Several gunmen opened fire at a political rally Tuesday in Karachi, Pakistan, leaving 10 people dead and 29 wounded, police said.
CNN's Reza Sayah reports darkness and rain are hampering recovery efforts of the Bhoja Air Boeing 737 that crashed.
A commercial airplane carrying 127 people crashed Friday in Islamabad just before it was to land at a nearby airport, according to Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority, which cited poor weather as a possible factor.
Police in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, said Thursday they have arrested a senior figure in the Pakistani Taliban and several other alleged terrorists.
A police raid finds students chained to one another at a religious school in a Karachi suburb. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
Pakistani police rescued 54 men and 14 young boys Monday from an Islamic religious school and drug rehabilitation facility where they were found chained to one another and held in an underground room, police officials told CNN.
CNN's Reza Sayah reports on the boxing phenomenon in Karachi, Pakistan, that is keeping kids safe and off the streets.
A former federal lawmaker is among at least 33 people killed in a fresh spate of violence over the past 24 hours in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police officials said Thursday.
At least 30 people were killed in Karachi on Monday night and Tuesday, the latest deaths in cycle of ethnic and political violence in Pakistan's commercial capital.
Gang violence is taking over Karachi, Pakistan, with more than 100 deaths in two weeks. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
Karachi has long been the face Pakistan wished to show to the world. The port city, one of the largest cities in the world -- placed sixth or seventh, depending on whom you ask, with a population of more than 18 million -- once represented the ideal of what Pakistan ought to have been.
At least 15 were killed in shootouts during Friday and Saturday in Karachi, police said, the latest victims in a surge of deadly violence that has gripped Pakistan's largest city and commercial capital.
The death toll from ethnic clashes in the Pakistani city of Karachi this week has reached 88, local police said Saturday.
Fresh clashes in the Pakistani city of Karachi killed seven people on Friday, raising the death toll in the ongoing ethnic violence to 85 this week, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said.
Ongoing sectarian violence has left 52 people dead in a southern Pakistani city in the last few days, police said Thursday.
A Pakistani court has indicted six soldiers and one civilian on murder and terrorism charges in the death of an unarmed man whose fatal shooting was caught on video.
Eighteen people were injured after an apparent homemade hand grenade was thrown at visitors to a Karachi, Pakistan, cafe earlier Saturday, authorities told CNN.
At least 10 members of Pakistan's military were killed in a gun battle with Taliban militants at a naval base in the coastal city of Karachi, authorities said Monday.
Pakistani commandos battle militants held up in a Karachi military base. CNN's Stan Grant reports.
At least 10 militants attacked a naval air station in the coastal city of Karachi late Sunday, leading to several explosions and an hours-long gun battle with Pakistani forces that killed four naval officials, Pakistani officials and witnesses said.
Three people were killed and at least 20 others were injured when a hand grenade exploded at a gambling club in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi on Friday.
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb attack that targeted a bus in Pakistan on Thursday, leaving at least five dead and 10 injured.
Two bombs, both targeting buses carrying Pakistani Navy officials, went off within a half hour of each other in the southern city of Karachi on Tuesday, police said.
At least 15 people were killed and 40 others wounded when a bomb exploded in a gambling club in Karachi, Pakistan, officials said Thursday.
Two small bombs targeting police stations in Pakistan injured an officer and a passerby on Monday, authorities said.
The death toll from a plane crash Sunday in Karachi, Pakistan, rose to 12 after an official confirmed the deaths of four people who were on the ground.
A cargo plane crashes shortly after taking off from Karachi, Pakistan.
A plane crashed early Sunday in the southern port city of Karachi, killing at least eight people on board and sending flames shooting through the night sky, a Pakistani official said.
The death toll from a suicide car bomb attack on a police facility in Pakistan's largest city has risen to 17, police said.
CNN's Reza Sayah reports on an explosion in Karachi that the Taliban is claiming credit for.
At least 15 people died and more than 100 were injured in a suicide car bomb attack on a police facility in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police said Thursday.
A small passenger plane carrying 22 people crashed a minute after takeoff from the sea port city of Karachi, officials said.
More than 70 people have died in the five-day-old wave of violence in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police said Wednesday.
At least 21 people died in a wave of violence in the volatile city of Karachi on Tuesday, police in Pakistan said.
At least 36 people were killed and 51 were injured over the weekend in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi in what officials are calling politically-motivated target killings, police said Monday.
The death toll from two blasts at a shrine in Karachi has risen to 9, officials said Friday.
The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibiilty for two explosions Thursday at a shrine in Karachi in which at least eight people were killed and dozens injured.
Violence erupted in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday, a day after a prominent politician was killed in England, police said.
The death toll rose to 81 on Friday in the widespread violence that broke out after the killing of a provincial lawmaker in southern Pakistan.
The death toll rose to 78 on Thursday in the widespread violence that broke out after the killing of a provincial lawmaker in southern Pakistan.
Dozens of people are dead following widespread violence sparked by the killing of a politician in Karachi.
The death toll has risen to 57 in the widespread violence that broke out after the killing of a provincial lawmaker in southern Pakistan.
At least 36 people were killed and more than 60 injured during widespread violence in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi Tuesday, following the killing of a provincial lawmaker, police said.
Seven people were electrocuted during heavy storms that hit the port city of Karachi after Cyclone Phet battered parts of southern Pakistan on Sunday, a provincial health chief told CNN.
Authorities in Pakistan say they have arrested 200 people in Karachi after a series of what appear to be political killings there this week.
A man who was arrested at an airport in Pakistan with shoes that contained batteries, a circuit board and an on/off switch said Monday that he did not know the materials were in his shoes.
The death toll has risen to 33 in Friday's twin blasts in Karachi, authorities said Saturday.
A blast targeting a bus filled with Shiite religious observers in Karachi killed at least 12 people and another explosion in front of a hospital where attack victims were being treated killed six more Friday, a government official said.
Pakistan's interior minister, citing police evidence gathered after a deadly house bombing Friday, said people at the dwelling had been planning to attack him during a court appearance in Karachi.
The death toll from the suicide bombing in Pakistan's financial capital, Karachi, rose to 40, authorities said Tuesday.
A cargo train collided with a passenger train in Pakistan's commercial capital of Karachi on Tuesday, killing 12 people and wounding 19 others, police said.
Police say they have arrested five people who were attempting to set up a terror network in Karachi.
Pakistani authorities have launched a massive crackdown on terror groups that they say were planning numerous suicide attacks, including in the country's largest city of Karachi.
Cleanup efforts unfolded Monday in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, after torrential monsoon rain over the weekend killed dozens, cut power to 15 million and broke a 32-year record.
Police in Pakistan arrested lawyers holding a public protest to demand that the government immediately restore judges the previous president had ousted, Karachi's police chief told CNN Thursday.
After the Marriott bombing in Pakistan, CNN's Dan Rivers reports Westerners are feeling especially shaken.
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.
Explosions in Karachi wound at least 37 people today.
A string of small explosions wounded at least 37 people Monday in
the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, rattling the country a day
after a deadly suicide attack in the capital, officials said
A massive power outage left Karachi, Pakistan -- the nation's largest city with a population of 15 million people -- without electricity on Thursday, an official said.
The cause of a train derailment in Mehrabpur, Pakistan is still unknown. CNN's Max Foster reports.
A Pakistani express train derailed early Wednesday morning, killing at least 41 people and injuring at least 135 others, police said.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto left the southern port city of Karachi on Saturday for the first time since surviving an attempted assassination last week that turned her homecoming motorcade into a scene of carnage, sources within her political party told CNN.
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Pakistani officials Sunday continued to search for survivors a day after heavy rains collapsed buildings and brought down power lines in Karachi, killing more than 230 people, provincial health and police officials said.
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At least 33 people have been killed during massive clashes between pro-government supporters and opposition party members Saturday in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, police and intelligence sources said.
A Spanish court has convicted two men, a Pakistani and Spaniard, of collaborating with a terrorist group and contributing to a Tunisian synagogue bombing in 2002.
An explosion at a celebration of Prophet Mohammed's birthday has killed at least 42 people and sparked a confrontation between Muslims and Karachi police, according to Pakistan's interior minister and local media reports.
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.
A U.S. diplomat and his driver were among at least four people killed in an apparent suicide attack outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, officials 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.
A day after a powerful car bomb exploded in the southern port city of Karachi, Pakistani law enforcement agencies arrested a suspect, President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday.
Police are hunting bombers who attacked a KFC fast-food restaurant in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Tuesday, killing three people and wounding 15.
The sprawling port city of Karachi, which has a population of about 14 million, has been the scene of numerous acts of violence in recent years. Following are some of the major incidents.
A powerful car bomb exploded in front of a government building in central Karachi Tuesday morning, police said, killing at least three people and wounding 12 others -- two seriously.
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Two nearly simultaneous explosions went off early Friday at a McDonald's and a KFC fast-food restaurant in Pakistan's commercial capital of Karachi, authorities said.
England cricket chiefs have agreed to play a one-day international in Karachi after earlier rejecting the southern Pakistan port city as a test venue.
The U.S. Consulate in Karachi has been closed because of increased "security concerns," a statement on the consulate's Web site said.
Falling stock prices sparked rock throwing by hundreds of small investors outside the Karachi stock exchange Thursday, prompting officials to call in Pakistan's paramilitary Rangers to keep protestors from storming the building, police said.
Six people were killed and 95 were injured as a ship of the Pakistani navy caught fire at the Karachi dockyard, the navy said Thursday.
Dozens of passengers were injured when two Pakistani domestic flights narrowly missed colliding in midair, according to a government official and other passengers.
An explosion in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi has killed one person and injured seven others, police say.
Gunmen have opened fire on a military convoy in Karachi, killing 11 people and injuring several others.
Police in Pakistan have stepped up security patrols following massive rioting sparked by the gunning down of a leading pro-Taliban cleric in Karachi on Sunday.
A bombing at a Shiite Muslim mosque Monday evening killed at least 18 worshippers in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, and police killed three people during a violent demonstration that followed, hospital sources and police said.
An angry mob has set fire to several buildings in downtown Karachi while others threw stones at Pakistani forces, hours after unknown assailants shot and killed a well-known Islamic scholar known for his preaching against American foreign policy, according to police.
Two car bombs have killed a police officer and wounded at least 22 people near a U.S. diplomat's residence in Karachi, Pakistani police have said.
At least 14 people have been killed and 200 injured by a suicide bomber at a Shiite mosque in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, police said.
At least 15 people have been killed and 90 injured by a suspected suicide bomber at a Shiite mosque in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, police said.
The U.S. Consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi warned Wednesday of possible terror acts against U.S. interests and urged Americans in the southern provinces of Sind and Baluchistan to bolster their security.
Gunmen opened fire after storming a make-shift police station in Karachi early Sunday, killing five policemen and wounding the chief constable, the city's deputy inspector of police said.
Police in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi say they have defused a large bomb found in a stolen minivan parked outside the U.S. Consulate.
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