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Pakistani forces have regained control of Mingora, a week after re-entering the main town in the Swat valley to dislodge Taliban fighters.
A probe into the attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket team has found signs that Pakistani militants with possible ties to al-Qaeda were responsible.
The outgoing Bush administration was always going to leave president-elect Barack Obama with the problem of what to do about Pakistan.
Pakistani forces have killed up to 1 000 Islamist militants in fighting in the Bajaur region this month, an army commander said on Friday.
The party of assassinated former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto began stitching together a coalition on Wednesday that could spell the end for President Pervez Musharraf,…
Fears of violence kept many Pakistanis away from the polls on Monday with 80 000 troops backing up police to watch over a vote that could choose a Parliament set on driving…
A suicide bomb attack that killed 19 people in Lahore, which had been a haven from violence, demonstrates an intensifying show-down with militants at a time when Pakistan is in a…
Pakistan’s opposition grappled for a united response on Tuesday to President Pervez Musharraf’s imposition of emergency rule, leaving lawyers to protest alone for a second day…
Police detained Pakistani opposition figures and lawyers on Sunday as military ruler President Pervez Musharraf tried to stifle the outcry over the imposition of emergency…
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has imposed a state of emergency in a bid to end an eight-month crisis over his rule stoked by challenges from a hostile judiciary, Islamist…
Pakistan’s General Pervez Musharraf appointed a new military spy chief and made several other promotions on Friday, days after announcing his plan to step down as head of the…
Sixty years old, Pakistan remains trapped in the same revolving door between civilian and military rule that it has known all its life. Unstable, nuclear armed, regarded as a…
