Authorities say Pakistan has banned a radical Islamist party behind recent violent protests that left at least one police officer and four civilians dead.

Pakistani officials say rescuers backed by troops have evacuated more than 25,000 people from a city in eastern Pakistan as rising rivers threatened to flood the region.

India has warned Pakistan about possible cross-border flooding for the second time in as many weeks as monsoon deluges cause death and widespread destruction in both countries.

Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is experiencing its worst flood in history, according to a senior official.

Torrential rainfall has left at least 34 people dead in Pakistan and India and triggered flash floods and landslides in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods in Pakistan have killed at least 46 people and injured dozens.

As Ramadan approaches, keeping healthy fasting practices in mind can make the month more meaningful.

A culinary program for transgender people in Pakistan is giving members of the community professional training, as well as dignity and hope.

A senior Pakistani police officer says fighting between armed sectarian groups in the country's restive northwest has killed at least 37 people.

Authorities in a broad swath of eastern Pakistan have closed all parks and museums because of record-breaking smog that already has prompted the closure of schools and government offices and has sickened tens of thousands of people.

Record-high air pollution in Pakistan’s Punjab province prompted authorities to keep government employees at home and close additional schools, as doctors reported an increase in people seeking treatment for smog-related ailments.

Pakistani officials say dangerously poor air quality has forced the provincial government in Lahore to close primary schools for a week.

Pakistan's army says militants killed six soldiers in a shootout in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan where armed groups including the Pakistani Taliban are active.

Pakistani officials say gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades ambushed a police convoy in eastern Punjab province, killing at least 11 officers and wounding several others.

Officials in Pakistan say a court has allowed investigators to question a man in their custody for four more days about his role in spreading misinformation that sparked widespread rioting in the U.K. earlier this month.

Officials say Pakistan’s police have arrested the deputy chief at a radical Islamist party on charges of ordering the killing of the chief justice over his alleged support to the minority Ahmadi community.

Pakistan's Interior Ministry says police have raided the imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party office in Islamabad and arrested its spokesman for carrying out anti-state propaganda.

Pakistani police say gunmen opened fire on polio workers in the country's northwest, killing a police officer assigned to protect them.

Pakistani police are investigated the shooting death of a man who had been acquitted of killing accused Indian spy Sarabjit Singh in prison in 2013.

Pakistan has hit back at criticism over the conduct of its parliamentary elections, which were held amid sporadic militant attacks and an unprecedented suspension of all mobile phone services.

Toxic gray smog has sickened tens of thousands of people in Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore, forcing authorities to shut schools, markets and parks for four days.

Pakistani traders have staged strikes across the country against the soaring cost of living, including higher fuel and utility bills and record depreciation of the rupee against the dollar.

A lawyer for Pakistan’s Imran Khan has met with him at a prison where the former prime minister is being held after his sentencing to discuss how to challenge the graft case that landed him behind bars.

Pakistani police have arrested former Prime Minister Khan after a court handed him a three-year jail sentence for corruption.

Officials in Pakistan say the death toll from two weeks of monsoon rains rose to at least 55 on Thursday after at least 12 people, including eight children, died in weather-related incidents in Pakistan.

Pakistani police are keeping up their siege around the home of Imran Khan as a 24-hour deadline given to the former premier to hand over suspects sheltered inside expired.

Police have surrounded the home of former Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan, claiming he is sheltering dozens of people who were allegedly involved in violent protests over his recent detention.

Pakistan’s prime minister says authorities will go after those involved in violent protests following the detention of his predecessor, Imran Khan, including prosecution in anti-terrorism courts.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, whose arrest earlier this week sparked a wave of violence across the country by his supporters.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested and dragged from an Islamabad court as he appeared there to face charges in multiple graft cases, a dramatic escalation of political tensions that sparked violent demonstrations by his supporters in major cities.

The United Nations children’s agency says that after last summer’s devastating floods, 10 million people in Pakistan, including children, still live in flood-affected areas without access to safe drinking water.

Police in the Pakistani capital have filed charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, 17 of his aides and scores of supporters, accusing them of terrorism and several other offenses after the ousted premier’s followers clashed with security forces in Islamabad the previous day.

Police in Pakistan have stormed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s residence in the eastern city of Lahore and arrested more than 60 people.

A Pakistani court has rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan's petition to suspend a warrant for him to appear in court in a graft case linked to his term in office.

Pakistani police have paused efforts to arrest former Prime Minister Imran Khan on graft charges after clashes continued for a second day outside his home in the eastern city of Lahore.

Pakistani police say they are investigating officers after violence at a women's march in the capital, Islamabad.

Officials say Pakistan has launched its first-ever digital population and housing census to gather demographic data ahead of parliamentary elections this year.

Police say hundreds of Muslims descended on a police station in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, snatched a blasphemy suspect from his cell and took him outside and lynched him.

Heath officials say Pakistan has launched a new nationwide anti-polio drive amid a spike in new cases among children.

Party officials say Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has postponed the resumption of his protest march on the capital, Islamabad, to challenge his successor's government for later this week.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan says he is pausing his march on the capital, Islamabad, after being shot and wounded in the leg.

Pakistan has laid to rest a journalist crushed to death while covering a political march held by former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and thousands of his supporters have started a long-promised march to the capital, Islamabad, to challenge his successor's government and demand early elections.

Pakistan has deployed thousands more doctors and medics to battle the outbreak of disease as the death toll from the unprecedented floods that have gripped the country this summer surpassed 1,600.

Authorities say the death toll from five weeks of monsoon rains and flash floods has jumped to 282 in Pakistan, as the latest downpours continued lashing the impoverished country.

Pakistani police say gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on policemen escorting a team of polio workers in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban near Afghanistan, killing two policemen and a polio worker.

Pakistani health authorities have confirmed the seventh case of polio so far this year, saying it was registered in the country’s former Taliban stronghold in the northwest, a region bordering Afghanistan.

Pakistan’s defiant former Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned the government to announce the date of the next elections in the next six days otherwise he will again march on the capital along with 3 million people.

Pakistan has launched a new anti-polio drive, more than a week after officials detected the third case so far this year in the country's northwestern region bordering Afghanistan.

Pakistan's police say gunmen shot and killed a police officer providing security for polio vaccination workers.

Pakistani authorities have launched the year's first anti-polio campaign even as coronavirus cases suddenly rise.

Pakistan's police say violent clashes have erupted between security forces and Islamists in the eastern city of Lahore, killing at least two policemen and two demonstrators.

Human rights experts working with the United Nations have asked Pakistan to quickly release a Christian man who was detained two years ago on alleged blasphemy charges.

Pakistani police say gunmen have shot and killed a police officer assigned to protect a polio vaccination team in the country's northwest.

A top official at the European Medicines Agency says a decision on whether to recommend that Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine be authorized for children is expected late next week.

The father of a British woman of Pakistani origin who was found dead at a home in the eastern city of Lahore this month is dissatisfied with the police probe into her murder.

A lawmaker from Pakistan’s ruling party has kicked off a debate in Parliament on whether the French ambassador should be expelled over the publication of controversial cartoons depicting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

Pakistan's interior minister says an outlawed Islamist political group has freed 11 police it had held hostage in the eastern city of Lahore amid clashes with security forces.

Pakistan briefly blocked access to all social media after days of anti-French protests by radical Islamists opposed to cartoons they consider blasphemous.

The French embassy in Pakistan is advising all of its nationals and companies to temporarily leave the country amid violent anti-France protests by supporters of a radical Islamist political party.

Pakistani security forces swinging batons and firing teargas have moved to clear sit-ins by protesting Islamists in the garrison city of Rawalpindi and elsewhere.

An iconic Pakistani human rights defender and former editor has died in the eastern city of Lahore after a brief illness.

A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, March 29, 2021. Despite a steady rise in coronavirus cases, Pakistan on Monday launched a five-day vaccination campaign against polio amid tight security, hoping to eradicate the crippling children's disease this year. Chaudary)ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Monday launched a five-day vaccination campaign against polio despite facing another surge of coronavirus cases, the second anti-polio drive in 2021 as the country struggles to eradicate the crippling children’s disease. He urged people to cooperate by allowing polio teams to vaccine their children and asked authorities to provide protection to polio teams. Pakistan has registered more than 659,000 coronavirus cases and 14,256 deaths.

A healthcare worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Despite a steady rise in coronavirus cases, Pakistan on Monday launched a five-day vaccination campaign against polio amid tight security, hoping to eradicate the crippling children's disease this year. Chaudary)ISLAMABAD – Despite a steady rise in coronavirus cases, Pakistan on Monday launched a five-day vaccination campaign against polio amid tight security, hoping to eradicate the crippling children’s disease this year. Pakistan has registered more than 504,000 cases of the virus, including 10,676 deaths since the first infection was detected in February. These attacks increased after it was revealed that a fake hepatitis vaccination campaign was used as a ruse by the CIA in the hunt for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

It said officers seized bomb-making material and guns that were to be used in sectarian attacks by the arrested men. Authorities did not name the country but officials have previously blamed Iran for backing Shiite militants. Pakistani security forces often make such arrests, but the latest ones came just after Sunni militants killed 11 Shiite coal miners they had abducted from southwestern Baluchistan. Shiites have been demanding a crackdown against Sunni outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba group which has killed scores of Shiite Muslims throughout Pakistan in the past several years. Islamic State and other Sunni extremist groups view Shiites as apostates and they frequently target them in deadly attacks.

Vehicles drive on a highway as smog envelops the area of Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020. The air quality in Lahore deteriorated to hazardous levels, putting an additional burden on the fragile healthcare system amid a surge in coronavirus deaths and new infections. The Air Quality Index at one point rose to 750 in the city's poorer areas — about 12 times the recommended level. “The air quality level was hazardous today," said Sajid Bashir, a spokesman for Environmental Protection Department. With cars back on the roads, the air quality gradually deteriorated, falling again to unhealthy levels.

Pakistan resumed vaccinations against polio, months after the drive against this crippling children's disease was halted because the novel coronavirus had overwhelmed the country's health system. Chaudary)PESHAWAR Pakistan on Friday wrapped up a five-day vaccination campaign against polio in the former Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan and elsewhere in the country amid a surge in cases, officials said. Medical workers participating in the drive also urged parents and families to abide by social distancing regulations to avoid a spike in coronavirus cases. Pakistan is one of three countries in the world where polio a disabling and life-threatening disease caused by the polio virus is still endemic. Khan said the polio spike came after February, when Pakistan halted anti-polio campaigns amid increasing coronavirus infections.

Guterres expressed hope Tuesday, June 23, 2020 that Israel will hear global calls and will not go ahead with annexation of parts of the West Bank, which would undermine a two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most of the international community considers Israels West Bank settlements illegal under international law. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the meeting with a call on Israel to abandon its annexation plans, an appeal echoed by almost all other speakers. Trumps Mideast plan, unveiled in January, envisions leaving some 30% of the West Bank territory under permanent Israeli control while giving the Palestinians expanded autonomy in the rest of the area. With Trumps re-election prospects uncertain this November, Israeli hard-liners have urged prime minister Netanyahu to move ahead with annexation quickly.

(CNN) - A British Royal Air Force plane carrying the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge was forced to abandon landing twice in Pakistan due to bad weather on Thursday. Prince William and his wife Kate are on a five-day official visit to the country. When an approach was finally made around an hour later, severe turbulence shook the aircraft and the plane aborted its attempt to land. The aircraft was converted by the British Royal Air Force to provide VIP transport for government officials and the royal family. Despite the rocky end to the day, the duke -- a former air ambulance pilot -- was in good spirits and went to the back of the plane to see journalists after landing.

According to several royal reporters, the plane was forced to turn around and return to Lahore, Pakistan, where the couple spent the day on Thursday, due to a severe storm, lightning, and extreme turbulence. Prince William, a former emergency air ambulance pilot, spoke with the plane's inhabitants after the drama, joking, "It was me flying." Prince William came to the back of the plane and joked with the accredited media and see if they were okay. Despite the best efforts of the pilot of William and Kates RAF Voyager plane we couldnt couldnt land there. For more from the royals, watch the clip below:RELATED CONTENT:How Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton Honor Princess Diana With Fashion | ET Style Feed Embed Code Restart How Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton Honor Princess Diana With Fashion | ET Style FeedKate Middleton Visits Same Mosque in Pakistan as Princess Diana Did in 1991Kate Middleton Sports Same Symbolic Hat as Princess Diana in PakistanKate Middleton Goes Glam in Emerald Sequin Gown for Reception During Pakistan Tour