Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that the ceasefire would apply “everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere”, positioning Islamabad as the central diplomatic…
Jalaluddin Haqqani became a CIA asset and received a personal visit from US congressman Charlie Wilson, who helped secure arms for the mujahideen
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
All 127 people on board a Boeing 737 that crashed near Islamabad in bad weather are dead, hospital and civil aviation officials said on Saturday.
Osama bin Laden’s family is expected to be deported from Pakistan on Wednesday, 11 months after the US raid that killed the al-Qaeda kingpin.
A car bomb exploded in a neighbourhood full of government buildings in eastern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 13 people and wounding dozens.
Pakistan on Thursday observed a day of mourning for the 152 people killed in the country’s worst aviation disaster.
Pakistan cricket captain Younus Khan offered his resignation on Tuesday at a meeting called to investigate defeats in the Champions Trophy this month.
Pakistan will defeat the Taliban militarily but could lose the public relations war if it fails to help those displaced, the premier said on Thursday.
Pakistani planes bombed the Taliban in their Swat bastion on Friday, after the prime minister ordered the elimination of ”militants and terrorists”.
Pakistani forces began an offensive on Tuesday against Taliban fighters in a key valley 100 km northwest of the capital, Islamabad.
Violence rocked nuclear-armed Pakistan on Saturday, with a pilotless US drone aircraft killing 13 people including militants in the northwest.
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.
Pakistan said on Monday that its investigators needed more information from India to complete an investigation into the Mumbai attacks.
Pakistani intelligence chief tells German magazine his country is fighting terrorism, not India
The United States has urged India and Pakistan to avoid an escalation of tensions after Islamabad redeployed troops to their common border.
Islamabad often makes the news for political upheaval, but for a band of enthusiasts the city is famous for something very different — bird-watching.
A suicide car bomber rammed an anti-terrorist squad building at Islamabad’s police headquarters on Thursday.
The Marriott bombing is terrible revenge for the Afghan campaign that has gone so badly wrong, writes Tariq Ali.
