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/ 8 September 2009
Taliban militants on Tuesday shot dead four schoolchildren in an apparent sectarian attack in a remote tribal town in Pakistan, officials said.
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/ 7 September 2009
Thousands of civilians have fled a fresh military bombardment against Islamist rebels in northwest Pakistan, officials said on Monday.
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/ 7 September 2009
The involvement of a former Pakistan test cricketer with bookmakers last year forced organisers of the Indian Cricket League to withhold payments.
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/ 1 September 2009
Pakistani troops killed 15 militants in fresh clashes in Swat, the army said on Tuesday, taking the death toll to 45 in five days.
Pakistan’s Taliban have threatened to avenge the death of their leader Baitullah Mehsud in a United States missile strike.
Pakistani police have arrested seven men belonging to an al-Qaeda-linked militant group who were planning to attack high-profile targets in Karachi.
A Pakistan Taliban commander says he has taken over the militant leadership, but analysts on Thursday said the claim simply exposed deep rifts.
Pakistan’s prime minister on Wednesday hailed the military’s "success" against the Taliban, as the rebels reeled from the arrest of a top spokesperson
The leader of a banned Sunni Islam militant outfit was shot dead in southern Pakistan on Monday, sparking sectarian rioting in Karachi, police said.
The ICC and Pakistan board chiefs will meet later this month with a view to resolving their dispute over the staging of the 2011 World Cup.
Pakistan on Tuesday demanded that Taliban commanders release a video to substantiate their claim that Baitullah Mehsud survived a US drone attack.
Pakistan police on Tuesday registered a criminal case against ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf for his 2007 detention of top judges.
Aides of tribal chief deny he was killed in drone strike, while military says meeting to pick his successor turned into shoot-out.
Pakistan believes Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who has a m bounty on his head, was probably killed in a missile strike.
Local vigilantes allied to Pakistani soldiers on Thursday claimed to have killed at least 167 militants in two months.
In its own land, Pakistan’s notorious spy agency, the ISI, is viewed with awe and dread. Now it is opening up — a little — to Western journalists.
The wife of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was among three people killed on Wednesday in a missile strike, relatives told Reuters.
Pakistani missionary schools closed on Monday for three days to mourn the deaths of seven Christians burnt alive at the weekend, a top priest said.
Tajikistan’s leader has urged visiting Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to work together to prevent the rise of instability in Central Asia.
Pakistani security forces have rescued nearly a dozen boys brainwashed into becoming suicide bombers, according to officials.
The Taliban on Thursday denied claims that Maulana Fazlullah, architect of a brutal uprising in Pakistan’s Swat valley, was wounded.
Pakistan’s PM has asked the EU for immediate weapons and training for security forces to help the insurgency-wracked nation drive out the Taliban.
A suicide car bomb attack on Wednesday flattened a police building in the Pakistani city of Lahore, killing 23 people.
Salar Jadoon was kidnapped on the school run, his sister was shot in the head and his driver was killed in an attack that is common in Peshawar.
Four children and their parents were killed in a grenade blast in Pakistan’s north-west on Sunday, a day after 12 children were killed by a bomb.
Pakistan legend Javed Miandad said on Thursday a ”conspiracy” seeking to undermine his country was behind its increasing isolation in world cricket.
The Taliban in Pakistan have moved to within 100km of Islamabad, officials say, sparking global concern.
Taliban fighters spilling out of the Swat Valley in Pakistan have swept across Buner, a district 96km from Islamabad.
Pakistan will need more aid from world donors as it battles militants and tries to repair its economy, US special envoy Richard Holbrooke said.
The US criticised Pakistan’s acceptance of Islamic law in the Swat Valley to quell a Taliban insurgency as an infringement of human rights.
Pakistan is battling Islamist militants for its survival, President Asif Ali Zardari told a visiting US envoy.
Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud said on Tuesday his group had carried out an assault on a police academy in the city of Lahore.