A military helicopter crashed Friday in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 26 security personnel on board, the Pakistani military said.
The U.S. military in recent weeks has resumed flying unmanned reconnaissance drones over Pakistan's tribal regions to help provide critical intelligence to Pakistan's security forces, two U.S. military officials confirmed to CNN Tuesday.
An explosive detonated under a bridge, injuring five civilians and three policemen Monday morning in northwest Pakistan, police said.
A suspected drone strike on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan killed five to seven people Thursday, intelligence sources said.
An independent commission will start investigating the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in July, the United Nations has announced.
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.
A series of explosions in northwest Pakistan killed eight people Thursday night, and two suspected militants died in a gunbattle with Peshawar police on a rooftop, authorities said.
Hundreds of refugees on Wednesday blocked a main road in northwest Pakistan, to protest living conditions for some of the 1.5 million Pakistanis forced to flee their homes in the past three weeks.
Pakistan's information minister denied accusations Wednesday that his country is expanding its capability to produce nuclear weapons.
The Pakistani government convened a meeting on Monday of nearly all of the country's political parties, in an effort to consolidate broad national support for its military operation to crush Taliban militants in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley.
A military helicopter crashed Friday in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 26 security personnel on board, the Pakistani military said.
The U.S. military in recent weeks has resumed flying unmanned reconnaissance drones over Pakistan's tribal regions to help provide critical intelligence to Pakistan's security forces, two U.S. military officials confirmed to CNN Tuesday.
An explosive detonated under a bridge, injuring five civilians and three policemen Monday morning in northwest Pakistan, police said.
A suspected drone strike on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan killed five to seven people Thursday, intelligence sources said.
An independent commission will start investigating the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in July, the United Nations has announced.
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.
A series of explosions in northwest Pakistan killed eight people Thursday night, and two suspected militants died in a gunbattle with Peshawar police on a rooftop, authorities said.
Hundreds of refugees on Wednesday blocked a main road in northwest Pakistan, to protest living conditions for some of the 1.5 million Pakistanis forced to flee their homes in the past three weeks.
Pakistan's information minister denied accusations Wednesday that his country is expanding its capability to produce nuclear weapons.
The Pakistani government convened a meeting on Monday of nearly all of the country's political parties, in an effort to consolidate broad national support for its military operation to crush Taliban militants in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley.
Pakistan should commit to increased fighting against the Taliban on the border area it shares with Afghanistan if it wants more defense funding from the United States, a key senator said Thursday.
The United States is rushing emergency aid to Pakistan -- an initial $5 million -- to help people uprooted by the fighting against extremists, according to the State Department.
It was an odd Washington weekend: a Sunday of sober talk about the challenges ahead in Afghanistan and Pakistan following a more relaxed Saturday night.
A family of 18 Pakistani men, women and children trudges down a dirt road toward a refugee camp.
Pakistan's prime minister formally renounced a peace agreement with Taliban militants Thursday night and announced "decisive steps" to expand the battle in the country's northwest.
Some 500,000 civilians are expected to flee Pakistan's Swat Valley, heeding a government evacuation order issued Tuesday ahead of an expected military offensive in the Taliban-dominated region.
The president's special representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan tried to reassure members of Congress Tuesday that the Pakistani government is not on the verge of collapse, but does require greater U.S. backing.
As Pakistani forces continue to battle an advancing Taliban, the leading senators on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee introduced legislation Monday tripling aid to the country.
Pakistani security forces say they have killed at least 16 militants overnight in the country's volatile tribal region.
A U.S. government panel listed 13 countries Friday as "egregious" violators of religious freedom.
Terror attacks have spiked dramatically in Afghanistan and Pakistan as extremists in both countries strengthen their power and expand operations, according to a State Department report released Thursday.
In the past few weeks as the Pakistani Taliban have marched ever closer to the capital, Islamabad, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sounded the alarm about the threat posed by the militants, who she said in congressional testimony pose "a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country and the world."
In radio broadcasts and sermons, Taliban militants have been promoting themselves as Islamic Robin Hoods, defending Pakistan's rural poor from a ruling elite that they describe as corrupt and oppressive.
The United States is keeping a close eye on Pakistan after this week's Taliban surge into the Buner district brought them just 60 miles from the capital, Islamabad.
Taliban militants made their deepest incursion into Pakistan this week, seizing control of areas that are a short drive from the capital city.
Taliban advances in Pakistan are raising concerns in Islamabad and capitals as far away as Washington.
Taliban militants who implemented Islamic law in Pakistan's violence-plagued Swat Valley last week have now taken control of a neighboring district.
International donors meeting in Japan have pledged more than $5 billion in aid for Pakistan to bolster the country's economy and help it fight terror and Islamic radicalism, officials said.
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.
A suspected U.S. missile struck a village Wednesday in Pakistan's tribal region, killing three Taliban militants and wounding four others, according to local officials and media reports.
Pakistan, the United States and Afghanistan will hold trilateral meetings in Washington next month.
At least 30 people in Pakistan lost their lives Saturday in two separate suicide attacks and a suspected U.S. missile strike, according to local security officials.
At least 12 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a security checkpoint in Pakistan's tribal region, a local military official said.
Days after President Obama announced his strategy for security in Afghanistan, senior Defense Department leaders told a congressional panel more effort is needed to fight the growing insurgency in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Two suspects were arrested in connection with the bombing of a mosque that killed at least 51 people, Pakistani authorities said Saturday.
The Obama plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan announced Friday has a great deal to recommend it, with its emphasis on protecting the Afghan population and delivering more aid directly to the Pakistani people instead of to the Pakistan army.
A devastating suicide blast struck a mosque in the strife-torn tribal region of Pakistan Friday, killing at least 51 people and wounding more than 100 others, local officials said.
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed seven people Wednesday in Pakistan's turbulent tribal region, a political official and an intelligence source told CNN.
At least 12 people were killed and 17 injured Monday in an explosion in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, authorities told CNN.
A Pakistani television station, which has been critical of the government, has been shut down in locations across the country, according to the station's managing director.
Barely a year after the country celebrated its return to democracy, Pakistan is ensnared in a new political crisis.
A suspected U.S. missile attack killed 11 people Thursday in northwest Pakistan, an official said.
NATO countries must create a comprehensive approach to oust al Qaeda, the Taliban and other extremists from Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday after a meeting with NATO members.
Pakistani authorities released photos of two suspects Wednesday as they continued to hunt for the gunmen responsible for an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team which left seven people dead.
At least six security personnel were killed and eight members of Sri Lanka's cricket team hurt -- including two with gunshot wounds -- in an attack Tuesday on the team's bus by gunmen in Lahore, Pakistan.
The "most worrisome" part of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan has become the havens the Taliban and other insurgents have carved out in neighboring Pakistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.
A U.S. missile strike on a house near Sararoha in northwest Pakistan on Sunday killed nine people and wounded three, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged Thursday to work closely with Afghanistan and Pakistan as a team to root out extremism within their borders.
Supporters of Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif took to the streets Thursday, burning cars and damaging shops, after the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that he and his brother cannot hold elected office.
Pakistan is optimistic about the Obama administration's commitment to its region and will work with the United States on trying to root out extremism within its borders, Pakistan's foreign minister said.
A car bomb blew up in a city in northwestern Pakistan Tuesday, killing 5 people and injuring 16 others, police said.
United States special envoy Richard Holbrooke wrapped up his three-nation tour of South Asia Monday, saying India, Pakistan and his country faced a "common threat."
Twenty people were killed early Saturday after a suspected U.S. airstrike in northwest Pakistan, a intelligence official said.
The Pakistani government acknowledged Thursday that "some part of the conspiracy" behind the November attacks in India's financial capital, Mumbai, took place in Pakistan.
Polish authorities in Pakistan say they are monitoring local reports that Taliban militants have executed a kidnapped Polish engineer.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to create a special commission to investigate the killing of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a United Nations spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Suspected Taliban militants blew up a bridge early Tuesday in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, suspending NATO supply lines.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has called on the United States to halt its drone attacks against al Qaeda and Taliban fighters on Pakistani soil and warned that the missile strikes were fueling militarism in the country's troubled tribal border region.
Islamabad has not given the U.S. permission to strike suspected al Qaeda targets in Pakistan with unmanned aircraft, a Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
Pakistan's former president said his country is being treated "unequally" to other countries, despite being a staunch ally of the United States in its war on terror.
Seventeen people were killed Friday evening in two U.S. missile strikes in Pakistan's tribal region, said one government and two military officials.
Pakistan said Thursday it has arrested 124 suspected militants across the country -- but refrained from linking the arrests to the deadly attacks in Mumbai, India, last November.
U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden assured Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday that the incoming Obama administration will continue to support Pakistan's efforts to strengthen democracy and combat terrorism, according to Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
At 25-years-old, Fatima Bhutto is eligible to become prime minister of Pakistan.
The second suspected U.S. missile strike in two days killed four suspected Islamic militants in northwest Pakistan, intelligence officials said Friday.
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed three people and wounded two others in one of Pakistan's northwestern tribal districts, Pakistani intelligence officials said Thursday.
Stocks fell Monday, closing lower on one of the final trading days of a dismal year, amid global tensions and downbeat corporate news.
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.
Pakistani troops have been moved to the Indian border amid fears of an Indian ground incursion, two Pakistani military officials told CNN on Friday.
Supporters of a banned Pakistani charity being tied to last month's Mumbai attacks staged demonstrations in the federal capital of Islamabad and other cities on Friday protesting the shutting of the group.
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.
Britain's prime minister Sunday asked India and Pakistan to allow UK police to interview Mumbai siege suspects as he revealed the extent of Pakistan-based extremists' involvement in terrorism in his country.
"There's no doubt" that the deadly attack on India's financial capital last month was planned inside Pakistan, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told CNN on Sunday.
Pakistan understands the need to move "urgently and transparently" against extremists on its soil after last week's terrorist attacks in India, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after meetings with Pakistani leaders.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on Pakistan Wednesday to take responsibility for terrorists that are operating within its borders, terrorists India accuses of masterminding last week's attacks on Mumbai.
CNN's Larry King spoke with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday for Larry King Live. Below is a full transcript of the interview.
A second Indian official offered his resignation Monday in the wake of last week's deadly terrorist attacks as Pakistan urged its nuclear neighbor to withhold blame until further investigation.
A suspected U.S. missile from an unmanned drone killed three people Saturday in Pakistan's tribal region, according to a Pakistani military source and a North Waziristan official.
Pakistan will send a representative of its intelligence agency to India to help investigate the attacks in Mumbai, but not the agency's chief as previously indicated, the office of Pakistan's prime minister said Saturday.
A suspected missile strike from a U.S. Predator drone killed at least four people in a house in Pakistan's North Waziristan region early Saturday.
Pakistan has agreed to borrow $7.6 billion from the International Monetary Fund to avoid adding an economic crisis to its struggle against Islamic militants, an official said Saturday.
A suspected U.S. missile strike in northwestern Pakistan killed nine people Friday, two Pakistani military sources said.
Pakistan's prime minister says the next US president must halt missile strikes close to the Afghan border or risk losing the war on terror
Gen. David Petraeus, newly tasked with responsibility for America's two wars, arrived in Pakistan on Sunday
A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden truck into a paramilitary forces base in northwest Pakistan Sunday, killing at least eight troops, the army said.
Two suspected U.S. missile strikes killed 28 people Friday in northwest Pakistan, military sources and local and intelligence 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 missile strike killed seven people Sunday at a compound in Pakistan's northern tribal border region, a Pakistani military source said.
A raging Taliban insurgency that has divided the political class combines with economic calamity to create a perfect storm on the front line of the war on terror
A senior al Qaeda operational commander is believed to have been killed recently in Pakistan's South Waziristan region, several U.S. officials told CNN Wednesday.
More than a dozen trucks loaded with fruits, spices and other goods Tuesday crossed the line dividing Kashmir as India and Pakistan opened a symbolic trade route in the disputed region for the first time in more than 60 years.
Pakistan said Saturday that China will help it build two more nuclear power plants
Pakistani authorities have charged an American being held in Pakistan's tribal region with illegal entry and illegal possession of a weapon, the State Department said Friday.
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed a purported foreign militant Thursday in a Pakistani tribal area considered a haven for the Taliban and al-Qaeda, while a suicide bombing left four security personnel dead
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 suspected U.S. missile strike killed five tribesmen in a Pakistani town close to the Afghan border
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed four people and wounded two others in Pakistan's tumultuous North Waziristan region, Pakistani military sources said Sunday.
Bombings killed 10 people and wounded at least four in Pakistan, including an attack in a police complex in the capital
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.
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