A Pakistani suicide bomber convinced security-gate guards at Islamabad police headquarters that he was delivering candy before detonating his explosives Thursday, killing himself and injuring 17 others, a police official told CNN.
A man convinced security guards Thursday that he was delivering a box of sweets to Islamabad police headquarters before setting off a suicide blast, a police official told CNN.
The U.N. declared the Pakistani capital unsafe for the children of its international staff Thursday and ordered them out, putting the once tranquil city on a par with Kabul and Somalia.
Britain is ordering the children of its diplomats in Pakistan to leave the country following last month's suicide bombing at a luxury hotel in Islamabad.
Police tightened security at airports across Pakistan Thursday after receiving reports of a possible suicide attack at the international airport that serves Islamabad.
Pakistan's president, prime minister and other leaders had planned to dine at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday night, when it was struck by a massive truck bombing, a government official said Monday.
A Pakistani suicide bomber convinced security-gate guards at Islamabad police headquarters that he was delivering candy before detonating his explosives Thursday, killing himself and injuring 17 others, a police official told CNN.
A man convinced security guards Thursday that he was delivering a box of sweets to Islamabad police headquarters before setting off a suicide blast, a police official told CNN.
The U.N. declared the Pakistani capital unsafe for the children of its international staff Thursday and ordered them out, putting the once tranquil city on a par with Kabul and Somalia.
Britain is ordering the children of its diplomats in Pakistan to leave the country following last month's suicide bombing at a luxury hotel in Islamabad.
Police tightened security at airports across Pakistan Thursday after receiving reports of a possible suicide attack at the international airport that serves Islamabad.
Pakistan's president, prime minister and other leaders had planned to dine at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday night, when it was struck by a massive truck bombing, a government official said Monday.
Pakistan's top leaders were to dine at the Marriott devastated by a truck bombing over the weekend, but changed the venue at the last minute, a senior official said Monday. A hotel official, however, denied there were any plans for a government dinner.
More than 1,300 pounds of explosives were packed into a construction truck that detonated outside an Islamabad hotel, killing 57 people, including two Americans and a diplomat, officials said Sunday.
Pakistan's newly elected president, Asif Ali Zardari, will meet with President Bush next week on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, the White House announced Thursday.
Pakistan's presidential front-runner, Asif Ali Zardari, has moved into a tightly guarded government compound over security fears, officials said Friday
Missiles hit a religious school Monday in a village just inside Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, killing six people, officials and state media said.
Karachi police have detained four suspects in connection with a series of blasts that injured dozens of people in the city's Pashto neighborhoods, a senior police officer told CNN on Tuesday.
The death toll from Sunday's suicide bomb attack at a rally in Islamabad has risen to 17 after a police constable succumbed to his injuries, officials said.
A suicide attacker killed 16 people Sunday, 12 of them police officers, near a protest rally marking last year's Pakistani government raid on the Red Mosque, police said.
The architect of Pakistan's nuclear program on Tuesday rejected
a report alleging that his network may have shared blueprints for an
advanced nuclear weapon with countries such as Iran and North Korea
After the June 2 suicide bombing outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad, Danes are asking what price their country can afford to pay for its increasingly entrenched reputation as a forthright critic of Islam
Al Qaeda or one of its affiliates was probably behind an explosion outside the Danish embassy in Pakistan, Denmark's intelligence service said Tuesday.
The bombing of the Danish embassy may have been spurred by old anger against the cartoons. Or it could be a sign that Islamabad's attempts to make peace are breaking down
Shortly after making their coalition official, Pakistan's main opposition parties on Sunday called on President Pervez Musharraf to immediately convene parliament.
Baton-wielding police fought with lawyers outside courthouses in Islamabad and Lahore again Tuesday, arresting dozens more as they enforced Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's crackdown on judicial activism.
The plane carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif landed at the Islamabad airport Monday morning, marking a return to the country from which he was driven into exile for seven years.
July 21, 2007: The newspaper headlines here have been preoccupied with the aftershocks of the Lal Masjid siege crisis in Islamabad, including a series of lethal suicide attacks. Yet a largely forgotten emergency continues to unfold almost a month after Cyclone Yemyin roared its way into northern Baluchistan, dumping untold quantities of water onto its parched interior and causing mass devastation on a scale unseen since the 1935 Quetta earthquake.
Pakistani forces fired at a fuel tank inside a controversial mosque early Saturday, causing an explosion heard across the capital, intelligence sources said.
Two students at the Red Mosque in Islamabad who tried to surrender Friday were shot dead by radical Islamic students, intelligence sources in Pakistan said.
Police seized munitions on Friday at a house near Islamabad's airport after receiving reports of rooftop gunfire around the same time President Pervez Musharraf's plane was taking off, authorities told CNN.
More than 100 radical Islamic students holed up at an Islamabad mosque compound surrendered Wednesday morning, winding down an intense standoff between militants and government forces, a government source told CNN.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf summoned his top officials to discuss a gunbattle Tuesday at an Islamabad mosque between government forces and radical Islamic students that left at least 12 dead, according to an interior ministry official.
Students from a radical mosque released nine hostages Saturday after seizing them hours earlier from an Islamabad acupuncture clinic they raided, the deputy administrator of the mosque said.
Pakistan's government has imposed restrictions on the public and broadcast media in advance of a planned Saturday march by the nation's ousted chief justice.
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a parking area outside Islamabad's airport Tuesday after he was stopped by security as he tried to enter the airport, police sources told CNN.
A suicide bomber killed a security guard and himself in an attack outside the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Friday, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said.
The UK's Guardian says that there is no doubt that Gordon Brown will be the next Prime Minister of England, in the wake of his speech at the Labour Party conference yesterday.
At least 60 people are believed to have drowned when gushing water in Mardan, about 100 kilometers (60 miles), northwest of the capital Islamabad, swept away a bridge where people had gathered to see floodwaters Saturday, a provincial government spokesman told CNN.
A suspected suicide car bomb outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi has killed an American diplomat and at least three other people, but President George W. Bush said terrorists would not stop his visit to Pakistan.
Iran's foreign minister has called for an end to violent protests over cartoons of Prophet Mohammed that have swept across the Muslim world after the images were published in several European newspapers.
Police arrested some 400 people including 10 lawmakers and used tear gas to disperse several hundred demonstrators in an attempt to prevent protests in Islamabad against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, witnesses and police said.
A general strike has shut the normally bustling port city of Karachi in southern Pakistan as demonstrators took to the streets to protest the publication of caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, police said.
At a potential donors' conference attended by dozens of nations and agencies in Islamabad, where Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf sought more than $2.5 billion for victims of South Asia's massive earthquake, the head of the U.S. delegation said the United States is increasing its pledge to $510 million for relief and reconstruction.
Torrential rains caused authorities to temporarily ground relief flights Sunday following the crash of a Pakistani army helicopter that killed six people.
CNN is appealing for stories from people who witnessed or have been affected by the earthquake in South Asia. The following are edited selections of your replies.
Millions of people remain homeless in the Himalayan regions of northern Pakistan and India following last weekend's earthquake that has claimed more than 41,000 lives.
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Relief workers trying to help the millions of people hit by Pakistan's worst-ever earthquake are working around treacherous mountainous terrain to get to them.
Frustration is mounting in Pakistan and India over the pace of relief efforts in the earthquake zone with many remote regions still not accessible after Saturday's tremor struck.
A day after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake killed about 22,000 people in northern Pakistan and India, government officials pleaded Sunday for international assistance to help dig survivors from the rubble, take them to hospitals and begin repairing the country's shattered infrastructure.
Rescue workers pulled survivors from rubble and uncovered bodies from debris as darkness fell in Islamabad and elsewhere, a day after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake caused devastation across South Asia.
The U.N. secretary-general has praised the international community for its response in assisting earthquake victims in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
The Pakistan earthquake toll has reached 18,000 dead and more than 41,000 injured, Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, a spokesman for Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, said Sunday.
Baton-wielding police attacked journalists Tuesday in several Pakistan cities as they tried to celebrate World Press Freedom Day, and arrested 37 of them during a rally outside parliament in Islamabad.
An explosion that tore through the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, injuring at least six people, was caused by a short circuit, Islamabad's chief of police told CNN.
Fresh tremors have been reported in a remote mountainous area of Pakistan where one day earlier at least 21 were killed and dozens injured in two earthquakes.
Two planes carrying Pakistani lawmakers Saturday were diverted from Islamabad, preventing the parliamentarians from attending an address by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
Islamic guerrillas have vowed to continue fighting to drive Indian troops out of the disputed region of Kashmir in the wake of an landmark decision this week by New Delhi and Islamabad to hold peace talks.
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