Pakistan

We spent much of yesterday at Channel 4 News trying to get hold of our friend and former colleague Mushtaq Yusufzai in Peshawar. Late last night he finally posted the following on Facebook:

A Taliban attack on a Pakistani school leaves scores of children dead, 121 more injured and several staff killed, according to estimates from the Pakistan army.

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot by the Taliban, has attacked the “atrocious and cowardly” killing of more than 100 schoolchildren in Pakistan by the Islamist extremists.

Omar Farooq dies in a drone strike a day after another senior member of the Islamist terror network is shot dead by the Pakistani military.

Adnan el Shukrijumah, who was wanted in the US for planning to blow up the New York subway system, is the most senior al-Qaeda operative to be killed by the Pakistani military.

Members of the US navy Seal team that killed Osama bin Laden at his hideout in 2011 are making conflicting claims about who actually shot the al-Qaeda leader.

Shia Muslims in Pakistan, Iraq, and Lebanon take part in a self-flagellation ritual on the holy day of Ashoura. (Warning: graphic images)

Malala Yousafzai becomes the youngest Nobel prizewinner ever, taking the award alongside child slavery campaigner Kailash Satyarthi of India.

The Pakistani Taliban is reported to have pledged to send fighters to support the Islamic State group in the fight against the “enemies who are united against you”.

The death toll from floods in Pakistan and India reaches 400 as armies from both countries scramble to provide help to victims.

Imran Khan and Tahir ul-Qadri want a “popular coup” against Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif. But their experiment in democracy has encountered several basic glitches.

The headquarters of Pakistan’s state television channel are taken back by soldiers and paramilitary forces after demonstrators broke in during a wave of anti-government protests.

Pakistan seems to lurch from one political crisis to another and perhaps inevitably, it has got another full-blown emergency on its hands.

Pakistani campaigner Malala Yousafzai visits Nigeria to campaign on behalf of the schoolgirls abducted by rebel group, Boko Haram.

A father kills young daughter and her newlywed husband for marrying without family’s consent in eastern Pakistan – in the latest reported case of so-called “honour killings” in the country.