Shaheen Shah Afridi begins his ODI captaincy on November 4 against South Africa in Faisalabad. The series opener at Iqbal Stadium, known for favoring batters with early pace assistance, will see Pakistan aiming to leverage home advantage.

Travel around Pakistan and you will see solar panels everywhere, from pukka bungalows to mosques, from farms to roadside shops. In rural areas, they are often mounted on trailers that can be towed from household to household. Increasingly, solar panels are included in marriage dowries.

The BBC speaks to those who have lost everything in this year's monsoon season and finds out why it will likely happen again.

Pakistan on Saturday partially reopened the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan to allow thousands of stranded Afghan refugees to return home, officials said. Pakistan closed all border crossings with Afghanistan on Oct.

Pakistan’s military claims India may stage a ‘false flag’ during Trishul 2025 drills as Islamabad restricts airspace and raises alert near the Arabian Sea.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to extend a temporary ceasefire and will hold another round of peace talks in Istanbul next week, aiming to defuse tensions after a deadly flare-up this month.The two sides had been holding talks in Istanbul under Turkish and Qatari mediation until Islamabad said Wednesday that the negotiations had collapsed.

As with numerous ports in the region, over the last several months bunkering operations had been restricted during the monsoon season.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan have failed in Istanbul after four days of negotiations, Pakistan’s information minister said before dawn Wednesday, accusing the Taliban government in Kabul of refusing to act against militants blamed for deadly cross-border attacks.