Dozens of people have died in Pakistan and India's northern Rajasthan state amid flash floods and landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains, officials said Thursday.
Two 5-year-olds were among five people killed in two blasts across Pakistan on Thursday amid fears of sectarian violence across the country.
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India's Punjab state is the birthplace of Bhangra music, home of the colorful turban and the exquisite golden temple.
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At least 100 people died after taking what officials suspect may have been tainted heart medicine in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, the health ministry said Thursday.
At least three gunmen have kidnapped two foreign aid workers in Punjab Province in central Pakistan, police said Friday.
An Italian citizen was kidnapped Thursday in Pakistan's Punjab province, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced.
Thousands of doctors are on strike in India and some patients say their loved ones are dying. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
The head of Rajasthan's health ministry denied reports that more than 40 patients have died in recent days amid an ongoing strike by doctors at public hospitals in the Indian state.
More than 40 patients have died in the last five days amid an ongoing strike by doctors at public hospitals in India's Rajasthan state, CNN sister network CNN-IBN reported Sunday.
At Zenana hospital in the western Indian city of Jaipur, Nasroon Bano died after giving birth. Her family blamed it on the absence of doctors.
Thousands of doctors from public hospitals are striking for better pay in India.
A Pakistani woman whose gang rape made international headlines nine years ago has given birth for the first time.
Six people died in Pakistan on Saturday when a blast tore through a passenger bus, a government official said.
A suicide bombing at a Sufi shrine in central Pakistan's Punjab province on Sunday killed at least 41 people and wounded more than 100 others, police said.
Relatives of a 21-year-old Pakistani woman are under arrest for allegedly electrocuting her because she secretly married a man they didn't approve of, police told CNN.
An elite security guard turns on his boss, assassinating a Pakistani governor. CNN's Chris Lawrence reports.
The assassination of the governor of Pakistan's Punjab province is a major setback for progressive forces in that country and a deeply worrying sign for U.S. strategy in the region, says analyst Fareed Zakaria.
A security guard accused of assassinating the governor of Pakistan's Punjab province was banned five months ago by a provincial police official from providing security to VIP personnel, authorities said Wednesday.
The governor of Pakistan's Punjab province was assassinated by his own security guard Tuesday, according to Interior Minister Rehman Malik, apparently because he spoke out against the country's controversial blasphemy law.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will pardon a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, the governor of Punjab state told CNN Tuesday.
In this village in Pakistan's Punjab province a tearful 12-year-old girl ponders if the Pakistani government will soon hang her mother.
It seems almost certain that the devastating floods that have ravaged Pakistan since late July are going to have a severe and long-lasting impact on Pakistan's already fragile and mismanaged economy.
The floods in Pakistan move south, and the people of the Punjab are the latest victims. ITN's Juliet Bremner reports.
Four gunmen opened fire in a hospital in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, killing five people in an attempt to get to a suspect in last week's attacks on a religious minority, authorities said.
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CNN affiliate Geo TV is reporting that two mosques belonging to the Ahmadi religious group have been attacked.
Pakistani authorities are blaming Friday's deadly attacks in Lahore on militants with ties to the Pakistani Taliban.
The death toll from Friday's attacks on a religious minority in Lahore has risen to 98, officials said Saturday.
The northwest state of Punjab is popularly known as the breadbasket of India.
A five-year-old British boy who was kidnapped in Pakistan earlier this month has been found safe and is back with his relatives, the British High Commission said Tuesday.
The captors of a kidnapped 5-year-old British boy included someone who was close to the family, Pakistan's Interior Minister said Sunday.
In an event considered rare, one of India's low-caste communities has declared its own distinct religion.
A court in Lahore, Pakistan, has ordered that two men have their noses and ears chopped off, after the two were convicted of doing the same to a young woman.
Five Americans arrested a week ago in Pakistan cannot be handed over to another country or the FBI without the permission of the Lahore High Court, the court ordered Thursday, according to a government lawyer.
The death toll from an explosion in the central Pakistani city of Dera Ghazi Khan climbed to at least 25 on Wednesday, a senior government official said.
An explosion killed at least 22 people and wounded 60 others Tuesday in the central Pakistani city of Dera Ghazi Khan, said a rescue service official.
Gurdeep Kaur's wrinkled face was wet with tears, as she recounted what she saw a quarter century ago: the killings of 21 of family members.
The school bell rang and along with my sixth-grade friends, I climbed down the stairs. My teenage sister was in the hallway waiting for me. Her being there was unusual.
Pakistani authorities have closed all educational institutions across the county until at least the end of the week, following twin suicide bombings at an Islamic university Tuesday.
Pakistani authorities have launched a massive crackdown on terror groups that they say were planning numerous suicide attacks, including in the country's largest city of Karachi.
About 200 people have been arrested in a flare-up of anti-Christian violence in Gojra that left seven dead, a government minister said Monday.
Religious groups in India have warned they will oppose any move to legalize homosexuality as the federal government prepares to hold talks on a law that classifies same-sex acts as crimes.
Police tightened security Wednesday in India's Punjab for the funeral of a preacher whose killing in Vienna, Austria sparked violent protests in the Sikh majority state last week.
The Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for a deadly suicide attack on a police building in Lahore, eastern Pakistan that killed at least 27 -- and vowed similar attacks in other cities.
Tensions eased in the northern Indian state of Punjab on Tuesday, following widespread violence across the region after a Sikh guru was shot to death and another was wounded at an Indian temple in Vienna, Austria.
A suicide bombing at a mosque in Pakistan has killed at least 20 people, according to local police.
India's Department of Atomic Energy is sending an investigative team to the northern state of Punjab after traces of uranium where found in the hair samples of children and adults with disabilities.
Twenty-three pilgrims died and more than 70 were injured as a truck carrying them overturned in north India, police said Tuesday.
Police in Pakistan arrested lawyers holding a public protest to demand that the government immediately restore judges the previous president had ousted, Karachi's police chief told CNN Thursday.
Supporters of Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif took to the streets Thursday, burning cars and damaging shops, after the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that he and his brother cannot hold elected office.
Christiane Amanpour talks to international correspondent Stan Grant about U.S. foreign policy in Pakistan.
Eight police personnel were killed in an early-morning attack Saturday on a police security checkpoint in Pakistan's Punjab province, a police official said.
Ambulances arrive after a blast at a Pakistani mosque in Dera Ghazi Khan.
A blast struck a crowd of Shia Muslims as they took part in a procession toward a mosque in central Pakistan Thursday evening, killing at least 24 people and wounding 50, according to police and emergency officials.
Five newborns receiving treatment for a skin ailment at a government hospital in north India died after a fire broke out Saturday, authorities said.
Pakistani authorities have arrested four men in connection with the suicide truck bombing of a Marriott Hotel last month in Islamabad that killed more than 50 people, officials said Friday.
Once allergic to being tied to Washington's war on terror, the country's targeted political class is beginning to see it as their own struggle
A suicide bomber detonated at the home of a lawmaker in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 30 others, a police spokesman said.
Farming families in India's cotton belt are being diagnosed with cancer at alarming rates -- and many say pesticides are to blame
Initial reports appear to show Musharraf's opponents ahead, but it's a nerve-wracking path before anything is official
CNN's Hugh Riminton asks political analyst Shuja Nawaz about Pakistan's upcoming election.
Pakistan's government is beefing up security for a "fair, transparent and peaceful" parliamentary election on Monday, a Pakistani government spokesman said.
Pakistan's citizens head to the polls on February 18 for parliamentary elections that may determine the future of President Pervez Musharraf and his allies.
Perhaps 20% of the results will come from rural areas ruled feudal-style. Is this any way to run a democracy?
Just before dusk, on the plains of India's northern Punjab region, 22-year-old Naresh Kumar sprinkles mustard oil, turmeric, and raw sugar inside a ten-inch circle traced in the rich soil. Hands clasped, head bowed, he prays for a bountiful supply of ground water. Then he cranks a wheezing diesel engine, lines up a drill over the offerings, and releases a lever that brings an iron cylinder crashing into the earth. "Business is growing," says Kumar. "But we've placed about as many tube wells as we can in this area."
A deadly suicide bombing in Lahore breaks a two-week lull in the troubled nation and could be a harbinger of more to come
The most pressing priority for nuclear-armed Pakistan -- and the world -- now that the Bhutto dynasty has been terminated is to avoid having this difficult country descend into civil war.
A passenger train collided with a bus loaded with college students and teachers in northern India Friday, killing at least 17 people and critically injuring many more, according to the Press Trust of India.
A suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a Pakistani air force bus, killing at least seven people and wounding 30 others Thursday, police told CNN.
About 2,500 troops have been sent to Swat, Pakistan, to subdue a cleric who has declared war on the government.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister and opposition party leader Nawaz Sharif's attempt to return to Pakistan after seven years in exile ended quickly Monday as police ordered him to board a flight for Saudi Arabia, government officials said.
Brother of Pakistan ex-PM says that actions by Musharraf against his brother would heighten tension.
The plane carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif landed at the Islamabad airport Monday morning, marking a return to the country from which he was driven into exile for seven years.
A Taliban commander who masterminded the July kidnapping of South Korean aid workers was among 16 militants killed by U.S.-led coalition forces and Afghan soldiers, according to a police official.
In the midst of widespread protests, the Pakistani government Thursday agreed to suspend newly enacted media restrictions until a joint committee comprised of media and government representatives could review them, Pakistan Broadcasting Association (PBA) and information ministry officials said.
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The heir to Britain's throne Prince Charles and his wife the Duchess of Cornwall showed their respect for Sikhism on Tuesday by kneeling and kissing the floor of one of the religion's holiest shrines in the foothills of the Himalayas.
A Pakistani passenger train has derailed Sunday in the eastern part of the country, causing six train cars to plummet into a ravine and killing at least two people, government officials tell CNN.
It is 3 a.m. on a Tuesday in Mumbai's northwestern Malad district, and in the far distance a group begins to emerge from the empty darkness.
At least 10 people have died and more than 800 have been hospitalized -- including dozens in critical condition -- after drinking contaminated water in the Pakistan city of Lahore, authorities and health officials said Wednesday.
About 12,000 police were deployed across Lahore on Saturday ahead of the return of opposition leader Asif Ali Zardari, with the government vowing to block any rallies by his party and effectively sealing off the city.
The chief minister of Indian Punjab was greeted by thousands of people waving Indian and Pakistani flags as he was driven along the 20-kilometer (12-mile) road from the border to Lahore Monday morning.
Eight paramilitary security men were killed and four were seriously wounded Tuesday night when dozens of armed tribesmen attacked Sui gas fields in Balochistan province, government sources and oil managers tell CNN.
Police say a wave of heavy fog in Pakistan's northern Punjab province is responsible for two deadly road accidents Saturday, killing 26 people, and is grounding airplanes at Lahore's airport.
India's railway minister has accused rail operators of negligence and murder as the death toll grew to 38 in Tuesday's deadly head-on collision of two passenger trains in India's northern Punjab state.
A deadly head-on collision between two passenger trains in India's northern Punjab state has killed at least 34 people and injured dozens more, a railway official told CNN.
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