Latest from Pakistan

The Anglican Archbishops of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia have condemned an Easter Sunday suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan which killed at least 70 people.

Travellers can now book budget accommodation in the Taliban hotbed of Quetta via Airbnb.

Convicted spot-fixer Mohammad Amir will join the Pakistan cricket team to tour New Zealand after he was granted a visitor visa.

Four gunmen and two troops have been killed in an attack on an Indian Air Force base near the border with Pakistan.

Speculation is mounting over whether convicted cricket cheat Mohammad Amir will be allowed into New Zealand if he is selected for this month's tour.

Relatives of an American-New Zealand father and son who died on K2 were horrified after another climber shared a video of human remains.

Confirmation of the death of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the reclusive cleric who founded the Afghan Taliban, is likely to complicate the pursuit for peace in the country.

It may have been a joke, but two men are now locked up in Pakistan's Baluchistan province because they got married to each other - or at least acted as if they did.

The elite Seal Team Six fighting force which killed Osama bin Laden has warped and bloated into an unaccountable organisation which targets low-level militants and "street thugs", according to a new account of the secretive unit.

Zimbabwe have agreed to tour Pakistan for a five-match one-day series next month, the first test-playing nation to visit in six years.

A visiting Pakistani cabinet minister has made a plea for international cricket teams to return to playing Pakistan in Pakistan.

Pakistan has test-fired a ballistic missile able to carry a nuclear warhead to every part of India. Yesterday's test was another escalation in Islamabad's effort to keep pace with its neighbouring rival's formidable military advancements.

Having endured early miseries at the World Cup, Pakistan are at least up and moving.

The spirit of 1992 is driving Pakistan ahead of today's must-win clash with Zimbabwe at the Gabba.

Misbah believes the team who can best forget the troubled history between the nations might prevail in what is expected to be the most-watched cricket game ever.

Pakistan has been plunged into darkness after the breakdown of a key power transmission line in the southern part of the country.

For the women of Pakistan, it was cause for mourning. For the conservatives in the Muslim nation, it was cause for anger. But for the man himself, it was cause for celebration.

Man suspected of planning savage attack on Peshawar school that left 132 children dead is killed in police shoot out.

Three days after Pakistan suffered its worst ever terrorist attack, with the massacre of 132 schoolchildren in Peshawar, the country has hit back.

How many Pakistani children have to be slaughtered to stop a cricket match? We don't know, but it's more than 132, writes Paul Thomas.

The wounded children of Peshawar Army Public School paid tribute to the teachers who died saving their lives as Pakistan woke to the full horror of the Taliban massacre.

Horrifying pictures have emerged showing the Taliban gun squad who slaughtered 132 innocent children - as a new threat to kill schoolkids was revealed.

The first lesson of the day for 10-year-old Irfan Shah at Peshawar's Army Public School was social studies.

The frontier city of Peshawar was once known as "the city of flowers".

A Taliban attack on a school in Pakistan that killed 132 children has been widely condemned as un-Muslim, abhorrent, inhumane and disgusting.

The Black Caps' win by an innings and 80 runs on the fourth day of the third test against Pakistan will rank as one of the most comprehensive in the country's history.

For New Zealand television viewers the sight of sparsely populated grounds in the United Arab Emirates has prompted concerns about how cricket survives in Pakistan.

New Zealand batting coach Craig McMillan put it best: "Once you score that first test hundred, you almost feel like you belong." Tom Latham belongs.