions

James Vince, Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Luke Wood were due to feature in the match between Karachi Kings and Peshawar Zalmi.

The Independent UK

What are the Israeli kamikaze drones India is accused of using against Pakistan?

Pakistani military claims to have shot down 25 Harop drones targeting major urban centres

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