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Pakistani cricket star is election wildcard
As Pakistan looks ahead to a national election later this spring, the biggest wildcard is shaping up to be cricket legend Imran Khan, who rallied at ...
Car bomb at Pakistani refugee camp kills 13
A car packed with explosives blew up inside a refugee camp on Thursday, killing 13 people in an attack that underscored the intensity of the conflict ...
Pakistan to hold nationwide elections May 11
Pakistan will hold nationwide parliamentary elections on May 11, said a presidential spokesman on Wednesday. The vote is expected to produce the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Afghan president lashes out at Pakistan
Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out once again at his supposed ally, Pakistan, saying Monday that a statement by a Pakistani cleric endorsing ...
Former Pakistan president sets mid-March return
Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf says he will return home from self-imposed exile this month to run in parliamentary elections despite ...
Talk of peace with Pakistan Taliban angers victims
Hazratullah Khan, who lost his right leg below the knee in a car bombing, answers immediately when asked whether the Pakistani government should hold ...
AP PHOTOS: Portraits of Pakistani Taliban victims
In recent weeks, the Pakistani government and Taliban forces fighting in northwestern tribal areas have expressed an interest in peace talks to end ...
Shiite leaders call end to protest in Pakistan
Shiite leaders called for an end to three days of protests by thousands of members of the minority Muslim sect in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, ...
Fla. imam takes stand, denies Taliban connection
An elderly Muslim cleric on trial for allegedly funneling tens of thousands of dollars to the Pakistani Taliban terrorist organization vehemently ...
Thousands of Shiites protest 89 killed in Pakistan
At least 15,000 Shiite Muslims took to the streets in southwest Pakistan on Monday in a second day of protests following a bombing that killed 89 ...
Indian troops kill Pakistani soldier in Kashmir
Indian troops shot and killed a Pakistani soldier who crossed the makeshift border separating Indian and Pakistani held Kashmir, officials said ...
Official says Swiss won't try Pakistani President
The spokesman of Pakistan's president says Swiss authorities have decided not to open a graft case against Pakistan's president. Farhatullah Babar ...
Bangladesh sentences Islamic party leader to life
A Bangladeshi tribunal prosecuting cases stemming from the 1971 independence war sentenced a leader of an Islamic opposition party to life in prison ...
Pakistan ready for peace talks with militants
Pakistan's interior minister said Monday that the government was ready to hold peace talks with domestic Taliban militants who have been waging a ...
23 killed in Taliban attack on Pakistan army post
Taliban militants wearing suicide vests fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades at an army post in northwestern Pakistan in a pre-dawn ...
Militants attack Pakistani army camp; 6 killed
Militants attacked an army camp in northwestern Pakistan with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades before dawn on Saturday, killing six ...
Pakistan court summons anti-corruption boss
Pakistan's top court on Thursday summoned the government's anti-corruption chief over a letter he wrote criticizing the tribunal's judges, the latest ...