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