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Pakistani police comb Karachi as death toll nears 100
Security forces combed troubled neighbourhoods in Karachi on Saturday in search of gunmen as the death toll from violence rose to 98.
Taliban storm military base in Pakistan
A battle with militants at Pakistan’s naval aviation base erupted again after dawn on Monday, with blasts ringing out and choppers hovering overhead.
Militants set fire to Nato tankers in Pakistan
Suspected militants in Pakistan set fire to more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for Nato troops in Afghanistan on Friday.
UN fears for children as Pakistan floods threaten towns
Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began.
Pakistanis stream out of town as flood spreads
Thousands of people fled on Friday from the southern Pakistani town of Thatta after the swollen Indus river burst its banks.
UN warns of second wave of Pakistani flood deaths
The United Nations on Wednesday warned of a second wave of deaths from floods in Pakistan unless help arrives soon.
Pakistan troops evacuate thousands in flood disaster
Pakistani troops, spearheading relief efforts in the worst floods in 80 years, evacuated several thousand people in two provinces overnight.
Pakistan’s Sindh on high alert for floods
Districts in Pakistan’s Sindh province were on high alert on Saturday for floods which have devastated other parts of the country.
Thousands rally as Bhutto party relaunches poll bid
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…
Pakistan in crisis as Bhutto is buried
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…
Bhutto says some madrasas groom killers
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said on Sunday some religious schools were turning children into killers. Speaking to about 25 000 supporters near her ancestral home…
Mosque siege: Plea to send out dead, wounded
Religious scholars gathered outside a besieged Pakistani mosque on Monday, asking Islamist militants to send out dead and wounded along with women and children, a day after…
Walls blown as cleric dreams of revolution
Pakistani commandos blew holes in the walls of a mosque compound on Sunday in hope hundreds of women and children could escape, while security forces besieged a revolutionary…
Intense clashes at Pakistani mosque
Heavy exchanges of fire erupted on Friday between Islamist militants holed up in a Pakistani mosque and security forces after the militants’ leader said he and his hundreds of…
Pakistani city tense after 34 killed in violence
Pakistan’s biggest city was tense but quiet on Sunday a day after at least 34 people were killed when pro-government and opposition activists clashed as the country’s suspended…