Wednesday’s violent riots in Peshawar were another reminder of Pakistan's precarious state. An estimated 70,000 protesters took to the streets in the frontier city — the unofficial capital of Pakistan ...

Protesters ransacked Western businesses in Lahore and stormed a diplomatic enclave in the capital Tuesday to vent their anger over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in the worst such violence in ...

Pakistan shuts down social-networking site after a satirical campaign dubbed "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" draws scores of supporters online. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of ...

Lahore, Pakistan – Thousands rampaged through two cities Tuesday in Pakistan’s worst violence against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, burning buildings housing a hotel, banks and a KFC restaurant ...

Pakistan has temporarily shut down all access from its citizens to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites, on orders from the country's interior ministry, after days of violent anti-French ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s government blocked access to social networking service Twitter for most of Sunday, after publicly holding Twitter responsible for promoting what it described as a blasphemous ...

Two Pakistanis, including a child, have been killed and dozens injured in protests against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, a Peshawar hospital official said, bringing the country's death toll from ...

They shouted slogans - 'God's curse be on those who insulted the Prophet' - and burnt effigies of the prime minister of Denmark, reports said. A leader of the rally said Pakistan should severe ties ...

Police fired tear gas and wielded batons on Monday to stop about 7,000 students protesting the publication of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons in northwestern Pakistan from marching on the governor's ...

Amid a rise in polio cases in Pakistan, the country’s first animated female superhero, Burka Avenger, has joined the fight to eradicate the highly-infectious virus. As of Tuesday, the World Health ...