Apr 11 Pakistani lawmakers to elect new prime minister after Imran Khan ouster By Kathy Gannon, Associated Press Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, a former cricket star whose conservative Islamist ideology and dogged independence characterized his three years and eight months in office, was ousted early Sunday after losing a no-confidence vote in Parliament. Continue reading
Apr 10 Pakistan's prime minister pledges to fight on after Parliament ouster By Kathy Gannon, Associated Press Khan’s successor is to be elected and sworn in by Parliament on Monday. The leading contender is Shahbaz Sharif, a brother of disgraced former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Continue reading
Apr 09 Watch 3:08 News Wrap: Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan ousted from office in no-confidence vote In our news wrap Saturday, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan will no longer hold office after the country's opposition secured a narrow majority to vote him down, Marine Le Pen pulls closer to President Emmanuel Macron as French elections begin,… Continue watching
Apr 07 Watch 5:32 News Wrap: Congress votes to ban Russian oil and cut off normal trade relations In our news wrap Thursday, a near-unanimous Congress voted to cut off normal trade relations with Russia and ban imports of Russian oil, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tested positive COVID, Pakistan's supreme court rejected Prime Minister Imran Khan's bid to… Continue watching
Apr 03 Watch 2:25 New Wrap: 6 dead, 12 wounded in Sacramento mass shooting In our news wrap Sunday, six people are dead and 12 others injured following a mass shooting in downtown Sacramento, Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved Pakistan's parliament and called for new elections in an effort to block attempts to remove… Continue watching
Apr 03 Pakistan's prime minister dissolves parliament, throwing the country into political turmoil By Kathy Gannon, Munir Ahmed, Associated Press The moves by Imran Khan appeared to trigger a constitutional crisis: Pakistan's Supreme Court must rule on their legality, but it adjourned until Monday and gave no indication when the matter would be settled. Continue reading
Mar 04 Watch 3:42 News Wrap: Suicide bombing kills dozens at Shiite mosque in Pakistan In our news wrap Friday, a suicide bombing killed at least 56 people and wounded more than 190 during Friday prayers at a Shiite mosque in Pakistan, Florida becomes the latest GOP-led state to adopt strict new abortion limits, the… Continue watching
Mar 04 Suicide bombing attack kills at least 56 in Shiite mosque in Pakistan By Kathy Gannon, Riaz Khan, Associated Press No militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Both the Islamic State group and the Pakistani Taliban — a militant group separate from the Taliban in Afghanistan — have carried out similar attacks in the past in the area,… Continue reading
Jan 08 Cold kills 22 stuck in cars in heavy snow at Pakistan resort By Zarar Khan, Associated Press The snow was so severe that heavy equipment brought in to clear it initially got stuck during the night, said Umar Maqbool, assistant commissioner for the town of Murree. Temperatures fell to minus 8 degrees Celsius (17.6 degrees Fahrenheit). Continue reading
Oct 11 Watch 4:14 A look at the life of A.Q. Khan, scientist behind Pakistan's nuclear weapons program By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn The father of Pakistan's atomic bomb and a proponent of nuclear proliferation, Abdul Qadeer Khan, died Sunday at the age of 85 after a lengthy battle with COVID-19. He was a figure mired in controversy who launched Pakistan's nuclear weapons… Continue watching