Jalaluddin Haqqani became a CIA asset and received a personal visit from US congressman Charlie Wilson, who helped secure arms for the mujahideen
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Pakistan blocked the head of an airline, whose plane crashed near the capital, from leaving the country as it began an investigation into the disaster
All 127 people on board a Boeing 737 that crashed near Islamabad in bad weather are dead, hospital and civil aviation officials said on Saturday.
Osama bin Laden’s family is expected to be deported from Pakistan on Wednesday, 11 months after the US raid that killed the al-Qaeda kingpin.
A car bomb exploded in a neighbourhood full of government buildings in eastern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 13 people and wounding dozens.
Pakistan on Thursday observed a day of mourning for the 152 people killed in the country’s worst aviation disaster.
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/ 13 October 2009
Pakistan cricket captain Younus Khan offered his resignation on Tuesday at a meeting called to investigate defeats in the Champions Trophy this month.
Pakistan will defeat the Taliban militarily but could lose the public relations war if it fails to help those displaced, the premier said on Thursday.
Pakistani planes bombed the Taliban in their Swat bastion on Friday, after the prime minister ordered the elimination of ”militants and terrorists”.
Pakistani forces began an offensive on Tuesday against Taliban fighters in a key valley 100 km northwest of the capital, Islamabad.
Violence rocked nuclear-armed Pakistan on Saturday, with a pilotless US drone aircraft killing 13 people including militants in the northwest.
Authorities in Pakistan have banned protests and begun rounding up activists a day before a rally by lawyers that could challenge the government.
Pakistan threatened on Monday to prosecute opposition leader Nawaz Sharif for sedition if violence erupts at an anti-government protest campaign.
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/ 9 February 2009
Pakistan said on Monday that its investigators needed more information from India to complete an investigation into the Mumbai attacks.
Pakistani intelligence chief tells German magazine his country is fighting terrorism, not India
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/ 27 December 2008
The United States has urged India and Pakistan to avoid an escalation of tensions after Islamabad redeployed troops to their common border.
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/ 15 November 2008
Islamabad often makes the news for political upheaval, but for a band of enthusiasts the city is famous for something very different — bird-watching.
A suicide car bomber rammed an anti-terrorist squad building at Islamabad’s police headquarters on Thursday.
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/ 27 September 2008
The Marriott bombing is terrible revenge for the Afghan campaign that has gone so badly wrong, writes Tariq Ali.
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/ 22 September 2008
The "face of Islamabad", the Marriott hotel, was left a charred shell on Sunday, a grim testament to the war against Islamic extremists.
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/ 21 September 2008
A suicide truck bomber attacked the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday, killing at least 45 people and wounding nearly 250.
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/ 9 September 2008
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was sworn in as president on Tuesday.
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/ 3 September 2008
Shots were fired at Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s motorcade near Islamabad’s airport on Wednesday, but he was in the car at the time.
Two suicide bombers killed at least 57 people outside Pakistan’s main military arms factory on Thursday.
About 2 000 Islamist women gathered at the Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital on Wednesday and vowed to raise their children for holy war.
An apparent suicide bomber killed more than 10 people in an attack on police guarding Islamists marking the anniversary of a raid on the Red Mosque.
Pakistani police foiled planned suicide attacks on the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, arresting six suspects and seizing three vehicles packed with explosives, officials said on Friday.
A bomb went off outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital on Monday killing at least four people and wounding several, officials said. The blast destroyed the embassy gate and damaged the building and vehicles in the compound in the up-market district of Islamabad.
Top Indian and Pakistani Foreign Ministry officials met on Tuesday to review their four-year-old peace process that has stalled since domestic political turmoil erupted in Pakistan last year. It is the first contact India has had with leaders of a new Pakistani civilian government.
Suspected Taliban militants have released Pakistan’s envoy to Afghanistan more than three months after he was kidnapped in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal region, a senior government official said on Saturday. Pakistani television channels said the envoy, Tariq Azizuddin, had been freed in Afghanistan.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) sued paceman Shoaib Akhtar for 200-million rupees (-million) on Thursday for making allegedly defamatory comments after he was banned for five years. Akhtar was banned by the PCB on Tuesday, a move that effectively ends his career after a series of disciplinary problems culminating in a public outburst against the board.
The Bush administration is scrambling to engage with Pakistan’s new rulers as power flows from its strong ally, President Pervez Musharraf, to a powerful civilian government buoyed by anti-American sentiment. Since 2001, American officials have treasured their close relationship with Musharraf.