The suicide bombing in Islamabad injured 27 others, officials said. Officials blamed the attack on the Pakistani Taliban, which has not claimed responsibility.

Pakistan has deployed army and paramilitary forces to protect Sri Lanka's cricket team after a deadly suicide bombing in Islamabad raised security concerns during their ongoing tour, the interior minister said on Thursday.

Sri Lanka Cricket has directed its national team to continue its tour to Pakistan despite several players wanting to leave because of safety concerns.

At least 12 people were killed and 27 others wounded on Tuesday in an attack on Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, according to officials. It was the first major attack to hit the city in more than a decade and comes as Pakistan is facing a resurgence of assaults by several insurgencies.

Federal Minister for Board of Investment (BOI) Qaiser Ahmed Sheikh held a meeting with a delegation from Nova Minerals Ltd, a US-based mining exploration and development company listed on the ASX and NASDAQ, focusing on gold, antimony, and rare earth minerals.

Worth an estimated USD 60 billion, CPEC was launched as the flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), envisioned to link China’s Xinjiang province to Pakistan’s Gwadar Port in Balochistan.

Pakistan has granted lifelong immunity to Field Marshal Asim Munir, in a move that would further entrench the military’s grip on power in the nuclear-armed nation. The upper house of parliament approved the constitutional amendment bill on Thursday expanding Munir’s control over the military branches.

The countries that helped broker peace earlier this year are now selling advanced weapons to the nuclear-armed neighbours