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The brazen laundering schemes come as Pakistan was again placed on a watchlist this year by the Financial Action Task Force for failing to do enough to combat terror financing. (Athar Hussain/Reuters)

‘Penniless billionaires’ expose money laundering frenzy

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has found that at least -million had passed through ‘thousands of false accounts’

Pakistan PM appears in top court as crisis mounts

Pakistan PM appears in top court as crisis mounts

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has appeared before Pakistan’s Supreme Court for not pursuing corruption cases against officials.

Premier ‘in contempt’ as Pakistan prepares for early poll

Premier ‘in contempt’ as Pakistan prepares for early poll

As Pakistan prepares to announce early elections, its Supreme Court has ordered the prime minister to appear before it charged with contempt of court.

‘Anti-women’ Cabinet riles Pakistan’s activists

Two politicians accused of brutal attitudes towards women have been made Cabinet ministers in Pakistan, causing outrage among human rights activists.

Pakistan warns US general to stop attacks on its soil

Pakistan delivered a blunt message on Monday to the United States, warning that US missile strikes inside Pakistan must stop.

Suicide bombings in Lahore kill at least 31

Two suicide attacks killed at least 31 people and injured more than 200 in Lahore on Tuesday as suspected Islamist militants escalated their campaign of mayhem in Pakistan’s…

Bhutto had been set to reveal ‘poll-rig plot’

Benazir Bhutto had planned to brief visiting American politicians about an alleged poll-rigging plot orchestrated by Pakistan’s intelligence agencies on the day she was killed,…

Pakistan crisis hangs on Bhutto party

Pakistan’s political future hung in the balance on Sunday with Benazir Bhutto’s party deciding whether to pull out of planned elections amid an acrimonious dispute over how she…

Pakistan tense amid dispute over Bhutto

Pakistan was on Saturday gripped by division and uncertainty following the burial of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto as her supporters angrily rejected a government…

Bhutto accuses government of cover-up in bombing

Benazir Bhutto on Monday accused the Pakistani government of staging a cover-up after it refused her request for British and American experts to join the inquiry into last…

Bhutto alleges military link to bombing

Benazir Bhutto on Friday accused a shadowy web of figures with links to Pakistan’s powerful military establishment of orchestrating Thursday’s huge suicide bombing that killed…

Pakistan buzzing ahead of Bhutto’s homecoming

Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto said she would return to Pakistan on Thursday to end eight years of self-exile and lead her party into national elections despite threats of…