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
A prominent Pakistani Cabinet minister says unnamed ‘people’ would foil any attempt to dislodge the president through a coup.
The governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province was shot dead in Islamabad because of his high-profile opposition to controversial blasphemy laws.
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/ 4 December 2009
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a mosque near Pakistan’s military headquarters after Friday prayers, killing at least 40 people.
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/ 13 October 2009
Pakistan defended its intelligence agencies on Tuesday after a bloody week which saw 125 people killed in attacks blamed on Taliban militants.
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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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/ 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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/ 22 October 2007
Benazir Bhutto has vowed to press ahead with her campaign to become Pakistan’s next prime minister despite the threat of assassination, and called on the government to seek outside help in investigating last Thursday’s suicide attack. ”We will not be deterred,” she said, after visiting bomb victims at a Karachi hospital.
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/ 19 October 2007
A suspected suicide bomber killed 133 people on Friday in an attack on former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, as she was driven through Karachi to greet supporters on her return from eight years in exile. Bhutto was unhurt in one of the deadliest attacks in her country’s history.
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/ 18 October 2007
A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 115 people and wounded 100 on Friday in an attack targeting a vehicle carrying former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto through Karachi on her return from eight years in exile. Bhutto was safe and at her home after leaving the truck that had been transporting her.