A ruling party official says Pakistan's coalition government will introduce a parliamentary resolution on May 12 to restore judges fired by President Pervez Musharraf.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heads to Pakistan and India this week to put the finishing touches on a controversial deal to build a pipeline that would deliver Iranian gas to both countries, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency says.
The man blamed for the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has declared a cease-fire now that the former Pakistan prime minister's party is in power, a government official said.
The White House on Wednesday expressed concern with reports that Pakistan's new government is working on a peace accord with militant leaders in its tribal regions.
Pakistan's new government has made good on its promise to negotiate with militant groups within its borders by releasing a jailed pro-Taliban leader who recruited thousands of fighters to battle U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan appeared on a video aired Saturday by an Arab satellite channel, saying he was kidnapped by Taliban militants more than two months ago.
Salman Butt rewrote the record books with a sparkling 136 as Pakistan complete a 5-0 one-day series whitewash over Bangladesh with a 150-run victory in Karachi.
A ruling party official says Pakistan's coalition government will introduce a parliamentary resolution on May 12 to restore judges fired by President Pervez Musharraf.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heads to Pakistan and India this week to put the finishing touches on a controversial deal to build a pipeline that would deliver Iranian gas to both countries, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency says.
The man blamed for the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has declared a cease-fire now that the former Pakistan prime minister's party is in power, a government official said.
The White House on Wednesday expressed concern with reports that Pakistan's new government is working on a peace accord with militant leaders in its tribal regions.
Pakistan's new government has made good on its promise to negotiate with militant groups within its borders by releasing a jailed pro-Taliban leader who recruited thousands of fighters to battle U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan appeared on a video aired Saturday by an Arab satellite channel, saying he was kidnapped by Taliban militants more than two months ago.
Salman Butt rewrote the record books with a sparkling 136 as Pakistan complete a 5-0 one-day series whitewash over Bangladesh with a 150-run victory in Karachi.
China will offer its close ally Pakistan a low-interest $500 million (315 million euro) loan to help ease its growing financial problems, Pakistan's foreign minister said.
Al Qaeda is still operating within Pakistan's mountainous tribal region bordering Afghanistan, and the United States lacks a "comprehensive" plan for meeting its national security goals there, said a U.S. government study released Thursday.
For years US policy has focused on one man, Pervez Musharraf. Now, with his power on the wane and a new coaltion government in place, it has a lot of catching up to do
Pakistan has entered an "era of real democracy" according to President Pervez Musharraf , who said Sunday that he hoped the incoming government would maintain the pace of growth the nation has enjoyed.
A missile fired from an unidentified location struck a house in Pakistan on Sunday, killing 20 and critically injuring five others, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported Sunday.
Twin suicide bombers set off explosives at a naval college in Pakistan Tuesday, killing at least five other people and wounding at least 16, one critically, the government said.
At least 45 people died and 82 were wounded in a suicide attack on the funeral Friday of a district superintendent of police -- killed earlier in the day in a separate attack -- in northwest Pakistan's Swat province, according to Pakistani police.
An explosion at the funeral Friday of a district police officer killed earlier in the day in northwest Pakistan killed 30 people and injured between 50 and 55, province police said.
A missile strike in a remote part of Pakistan killed at least eight suspected militants and wounded three others Thursday, Pakistan's state media reported.
Gunmen fired on a children's aid group in Pakistan's tribal region Monday, leaving three staffers dead and at least one critically injured, the organization said.
Members of Congress on Tuesday called on the Bush administration to increase pressure on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to ensure free and fair elections in his nation.
Pakistan's government is beefing up security for a "fair, transparent and peaceful" parliamentary election on Monday, a Pakistani government spokesman said.
Pakistan's citizens head to the polls on February 18 for parliamentary elections that may determine the future of President Pervez Musharraf and his allies.
Pakistani authorities have launched a search operation in the country's tribal region for Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan, interior ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan went missing Monday and is feared to have been abducted in Pakistan's tribal region, according to Afghan security sources.
A suicide bomber who slipped into a political rally and detonated an explosive killed eight people in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan border Monday, Pakistan's state news agency said.
A group of gunmen Monday released at least 30 students and teachers who had been held for several hours inside a primary school in northwest Pakistan, according to Pakistani officials and local police.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Thursday that the United States is "ready, able and willing" to send troops to Pakistan if the government of the South Asian nation is interested.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Thursday the United States is "ready, able and willing" to send troops to Pakistan to help its military battle al Qaeda -- if the Pakistani government is interested.
A suicide bomb detonated near a Shiite religious site in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least four people and wounding 22, police told CNN.
Islamic militants overran a border fort in northwestern Pakistan during a pitched battle Wednesday, killing seven Pakistani troops and leaving more than a dozen unaccounted for, a military spokesman said.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has made it clear that a U.S. military mission to capture Osama bin Laden or other top al Qaeda leaders on Pakistani soil would be unwelcome and "against the sovereignty of Pakistan."
Samina Rajput speaks in hushed tones about her husband, Asif, who was killed alongside former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in the December 27 attack that convulsed the nation.
Pakistan's foreign ministry Wednesday rejected concerns raised by the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief that the country's nuclear weapons "could fall into the hands of an extremist group in Pakistan or in Afghanistan."
Benazir Bhutto's assassination has plunged the Muslim nuclear power into chaos. Now the Bush Administration must help undo decades of flawed U.S. policy to save Pakistan
After expressing condolences and outrage over events in Pakistan, presidential candidates turned their discussion toward whose foreign policy credentials were better.
Australian cricket officials say that they have no immediate plans to cancel their tour of Pakistan next year despite the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto at a election rally on Thursday.
At least two people were killed in Pakistan in the wake of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination as angry mobs took to the streets, blocking roads, torching cars and pelting police with rocks.
Stocks plummeted Thursday afternoon, in a thinly traded session, as political turmoil in Pakistan turned deadly and downbeat economic reports damped investor's enthusiasm.
Stocks plunged Thursday afternoon as political unrest in Pakistan put investors on edge and a mix of downbeat economic data raised concerns about the health of the economy.
Stocks continued to decline Thursday as events in Pakistan stoked geopolitical concerns and mixed economic reports highlighted worries about the domestic economy.
I have long claimed that the rise of extremism and militancy in Pakistan could not happen without support from elements within the current administration. My return to my country poses a threat to the forces of extremism that have thrived under a dictatorship. They want to stop the restoration of democracy at any price. They have exploited a poor, desperate, and powerless people and allowed extremists the right environment in which to flourish.
Stock futures turned lower early Thursday after former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in a suicide attack leaving a rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Police raided an Islamic school and arrested seven students hours after a blast in a mosque in northern Pakistan left at least 50 dead and dozens injured, according to an Associated Press report.
Two explosions struck the southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta on Thursday, killing seven people -- three Pakistani security forces and four civilians -- government officials have said.
Misbah-ul-Haq scored his second Test century in successive matches as Pakistan looked set to force a draw in the third and final Test against India in Bangalore on Tuesday.
A fighting half-century from Misbah-ul-Haq helped boost Pakistan's chances of avoiding the follow-on in the third and final Test against India on Monday.
A man posing as a mentally ill visitor planted a bomb that exploded in an Islamic school, killing at least five people and wounding two others near Quetta, Pakistan Monday, police said.
Hours after Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf cleared the final legal hurdle to being re-elected to a third five-year term, the 53-nation Commonwealth on Thursday suspended Pakistan from its group.
Elections for Pakistan's national assembly and its four provincial assemblies have been scheduled for January 8, and thousands of people jailed under emergency rule reportedly have been released, officials said Tuesday.
Global security experts expressed concern Sunday that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal could wind up in the hands of Islamic radicals after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf last weekend declared a state of emergency.
Pakistan's President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has carried out another coup to preserve the status quo, and the result has been violence and civil unrest. But chaos is hardly limited to Pakistan.
A suspected suicide bomb attack near Pakistan's army headquarters in Rawalpindi -- which houses President Pervez Musharraf's office -- killed six people and wounded 10 others Tuesday, police have said.
A suicide attacker targeted a police truck Thursday, killing 24 people -- most of them police -- in the Taliban-dominated area of North West Frontier province, police sources said.
South African captain Graeme Smith led from the front as his side took a stranglehold on the second Test against Pakistan by the close of day three in Lahore.
Younis Khan's magnificent unbeaten knock of 93 from just 99 balls ensured Pakistan head into the final day of the first Test against South Africa in Karachi with a glimmer of hope of reaching their victory target of 424.
India will play old rivals Pakistan in the World Twenty20 Championship final in Johannesburg on Monday, after defeating Australia by 15 runs in a thrilling match in Durban, left-hander Yuvraj Singh lashing 70 off 30 balls.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf -- a key U.S. ally -- is less popular in his own country than al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to a poll of Pakistanis conducted last month by an anti-terrorism organization.
Two bomb blasts killed at least 21 people and wounded 74 in Rawalpindi -- a city next to Islamabad -- Tuesday morning, Pakistani police and hospital sources said.
Pakistan's exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Saturday that power-sharing talks with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf had stalled but she planned to return even without a deal.
Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul Haq and South African all-rounder Lance Klusener have signed to play in an unofficial Indian Twenty20 league to be launched in October, organizers said on Monday.
At least 12 people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked the site where the country's suspended chief justice was scheduled to address a rally, sources in Pakistan told CNN.
A suicide bomb detonated Thursday inside a mosque in violence-wracked northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 12 people, including children and soldiers, and wounding 25, military officials said.
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