Gunmen shot and killed nine prison guards in eastern Pakistan on Thursday after gaining entry to a building where they were staying, officials said.
Attackers on motorcycles killed 18 Pakistani day laborers traveling through Pakistan's Balochistan province on their way to Iran on Friday, according to Home Secretary Naseebullah Khan Bazai.
Seven people were killed and 20 injured Wednesday night when a bomb exploded in a crowded railway station tea shop in southwest Pakistan, a government official told CNN.
A car bomb ripped apart a university bus in Pakistan's troubled Balochistan province Monday, killing four people and injuring 40 others, police said.
A bomb blast struck a bus in the restive Pakistani province of Balochistan on Monday, killing six people and wounding 50 others, a senior government official said.
An explosion near a passenger bus killed six people and injured 50 others in southwestern Pakistan on Monday, a senior government official told CNN.
Sixteen people were killed during an exchange of fire between tribal police and gang members in Pakistan's troubled Balochistan province Friday, a senior administration official said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday it was suspending its work in Pakistan pending a review of its presence in the South Asian country.
Gunmen in the restive Pakistani province of Balochistan on Thursday shot and killed five Shiite Muslims traveling in a van and two U.N. employees, local officials said.
Seven alleged militants were killed and nine arrested during a clash with security forces in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan, said Murtaza Baig, a spokesman for the security forces.
A Pakistani woman says her son was tortured and murdered by the ISI and she's demanding justice. Reza Sayah reports.
A roadside bomb killed two soldiers and injured nine others in southwest Pakistan, one of two deadly incidents in the country targeting law and order personnel Sunday.
Pakistani security forces killed a key Taliban commander and 20 other suspected militants in northwest Pakistan, two military officials told CNN Wednesday.
A blast at a busy market in northwest Pakistan killed dozens Tuesday.
Explosions near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan killed 15 people Friday, authorities said.
Fifteen Pakistani paramilitary troops were killed when militants ambushed their camp in southwestern Pakistan Monday, a military spokesman said.
Assailants torched three trucks carrying fuel for U.S. and NATO forces Sunday in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, police said.
Fourteen people died when gunmen ambushed a passenger bus outside of Quetta Tuesday, the capital of the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, local police said.
A bomb flattened a hotel Sunday in southwest Pakistan, killing at least 12 people, police said.
Three police officers were killed in southwest Pakistani when several gunmen ambushed their vehicle and sprayed it with gunfire Sunday night, a police official told CNN.
Two children looking for valuable scraps in a garbage pile were killed Monday when a bomb targeting security forces went off in southwest Pakistan, police said.
Unknown gunmen killed 11 people Saturday in an attack on Shia Muslims in southwest Pakistan, police said.
Five paramilitary personnel were killed and six injured in a blast in Pakistan's volatile Balochistan province on Tuesday, officials said.
An explosion in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province killed two children and injured 21 people, a paramilitary spokesman said.
A speeding driver lost control of his passenger van that plunged off a Pakistani mountain road Monday, killing at least 14 people, police said.
Fifteen passengers were burned alive when a passenger bus was set on fire by unknown men in Pakistan's volatile southwestern Balochistan province, an official said.
A senior Pakistani intelligence official told CNN Friday that U.S. military personnel have left a southern base said to be a key hub for American drone operations in the country's northwestern tribal areas.
Armed militants in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province torched a tanker carrying fuel for NATO troops, police said Saturday.
Three civilians and a police officer were killed Wednesday after militants fired two rockets at security checkpoints in Pakistan's western city of Quetta.
A rocket attack on a construction crew in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan killed 11 people on Monday, a police official said.
At least 10 miners were killed by a methane gas explosion in a coal mine in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan on Sunday, a government official told CNN.
Four civilians were killed and 10 were injured Thursday when a bomb exploded near a security patrol in Pakistan's Balochistan province, police told CNN.
In two separate incidents, militants in Pakistan torched two oil containers and a supply container Thursday carrying fuel and supplies for NATO in southwestern Pakistan, killing a driver and injuring two others, police told CNN.
Armed militants gunned down five police officials and kidnapped five other people in southwest Pakistan on Wednesday, a government official said.
Attacks targeting police in northwest Pakistan Monday killed at least five people Monday, including four police personnel, authorities said.
Some 200 houses were damaged in a southwestern province of Pakistan after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck Wednesday, officials said.
The U.S. Geological Survey says a 7.4 magnitude earthquake was centered 34 miles west of Dalbandin, Pakistan.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck Wednesday morning in a remote area of southwestern Pakistan, but initial reports revealed no major damage.
A powerful earthquake strikes a remote area of southwestern Pakistan. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
Armed militants in southwest Pakistan set fire to 10 oil tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan Saturday morning, police said.
Four children were hurt in a bomb blast in southwest Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said.
Pakistani cricket star turned politician Imran Khan reacts to the assassination of Salmaan Taseer, governor of Punjab.
Unidentified gunmen on motorbikes opened fire and killed the driver of a supply truck for NATO troops in southwest Pakistan on Sunday, a senior government official told CNN.
At least one person was killed and eight others hurt in southwest Pakistan on Tuesday when a suicide bomber targeted a convoy of the chief minister of Balochistan province.
Gunmen in Pakistan attacked two trucks hauling containers with supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan on Tuesday, police said.
The United Nations has established more than a thousand health clinics across Pakistan in the wake of widespread flooding, a U.N. official said.
President Obama issued a presidential order on Friday authorizing emergency funds to Pakistan's flood victims, the White House announced Friday.
As water continues to rush in, hope remains high for Pakistan's refugees. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
More than 3 million people have been directly affected and more than 1,400 have been killed by floods in northwestern Pakistan's Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, an aid group said Tuesday, citing officials.
A desperate situation is growing more desperate by the hour in Pakistan. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Pakistan is taking a page from America's counterinsurgency playbook in trying to win the hearts and the minds of those who might otherwise join Taliban militants or Balochistan nationalists against its military.
Pakistan tries counterinsurgency in another troubled part of the country, as CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
The day of the Gen. McChrystal mea culpa last week, an Afghan friend of mine, whom we can call Osman, drove from Kandahar city to his native village. A group of Taliban stopped the car and demanded to search Osman and his companions.
Public schools reopened in the Pakistani capital Monday almost a week after two suicide bombers attacked a university, prompting authorities to shut down educational institutions across the country.
Public schools reopened in Kabul nearly a week after a pair of suicide bombers attacked a university.
Gunmen on motorcycles fired Friday on a campaign office for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wounding two adults and a child, according to a report by Iran's state-run news agency.
A French national was kidnapped early Saturday afternoon in southwestern Pakistan, police in Pakistan said.
An American U.N. worker kidnapped in Pakistan more than two months ago has been freed, officials said.
After two months in captivity, John Solecki is freed. CNN's Colleen McEdwards speaks with UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond.
The mother of an American humanitarian worker kidnapped in Pakistan has pleaded for him to be freed in an audio recording released by the United Nations.
The mother of an American humanitarian worker kidnapped in Pakistan has pleaded for him to be freed in an audio recording released by the United Nations.
The Red Cross is asking for $7.8 million in emergency funds to help the victims of a deadly earthquake in southwest Pakistan.
CNN's Reza Sayah reports the remote location of the earthquake will slow an assessment of the quake's power.
The death toll from the earthquake in southwestern Pakistan will likely rise to more than 300, local officials say.
The death toll from a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in southwest Pakistan rose to at least 215 by Thursday, officials said.
Rescuers dug through the rubble left by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck a remote area of southwest Pakistan Wednesday, killing at least 160 people and leaving thousands homeless on the brink of winter, a humanitarian group spokesman said.
A car bomb explosion in southwest Pakistan killed two people and wounded as many as 11 others outside a park popular with families Monday, police said.
A suicide bomber killed a schoolgirl in southwest Pakistan and wounded about a dozen other people, police said on Wednesday.
CNN's Reza Sayah shows us the scene immediately after the blast at the Pakistan Marriott Hotel.
A blast at a rally in southwestern Pakistan killed three people and wounded at least 20 others Tuesday, authorities said.
Gun battles between paramilitary troops and militants in Pakistan's troubled southwest killed at least 41 people Sunday, including nine soldiers, the state-run news agency reported.
The Pakistan People's Party, which swept the parliamentary elections last week on Sunday called for an end to military operations in the southwestern Pakistani province where intelligence officials believe Taliban leaders may be holed up.
One day after a pivotal vote that will determine Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's political viability, early returns on Tuesday showed gains for the opposition parties of former Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and the slain Benazir Bhutto.
Pakistan will hold parliamentary elections Monday, with political parties competing for 272 seats in the National Assembly.
Pakistanis head to the polls Monday to cast their ballots in a pivotal election, one day after attackers lobbed hand grenades and opened fire on polling stations and party workers.
Pakistan's government is beefing up security for a "fair, transparent and peaceful" parliamentary election on Monday, a Pakistani government spokesman said.
Pakistan's citizens head to the polls on February 18 for parliamentary elections that may determine the future of President Pervez Musharraf and his allies.
A Pakistani army helicopter crashed Wednesday in the country's tribal region, killing a senior general and seven members of his staff -- including two other generals -- an army spokesman told CNN.
Monsoon rains in South Asia have driven millions from their homes and caused what the United Nations says is the worst flooding in living memory.
July 21, 2007: The newspaper headlines here have been preoccupied with the aftershocks of the Lal Masjid siege crisis in Islamabad, including a series of lethal suicide attacks. Yet a largely forgotten emergency continues to unfold almost a month after Cyclone Yemyin roared its way into northern Baluchistan, dumping untold quantities of water onto its parched interior and causing mass devastation on a scale unseen since the 1935 Quetta earthquake.
South Asia floods cause havoc
Quetta looks and feels like Afghanistan in the 1990s -- when the country was ruled by strict Islamic Taliban fundamentalists -- with men in traditional turbans and long beards all around.
Riots in Pakistan's Baluchistan province, triggered by the weekend killing of a Pakistani tribal leader, continued for a fifth day Wednesday.
Pakistan imposed curfews on Quetta and other cities in the restive southwestern province of Baluchistan early Monday after riots were sparked by the weekend killing of a Pakistani tribal leader by government troops.
A series of bomb blasts hit a police training school in southwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing six policemen and wounding 12.
Unknown attackers gunned down three Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver in southwestern Pakistan Wednesday evening, police sources told CNN.
A remote-controlled landmine has torn through a Pakistani military vehicle in the country's restive Baluchistan province, killing three soldiers and sparking a gunbattle that left at least 12 militants dead, a local official told CNN.
A day after a powerful car bomb exploded in the southern port city of Karachi, Pakistani law enforcement agencies arrested a suspect, President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday.
Police are hunting bombers who attacked a KFC fast-food restaurant in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Tuesday, killing three people and wounding 15.
At least 44 people have been killed and dozens injured after a bomb exploded at a religious shrine in Gandhawa, 220 miles east of Quetta, police sources told CNN.
At least 424 deaths are being blamed on heavy rains and snow which have soaked Pakistan for the past two weeks, causing dam breaks, flooding and avalanches, according to officials.
At least 75 people are reported to have been killed after a dam in southwestern Pakistan gave way after the heaviest rains and snowfalls in more than a decade.
Eight paramilitary security men were killed and four were seriously wounded Tuesday night when dozens of armed tribesmen attacked Sui gas fields in Balochistan province, government sources and oil managers tell CNN.
A bomb blast at an outdoor market in Western Pakistan has killed at least 11 people, and wounded more than two dozen.
The chief minister of the western Pakistani province of Baluchistan has survived an assassination attempt in Khuzdar, government officials told CNN.
Six people, including five Pakistani soldiers, died when gunmen opened fire on shoppers in a market, according to army spokesman Shaukat Sultan.
The chief minister of the western Pakistani province of Baluchistan has survived an assassination attempt in Khuzdar, government officials told CNN.
The U.S. Consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi warned Wednesday of possible terror acts against U.S. interests and urged Americans in the southern provinces of Sind and Baluchistan to bolster their security.
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