
Pakistan’s ruling party was to meet with parliamentarians Saturday to begin nominations for an interim prime minister after the Supreme Court ousted premier Nawaz Sharif, a polarizing move which plunged the country into political uncertainty. Sharif became the 15th prime minister in Pakistan’s 70-year history, which it has been under ...

Gunmen ambushed a car and killed four family members in southwest Pakistan on Wednesday, police said. The men sprayed bullets at the vehicle of the Hazara family travelling to Karachi as they passed through Choto, a town some 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the Balochistan provincial capital Quetta.