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Pakistani PM says he should not have to beg for help after catastrophic floods The Guardian says Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister, has said Pakistan…

The Guardian says Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has accused the former premier Imran Khan of being the “the biggest liar on the face of the earth” and injecting poison into society to “dangerously polarise the electorate” after he was toppled from power earlier this year.

There have been calls from community leaders and local politicians in the city of Leicester to bring about an end to “provocation and violence.”

The devastating floods that have hit Pakistan have been made worse by climate change according to scientists.

The Independent says Pakistan’s catastrophic floods are threatening one of the world’s oldest known cities after the large-scale devastation already led to the death of over 1,300 people and destroyed billions of dollars worth of property.

Pakistan’s police have charged Imran Khan under anti-terror laws. 

Aljazeera says THE DEATH TOLL from a powerful earthquake in Afghanistan has climbed to 1,000, with more than 1,500 others wounded, according to the Taliban.

Afghanistan earthquake latest as more than 1500 feared dead as the Taliban emergency services race against time to find more survivors. Afghanistan and Pakistan were…

Aljazeera says AN EARTHQUAKE of magnitude 6.1 has killed at least 150 people in Afghanistan, the country’s disaster management authority says.

Aljazeera says 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.

The Independent says Several major cities in Pakistan have become battlegrounds as supporters of ousted prime minister Imran Khan march toward Islamabad.

The Independent says the devastating heat wave which has baked India and Pakistan in recent months was made more likely due to climate change, according to an international group of scientists.

Aljazeera says Pakistan’s defiant former Prime Minister Imran Khan has called on his supporters to march peacefully on Islamabad on May 25th, to press for fresh elections.

Pakistan assembly elects Shehbaz Sharif as new prime minister, the brother of three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, has been elected by lawmakers as the…

Aljazeera says the removal of Imran Khan as PM has set Pakistan on an uncertain political path, with his supporters taking to the streets in protest.

Pakistan’s powerful military and the US remove Imran from power. The vote was a mere formality once the pressure had been applied. History books will…

According to the polling numbers of the members of the house, the opposition (combined) has the numbers to form a majority and oust the Pakistani Prime Minister.

Aljazeera says tens of thousands of activists from Pakistan’s ruling party and opposition groups have descended on the capital, Islamabad.

The Westminster Magistrates’ Court has ruled that the National Crime Agency’s file into Shahbaz Sharif and Suleman Sharif’s money-laundering investigation can be released to the…

Breaking News- 21 death, thousands of families trapped – as heavy snow traps drivers in mountains in Murree Pakistan. Pakistan’s military has been deployed to…

TRT World says Taliban militants in Pakistan declared an end to a month-long ceasefire arranged with the aid of the Afghan Taliban.

Aljazeera says The Pakistani city of Lahore has been declared the most polluted city in the world by an air quality monitor.

HRH Prince Charles had a detailed conversation with Prime Minister Imran Khan, a statement by the British High Commission said. According to the statement, the…

Afghanistan on brink of collapse because of frozen assets that the US will not release to allow the country to operate, was a statement released…

Aljazeera says Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has suspended flights to Kabul after what it called heavy-handed interference by Taliban authorities.