Ex-cricketer inspires passion in voters, but must overcome strange state of affairs to win office

Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif faces arrest on his return to country on Friday

Conviction over family’s purchase of London flats a big blow to party ahead of election

Nawaz Sharif and family members face allegations arising from Panama Papers

Criminal investigation ordered into wealth of deposed prime minister and his children

Nawaz Sharif fighting for his job after corruption investigation into his family’s wealth

Islamic State claims responsibility for attack in troubled Baluchistan province

Further investigations ordered into corruption allegations levelled at Nawaz Sharif

Crackdown follows spate of bombings culminating in Lal Shahbaz Qalandar slaughter

Cross-border operation – denied by Pakistan – ratchets up tensions between neighbours

Kosovar Albanian nun who founded Missionaries of Charity dedicated life to India’s poor

Mullah Akhtar Mansour posed a ‘continuing imminent threat’ to peace, US secretary of state says

Main people linked with offshore account documents and reaction to leak

Sigmunder Gunnlaugsson faces allegations he hid millions of dollars

Mossack Fonseca files reveal web of financial secrecy and thousands of paper companies

Vladimir Putin spokesman says ‘Putinophobia’ means it is impossible to speak well of Russia

Prime ministers, monarchs and presidents and family members are among those revealed to have used offshore entities

Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens

Most of those killed and wounded in a public park were Muslims; many were children

Bombing of Pakistan Christian community a bloody attempt to establish violent credentials

Protesters continue Islamabad sit-in and demand the imposition of Sharia law

Mostly women and children die in Pakistan park blast, with hundreds injured

Gunfire and explosions rang out across Bacha Khan campus as at least 20 were killed

India claims attack on base in which seven killed was work of Pakistan-based militants

Western leaders have protected Saudi elite from scrutiny or sanction for half a century

Talks scheduled for 15th January under consideration after Pathankot airbase attack

At least two militants believed to be at large on vast facility adjoining Pakistani border

Indian defence ministry sources said four gunmen entered airbase overnight

Both have said the other side had opened fire first on day India mark the 50th anniversary of war between the two South Asian nations

Punjabi village residents claim prominent family taped children performing sex acts

However, five-country group insists it is not trying to challenge IMF or World Bank

Militant group Jundullah aligned to Islamic State claims responsibility for bus shootings

Ambassadors and wives of envoys killed in helicopter crash

Turkey welcomes end of air strikes while US calls for resumption of UN peace talks

Beijing sees Pakistan as key part of efforts to access the Indian Ocean over land to boost trade

Pakistan pledges to defend Saudi Arabia against threats, but no decision over military support

US providing logistical and intelligence support to Saudi military action

Stay of execution for Shafqat Hussain who was 14 when he confessed to killing of a child

Taliban claim responsibility for bombings at Catholic and Protestant churches in Lahore

Prime minister Nawaz Sharif says Pakistan is fighting ‘decisive war’ against Taliban