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Pakistani Taliban withdraw peace talk offer
The Pakistani Taliban on Monday withdrew their offer of holding peace talks with the government, saying that the authorities were not serious about ...
China becomes world's fifth largest arms exporter
China has bypassed Britain as the world's fifth largest arms exporter, a Swedish think tank said Monday. The volume of Chinese weapons exports rose ...
Pakistan government ends historic 5-year term
Pakistan's government passed a major milestone Saturday, with the parliament becoming the first democratically chosen body to finish its five-year ...
Key players in Pakistan's upcoming election
A look at several key players in Pakistan's upcoming national election that is expected in May: —PRESIDENT ASIF ALI ZARDARI: The president rode to ...
Major issues in Pakistan's upcoming election
The Pakistan People's Party, which led the government for the past five years, faces a difficult challenge in the upcoming national election expected ...
AP PHOTOS: Pakistani troops compete despite wounds
Dozens of wounded Pakistani troops, many of them maimed during the fighting in the country's tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, gathered Saturday for ...
24 soldiers killed in road accident in Pakistan
A bus carrying Pakistani soldiers slid off a mountainous road and fell into a deep ravine in the country's northwest on Saturday, killing 24 and ...
UN says US drones violate Pakistan's sovereignty
The head of a U.N. team investigating casualties from U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan declared after a secret research trip to the country that the ...
3 men plead guilty to terror charges in UK
Three British Muslims, including a convert who was featured in a documentary about radical Islam, pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in London on ...
Pakistani activist for poor shot dead in Karachi
Gunmen shot and killed a pioneering Pakistani activist in Karachi who helped bring services like sewer and water to the city's poorest neighborhoods, ...
Pakistanis linked to CIA bin Laden plot reinstated
A Pakistani court reinstated in their jobs on Thursday 17 health workers who were fired last year for allegedly participating in a CIA scheme to ...
Gunmen kidnap Czech tourists in southwest Pakistan
Gunmen abducted two female Czech tourists and their police guard as they were traveling on a bus through a troubled province in southwest Pakistan, ...
Tribesmen stone Pakistani soldier to death
Tribesmen tied a Pakistani soldier to the hood of a car and stoned him to death in the country's restive northwest for allegedly having a romantic ...
Suicide bomber kills 2 in northwestern Pakistan
A suicide bomber blew himself up near a police van in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least two people, police said. Local police ...
Pakistan, Iran leaders inaugurate pipeline project
The leaders of Pakistan and Iran are pushing ahead with a pipeline to bring natural gas from Iran despite American opposition, and the Iranian ...
Official: Bomb kills 3 soldiers in NW Pakistan
A roadside bomb killed three Pakistani soldiers in a northwestern tribal area near the Afghan border Monday, a local government official said.
Christian protesters, police clash in Pakistan
Hundreds of Christians clashed with police across Pakistan on Sunday, a day after a Muslim mob burned dozens of homes owned by members of the minority ...
AP PHOTOS: Mob in Pakistan torches Christian homes
Hundreds of people in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore ransacked a Christian neighborhood Saturday and torched dozens of homes after hearing ...
Mob torches dozens of Pakistani Christian homes
Hundreds of people in eastern Pakistan rampaged through a Christian neighborhood Saturday, torching dozens of homes after hearing reports that a ...
Shiite leader: Sectarian attacks are 'genocide'
Pakistan's minority Shiite Muslims have started using the word "genocide" to describe a violent spike in attacks against them by a militant Sunni ...
Bin Laden's son-in-law: Pleads not guilty in NY
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, the charismatic al-Qaida spokesman, fundraiser and son-in-law to Osama bin Laden, is likely to have a vast trove of knowledge ...
Fight for future of Bangladesh plays out in street
The fight for the future of Bangladesh is playing out in the streets of this troubled south Asian nation. For a month, masses of moderate activists ...