Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has suspended flights to the Afghan capital, Kabul, after what it called "heavy handed" interference by Taliban authorities, including arbitrary rule changes and intimidation of staff.
An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 has hit southern Pakistan, killing 20 people, most of them women and children, and injuring about 300, at a time when many victims were asleep, authorities say.
A school for girls has been blown up in northwestern Pakistan in the first bombing targeting female education in several years, weeks after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
