Dozens of people have died in Pakistan and India's northern Rajasthan state amid flash floods and landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains, officials said Thursday.
The provincial minister of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province came under attack Monday when assailants opened fire on his convoy, shattering his windshield, police said.
A suicide bomber killed 26 people and injured 63 others during a funeral procession in northwestern Pakistan Thursday, a senior police official told CNN.
The Pakistani Taliban said two of the three suicide bombers who killed 10 police officers Saturday in northwestern Pakistan were a married Uzbek couple.
At least 10 police officers and six militants were killed on Saturday when a police station was attacked in northwestern Pakistan, police told CNN.
Four children were killed and three others injured as a result of a mine blast in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, police told CNN.
For the second day in a row, a hardline Islamist politician escaped an assassination attempt in northwest Pakistan.
Ten people, including two policemen, were killed Wednesday when a suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up in northwest Pakistan, authorities said.
A suicide bomber killed five people and injured 36 in Pakistan's northwest on Thursday, police said.
An explosion at a mosque in northern Paksitan during Friday prayers killed at least nine people and wounded 33 others, officials said.
A vehicle packed with explosives rammed into a police checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing nine people, police said.
A teenage suicide bomber kills more than two dozen army recruits at a military training center in northwest Pakistan.
A teenage suicide bomber killed at least 27 army recruits and wounded 42 others Thursday when he blew himself up at a military training center in northwest Pakistan, officials said.
A teen-aged suicide bomber killed at least 18 people and wounded 33 others on board a bus Wednesday in northwest Pakistan, officials said.
Pakistani police were targeted in two separate attacks Tuesday in the country's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials said, leaving 20 dead and as many as 98 wounded.
Floodwaters subsided Thursday in northern Pakistan's Swat Valley, where a fierce sun baked a thick carpet of mud into a brittle crust, as officials expanded their estimate of the number of people affected.
Bridges and roads across Pakistan have been severely damaged by flooding. CNN's Dan Rivers 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.
Pakistan is reeling from the worst flooding ever to hit the nation. CNN's Reza Sayah reports on the damage in one small town, Charsadda.
As the relief effort in flood-hit Pakistan intensified Monday, officials were bracing themselves for an outbreak of disease among the millions affected by the country's worst deluge in 80 years.
The devastating floods in Pakistan have killed more 1,100 people, Pakistani government officials told CNN on Sunday.
U.N. aid official Nicki Bennett reports about the difficulties facing aid efforts in response to the recent flooding.
The rescue and recovery efforts of the Pakistan floods that have killed more than 800 could become more complicated as weather officials predict more monsoon rains starting Monday.
Flooding caused by monsoon rain has killed more than 400 people across Pakistan, a provincial government official said Friday.
At least 22 people were killed Monday and 27 were injured when an explosion ripped through a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan, police and hospital officials told CNN.
A terrorist attack near the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, killed two consulate security guards and at least six others Monday, authorities said.
Taliban militants bombed a government boys' school in northwest Pakistan early Saturday, authorities said.
Fifteen people were killed Thursday and at least 25 were wounded in two suicide bombings in the Bannu District of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, officials said.
A suicide car bomb exploded Friday in the middle of a group of men playing volleyball in northwest Pakistan, killing 75 and wounding 60, district police officials told CNN.
Thirty-six people were killed and dozens were injured in explosions at a market in Lahore, Pakistan, on Monday, an official said.
A pair of bombings in Pakistan killed 10 people and wounded dozens of others Friday, officials said.
A pair of bombings in Pakistan killed at least 17 people, including security officials, and wounded dozens of others Friday, officials said.
A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people Monday by detonating explosives outside a bank where people had lined up to pick up their monthly checks, police said.
CNN's Ivan Watson walks through a hospital in Rawalpindi treating victims of a bombing outside of a bank.
A massive car bomb tore through the heart of a bustling marketplace in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, killing at least 100 people -- including many women and children -- and injuring at least 200 others, officials said.
The militants behind Wednesday's deadly strike on a Pakistani marketplace that killed at least 90 people -- most of them women -- are "on the losing side of history," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at a joint news conference with her Pakistani counterpart.
The rugged beauty of the expansive Dir Valley can mask the detail of what is happening on the ground.
A pro-Taliban cleric who helped negotiate a short-lived cease-fire between the militant organization and the Pakistani government was arrested Sunday in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.
CNN's Stan Grant follows a displaced Pakistani family as they begin their much anticipated return home to Buner.
A trickle of Pakistanis who fled their homes during the fighting in the country's volatile northwestern region have begun returning under a government operation, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck a Pakistani Defense Ministry bus Thursday, killing at least one person and wounding 29 others, Rawalpindi police and medical officials said.
Two people were killed when a roadside bomb went off near a police bus carrying prisoners Saturday in northwest Pakistan, an official said.
A moderate Muslim cleric who denounced suicide attacks as forbidden by Islam was killed Friday in a suicide attack on his mosque in Lahore, authorities said.
Three suicide attackers shot their way onto the grounds of a five-star hotel in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar and set off a car bomb, killing at least seven people and wounding dozens, officials said.
Hundreds of Pakistani villagers who have formed an anti-Taliban militia battled for the fourth day Tuesday to remove the Islamic militants from a region of northwest Pakistan.
A suspected suicide attacker detonated his explosives at a mosque in northwestern Pakistan during Friday prayers, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens of others, a local police official said.
An iReporter gives us an inside look at a Swat Valley tent city in Pakistan where some Pakistanis are seeking refuge.
One of the three suspects detained Friday in Islamabad has been identified as Fida Ullah, a terrorist who recruited suicide bombers here, police said in a news release.
Militants in a Taliban-held area of Pakistan are believed to have abducted 50 students and staff Monday after a ceremony marking the last day of school, a police official said.
Security forces in Pakistan have started the "most important phase" of their push against the Taliban -- clearing militants from the largest city in the troubled Swat Valley region.
Nearly a half-billion dollars in "urgent contributions" are needed, the United Nations said Friday to aid displaced Pakistanis whose numbers are nearing 2 million.
In the Pakistani city of Peshawar, a packed movie theater is bombed. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
The Pakistani military claimed Friday to have broken the backs of Taliban militants in the Swat region.
Violence echoed across a volatile Pakistani province and an adjacent tribal region on Saturday, with dozens reported killed in the latest military push, a drone strike, and a car bombing targeting a school bus.
The Pakistan army presses ahead with its offensive against the Taliban in the Swat Valley. ITN's Julian Manyon reports.
The United Nations' refugee agency warned Friday of a "massive displacement" of civilians as Pakistan's military broadens its offensive against Taliban militants in the country's troubled northwest.
CNN's Nic Robertson is in Islamabad and was covering four stories at once. Here is how he did it.
Pakistani security forces say they have killed at least 16 militants overnight in the country's volatile tribal region.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari signed into law Monday a peace deal for the nation's violence-plagued Swat Valley, according to a presidential spokesman.
Pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Mohammad has announced he has pulled out of a peace deal in the violence-plagued Swat Valley, saying the government is not serious about implementing Islamic law, or sharia, in the region.
CNN's Reza Sayah reports from Pakistan, where a top mediator has pulled out of the peace talks.
Pakistan's president has defended his government's recent ceasefire in the country's volatile Swat Valley in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, saying that many in the West have mischaracterized the deal.
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Christopher Hitchens, Bernard-Henri Levy, and Fawaz Gerges argue if the Taliban and al Qaeda are one and the same.
CNN's Stan Grant reports militants in a second area in Pakistan are proposing another cease-fire.
The refugees mill about aimlessly amid the rows and rows of white tents that are now their homes.
A top official in Pakistan's troubled Swat Valley was kidnapped Sunday -- a day after a cease-fire between the government and Taliban militants was supposed to go into effect.
Pakistani government officials announced Monday an agreement with the Taliban to allow strict Islamic law, or sharia, to be implemented in parts of North West Frontier Province.
With Swat control in the hands of extremists, CNN's Stan Grant reports on Pakistani efforts to keep that control in check.
A bomb attack in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Wednesday killed a provincial minister, police said. Eight others were injured in the bombing.
Suspected Taliban militants blew up a government-run school Monday in Pakistan's violence-plagued Swat Valley, bringing to 183 the number of schools destroyed since fighting began in the area six months ago, officials said.
Two Pakistani security guards were killed Friday when they stopped a suicide car bomber from barreling into a military outpost.
A Pakistani soldier was killed and another wounded Sunday afternoon when an explosive device was detonated beneath a military convoy in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Sunday afternoon, a Pakistani military official told CNN.
Two explosions have struck a small cafe in volatile northwestern Pakistan, killing six people, including two police officers, local police and an official said.
A suicide car bomb apparently targeting voters killed at least 37 people and wounded 16 others in the Bunair district of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Sunday, a police official said.
Pakistan's president will use his first visit to Afghanistan to discuss how the countries can unite to defeat terrorists.
A meeting between the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan was canceled Friday when bad weather prevented Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari from traveling to the Afghan capital, Kabul.
A suicide bombing killed at least five people in the Mardan district of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Friday afternoon, local police said.
A suicide car bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a police station in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Thursday, killing four security officials, authorities said.
A remote-controlled bomb detonated Monday near the vehicle of a secular Pakistani political leader, who was injured along with four others, police said.
A suicide bomber detonated at the home of a lawmaker in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 30 others, a police spokesman said.
A suicide attacker targeting the home of a provincial party leader in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) killed four people and injured seven on Thursday, according to the Interior ministry and local police.
A blast Friday evening at an Islamic religious school near the western Pakistani city of Quetta killed three students and wounded six others, a police official said.
A bomb targeting a police van killed at least seven people in Pakistan's violence-plagued northwest Thursday, police told CNN.
A U.S. consulate vehicle in Pakistan's violence-plagued northwest came under gunfire Tuesday.
A bomb blast at a hospital in northwest Pakistan killed at least 23 people Tuesday, authorities said. Another 15 to 20 were injured.
A bomb targeting an Air Force bus killed at least 12 people in northwestern Pakistan Tuesday, police said. The blast wounded another 15.
Militants in northwestern Pakistan attacked a police checkpoint Tuesday and abducted up to 30 police officers, a police official said.
Deadly car bombing in northwest city of Mardan. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
An explosion has rocked a police station in a region of Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, police said Friday.
Twin suicide bombers set off explosives at a naval college in Pakistan Tuesday, killing at least five other people and wounding at least 16, one critically, the government said.
People in Pakistan take part in a crucial parliamentary election overshadowed by violence and fears of fraud
Fifteen people died and 20 were injured by a suicide bomber Saturday evening at a Pakistani opposition party rally, officials said.
An explosion killed three would-be suicide bombers in Pakistan Wednesday, police in the northwestern city of Peshawar said.
Pakistani security forces Sunday regained control of a tunnel in northwest Pakistan after a bloody battle that left 24 militants dead, a military news release said.
Eight cases of bird flu among people have been confirmed in Pakistan, the first such cases in the country, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
South Asia floods cause havoc
Putting education first is common in Kashmir.
More than a week into the relief effort after the South Asia earthquake, a U.N. official says the situation remains grave and the effort is facing daunting problems.
Torrential rains caused authorities to temporarily ground relief flights Sunday following the crash of a Pakistani army helicopter that killed six people.
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