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Apr. 19, 2013
Pakistan police escort former military ruler Pervez Musharraf from is home to a court in Islamabad, one day his after dramatic escape when a judge revoked his bail; less than five years after wielding absolute power, the retired four-star general has become the latest example of the Pakistani judiciary’s increasing willingness to pursue previously untouchable levels of society, even to the top ranks of the powerful military.MORE »
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Apr. 17, 2013
Pakistani court disqualifies Pervez Musharraf, country’s onetime military leader and president, from taking part in national elections, dashing his hopes of political revival.MORE »
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Apr. 11, 2013
Gunman shoots and kills one policeman and wounds another as they provided security for team of polio eradication health workers in northwestern Pakistan.MORE »
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Apr. 10, 2013
Taliban fighters defended Tirah Valley in Pakistan, which they acquired in March, killing about 30 soldiers in country’s army over five days.MORE »
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Apr. 9, 2013
Four days of fierce fighting in northwestern Pakistan leaves 30 soldiers and nearly 100 militants dead as army tried to wrest control of remote, mountainous valley from Taliban and their allies.MORE »
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Apr. 7, 2013
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Central Intelligence Agency's covert drone war in Pakistan began with 2004 killing of Pashtun militant Nek Muhammad, result of secret deal between CIA and Pakistani military that was turning point in agency's fight against terrorism backroom deal is critical to understanding origins of drone operations that are now subject of fierce debate (Series: Rise of the Predators).MORE »
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Apr. 3, 2013
At least seven people are killed in militant attack on power grid station outside Peshawar, Pakistan; militants are assumed to be Taliban.MORE »
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Mar. 31, 2013
Plan to rename traffic circle in Lahore, Pakistan, for Bhagat Singh, Sikh revolutionary who was not Muslim, has raised alarm bells among conservatives and Islamists.MORE »
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Mar. 29, 2013
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Taliban's grab for power in Karachi, Pakistan, shows extent of their reach, even in its most populous city, and not just in country’s frontier regions militants are new gang in town, joining Karachi's street wars and upending long-established network of competing criminal, ethnic and political armed groups, and have reshaped city's political balance.MORE »
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Mar. 26, 2013
Abdel Hameed Shehadeh of Staten Island is convicted of lying to federal agents about trip to Pakistan and his plans to join Taliban terrorist groups overseas.MORE »
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Mar. 25, 2013
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf ends more than four years in self-exile as he arrives in Karachi from Dubai, seeking possible political comeback in defiance of judicial investigations and death threats; anticlimactic homecoming points out many questions hanging over what role, if any, he could play in Pakistan's changing political environment.MORE »
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Mar. 24, 2013
Imran Khan, Pakistani cricket star turned politician, kicks off his populist campaign for national elections with huge rally in Lahore on national holiday; symbolic move is timed to tap into surging nationalist sentiment and bolster his political party, which has never won more than single seat in Parliament and is flagging in polls.MORE »
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Mar. 23, 2013
Former Pakistani Pres Pervez Musharraf insists he is returning to country, despite stiff and perhaps violent opposition, to marshal his fledgling political party for general election on May 11.MORE »
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Mar. 23, 2013
Government and tribal administration officials say four people were killed in northwestern Pakistan in American drone attack on vehicle.MORE »
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Mar. 22, 2013
Car packed with explosives blows up inside refugee camp in northwestern Pakistan, killing 13 people.MORE »
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Mar. 20, 2013
Malala Yousafzai, 15-year-old Pakistani campaigner for girls’ education who was gravely wounded by Taliban in October 2012, is back in school in Birmingham, England, for first time since the attack.MORE »
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Mar. 20, 2013
Pakistani officials arrest Qari Abdul Hayee, senior militant accused of involvement in murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002; Hayee appears to have been arrested as part of security crackdown amid widespread criticism after two bombings in Quetta and third attack in Karachi, all of which targeted Shiites, thought to be work of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants.MORE »
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Mar. 19, 2013
Militants storm court complex in northwestern Pakistan, killing 4 people and wounding at least 30 others, including a judge, in latest assault on government authority in region.MORE »
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Mar. 17, 2013
Pakistan's fragile democracy reaches milestone when government steps down at end of its five-year term, setting stage for elections due to take place by mid-May.MORE »
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Mar. 16, 2013
United Nations human rights investigator Ben Emmerson says United States has violated Pakistan's sovereignty and disrupted life in country's tribal areas with drone strikes in its counterterrorism operations near border with Afghanistan.MORE »
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Mar. 16, 2013
Concern over deteriorating law and order in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, continue to grow as politicians and newspapers pay tribute to Parween Rahman, celebrated social worker who was assassinated.MORE »
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Mar. 11, 2013
Two people suspected of being militants are killed in North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan by what Pakistani and Taliban officials say is drone strike; attack, if confirmed, could be first American strike in Waziristan in two months.MORE »
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Mar. 10, 2013
Enraged Muslim crowd attacks a Christian neighborhood in Lahore, Pakistan, setting fire to more than 150 houses and 2 churches; crowd was reacting to report that a Christian sanitation worker had blasphemed the Prophet Muhammad; in Peshawar, a bomb explodes in a mosque, killing at least 4 people and wounding 28.MORE »
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Mar. 7, 2013
Lahore Journal; thousands gather for inaugural Lahore Literary Festival, which has tapped into well of pent-up enthusiasm for cultural and political debate among young Pakistanis, offering them a counterpoint to extremism; city's celebrated vitality has waned in recent years under pressure from jihadist attacks and religious censure.MORE »
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Mar. 6, 2013
Pakistani military denies suggestions by American officials that Pakistan had used CIA drone program as cover for its own military operations in tribal belt.MORE »
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Mar. 5, 2013
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American officials suspect one or possibly both of the drone strikes in Pakistan in February were carried out by the Pakistani military and falsely attributed to the Central Intelligence Agency to avoid criticism from the Pakistani public attacks, which reportedly killed two senior Al Qaeda commanders, underscore difficulty of gaining reliable information about America's drone program in remote and largely inaccessible tribal belt.MORE »
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Mar. 4, 2013
Powerful explosion rips through crowd of Shiites as they leave mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, killing at least 45 people and wounding at least 149; attack suggests Sunni militant groups are widening their brutal campaign against the country’s Shiite minority.MORE »
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Feb. 27, 2013
Mohammad Ajmal Choudhry is arrested in Brooklyn and charged with communicating threats and filling false immigration documents for man his daughter Amina Ajmal says she was forced under death threats to marry in Pakistan; Choudhry told Ajmal, after she escaped Pakistan, if she did not return to Brooklyn, he would have her relatives in Pakistan killed; Pakistani police confirm some family members there have been fatally shot.MORE »
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Feb. 23, 2013
Pakistani police detain Malik Ishaq, leader of banned Sunni extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, which has claimed responsibility for two sectarian bombings that killed nearly 200 people.MORE »
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Feb. 20, 2013
Shiites end three days of protest across Pakistan after government promises to hunt down sectarian extremists responsible for bombing that killed 89 people in city Quetta; attack prompted outrage at government for failing to protect vulnerable minority population.MORE »
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Feb. 20, 2013
Afghanistan authorities capture Maulvi Faqir Muhammad, senior member of Pakistan Taliban, near border of two countries after American airstrikes drive him out of hiding; arrest is likely to please Pakistani officials and improve relations between Kabul and Islamabad.MORE »
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Feb. 19, 2013
Militants disguised as police mount attack in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing five people and wounding seven others.MORE »
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Feb. 18, 2013
Hundreds of Shiite women stage sit-in in Quetta, Pakistan, to mourn 84 people killed in explosion in market there; women demand that government arrest those responsible for carrying out brazen attacks against Hazaras, a Shiite ethnic minority, in the city.MORE »
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Feb. 17, 2013
Explosion rips through crowded market in western city of Quetta, Pakistan, killing at least 63 people and wounding at least 180; attack occurs in neighborhood dominated by Hazaras, Shiite ethnic minority that has suffered numerous attacks at hands of Sunni militant death squads.MORE »
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Feb. 16, 2013
Indian troops shoot and kill another Pakistani soldier at de facto border between two countries in Kashmir, adding to unusually tense period in disputed region.MORE »
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Feb. 9, 2013
Car bomb rips through town bazaar in northwestern Pakistan’s tribal belt, killing 11 people and wounding at least 31 others; Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility.MORE »
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Feb. 7, 2013
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United States is offering $10 million for help convicting Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Pakistan's best-known jihadi leader and founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, group behind 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India Saeed lives openly in middle-class neighborhood in Lahore, shielded not only by his supporters, but also by Pakistani state.MORE »
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Feb. 6, 2013
War crimes tribunal sentences Abdul Quader Mollah, senior leader of Bangladesh's biggest Islamist party, to life in prison for abuses during Bangladesh's 1971 war to break away from Pakistan.MORE »
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Feb. 3, 2013
Taliban militants kill at least nine soldiers and four paramilitary soldiers in attack on Pakistani Army base in northwestern Pakistan; ten civilians, including three women and three children, are also killed.MORE »
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Feb. 2, 2013
Explosion in market in northwestern Pakistan kills at least 21 people and wounds 33 in what police described as suicide bombing; Pakistani Taliban claims.MORE »
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Feb. 1, 2013
Pakistan is handing management control of port at Gwadar, near border with Iran, to Chinese company China Overseas Port Holdings; port has been focus of speculation about China's military and economic ambitions in South Asia for past decade, although analysts note that it is many years from reaching its potential.MORE »
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Jan. 31, 2013
Lawsuit brought against British officials by son of Malik Daud Khan, Pakistani tribal elder killed in CIA drone strike, puts spotlight on international intelligence-sharing in global fight against terrorist groups; also raises prospect of legal liability for European officials by linking them to American drone campaign that is widely seen as publicly unpalatable or simply illegal.MORE »
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Jan. 30, 2013
Gunmen on motorcycle shoot and kill police officer protecting polio workers during United Nations-backed vaccination campaign in northwestern Pakistan.MORE »
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Jan. 25, 2013
Pakistan's Prime Min Raja Pervez Ashraf has outraged many by urging that murder charges be dropped against Arshad and Shahid Bhaila, owners of Karachi garment factory where 259 were killed in 2012 fire.MORE »
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Jan. 25, 2013
Pakistan is holding 700 suspected militants without charges under law that has been criticized by human rights groups for human rights violations.MORE »
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Jan. 24, 2013
Pakistan's Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry orders judicial investigation into death of Kamran Faisal, state prosecutor who had been building corruption charges against Prime Min Raja Pervez Ashraf.MORE »
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Jan. 23, 2013
Indian officials, after deadly cross-border skirmishes with Pakistan, are advising residents of strife-torn Kashmir to prepare for possible nuclear war by building bombproof basements and stockpiling food and water.MORE »
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Jan. 19, 2013
Police in Pakistan say an officer investigating corruption case against Prime Min Raja Pervez Ashraf is found dead in apparent suicide.MORE »
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Jan. 19, 2013
Senior Pakistani diplomat says his government will release all Afghan Taliban prisoners in Pakistan's custody, bolstering hopes for peace negotiations with insurgents.MORE »
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Jan. 18, 2013
Federal Judge Robert N Scola Jr dismisses terrorism support and conspiracy charges against Izhar Khan, younger of two Muslim clerics accused of funneling thousands of dollars to Pakistani Taliban; case against Khan's father Hafiz is continuing.MORE »
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