Police in Pakistan have accused a man of arranging to sell his 12-year-old daughter into prostitution in a case that highlights the dramatic abuses inflicted on women and children in some parts of the country.
Major political parties took to the streets to force the administration of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province to step down after controversial local elections.
A popular female singer has been shot dead in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. The killing is the latest in a string of attacks against female artists in the conservative province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, where the performing arts are widely considered to be un-Islamic.
Peace activists in Pakistan have targeted celebrations of Eid al-Fitr as the perfect time to launch their war on toy guns.
