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A military helicopter crashed Friday in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 26 security personnel on board, the Pakistani military said.
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck a Pakistani Defense Ministry bus Thursday, killing at least one person and wounding 29 others, Rawalpindi police and medical officials said.
The U.S. military in recent weeks has resumed flying unmanned reconnaissance drones over Pakistan's tribal regions to help provide critical intelligence to Pakistan's security forces, two U.S. military officials confirmed to CNN Tuesday.
An explosive detonated under a bridge, injuring five civilians and three policemen Monday morning in northwest Pakistan, police said.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have announced that they have reached an agreement with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to stage two Test Matches and two Twenty20 internationals between Pakistan and Australia in England next July.
Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by eight wickets to win the World Twenty20 title in convincing fashion at Lord's on Sunday.
Piled high with food, Minhaj Bahdar rides a rented motorbike back to his family's temporary sanctuary away from the fighting between Pakistan's army and the Taliban.
A suspected drone strike on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan killed five to seven people Thursday, intelligence sources said.
Thirteen people were killed and 20 more were wounded in separate attacks in Pakistan on Sunday, officials said.
Pakistan powered into the Super Eights stage of the Twenty20 World Cup at Lord's on Tuesday when they shattered the Dutch qualifying dream.
A military helicopter crashed Friday in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 26 security personnel on board, the Pakistani military said.
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck a Pakistani Defense Ministry bus Thursday, killing at least one person and wounding 29 others, Rawalpindi police and medical officials said.
The U.S. military in recent weeks has resumed flying unmanned reconnaissance drones over Pakistan's tribal regions to help provide critical intelligence to Pakistan's security forces, two U.S. military officials confirmed to CNN Tuesday.
An explosive detonated under a bridge, injuring five civilians and three policemen Monday morning in northwest Pakistan, police said.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have announced that they have reached an agreement with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to stage two Test Matches and two Twenty20 internationals between Pakistan and Australia in England next July.
Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by eight wickets to win the World Twenty20 title in convincing fashion at Lord's on Sunday.
Piled high with food, Minhaj Bahdar rides a rented motorbike back to his family's temporary sanctuary away from the fighting between Pakistan's army and the Taliban.
A suspected drone strike on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan killed five to seven people Thursday, intelligence sources said.
Thirteen people were killed and 20 more were wounded in separate attacks in Pakistan on Sunday, officials said.
Pakistan powered into the Super Eights stage of the Twenty20 World Cup at Lord's on Tuesday when they shattered the Dutch qualifying dream.
A suspected suicide attacker detonated his explosives at a mosque in northwestern Pakistan during Friday prayers, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens of others, a local police official said.
A series of explosions in northwest Pakistan killed eight people Thursday night, and two suspected militants died in a gunbattle with Peshawar police on a rooftop, authorities said.
Three suspects were arrested after an explosives-packed van reduced a police building to rubble Wednesday in eastern Pakistan, killing 27.
A French national was kidnapped early Saturday afternoon in southwestern Pakistan, police in Pakistan said.
Hundreds of refugees on Wednesday blocked a main road in northwest Pakistan, to protest living conditions for some of the 1.5 million Pakistanis forced to flee their homes in the past three weeks.
Pakistan's information minister denied accusations Wednesday that his country is expanding its capability to produce nuclear weapons.
A military offensive to rid Pakistan's northwest of al Qaeda and Taliban fighters has killed more than 1,000 militants since it began in full force earlier this month, the country's interior ministry said Sunday.
Violence echoed across a volatile Pakistani province and an adjacent tribal region on Saturday, with dozens reported killed in the latest military push, a drone strike, and a car bombing targeting a school bus.
Pakistan should commit to increased fighting against the Taliban on the border area it shares with Afghanistan if it wants more defense funding from the United States, a key senator said Thursday.
The United States is rushing emergency aid to Pakistan -- an initial $5 million -- to help people uprooted by the fighting against extremists, according to the State Department.
It was an odd Washington weekend: a Sunday of sober talk about the challenges ahead in Afghanistan and Pakistan following a more relaxed Saturday night.
A family of 18 Pakistani men, women and children trudges down a dirt road toward a refugee camp.
Pakistan's prime minister formally renounced a peace agreement with Taliban militants Thursday night and announced "decisive steps" to expand the battle in the country's northwest.
Some 500,000 civilians are expected to flee Pakistan's Swat Valley, heeding a government evacuation order issued Tuesday ahead of an expected military offensive in the Taliban-dominated region.
Pakistani security forces say they have killed at least 16 militants overnight in the country's volatile tribal region.
A U.S. government panel listed 13 countries Friday as "egregious" violators of religious freedom.
Terror attacks have spiked dramatically in Afghanistan and Pakistan as extremists in both countries strengthen their power and expand operations, according to a State Department report released Thursday.
In the past few weeks as the Pakistani Taliban have marched ever closer to the capital, Islamabad, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sounded the alarm about the threat posed by the militants, who she said in congressional testimony pose "a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country and the world."
In radio broadcasts and sermons, Taliban militants have been promoting themselves as Islamic Robin Hoods, defending Pakistan's rural poor from a ruling elite that they describe as corrupt and oppressive.
The United States is keeping a close eye on Pakistan after this week's Taliban surge into the Buner district brought them just 60 miles from the capital, Islamabad.
Taliban militants made their deepest incursion into Pakistan this week, seizing control of areas that are a short drive from the capital city.
Taliban advances in Pakistan are raising concerns in Islamabad and capitals as far away as Washington.
Taliban militants who implemented Islamic law in Pakistan's violence-plagued Swat Valley last week have now taken control of a neighboring district.
Shahid Afridi claimed six victims to pave the way for Pakistan to claim victory by four wickets in their opening one-day international against Australia in Dubai.
A suicide bomber in Pakistan rammed his vehicle into a security forces convoy on Saturday, killing at least 20 people and wounding 15 others, police said.
The International Cricket Council have moved all 2011 World Cup matches out of Pakistan, due to the uncertain political situation in the country.
International donors meeting in Japan have pledged more than $5 billion in aid for Pakistan to bolster the country's economy and help it fight terror and Islamic radicalism, officials said.
A suicide bombing killed 16 people at a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, police said.
More than 80 militants attacked a supply terminal in northwest Pakistan that serves U.S. and NATO-led troops in Afghanistan, police said.
A suspected U.S. missile struck a village Wednesday in Pakistan's tribal region, killing three Taliban militants and wounding four others, according to local officials and media reports.
Pakistan, the United States and Afghanistan will hold trilateral meetings in Washington next month.
A suicide bombing at a mosque in Pakistan has killed at least 20 people, according to local police.
At least 30 people in Pakistan lost their lives Saturday in two separate suicide attacks and a suspected U.S. missile strike, according to local security officials.
At least 12 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a security checkpoint in Pakistan's tribal region, a local military official said.
Days after President Obama announced his strategy for security in Afghanistan, senior Defense Department leaders told a congressional panel more effort is needed to fight the growing insurgency in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Two suspects were arrested in connection with the bombing of a mosque that killed at least 51 people, Pakistani authorities said Saturday.
The Obama plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan announced Friday has a great deal to recommend it, with its emphasis on protecting the Afghan population and delivering more aid directly to the Pakistani people instead of to the Pakistan army.
A devastating suicide blast struck a mosque in the strife-torn tribal region of Pakistan Friday, killing at least 51 people and wounding more than 100 others, local officials said.
A suicide blast in Pakistan's violence-plagued tribal region killed 11 people Thursday, police said.
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed seven people Wednesday in Pakistan's turbulent tribal region, a political official and an intelligence source told CNN.
A rocket attack killed at least 11 people and injured 30 others on Thursday evening in northwest Pakistan, a Khyber Agency official said.
At least 12 people were killed and 17 injured Monday in an explosion in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, authorities told CNN.
Suspected Taliban militants destroyed 15 trucks in a NATO supply convoy in northwestern Pakistan's restive tribal region early Monday, a Peshawar police official said.
A Pakistani television station, which has been critical of the government, has been shut down in locations across the country, according to the station's managing director.
Barely a year after the country celebrated its return to democracy, Pakistan is ensnared in a new political crisis.
A suspected U.S. missile attack killed 11 people Thursday in northwest Pakistan, an official said.
NATO countries must create a comprehensive approach to oust al Qaeda, the Taliban and other extremists from Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday after a meeting with NATO members.
Suspected Taliban militants killed eight tribal police officers in a village near the Afghan border Saturday, officials said.
A remote-controlled bomb detonated on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Saturday morning, killing seven security personnel and a civilian.
Pakistani authorities released photos of two suspects Wednesday as they continued to hunt for the gunmen responsible for an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team which left seven people dead.
It will be years before international cricket can be played again in Pakistan following the brazen attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore, the former chief of cricket's world governing body said Wednesday.
The media are in place, thousands of fans watching and major stars present. It's not hard to see why sport makes a tempting target for terrorists and, say security experts, Tuesday's attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team could set the two worlds on a new collision course.
Cricket has long been considered the gentleman's game -- a sport in which the tenets of fair play and respect for authority are so revered that it introduced a colloquialism to describe something unacceptable: "It's just not cricket."
The attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan has sent shock waves around the sporting world and raised fears about the future of international cricket matches, including the 2011 World Cup, in Pakistan.
At least six security personnel were killed and eight members of Sri Lanka's cricket team hurt -- including two with gunshot wounds -- in an attack Tuesday on the team's bus by gunmen in Lahore, Pakistan.
The "most worrisome" part of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan has become the havens the Taliban and other insurgents have carved out in neighboring Pakistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.
A U.S. missile strike on a house near Sararoha in northwest Pakistan on Sunday killed nine people and wounded three, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged Thursday to work closely with Afghanistan and Pakistan as a team to root out extremism within their borders.
A fire broke out at a major international hotel in Pakistan's capital Islamabad Thursday, five months after it was hit by a deadly suicide bombing.
Pakistan captain Younus Khan failed in his attempt to break Brian Lara's world record for an individual Test innings when he was dismissed for 313 early on the final day of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Karachi.
Pakistan is optimistic about the Obama administration's commitment to its region and will work with the United States on trying to root out extremism within its borders, Pakistan's foreign minister said.
The refugees mill about aimlessly amid the rows and rows of white tents that are now their homes.
An Afghanistan native living in California has been arrested and charged with lying to federal authorities, including trying to hide a trip he took to Pakistan to visit Osama bin Laden's security coordinator.
A car bomb blew up in a city in northwestern Pakistan Tuesday, killing 5 people and injuring 16 others, police said.
Imagine if we gave up any part of this country, any part at all, to terrorists.
United States special envoy Richard Holbrooke wrapped up his three-nation tour of South Asia Monday, saying India, Pakistan and his country faced a "common threat."
Twenty people were killed early Saturday after a suspected U.S. airstrike in northwest Pakistan, a intelligence official said.
The Pakistani government acknowledged Thursday that "some part of the conspiracy" behind the November attacks in India's financial capital, Mumbai, took place in Pakistan.
Polish authorities in Pakistan say they are monitoring local reports that Taliban militants have executed a kidnapped Polish engineer.
Eight police personnel were killed in an early-morning attack Saturday on a police security checkpoint in Pakistan's Punjab province, a police official said.
Suspected Taliban militants blew up a bridge early Tuesday in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, suspending NATO supply lines.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has called on the United States to halt its drone attacks against al Qaeda and Taliban fighters on Pakistani soil and warned that the missile strikes were fueling militarism in the country's troubled tribal border region.
Islamabad has not given the U.S. permission to strike suspected al Qaeda targets in Pakistan with unmanned aircraft, a Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
Shoaib Malik has been relieved of the Pakistan captaincy with batsman Younus Khan handed the job for an indefinite period, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Tuesday .
Suspected Taliban militants blew up a government-run school Monday in Pakistan's violence-plagued Swat Valley, bringing to 183 the number of schools destroyed since fighting began in the area six months ago, officials said.
Pakistan's former president said his country is being treated "unequally" to other countries, despite being a staunch ally of the United States in its war on terror.
Seventeen people were killed Friday evening in two U.S. missile strikes in Pakistan's tribal region, said one government and two military officials.
A Pakistani soldier was killed and another wounded Sunday afternoon when an explosive device was detonated beneath a military convoy in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Sunday afternoon, a Pakistani military official told CNN.
Pakistan said Thursday it has arrested 124 suspected militants across the country -- but refrained from linking the arrests to the deadly attacks in Mumbai, India, last November.
Hundreds of militants, believed to be foreign fighters, launched attacks on various military check posts in Pakistan's border with Afghanistan Saturday night and early Sunday morning, military officials said.
Seventeen people have been killed and 30 wounded in clashes between Sunni and Shia groups in villages in the Hangu District in northwest Pakistan, police said Saturday.
U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden assured Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday that the incoming Obama administration will continue to support Pakistan's efforts to strengthen democracy and combat terrorism, according to Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Two top al Qaeda terrorists have been killed in a U.S. missile strike on a building in northern Pakistan on New Year's Day, according to two senior U.S. officials.
At 25-years-old, Fatima Bhutto is eligible to become prime minister of Pakistan.
Pakistan reopened the supply route in the Khyber Pass on Saturday, four days after shutting the vital link to Afghanistan in order to fight Taliban militants, political authorities and local residents said.
A 14-year-old who was trained to kill by radicals in the tribal regions of Pakistan now sits in a crowded classroom at a detention facility in Kabul. His only wish is to see his parents again.
The second suspected U.S. missile strike in two days killed four suspected Islamic militants in northwest Pakistan, intelligence officials said Friday.
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed three people and wounded two others in one of Pakistan's northwestern tribal districts, Pakistani intelligence officials said Thursday.
Europe's major markets moved higher for a second straight day, gaining 1 to 2 percent during Tuesday morning trading.
Stocks fell Monday, closing lower on one of the final trading days of a dismal year, amid global tensions and downbeat corporate news.
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