Pakistan

News Hour: At least 14 people were killed when an avalanche hit Pakistan’s northwest Chitral district on Sunday morning, officials said. Chitral Scouts Commandant Colnol Nizamuddin Shah, the chief of the team taking part in the...

News Hour: Nutrition programmes throughout Pakistan as well as relief and livelihood activities in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), run by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), have received a welcome boost from USAID’s...

News Hour: An explosion in a busy vegetable market killed at least 21 people on Saturday in Pakistan’s remote northwestern tribal region, an official said, in an attack jointly claimed by the Pakistani Taliban and a...

News Hour: Australia paceman Josh Hazlewood will be rested for Friday’s one-day international series opener against Pakistan at Brisbane to manage the fast bowler’s workload, coach Darren Lehmann said on Sunday. The 26-year-old Hazlewood and pace...

News Hour: Pakistan was fighting to stave off a defeat to Australia on the final day of the third Test in Sydney with five wickets down on Saturday. The tourists, facing their 12th straight Test defeat...

News Hour: Pakistan were dismissed for 315 in their first innings in reply to Australia’s 538-8 declared after lunch on the fourth day of the third test on Friday. The hosts did not enforce the follow-on...

News Hour: David Warner became the first Australian since Donald Bradman to smash a century before lunch on the first day in a flying start to the third Test against Pakistan on Tuesday. It was also...

News Hour: All-rounder Hilton Cartwright will make his Test debut among two changes in the Australia team for this week’s final Test against Pakistan in Sydney, captain Steve Smith said Monday. Zimbabwe-born Cartwright and left-arm spinner...

News Hour: Captain Misbah-ul-Haq said he was considering retirement after Pakistan’s shattering two-session capitulation to Australia in the second Test in Melbourne to lose the series on Friday. Pakistan, who appeared safe from defeat after amassing...

News Hour: Pakistan’s opening batsman Azhar Ali has rarely seemed a man in a hurry in six years of test cricket so it was fitting that his 12th century was eked out in fits and starts...