A ruling party official says Pakistan's coalition government will introduce a parliamentary resolution on May 12 to restore judges fired by President Pervez Musharraf.
A suicide bomb attack on the office of a religious group killed one person and wounded 18 others in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, an official said.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heads to Pakistan and India this week to put the finishing touches on a controversial deal to build a pipeline that would deliver Iranian gas to both countries, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency says.
One of Pakistan's most notorious militant leaders, Baitullah Mehsud, has declared a cease-fire in the troubled Waziristan region bordering Afghanistan
An explosion has rocked a police station in a region of Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, police said Friday.
The man blamed for the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has declared a cease-fire now that the former Pakistan prime minister's party is in power, a government official said.
The White House on Wednesday expressed concern with reports that Pakistan's new government is working on a peace accord with militant leaders in its tribal regions.
Pakistan's new government has made good on its promise to negotiate with militant groups within its borders by releasing a jailed pro-Taliban leader who recruited thousands of fighters to battle U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan appeared on a video aired Saturday by an Arab satellite channel, saying he was kidnapped by Taliban militants more than two months ago.
China will offer its close ally Pakistan a low-interest $500 million (315 million euro) loan to help ease its growing financial problems, Pakistan's foreign minister said.
A ruling party official says Pakistan's coalition government will introduce a parliamentary resolution on May 12 to restore judges fired by President Pervez Musharraf.
A suicide bomb attack on the office of a religious group killed one person and wounded 18 others in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, an official said.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heads to Pakistan and India this week to put the finishing touches on a controversial deal to build a pipeline that would deliver Iranian gas to both countries, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency says.
One of Pakistan's most notorious militant leaders, Baitullah Mehsud, has declared a cease-fire in the troubled Waziristan region bordering Afghanistan
An explosion has rocked a police station in a region of Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, police said Friday.
The man blamed for the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has declared a cease-fire now that the former Pakistan prime minister's party is in power, a government official said.
The White House on Wednesday expressed concern with reports that Pakistan's new government is working on a peace accord with militant leaders in its tribal regions.
Pakistan's new government has made good on its promise to negotiate with militant groups within its borders by releasing a jailed pro-Taliban leader who recruited thousands of fighters to battle U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan appeared on a video aired Saturday by an Arab satellite channel, saying he was kidnapped by Taliban militants more than two months ago.
China will offer its close ally Pakistan a low-interest $500 million (315 million euro) loan to help ease its growing financial problems, Pakistan's foreign minister said.
Al Qaeda is still operating within Pakistan's mountainous tribal region bordering Afghanistan, and the United States lacks a "comprehensive" plan for meeting its national security goals there, said a U.S. government study released Thursday.
The Olympic torch relay began its Pakistan leg under heavy guard and literally behind closed doors on Wednesday.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has signed deployment orders that will send U.S. military trainers to Pakistan this summer, CNN has learned.
At 25-years-old, Fatima Bhutto is eligible to become prime minister of Pakistan.
For years US policy has focused on one man, Pervez Musharraf. Now, with his power on the wane and a new coaltion government in place, it has a lot of catching up to do
Pakistan has entered an "era of real democracy" according to President Pervez Musharraf , who said Sunday that he hoped the incoming government would maintain the pace of growth the nation has enjoyed.
Monday was a momentous day for the people of Pakistan, but a bittersweet day for me.
Four of the 12 people wounded in the weekend bombing of an Islamabad restaurant are U.S. FBI agents, the bureau confirmed Sunday.
A missile fired from an unidentified location struck a house in Pakistan on Sunday, killing 20 and critically injuring five others, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported Sunday.
An Islamabad restaurant that served alcohol was attacked, Saturday, in a rare bombing in the capital
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.
At least 45 people died and 82 were wounded in a suicide attack on the funeral Friday of a district superintendent of police -- killed earlier in the day in a separate attack -- in northwest Pakistan's Swat province, according to Pakistani police.
An explosion at the funeral Friday of a district police officer killed earlier in the day in northwest Pakistan killed 30 people and injured between 50 and 55, province police said.
Musharraf's league may have been hit big, but Pakistan's once powerful fundamentalist political parties are reeling too
A missile strike in a remote part of Pakistan killed at least eight suspected militants and wounded three others Thursday, Pakistan's state media reported.
Musharraf's party lost the election because of the price of flour and food. It's the foremost problem facing the next government
Gunmen fired on a children's aid group in Pakistan's tribal region Monday, leaving three staffers dead and at least one critically injured, the organization said.
Akbar Shah Afridi had no doubt about what will happen after Pakistan's votes are counted.
People in Pakistan take part in a crucial parliamentary election overshadowed by violence and fears of fraud
Pakistan will hold parliamentary elections Monday, with political parties competing for 272 seats in the National Assembly.
With the country's electorate wanting President Musharraf out, opposition leaders don't expect him to play fair at the polls
Members of Congress on Tuesday called on the Bush administration to increase pressure on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to ensure free and fair elections in his nation.
Pakistan's government is beefing up security for a "fair, transparent and peaceful" parliamentary election on Monday, a Pakistani government spokesman said.
The Election Commission of Pakistan will delay parliamentary elections for at least a month, sources in the commission told CNN Tuesday.
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.
Pakistani authorities have launched a search operation in the country's tribal region for Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan, interior ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan went missing Monday and is feared to have been abducted in Pakistan's tribal region, according to Afghan security sources.
A suicide bomber who slipped into a political rally and detonated an explosive killed eight people in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan border Monday, Pakistan's state news agency said.
Fifteen people died and 20 were injured by a suicide bomber Saturday evening at a Pakistani opposition party rally, officials said.
An explosion near a bus carrying army personnel killed four people in Pakistan on Monday, police told CNN.
A group of gunmen Monday released at least 30 students and teachers who had been held for several hours inside a primary school in northwest Pakistan, according to Pakistani officials and local police.
Pakistani security officials insisted Saturday there was no danger of the country's nuclear arsenal falling into the hands of Islamic extremists.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Thursday that the United States is "ready, able and willing" to send troops to Pakistan if the government of the South Asian nation is interested.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Thursday the United States is "ready, able and willing" to send troops to Pakistan to help its military battle al Qaeda -- if the Pakistani government is interested.
A suicide bomb detonated near a Shiite religious site in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least four people and wounding 22, police told CNN.
Islamic militants overran a border fort in northwestern Pakistan during a pitched battle Wednesday, killing seven Pakistani troops and leaving more than a dozen unaccounted for, a military spokesman said.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has made it clear that a U.S. military mission to capture Osama bin Laden or other top al Qaeda leaders on Pakistani soil would be unwelcome and "against the sovereignty of Pakistan."
Samina Rajput speaks in hushed tones about her husband, Asif, who was killed alongside former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in the December 27 attack that convulsed the nation.
Pakistan's foreign ministry Wednesday rejected concerns raised by the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief that the country's nuclear weapons "could fall into the hands of an extremist group in Pakistan or in Afghanistan."
The country's Ministry of Tourism is campaigning to boost the country's image. Unfortunately, the news hasn't helped
Benazir Bhutto's assassination has plunged the Muslim nuclear power into chaos. Now the Bush Administration must help undo decades of flawed U.S. policy to save Pakistan
After expressing condolences and outrage over events in Pakistan, presidential candidates turned their discussion toward whose foreign policy credentials were better.
Rumors and paranoia about the assassination fuel the fears of Pakistanis as they see their country descend into instability
At least two people were killed in Pakistan in the wake of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination as angry mobs took to the streets, blocking roads, torching cars and pelting police with rocks.
Stocks plummeted Thursday afternoon, in a thinly traded session, as political turmoil in Pakistan turned deadly and downbeat economic reports damped investor's enthusiasm.
Stocks plunged Thursday afternoon as political unrest in Pakistan put investors on edge and a mix of downbeat economic data raised concerns about the health of the economy.
Stocks continued to decline Thursday as events in Pakistan stoked geopolitical concerns and mixed economic reports highlighted worries about the domestic economy.
I have long claimed that the rise of extremism and militancy in Pakistan could not happen without support from elements within the current administration. My return to my country poses a threat to the forces of extremism that have thrived under a dictatorship. They want to stop the restoration of democracy at any price. They have exploited a poor, desperate, and powerless people and allowed extremists the right environment in which to flourish.
Stock futures turned lower early Thursday after former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in a suicide attack leaving a rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Police raided an Islamic school and arrested seven students hours after a blast in a mosque in northern Pakistan left at least 50 dead and dozens injured, according to an Associated Press report.
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.
Two explosions struck the southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta on Thursday, killing seven people -- three Pakistani security forces and four civilians -- government officials have said.
A man posing as a mentally ill visitor planted a bomb that exploded in an Islamic school, killing at least five people and wounding two others near Quetta, Pakistan Monday, police said.
Hours after Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf cleared the final legal hurdle to being re-elected to a third five-year term, the 53-nation Commonwealth on Thursday suspended Pakistan from its group.
Elections for Pakistan's national assembly and its four provincial assemblies have been scheduled for January 8, and thousands of people jailed under emergency rule reportedly have been released, officials said Tuesday.
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Global security experts expressed concern Sunday that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal could wind up in the hands of Islamic radicals after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf last weekend declared a state of emergency.
We used to sleep nights knowing that Pakistan's pro-American generals had their fingers on the nuclear trigger. We're not sleeping so well now
As tensions build, here's a guide to the players and issues roiling a country that could upset the security of the world
Pakistan's State of Emergency
Pakistan's President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has carried out another coup to preserve the status quo, and the result has been violence and civil unrest. But chaos is hardly limited to Pakistan.
Experts believe the weapons are secure for now, but they worry about what will happen when new officers take over
Students will conduct research to learn about the country of Pakistan and the political crisis that is taking place there.
A suspected suicide bomb attack near Pakistan's army headquarters in Rawalpindi -- which houses President Pervez Musharraf's office -- killed six people and wounded 10 others Tuesday, police have said.
A suicide attacker targeted a police truck Thursday, killing 24 people -- most of them police -- in the Taliban-dominated area of North West Frontier province, police sources said.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf -- a key U.S. ally -- is less popular in his own country than al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to a poll of Pakistanis conducted last month by an anti-terrorism organization.
Two bomb blasts killed at least 21 people and wounded 74 in Rawalpindi -- a city next to Islamabad -- Tuesday morning, Pakistani police and hospital sources said.
Pakistan's exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Saturday that power-sharing talks with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf had stalled but she planned to return even without a deal.
Pakistan, a South Asian nation with nuclear capability, says it has successfully test-fired a new missile that "can carry all types of warheads."
Pakistan on Saturday shrugged off reports that raised questions about the security of its nuclear weapons in light of recent political turmoil.
At least 12 people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked the site where the country's suspended chief justice was scheduled to address a rally, sources in Pakistan told CNN.
A suicide bomb detonated Thursday inside a mosque in violence-wracked northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 12 people, including children and soldiers, and wounding 25, military officials said.
At least 16 Pakistani soldiers died Wednesday in an attack on a military convoy in northwestern Pakistan, an army spokesman told CNN.
Bombings across Pakistan Thursday killed at least 32 people and wounded 47 others, authorities said.
U.S. forces should go into Pakistan to rout al Qaeda from the safe haven it has found in the mountains on the border with Afghanistan, a co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group said.
Gunfire and explosions rocked a besieged radical mosque in Pakistan's capital Thursday as Islamic militants holed up in the complex snubbed a plea from their captured leader to surrender
At least 42 people died and more than 150 were injured when heavy rains caused buildings in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, to collapse, according to provincial health and police officials.
Pakistan's government has imposed restrictions on the public and broadcast media in advance of a planned Saturday march by the nation's ousted chief justice.
Political clashes that began Saturday have left 49 people dead in the southern port city of Karachi, as a general strike took hold across Pakistan in protest over the suspension of the country's chief justice.
Pakistan successfully tested a short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile with a range of 200 kilometers (124 miles) Saturday, the Pakistan Army said in a statement.
The announcement by Jamaican police that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer's death is being treated as murder has shocked the cricketing world during one of its biggest events.
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India and Pakistan have vowed to press ahead with a peace process despite a bomb attack that sparked a fire and killed more than five dozen people aboard a train connecting the two countries.
A suicide bomber detonated Monday as he tried to enter a Shia religious procession in northwestern Pakistan, killing himself and a police officer, police sources said.
A 22-hour standoff between Indian security forces and a group of heavily-armed militants ended Thursday morning, leaving a total of seven police officers, one civilian and two militants dead, police said.
The Indian government accused Pakistan's military spy agency, the Inter Services Intelligence, of planning the July 11 Mumbai train bombings that killed 209 people.
The road to the Guantanamo Bay detention center begins in Pakistan, according to a report by rights group Amnesty International.
The war in Iraq has not made the world safer from terror, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has told CNN, saying he stands by statements on the subject he makes in his new book, "In the Line of Fire."
British investigators believe some of the money raised to help victims of last year's earthquake in Pakistan may have been used to fund last week's alleged plot to blow up jetliners over the Atlantic.
British investigators believe some of the money raised to help victims of last year's earthquake in Pakistan may have been used to fund the alleged airliner terror plot.
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