Pakistani madrassas are under scrutiny for their links to militancy and the government's regulatory changes. Recent government efforts to i...

The Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary has churned out a who's who of Taliban top brass -- including many now on the hardline group's negotiatin...

"The blast took place in a madrassa where unknown people had planted explosives in a plastic bag," a police officer said on condition of an...

Haq was elected twice to Pakistan's parliament on Islami Jamhoori Itehad ticket.

The report says the Pakistan military's ambitious National Action Plan made little headway to stop terrorism and has not done much to regul...

As Sharif was heading towards rostrum for a speech, a student hurled a shoe at him that hit his shoulder and ear.

The action came after a high-level UN sanctions team visited last month to review progress against groups and individuals banned by the wor...

"We need to look at and revisit the concept of madrassas...We need to give them a worldly education," he was quoted as saying.

"These countries also want to undermine the China- Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)," Janjua said.

Maulana Samiul Haq, also known as godfather of Taliban, had announced that his Difsh-e-Pakistan Council would also join the protest, creati...

Pakistani authorities have shut 254 suspected and unregistered religious madrassas across the country as part of a crackdown on religious s...

Pakistan has frozen more than 200 bank accounts of unregistered religious seminaries in a bid to break the nexus between militants and thos...

At least 48 religious seminaries in Pakistan's southern Sindh province have been found to have links with terrorists and banned outfits, po...

Pakistan's Sindh province government will crackdown on 48 madrassas involved in promoting terrorism in the country, according to a report.

Pervaiz Rasheed's remarks created a storm among hardline groups, which ran some of these madrassas, terming the minister as an "apostate".

Saudi Arabia is considered close to Pakistan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has personal ties with the Saudi royal family.

The interior ministry has issued orders to all four provinces and the Islamabad administration for taking into custody 6,777 suspects.