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  • 07/06/2013 | World

    First US drone strike under new Pakistan prime minister kills seven

    A US drone strike killed seven people and wounded three in northwest Pakistan, security officials said, in the first such attack since the swearing-in of Nawaz Sharif as prime minister this week.

  • 06/05/2013 | World

    Blast at election rally kills 15 in Pakistan

    A blast at an election rally organised by a religious party in Pakistan killed 15 people, officials said. The attack at a gathering of members of the Jamiat Ulema-e- Islam religious party wounded 40 people, said the officials.

  • 24/05/2013 | World

    UK fighters escort Pakistan plane to airport, two arrests

    Britain launched fighter jets today to escort a Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying 297 passengers from Lahore after it was diverted from Manchester, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry said.

  • 29/05/2013 | World

    Pakistan: seven killed, including Taliban number two after US drone strike

    The strike occurred in the North Waziristan region today, according to security officials. Seven people were killed, among them, Taliban deputy commander Wali-ur-Rehman. 

  • 16/02/2013 | World

    Bomb kills 64 in Pakistan's Quetta

    Sixty-four people including school children died in a bomb attack carried out by extremists from Pakistan's Sunni Muslim majority, police said.

  • 16/04/2013 | World

    Pakistan bears brunt of Iranian earthquake, 13 killed

    A major earthquake centered on a border area of southeast Iran killed at least 13 people in neighboring Pakistan, destroyed hundreds of houses and shook buildings as far away as India and Gulf Arab states.

  • 19/04/2013 | World

    Pakistani police arrest former president Musharraf

    Pakistani police arrested former president Pervez Musharraf today to face allegations he overstepped his powers while in office, marking a dramatic break with a political culture in which military rulers have remained untouchable.

  • 12/01/2013 | World

    Pakistani Shi'ite keep second night of vigil over 96 bomb victims

    Pakistani government officials met with Shi'ite leaders late on Saturday as thousands of protesters prepared for a second night in the cold rain, alongside the bodies of 96 people killed in one of the worst sectarian attacks in the country's history

  • 14/01/2013 | World

    India's army chief turns up heat on Pakistan, says can retaliate

    India's army chief held out the threat of retaliating against Pakistan for the killing of two soldiers at the de facto border in Kashmir, saying he had asked his ground commanders to be aggressive in the face of provocation.

  • 26/01/2013 | World

    Clash between Pakistani Taliban and militia said to kill 31

    At least 31 people were killed when Pakistan Taliban attacked a pro-government militia, according to reports from the two sides, but the Taliban were beaten back after hours of fierce fighting.

  • 30/12/2012 | World

    Pakistan militants kill 41 in mass execution, attack on Shi'ites

    Pakistani militants, who have escalated attacks in recent weeks, killed at least 41 people in two separate incidents, officials said, challenging assertions that military offensives have broken the back of hardline Islamist groups.

  • 06/01/2013 | World

    US drone attack kills 10 in Pakistan

    A US drone strike killed at least 10 people suspected to be Taliban fighters in Pakistan's northern tribal areas, intelligence sources said, days after another drone strike killed a top militant leader in the area.

  • 10/01/2013 | World

    Two separate bombs kill 32, hurt 100 in Pakistan

    Bomb blasts in two Pakistani cities killed 32 people and injured more than 100, police and hospital officials said.

  • 21/09/2012 | World

    Pakistan: protesters clash with police over film, 9 dead

    Demonstrators clashed with police in the Pakistani city of Peshawar today as anger over insults to the boiled over despite calls from political and religious leaders across the Muslim world for peaceful protest.

  • 11/10/2012 | World

    Pakistani schoolgirl shot by Taliban moved to army HQ hospital

    A Pakistani schoolgirl fighting for her life after being shot by the Taliban for campaigning for education rights was transferred from a hospital in a province that is a militant haven to a specialist hospital in the army garrison town of Rawalpindi.

  • 19/10/2012 | World

    Pakistani girl shot by Taliban 'doing well'

    A Pakistani girl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen is "not out of the woods" but is doing well and has been able to stand for the first time, doctors at the British hospital treating her said on Friday.

  • 16/08/2012 | World

    Militants kill 22 in Pakistan bus attack

    Suspected militants in northwest Pakistan forced passengers to step out of three buses and shot dead 22 of them in an apparent sectarian attack today, officials said.

  • 12/09/2012 | World

    Fires engulf Pakistan factories, killing 261 workers

    At least 261 people burnt to death as fires swept through two factories in Pakistan, police and government officials said today, raising familiar questions about industrial safety in the nuclear-armed South Asian nation.

  • 12/09/2012 | World

    Fires engulf Pakistan factories killing 314 workers

    At least 314 people burnt to death as fire swept through factories in two cities in Pakistan, police and government officials said, raising questions about industrial safety in the South Asian nation.

  • 08/06/2012 | World

    Bus bomb kills 19 in northwest Pakistan

    A bomb exploded on a bus on the outskirts of the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing 19 people and wounding several, police officials said.

  • 19/06/2012 | World

    Pakistan Supreme Court disqualifies prime minister

    Pakistan's increasingly assertive Supreme Court today declared Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani ineligible for office, plunging the country into fresh political turmoil during a crisis in relations with the United States.

  • 16/08/2012 | World

    Militants attack major Pakistan air base; nine killed

    Islamist militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons fought their way into one of Pakistan's largest air bases today, the air force said, in a brazen challenge to the nuclear-armed country's powerful military.

  • 23/05/2012 | World

    Pakistan jails doctor for helping CIA find Bin Laden

    A Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been jailed for 33 years for treason, television channels and a local government official said.

  • 05/06/2012 | World

    Al Qaeda No. 2 killed in drone strike, US official says

    Abu Yahya al Libi, a Libyan-born top al Qaeda leader, was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan earlier this week, a US official said.

  • 07/06/2012 | World

    US losing patience with Pakistan, says Panetta

    Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said today the United States was reaching the limits of its patience with Pakistan because of the safe havens the country offered to insurgents in neighbouring Afghanistan.

  • 20/04/2012 | World

    Airliner carrying 131 crashes in Pakistan

    A Pakistani airliner with 131 people on board crashed in bad weather near Islamabad's international airport today. The civilian plane, which was traveling from Pakistan's biggest city and commercial hub Karachi to the capital Islamabad, crashed about five nautical miles from the airport.

  • 03/05/2012 | World

    Bin Laden had disdain for al Qaeda affiliates

    Osama bin Laden showed disdain for al Qaeda affiliates, fretted about his organization's image and was deeply worried about its security, according to documents seized from his hideout in Pakistan and released publicly.

  • 22/05/2012 | World

    White House said to give inside access for bin Laden film

    The Obama administration arranged for two Hollywood filmmakers to get special access to government officials involved in the commando operation that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a conservative legal group that posted internal government documents on its website.

  • 28/02/2012 | World

    Gunmen open fire on bus in Pakistan, 18 killed

    Gunmen opened fire on a passenger bus in the northern Pakistani district of Kohistan in an apparent sectarian attack today, killing 18 people, police officials said.

  • 07/04/2012 | World

    Avalanche traps over 100 Pakistani soldiers

    An avalanche slammed into a Pakistani military camp near the mountainous border with rival India early on Saturday, burying more than 100 soldiers, the army said, adding that casualties were expected.

  • 14/04/2012 | World

    Militants attack Pakistan jail, over 300 escape

    More than 300 prisoners escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan early on Sunday after it was attacked by Islamist militants armed with guns and rocket propelled grenades, a senior police official said.

  • 01/12/2011 | World

    Qaeda's Zawahri says group kidnapped US citizen in Pakistan

    Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of an American man in Pakistan and demanded the release of prisoners and an end to air strikes in Muslim countries in exchange for his freedom, according to an Internet statement.

  • 02/12/2011 | World

    After NATO strike, Pakistan adjusts rules of engagement

    Pakistan's commanders in the Afghan border region can return fire if under attack without waiting for permission, the army chief said, a policy change that could stoke tensions after Saturday's NATO strike killed 24 Pakistani troops.

  • 10/01/2012 | World

    Bombing kills 29 in Pakistan

    A bomb killed at least 29 people and wounded 37 today when it exploded near a fuel station in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber region, one of the restive tribal areas where insurgents are battling government forces, regional officials said.

  • 27/11/2011 | World

    Rage grips Pakistan over NATO attack

    Fury spread in Pakistan over a NATO cross-border air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and could undermine the US effort to wind up the war in Afghanistan.

  • 28/11/2011 | World

    Pakistan PM: No more 'business as usual with US'

    Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani ruled out "business as usual" with the United States after a NATO attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, and the army threatened to drastically curtail cooperation with Washington on Afghanistan.

  • 30/11/2011 | World

    US denies NATO attack on Pakistani troops deliberate

    The top US military officer denied allegations by a senior army official in Islamabad that a NATO attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers was a deliberate act of aggression.

  • 27/09/2011 | World

    Pakistan PM warns US against 'negative messaging'

    Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani complained of negative messages from Washington and warned that any US raid across the Afghan border to target Haqqani group insurgents would be a violation of his country's sovereignty.

  • 21/10/2011 | World

    Pakistan, Morocco, Togo, Guatemala elected to UN council

    Pakistan, Morocco, Togo and Guatemala were elected to the 15-nation UN Security Council for 2012 and 2013, and Islamabad's envoy said he looked forward to working with fellow council member India.

  • 26/11/2011 | World

    Pakistan stops NATO supplies after raid kills up to 28

    NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging US-Pakistan relations deeper into crisis.

  • 27/08/2011 | World

    US officials: Al Qaeda number two killed in Pakistan

    Al Qaeda's new second-in-command, Atiyah abd al-Rahman, was killed earlier this week in Pakistan, dealing a "major blow" to the group still reeling from the death of Osama bin Laden, US officials said today.

  • 16/09/2011 | World

    Pakistan PM cancels US visit due to floods

    Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has cancelled a visit to the US to attend the UN General Assembly session to direct relief efforts as floods devastate southern Pakistan, his office said.

  • 22/09/2011 | World

    Pakistan warns the US against military presence

    Pakistan would not tolerate any incursion on its territory by US forces targeting militant groups, the country's interior minister said today, calling for Washington to provide the intelligence Islamabad needs to take them out itself.

  • 04/07/2011 | World

    Pakistan army launches military operation near Afghan border

    The Pakistan army said today it had launched an air and ground offensive in Kurram region on the Afghan border, its first major military operation since the May 2 killing of Osama bin Laden.

  • 13/07/2011 | World

    India: Near simultaneous blasts rock Mumbai, at least 21 dead

    Three bombs rocked crowded districts of Mumbai during rush hour on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people in the biggest militant attack on India's financial capital since 2008 assaults blamed on Pakistan-based militants

  • 19/08/2011 | World

    Suspected suicide attack kills at least 34 in Pakistan

    A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 34 people in a mosque during Friday prayers in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region of Khyber on the Afghan border, a top government official said. More than 100 people were also wounded in the attack in Jamrud.

  • 14/06/2011 | World

    India and Pakistan to resume talks over Kashmir

    India's Foreign Secretary is due to visit Pakistan this month to discuss Kashmir, a Pakistani official said, the first formal talks between the two rivals on their core dispute since the Mumbai attacks in 2008 froze their peace process.

  • 16/06/2011 | World

    Zawahri takes over as al Qaeda leader

    Veteran militant Ayman al-Zawahri has taken command of al Qaeda after the killing of Osama bin Laden, an Islamist website said today, a move widely expected following his long years as second-in-command.

  • 29/06/2011 | World

    War costs US over $3.7 trillion, says study

    When Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan, he referred to a $1 trillion price tag for America's wars. The figure grossly underestimates the total cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, study says.

  • 23/05/2011 | World

    Pakistan naval air base recaptured after battle with Taliban

    Troops recaptured Pakistan's naval air force headquarters after a 16-hour battle with Taliban gunmen who had stormed the facility in the most brazen attack since the killing of Osama bin Laden.

  • 02/06/2011 | World

    Nearly 30 Pakistani police, 40 militants killed in raid

    Twenty-seven Pakistani police and paramilitary soldiers and up to 40 insurgents were killed in clashes after heavily armed militants crossed over from Afghanistan and attacked a checkpoint, officials said.

  • 11/06/2011 | World

    Suspected suicide bombing kills 34 in Pakistan

    At least 34 people were killed in a suspected suicide bombing in the Pakistani city of Peshawar late, the latest attack since Osama bin Laden's killing last month.

  • 20/05/2011 | World

    Pakistan Taliban says it attacked US consulate convoy

    Pakistan's Taliban said it had attacked a US consulate convoy in the volatile northwestern city of Peshawar, the latest assault in a surge of violence since US forces killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden this month.

  • 21/05/2011 | World

    Sixteen killed in NATO fuel truck blast in Pakistan

    At least 16 people were killed in northwest Pakistan today after a bomb attack claimed by a militant group hit a truck carrying fuel supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan, the latest attack in an upsurge in violence since Osama bin Laden was killed.

  • 23/05/2011 | World

    Al Qaeda chief linked to Daniel Pearl’s murder

    Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian militant recently appointed interim leader of al Qaeda operations, has been linked to the killing of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002, US investigators said in a report.

  • 14/05/2011 | World

    Pakistan's parliament condemns bin Laden raid

    Pakistan's parliament condemned the US raid to find and kill Osama bin Laden, calling for a review of US ties and warning that Pakistan could cut supply lines to American forces in Afghanistan if there were more such attacks.

  • 16/05/2011 | World

    US Senator: 'Some in Congress concerned over US-Pakistan ties'

    US Senator John Kerry said in Pakistan that some members of Congress were not confident that bilateral relations can be fixed after it was discovered that Osama bid Laden has spent years in the country.

  • 17/05/2011 | World

    Pakistani forces kill five suspected suicide bombers

    Pakistani security forces shot dead five suspected al Qaeda-linked Chechen militants who had tried to carry out a suicide bombing in the southwestern city of Quetta, police and paramilitary officials said. One soldier died of wounds after being shot in the incident.

  • 12/05/2011 | World

    Bombing in northwest Pakistan kills five, police says

    A suicide bombing killed at least five people outside a paramilitary force academy in northwest Pakistan, police said. A police official said the attack appeared to be the work of two suicide bombers and that the death toll could rise.

  • 13/05/2011 | World

    Bin Laden's followers take revenge in Pakistan, 80 killed in attack

    Suicide bombers attacked a Pakistani paramilitary academy, killing 80 people in revenge for the death of Osama bin Laden as Pakistani anger over the US raid to get the al Qaeda leader showed no sign of cooling.

  • 13/05/2011 | World

    Bush tells Obama on bin Laden: 'Good call'

    Former President George W. Bush, who spent years searching for Osama bin Laden, had two words for President Barack Obama when Obama told him of the al Qaeda leader's death: "Good call."

  • 05/05/2011 | World

    Pakistan threatens US on cooperation if more raids

    Pakistan's army threatened to reconsider its anti-terrorism cooperation with the United States if Washington carried out another unilateral attack like the killing of Osama bin Laden.

  • 06/05/2011 | World

    US aircraft strike in Pakistan; protests over bin Laden

    US drone aircraft fired missiles into a house in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, killing at least eight suspected militants just as Islamists protested against the killing of Osama bin Laden.

  • 08/05/2011 | World

    Bin Laden had support network in Pakistan - Obama

    Osama bin Laden likely had "some sort" of a support network inside Pakistan, US President Barack Obama said, but added it will take investigations by Pakistan and the United States to find out the nature of that support.

  • 02/05/2011 | World

    Bin Laden was found at luxury Pakistan compound

    US forces finally found al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden not in a mountain cave on Afghanistan's border, but with his youngest wife in a million-dollar compound in a summer resort just over an hour's drive from Pakistan's capital, US officials said.

  • 03/05/2011 | World

    US: Bin Laden lived in Pakistan compound from 5 to 6 years

    Osama bin Laden lived for the past five to six years in the compound deep inside Pakistan where the al Qaeda leader was killed by US forces, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser said today.

  • 03/05/2011 | World

    US says bin Laden unarmed when shot dead

    Osama bin Laden was unarmed when US special forces shot and killed him, the White House said, as it vowed to "get to the bottom" of whether Pakistan helped the al Qaeda leader elude a 10-year manhunt, even as Islamabad denied it gave shelter to him.

  • 29/01/2011 | World

    Suicide bomber kills Kandahar deputy governor

    A motorcycle suicide bomber killed the deputy governor of Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Saturday, a blow to US-led forces trying to bolster governance and fight a robust insurgency in the Taliban's heartland.

  • 10/02/2011 | World

    Boy suicide bomber kills 31 at Pakistan army

    A 12-year-old boy in a school uniform blew himself up at a Pakistani army recruitment center, killing 31 cadets, officials said, in an attack that challenges government assertions that it has weakened militants.

  • 03/04/2011 | World

    Suicide blasts at Sufi shrine in Pakistan kill 41

    Two Taliban suicide bombers caused carnage at a Sufi shrine in eastern Pakistan, killing at least 41 people and wounding scores in the latest bloody attack on minority religious groups.

  • 11/12/2010 | World

    Diplomat Richard Holbrooke in critical condition

    Richard Holbrooke, President Barack Obama's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, was in critical condition after doctors completed surgery to repair a tear in his aorta, the State Department said.

  • 04/01/2011 | World

    Governor of Pakistan's Punjab province assassinated

    A gunman assassinated the governor of Pakistan's central Punjab province, a senior member of the ruling party, in Islamabad on Tuesday, an aide said, as a new political crisis gripped the strategic U.S. ally.

  • 15/01/2011 | World

    Gunmen kill 17 in new Pakistan violence in Karachi

    Unidentified gunmen have shot dead at least 17 people in a new wave of violence in Pakistan's commercial hub Karachi, police said.

  • 01/08/2012 | Sports

    Argentina suffer second defeat in men's hockey

    Pakistan, who has won the gold medal in three opportunities, defeated Argentina's national men's hockey team 2-0 in the match for the London 2012 Olympic Games' Group A.


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