Security forces combed troubled neighbourhoods in Karachi on Saturday in search of gunmen as the death toll from violence rose to 98.
A battle with militants at Pakistan’s naval aviation base erupted again after dawn on Monday, with blasts ringing out and choppers hovering overhead.
Suspected militants in Pakistan set fire to more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for Nato troops in Afghanistan on Friday.
Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began.
Thousands of people fled on Friday from the southern Pakistani town of Thatta after the swollen Indus river burst its banks.
The United Nations on Wednesday warned of a second wave of deaths from floods in Pakistan unless help arrives soon.
Pakistani troops, spearheading relief efforts in the worst floods in 80 years, evacuated several thousand people in two provinces overnight.
Districts in Pakistan’s Sindh province were on high alert on Saturday for floods which have devastated other parts of the country.
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/ 9 February 2008
To chants of ”Democracy is the best revenge”, tens of thousands of Benazir Bhutto’s followers rallied in southern Pakistan on Saturday as her party relaunched an election campaign derailed by her assassination. About 2Â 000 police and hundreds of private armed security guards from Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party secured the venue.
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/ 28 December 2007
Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest next to her father in the family mausoleum on Friday after the opposition leader’s assassination plunged Pakistan into crisis and triggered violent protests across her native Sindh province. Thousands of mourners wept as Bhutto was carried from her ancestral home in Sindh to the mausoleum.