As Pakistani transgender woman Jiya measures customers at her tailoring shop in a brand new Karachi market, her eyes gleam with the prospect of a busy Ramadan season and her ambitions to expand.

The All India Cine Workers Association has announced a blanket ban on Pakistani actors and artistes amid rising tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad after the Pulwama attack.

KATHMANDU, June 18: Police have arrested four Pakistani nationals from Thamel for entering Nepal with fake United Kingdom’s passport.  A team of police from Tribhuvan International Airport had arrested the Pakistani nationals after they were notified by the Interpol.

KATHMANDU, May 3: Twitter message that Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s is visiting Nepal just eight days before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Nepal visit has created rumor across the social media.

KATHMANDU, Mar 7: Pakistani Prime Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that Nepal could mediate talks between India and Pakistan for resuming the SAARC Summit and also resolving other bilateral issues facing the two countries.

KATHMANDU, Mar 7: Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi wrapped up his two-day official visit to Nepal and returned home on Tuesday.

KATHMANDU, March 6: Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has returned home this afternoon after wrapping up his two-day Nepal visit.

KATHMANDU, Mar 6: Visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' held a meeting at Hyatt Regency Hotel in the capital this morning.

KATHMANDU,March 6: Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi held bilateral meeting yesterday.

KATHMANDU, March 5: Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi arrived in Kathmandu on Monday for a two-day visit in a bid to seek Nepal's support in resumption of SAARC Summit.

KATHMANDU, Mar 5: A guard of honor has been offered to Prime Minister of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi at at the VVIP lounge of the Sainik Manch, Tundikhel. Nepal Army offered a 19-gun salute in honor of Pakistani Prime Minister Abbasi.

KATHMANDU, March 4: Prime Minister of the Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is to arrive on Monday at 2:30 PM at Tribhuvan International Airport for a two-day official visit.

ISLAMABAD, Nov 25: Pakistani police used tear gas and watercannon, and fought running battles with stone-throwing Islamist activists, as they moved to clear a protest by the religious hard-liners who have blocked main routes into Islamabad for more than two weeks.

ISLAMABAD, August 4: Pakistan on Friday swore in a new Cabinet, following a week of turmoil that included the election of a new prime minister after the resignation of his predecessor, who was dismissed from office by the country's Supreme Court for concealing family assets.

SRINAGAR, India, June 3:  Indian and Pakistani forces exchanged gunfire across a cease-fire line dividing Kashmir between the two rivals in the latest fighting there, wounding at least two villagers on the Pakistani side, officials said Saturday.

KATHMANDU, April 10: Pakistani former Colonel (Col) Muhammad Habib Zahir, who arrived in Nepal three days ago to reportedly face an interview for a United Nations job,  has gone missing.

KARACHI, April 08: A 13-year-old hacker from Karachi is schooling some of the biggest technology companies when it comes to cybersecurity.

PESAWAR, March 20:  Pakistan's prime minister ordered the reopening of the country's border with Afghanistan on Monday, ending a protracted closure that has cost businesses on both sides millions of dollars and deepened tensions between the two neighbors.

Mahesh Bhatt has been a strong supporter of Pakistan-India cultural exchange, previously spoke against the ban and now is putting his money where his mouth is.

Cinemas owners across Pakistan are all set to lift the self-imposed ban on Indian films and will start screening movies from December 19.

KATHMANDU, Dec 15: Pakistani ambassador to Nepal Mazhar Javed laid foundation stone of a new block of the Bharatpur Eye Hospital on Wednesday. The new block is being constructed with the financial assistance of the government of Pakistan.

KARACHI, (Pakistan), Dec 5: A massive fire swept through a four-star hotel in the southern port city of Karachi on Monday, killing at least 11 people, officials said.

The blue-eyed tea-seller, Arshad Khan, also known as ‘chaiwala’ from Islamabad achieved another milestone as he made his runway debut at Bridal Couture Week 2016.

KHAR, Pakistan, Nov 26: A small group of militants armed with guns and suicide jackets attacked a mosque at an army facility in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, triggering a shootout in which four insurgents and two soldiers were killed, the military and officials said.

JAMMU, Nov 6: Two Indian soldiers were killed in Pakistani shelling when the Army foiled two attempts by terrorists to sneak into Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan, police said on Sunday.

KARACHI, Pakistan, Nov 3: Pakistani officials say a train crash has killed 17 people in the southern port city of Karachi.

DHARAN, Nov 2:  Bal Bahdur Tamang  Sayngbo alias Bikas Lama of Dharan-11,  Bishnuchowk, was worried since tension flared along the Indo-Pak border.

SRINAGAR, Nov 1: A Gurkha soldier serving in Indian Army was killed in an alleged Pakistani firing along the Line of Control (LoC) in border districts of Poonch and Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, Indian media reported.

QUETTA, Pakistan, Oct 25: Gunmen stormed a police training center late Monday in Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province and detonated explosive vests, killing at least 48 police trainees, authorities said.

A big-ticket Bollywood film embroiled in controversy for featuring a Pakistani actor will open in Indian cinemas as scheduled next week after India's biggest movie industry body reached an agreement on Saturday with right-wing Hindu groups opposing the film’s release.

MUMBAI, Oct 22: As Bollywood remains divided on MNS call for a ban on Pakistani actors, Pooja Bhatt has also spoken out on the controversy.

NEW YORK: Actress Priyanka Chopra has expressed her displeasure over the demand for a blanket ban on the Pakistani artistes in India in the aftermath of Uri attack, saying it is not justified that actors alone have to bear the brunt.

NEW DELHI, Oct 9: Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Friday named his favorite spinners of all time and the list of three included compatriot and former leg-spinner Anil Kumble, Australia leg-spin legend Shane Warne and the Pakistan spin legend Saqlain Mushtaq – an off-spinner like the Indian himself.

A pigeon, which most likely came from Pakistan, was taken into custody by border guards after a letter addressed to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was found on the bird.

NEW DELHI, Oct 1: On Friday, Salman Khan entered the ongoing war of words about banning Pakistani artists from the Hindi film industry by saying that art and terrorism shouldn’t be mixed and Pakistani artists aren’t terrorists.

MUMBAI, Sept 30: Asserting that all Pakistani artists have left Mumbai following their 48-hour ultimatum, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Sunday continued to stay firm on their stand that no artist from the neighbouring nation will be allowed to work in Mumbai, adding that if anyone is still “hiding” in the city, they will be hunted down.

ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: Pakistan's military says that Indian troops have killed two of its soldiers on the Pakistani side of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir in an "unprovoked" attack.

KATHMANDU, Sept 22: The seventh Pakaistani handicraft trade fair has kicked off today at World Trade Centre in the capital. The fair is organized by Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce.

KATHMANDU, Aug 14: A flag hosting ceremony was held at the Embassy of Pakistan here today to mark the 70th Independence Day of Pakistan.

Karachi, Aug 5: Officials have poisoned hundreds of dogs in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi in the latest effort to curb a population of strays that attack thousands of people each year in the teeming mega-city of some 20 million.

LAHORE, Pakistan, June 9: A woman in Pakistan burned her 17-year-old daughter alive on Wednesday to punish her for marrying against the family's wishes, the latest in a series of so-called "honor killings" that claim the lives of nearly 1,000 women every year in the conservative Muslim country.