Karachi

The heat wave roiling over southern Pakistan is the worst for 35 years, according to new data. The death toll due to the extreme phenomenon has risen to 1,000.

Most of the deaths took place in Karachi, the largest city in the country.

Nearly 700 people have died in a severe three-day heatwave in Pakistan, officials said June 23, with medics battling to treat patients as a state of emergency was declared in hospitals.

More than 450 people have died from a three-day heatwave in southern Pakistan, officials said June 23, as medics battled to treat victims after a state of emergency was declared in hospitals.

Motorcycle riding armed men killed at least 43 people in Karachi, Pakistan.

The majority of people on the bus were Shiites. At least 20 more were wounded by the attack, while no terrorist organization has assumed responsibility.

Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a bus in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi on May 13, killing at least 43 people, police said, in the latest attack directed against religious minorities this year. 

Television channels carried pictures of a pink bus covered in bullet holes and lines of waiting ambulances. 

At least 57 people including women and children were killed when their bus crashed into an oil tanker, igniting a fierce blaze in southern Pakistan early Jan. 11, officials said.
      
It was the second crash involving major loss of life in Sindh province in less than three months.