Zarar Khan, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Flood affected children attend school organized by Islamic group Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, in Sukkur, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. Officials warned Sunday that more flooding was expected as Lake Manchar in southern Pakistan swelled from monsoon rains that began in mid-June and have killed nearly 1,300 people. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

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Pakistan’s hope as lake fills: Flood villages to save a city

by Zarar Khan Associated PressSeptember 4, 2022

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani engineers cut into an embankment for one of the country’s largest lakes on Sunday to release rising waters in the hopes of saving a nearby city and town from flooding as officials predicted more monsoon rain was on the way for…

A man looks for salvageable belongings from his flood-hit home surrounded by water, in Jaffarabad, a district of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Army troops are being deployed in Pakistan's flood affected area for urgent rescue and relief work as flash floods triggered after heavy monsoon rains across most part of the country lashed many districts in all four provinces. (AP Photo/Zahid Hussain)

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Pakistan flooding deaths pass 1,000

by Zarar Khan Associated PressAugust 28, 2022

Supporters of a Pakistani religious group burn tires while block a main road during a protest after a court decision, in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Pakistan's top court has acquitted a Christian woman who has been on death row since 2010 for insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammad. In Wednesday's verdict, the court ordered authorities to free Asia Bibi. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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Pakistan court acquits Christian on death row for blasphemy

by Zarar Khan Associated Press, and Munir Ahmed Associated PressNovember 1, 2018

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 7, 2016 file photo, Pakistani Defense Minister Khwaja Muhammed Asif leaves the Supreme Court in Islamabad, Pakistan. With Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif disqualified by the country's top court and out of his job, questions are swirling over who will succeed him as head of government.(AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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Pakistan’s prime minister resigns after high court ruling

by Munir Ahmed Associated Press, and Zarar Khan Associated PressJuly 28, 2017

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Pakistan arrests al-Qaida financier

by Zarar Khan Associated PressApril 25, 2016

Pakistani civil society activists rally to condemn Sunday's deadly suicide bombing in a park, Monday, March 28, 2016 in Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistan's prime minister on Monday vowed to eliminate perpetrators of terror attacks such as the massive suicide bombing that targeted Christians gathered for Easter the previous day in the eastern city of Lahore, killing at least 70 people. Placard at bottom left reads, "killings in the name of religion is unacceptable." (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Pakistan’s PM vows to defeat militants

by Kathy Gannon Associated Press, and Zarar Khan Associated PressMarch 28, 2016

A Pakistani injured man from a bomb blast talks on his cell phone at a local hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, March, 27, 2016. A bomb blast in a park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore has killed tens of people and wounded scores, a health official said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chuadary)

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Pakistani Taliban faction claims park bombing

by Zarar Khan Associated PressMarch 27, 2016