Irfan Mufti in Islamabad Irfan Mufti assesses the immediate and after-effects of the devastating floods in Pakistan, and urges the Pakistan government to pull up its socks and deliver With monsoon rains continuing, the worst flooding in Pakistan in 80 years is still spreading.

A villager, displaced by floods, performs the Maghrib prayer, as he and his family take shelter on higher ground on August 29, 2010 in Thatta, near Hyderabad in Sindh province, Pakistan.

At least thirty five people have died and more than 250 wounded after an horrific attack on a Shi'ite religious procession in Lahore, Pakistan.

Three bombs ripped through a Shiite Muslim religious procession in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing 25 people and wounding about 150 others, officials said.

Day after day, Afshan Bibi, a mother of 11, trudges to the U.N. distribution centre to get relief supplies to help her cope with the aftermath of Pakistan's devastating floods.

Asia Pacific News.Net Thursday 2nd September, 2010 China has rejected reports that claim the presence of over 11,000 troops in northern Pakistan, saying that 'ulterior motives' were involved in hurting Beijing's relations with India and Pakistan through such 'groundless reports'. In a statement, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu said," ...

At least 25 people have been killed and 170 injured after three bombs exploded during a procession by Shia Muslims in the Pakistani city of Lahore.

Three suicide bombers in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday killed 18 people and wounded at least 143 during a Shiite mourning procession, police and rescue officials said.

U.S. officials launched a broad legal offensive against Pakistan's Taliban on Wednesday, placing the group on its international terrorism blacklist and charging its leader with planning last year's suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA employees.

Sep 01, 2010 12:46:50 PM AZAKHEL, Pakistan - After fleeing the Soviet invasion of his country with nothing, Afghan refugee Ziarat Gul spent three decades building a new life in neighbouring Pakistan.