Zahida Sharif has one hope as Pakistan’s reinstated top judge returns to court on Tuesday — that her missing husband will come home.
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.
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/ 4 February 2008
A suicide bomber attacked a Pakistani military bus taking medical corps staff to work in the city of Rawalpindi on Monday killing at least five people and wounding 25. Violence has intensified in Pakistan in recent months with the army battling militants in the northw-est and suicide bomb attacks in towns and cities.
A British police team flew into Pakistan on Friday to help probe the killing of Benazir Bhutto after President Pervez Musharraf admitted he was unhappy with his country’s handling of the investigation. The detectives from an elite anti-terrorism team at Scotland Yard flew in amid raging controversy over the assassination of the opposition leader.
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/ 27 December 2007
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on Thursday as she left an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi, putting January 8 polls in doubt and sparking anger in her native Sindh province. State media and her party confirmed Bhutto’s death from a gun and bomb attack. ”She has been martyred,” said party official Rehman Malik.
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/ 27 December 2007
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was wounded in a gun and suicide bomb attack after an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi on Thursday, a party security official and police said. ”She is injured,” said party security official Rehman Malik. She had been taken to hospital.
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/ 27 November 2007
Pakistan’s General Pervez Musharraf said farewell to military colleagues on Tuesday as he prepared to become a civilian president ahead of January’s general election. Musharraf visited Joint Staff headquarters in Rawalpindi a day before he steps down as army chief to fulfil one of the long-held demands of his political rivals and Western allies.
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/ 24 November 2007
Twin suicide blasts killed at least 15 people on Saturday in the Pakistani garrison town of Rawalpindi adjoining Islamabad, the military said, including 13 aboard a Defence Ministry bus. A suicide bomber rammed a car into the back of the bus outside an intelligence-service office.
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/ 30 October 2007
A suicide attack killed at least seven people, including the bomber, less than a kilometre from Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s army residence in Rawalpindi on Tuesday. The attacker blew himself up next to a police checkpoint metres away from the gates to the residence of one of Musharraf’s most senior officers, General Tariq Majid.
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/ 4 September 2007
Two bombs exploded in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi during the morning rush hour on Tuesday, killing 24 people and wounding 66, and at least one of the blasts was caused by a suicide attacker, officials said. The blasts come at a time of deepening political uncertainty in Pakistan, with the army chief and President, General Pervez Musharraf, preparing to try to secure a new term.
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/ 2 November 2005
England made a gallant comeback on Wednesday to snatch a 52-run win over a Patron’s XI in their tour warm-up match in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Defending a modest total of 157 in a minimum of 60 overs, medium-fast-bowler Liam Plunkett and left-arm spinner Ashley Giles combined to bundle out the hosts for a paltry 105 in 36,5 overs.
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/ 1 November 2005
England’s forgotten pacer James Anderson on Tuesday blamed the wicket as his team’s batsmen slumped for a second time in their tour opener in Pakistan. ”The guys look in top nick in the nets. I know it’s different in the middle but the conditions in the middle are also lot different to the nets. I won’t read too much into it,” said Anderson.
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/ 1 November 2005
England’s Barmy Army of cricket supporters started to arrive in Pakistan on Tuesday, hoping their bawdy chants can help the team keep up its Ashes-winning form. ”We’re the first batch,” said veteran supporter Phil Long as he and three of his colleagues crammed into a taxi bound for Pindi stadium, where England are playing their tour opener against the Pakistan Cricket Board Patron’s XI.
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/ 26 December 2003
A suicide bombing on Thursday killed 14 people in the second attempt on Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf’s life in 11 days, raising troubling questions about Musharraf’s ability to hold on to power and keep a militant Islamic movement at bay. After the attack the leader vowed to ”cleanse the country of these extremists”.