Security forces combed troubled neighbourhoods in Karachi on Saturday in search of gunmen as the death toll from violence rose to 98.

A battle with militants at Pakistan’s naval aviation base erupted again after dawn on Monday, with blasts ringing out and choppers hovering overhead.

Suspected militants in Pakistan set fire to more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for Nato troops in Afghanistan on Friday.

Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began.

Thousands of people fled on Friday from the southern Pakistani town of Thatta after the swollen Indus river burst its banks.

The United Nations on Wednesday warned of a second wave of deaths from floods in Pakistan unless help arrives soon.

Pakistani troops, spearheading relief efforts in the worst floods in 80 years, evacuated several thousand people in two provinces overnight.

Districts in Pakistan’s Sindh province were on high alert on Saturday for floods which have devastated other parts of the country.

Religious scholars gathered outside a besieged Pakistani mosque on Monday, asking Islamist militants to send out dead and wounded along with women and children, a day after…