A slew of gun attacks in a major city in southern Pakistan killed at least 26 people, officials said Thursday, rattling a country already tense over a military offensive against Taliban militants in a district near the capital.

Pakistani police have arrested at least 60 more political activists ahead of a planned anti-government rally.

Pakistan will push to quickly reopen girls’ schools destroyed by Islamic militants in the country’s lawless northwest, the information minister said Sunday.

Some 38 people are dead after a fire swept through a group of makeshift dwellings in southern Pakistan.

More than 100 children have rallied against the United Nations for branding the Pakistani charity that runs their schools a terrorist front.

Pakistani stocks fell Monday after the country’s main exchange removed of a price floor introduced more than three months ago in a bid to stem financial turmoil.

Pakistani stocks fell Monday after the country’s main exchange removed of a price floor introduced more than three months ago in a bid to stem financial turmoil.

The gunmen who attacked Mumbai set out by boat from the Pakistani port of Karachi, then later hijacked an Indian fishing trawler that carried them toward this financial capital on their suicide mission, a top police official said Tuesday.

Pakistan received the first tranche of a $7.6 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund on Thursday, a bailout package aimed at stabilizing the economy as it fights soaring Islamist violence.

Pakistan’s top finance official says the International Monetary Fund has agreed “in principle” to lend it $7.6 billion to avert an economic crisis.