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.
Gang violence is taking over Karachi, Pakistan, with more than 100 deaths in two weeks. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
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.
For the second time this year a key political party in Pakistan's ruling coalition has quit the government.
An important political party that recently broke from Pakistan's ruling coalition has rejoined the government, a move that has averted a crisis in the South Asian nation.
A political party that broke from the ruling coalition has rejoined the government. CNN's Chris Lawrence reports.
The Pakistani government has reversed a recent hike in fuel prices, an effort that could help shore up the country's crumbling governing coalition.
A major Pakistani political party said Wednesday it will not support the government in its quest to regain a majority.
The second-largest party in Pakistan's ruling coalition quit the government Sunday over fuel price increases and other complaints, leaving the country with a minority government.
A political defection in Pakistan could mean a crisis for the governing coalition. CNN's Chris Lawrence reports.
A senior leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in Pakistan said Monday that its two ministers in the federal cabinet would resign.
A 34-year-old man has been arrrested on suspicion of murder in the September slaying of a Pakistani politician outside his home, London Metropolitan Police said Thursday.
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.
Eighteen people were killed in Karachi since Sunday in what police are calling politically motivated target killings.
Police in London said they have launched a murder investigation into the death of a Pakistani politician killed outside his home in the capital.
Violence erupted in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday, a day after a prominent politician was killed in England, police said.
Pakistani politician Imran Farooq was killed Thursday in London, a spokesman for his party 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.
Yousaf Raza Gilani has been sworn in as Pakistan's new Prime Minister. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
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