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/ 26 September 2008
Pakistani forces have killed up to 1 000 Islamist militants in fighting in the Bajaur region this month, an army commander said on Friday.
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/ 23 September 2008
Pakistani troops backed by helicopter gunships killed 60 Taliban and al-Qaeda militants near the Afghan border, officials said on Tuesday.
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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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/ 16 September 2008
Pakistan cricket officials on Tuesday slammed Australia’s decision to go ahead with their tour of India despite a series of deadly bomb blasts.
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/ 16 September 2008
With the army poised for a coup and the Taliban winning hearts, Zardari doesn’t stand a chance.
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/ 15 September 2008
The Pentagon on Monday denied reports that Pakistani troops fired on two US military helicopters after they crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan.
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/ 15 September 2008
Firing by Pakistani troops forced US military helicopters to turn back after they crossed into Pakistan on Monday, Pakistani security officials said.
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/ 12 September 2008
An order issued by George Bush giving US forces carte blanche to mount operations inside Pakistan raised fears that the conflict was spreading.
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/ 10 September 2008
Anthony Egan reviews A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif.
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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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/ 8 September 2008
Missiles fired by United States drone aircraft killed at least three people on Monday in a Pakistani village near the Afghan border.
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/ 8 September 2008
The foreign ministry in Islamabad termed the incursion ”a gross violation of Pakistan’s territory”.
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/ 6 September 2008
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept to victory in a presidential election on Saturday.
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/ 6 September 2008
As Pakistan’s presidential election kicked off on Saturday, an earthquake shook the capital and a bombing in Peshawar killed at least 12 people.
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/ 5 September 2008
To some, Asif Ali Khan Zardari is a corrupt, bullying chancer who was a political liability for his late wife, Benazir Bhutto.
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/ 4 September 2008
Pakistan is determined to defend its territorial integrity, it said on Thursday, as anger mounted over a raid by US-led troops on a border village.
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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.
Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif pulled his party out of the ruling coalition on Monday, deepening a political crisis.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sunday postponed until next year the Champions Trophy in Pakistan over security fears.
The International Cricket Council is expected to postpone the Champions Trophy in Pakistan because four national boards have withdrawn.
South Africa’s refusal to participate in next month’s Champions Trophy in Pakistan has put serious doubt over the viability of the tournament.
Pakistani troops killed 35 militants in fighting in the Swat Valley north-west of Islamabad on Saturday after the militants ambushed a patrol.
A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a police station in Pakistan’s Swat Valley on Saturday, killing at least eight policemen.
Pakistan will hold presidential elections on September 6 to pick a successor to Pervez Musharraf, who resigned this week to avoid impeachment charges.
Musharraf’s position has been in doubt since elections in February. The resignation means that the West has lost its most important ally.
Two suicide bombers killed at least 57 people outside Pakistan’s main military arms factory on Thursday.
Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif’s B sample has tested positive for banned steroid nandrolone, leaving him facing a two-year ban, his lawyer says.
Leaders of Pakistan’s coalition government set about tackling economic and security problems on Tuesday as a bomb at a hospital killed at least 23.
A bomb blast ripped through a hospital on Tuesday in a north-western Pakistani town, killing at least 20 people, police said.
Two days after Pervez Musharraf seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999, a poll in Pakistan revealed that 75% of Pakistanis supported the takeover.
Pakistan’s beleaguered President, Pervez Musharraf, announced his resignation on Monday in the face of an impending impeachment motion.