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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

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…