Militants holed up in a police training centre in Lahore on Monday after storming the building, with estimates of the dead ranging up to 20.
Pakistan’s new role at the centre of the fight against al-Qaeda will lead to more extremist violence and pose huge challenges to a government with a doubtful ability to deliver
The World Bank said on Thursday it had approved -million, interest-free credit to support Pakistan’s programme on economic stability.
A suspected US drone aircraft fired two missiles into a house in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Thursday.
Zahida Sharif has one hope as Pakistan’s reinstated top judge returns to court on Tuesday — that her missing husband will come home.
Pakistan’s reinstated top judge Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry urged lawyers on Tuesday to wipe out corruption in the judiciary amid a hero’s welcome.
President Asif Ali Zardari called for national reconciliation in a Pakistan Day message on Monday, as he sought to mend fences with the opposition.
The Pakistan government filed appeals on Thursday to overturn a court ruling that banned opposition leader Nawaz Sharif from contesting elections.
Islamic courts have started work in Pakistan’s Swat valley under a controversial deal that the government hopes will end two years of bitter fighting.
Pakistan’s government agreed on Monday to reinstate Iftikhar Chaudhry as chief justice to defuse a political crisis and end a street agitation.
Pakistan police erected a tight cordon on Saturday to block lawyers and activists who defied a ban on protests.
Pakistan extended a crackdown against activists on Friday, banning rallies and arresting scores of people ahead of planned mass protests.
Pakistani lawyers and opposition parties prepared to launch a cross-country protest on Thursday, heading for a showdown with the government.
Opposition leader Nawaz Sharif vowed on Wednesday to change Pakistan’s destiny as he urged the masses to defy a government clampdown and protest.
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.
Tribesmen signed a deal with Pakistani authorities on Monday, promising not to shelter militants in a tribal area on the Afghan border.
Pakistan was already under intense western pressure to act against extremists based in its tribal area.
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.
Courting death if they go out alone, women oppressed by Taliban extremists in Swat valley have nothing to celebrate on International Women’s Day.
Pakistan’s interior ministry chief said on Friday he could not rule out foreign involvement in the Sri Lankan cricket attack.
Authorities have identified the kidnappers of an American working for the UN refugee agency but want to avoid hasty action that may endanger him.
Cricket is Pakistan’s life and soul, but after the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket side in Lahore, these lie in tatters.
Back in August 2006, a bomb outside a shopping centre about a kilometre from their Colombo hotel prompted the South Africans to abandon a tri-series.
This week’s attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan brought swift condemnation from around the world.
Pakistani police have rounded up scores of people in their investigation of an attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket team, but no breakthrough has emerged.
Sri Lanka’s foreign minister says he can’t rule out the chance that Tamil Tigers were involved in the attack on his country’s cricket team in Lahore.
Pakistan police on Wednesday arrested suspects in the attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket team, but said they had made no progress in tracking the gunmen.
Pakistan police were on Wednesday hunting for the gunmen behind a deadly assault on Sri Lanka’s cricket team.
SA cricket captain Graeme Smith said on Tuesday the attack on the Sri Lankan team in Pakistan brought home to him the real meaning of tragedy.
The cricket world reacted with shock and anger on Tuesday to the brazen and savage attacks on the Sri Lankan team.
Masked gunmen launched a brazen attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday, wounding seven team members.