By Ariba Shahid KARACHI, July 23 (Reuters) - Pakistan's push to convert some of its diplomatic goodwill with the Trump administration into economic support has drawn skepticism from economists, who say fresh financing will do little to address the reforms that Islamabad has long avoided.

Officials say suspected militants have ambushed a vehicle carrying a district judge in restive southwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing him and his security guard

Pakistan on Thursday rejected Amnesty International’s call for an investigation into a March airstrike on a drug rehabilitation center in the Afghan capital that the rights group said could amount to a war crime,

Pakistan went from fearing Trump's reelection to becoming a key U.S.-Iran peacemaker, though severe domestic instability threatens these gains.

Islamabad is building the enforcement side of its crypto push, standing up a unit to police money laundering even as it licenses exchanges.

By September, the government could remove the so-called "80/20 rule" that allows Export Processing Zones to sell 20 percent of their output locally.

The U.S. and Iran have resumed striking each other for more that a week, ever since the collapse of a ceasefire deal over control of the Strait of Hormuz. Pakistan, the country that helped mediate the first ceasefire between the U.