The first ten imperatives of Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia fulfil, with sly wit and humour, the premise of the self-help book t...

A two-year-old was the youngest child at risk of being forced into marriage, one of 250 children aided by the UK's Forced Marriage Unit, according to ...

More than 60 people are believed to have been killed, with up to 180 injured in a bomb blast that decimated a busy market in a Shia Muslim quarter of ...

What has gone wrong? Why can't we get our act together? Although a number of factors contribute to this quagmire, it is the misuse and abuse of three attributes of state governance that is the root cause of many of the problems we face today - politics, democracy, and accountability are the most widely misunderstood words in the country.

The Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban has spoken of being given "a new life" to serve the people who have prayed for her, in a vide...

Afghanistan is likely to be "messy" after western troops pull out in 2014, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond admitted today. Mr Hammond said there w...

The key to unlocking Pakistan's hidden potential is precisely in up-skilling these traditionally marginalized communities - including women and young people. The failure to do so will seriously jeopardize future generations, if not the nation as a whole.

While the debate continues over whether 2012 really was the so-called 'year of the woman' (or "year of the year of the woman" as the New York Times dubbed it, 2013 has so far been something of a mixed bag for the fairer sex. The news, uncovered on Friday, that the Church of England is to lift its ban on gay members of the clergy from becoming bishops, was undoubtedly a huge step in the right direction for the Church, but it rather showed up the fact that women still don't get the same privilege.

A 15-year-old girl shot in the head by the Taliban will undergo reconstructive surgery in the next month, her doctors say. Malala Yousafzai was sho...

The father of a 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban has been given a diplomatic job in the UK, Pakistan's High Commissioner to ...

The brutal assassination of nine grass roots level health workers in Pakistan, who were involved in a door-to-door immunization campaign in an attempt to secure children from crippling polio, adds an unprecedentedly grave dimension to the ongoing carnage in Pakistan.

A six-year-old girl who was abducted by her father on her third birthday and taken to Pakistan has been reunited with her mother. Atiya Anjum-Wilki...

The man made famous by his "One Pound Fish" song has been given a hero's welcome on returning home to Pakistan, after his UK visa ran out. Muhammed...

A six-year-old girl is due to be reunited with her mother tonight than three years after she was abducted by her father and taken to Pakistan. Atiy...