News: Pakistan

We have started to collect the most important news related to Pakistan in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

World news related to Pakistan – overview

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• 'Air strike' kills 30 in Pakistan – 'Key militant killed' in Pakistan
• 'Leading Pakistani militant' held – 'Taleban law' passed in Pakistan
• 'Taleban leader held' in Pakistan – Afghanistan 'border fence' clash
• Afghanistan 'holds Pakistani spy' – Attacks on Pakistan city kill 12
• Attacks renewed on Nato supplies – Bhutto homage at Jinnah mausoleum
• Bhutto house arrest order lifted – Blast strikes Pakistan bus depot
• Blasts hit Pakistan garrison town – Brown urges firmer Pakistan links
• Burials follow Waziristan clashes – Clarke inspires Australia victory
• Clashes at Pakistan refugee camp – Cricket: Australia postpone tour
• Cricket: Ball-tampering 'guess' – Cricket: India turn the screw
• Cricket: Inzamam awaits verdict – Cricket: Pakistan stun India
• Cricket: Pakistan take control – Date for Pakistan judges' return
• Date set for Asif drugs hearing – Diary from Swat
• Dinner date with the presidents – Ex-PM Bhutto en route to Pakistan
• Ex-PM Bhutto under house arrest – Four die in Pakistan 'drone raid'
• Four die in Pakistan gun attack – Hanging of Indian 'spy' deferred
• Hanging of Indian 'spy' upheld – India beat Pakistan in bowl-out
• India bullish on disputed glacier – Injury forces Mushtaq to retire
• Inspired Flintoff revives England – Karachi protests over power cuts
• Karachi residents assail police – Limited success
• Live - India v Pakistan – Militants claim Marriott attack
• Militants free Pakistani soldiers – Mumbai raid 'planned in Pakistan'
• Mumbai suspects arrested in Italy – Musharraf rules out mosque raid
• Musharraf rules out resignation – New controls on media in Pakistan
• New doubt cast on Woolmer murder – Pakistan 'clarifies' Kashmir view
• Pakistan 'crackdown on militants' – Pakistan Afghan ambassador freed
• Pakistan agent held over 'bomb' – Pakistan atom expert has cancer
• Pakistan atom expert is 'unwell' – Pakistan celebrates cricket win
• Pakistan channel 'facing threats' – Pakistan cricketers return home
• Pakistan cricketers ruled out – Pakistan fatwa minister 'to quit'
• Pakistan fatwa minister to stay – Pakistan in sovereignty warning
• Pakistan in Taleban prisoner swap – Pakistan militants seize Humvees
• Pakistan militants take hostages – Pakistan police seize explosives
• Pakistan polio case despite truce – Pakistan releases Taleban in swap
• Pakistan restaurant hit by blast – Pakistan strike 'kills militants'
• Pakistan strikes 'militant camp' – Pakistan to try Mumbai suspects
• Pakistan top judge still detained – Pakistan's future in the balance
• Pakistan's many motherless babies – Pakistani parties to share power
• Pakistani pilgrims visit Kashmir – Peshawar hit by 'rocket attacks'
• Peshawar hit by fatal bomb blast – Quetta blast wounds top policeman
• Quetta rocket attack kills woman – S Asia media cautious on US poll
• S Asia rivals continue key talks – Sikh pilgrims enter Pakistan city
• Silent guns – Strike in bomb-hit Pakistan town
• Strike over Karachi bomb attack – Taleban fears
• Taleban fighters die in US attack – Thousands flee Pakistan fighting
• Thousands flee Pakistan fighting – UK 'terror plot' suspect in court
• UK accused of Musharraf exit deal – Unseen offensive
• US 'agrees Afghan supply route' – US releases border strike footage
• US sanctions on AQ Khan 'allies' – Woman elected Pakistani speaker
• Woman in Pakistan suicide attack – Zawahiri video blasts US strike

Pakistan: news

Musharraf rules out resignation

Wednesday, February 20th 2008, 13:05

Pakistan's President Musharraf says he has no plans to resign as opponents seek an alliance against him.
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Musharraf says he will not resign

Saturday, June 7th 2008, 10:31

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf denies rumours he will resign and go into exile amid pressure to step down.
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Musharraf says Karzai 'oblivious'

Monday, March 6th 2006, 6:27
related countries: Afghanistan

Pakistan's leader says Afghan President Hamid Karzai is unaware of security issues in his own country.
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Musharraf seeks 'reconciliation'

Friday, August 24th 2007, 16:11

President Musharraf says he wants reconciliation after his bitterest rival is allowed to return to Pakistan.
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Musharraf seeks Bush Kashmir role

Wednesday, March 1st 2006, 2:26
related places: Kashmir

Pakistan's president tells the BBC he wants President Bush to throw his weight behind solving the Kashmir dispute.
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Musharraf seeks Indian PM talks

Monday, September 11th 2006, 20:55
related countries: India

The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, says that he wants substantive talks with the Indian PM later this week.
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Musharraf shakes up army

Friday, September 21st 2007, 16:01

President Pervez Musharraf makes a series of top-level military appointments in a major reshuffle.
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Musharraf signals re-election bid

Tuesday, August 7th 2007, 16:18

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf reiterates his determination to remain army chief and president.
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Musharraf stays away from jirga

Wednesday, August 8th 2007, 19:25
related countries: Afghanistan

Pakistani President Musharraf pulls out of an Afghan-Pakistan "peace jirga" to discuss violence in the region.
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Musharraf takes nuclear control

Friday, December 14th 2007, 16:35

President Musharraf takes control of Pakistan's nuclear weapons away from the prime minister.
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Musharraf targets key opponents

Sunday, November 4th 2007, 12:32

Leading members of Pakistan's opposition parties are arrested after President Musharraf imposes emergency rule.
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Musharraf to 'give up army post'

Tuesday, September 18th 2007, 12:36

Pakistan's President Musharraf will resign as army chief if re-elected for another term, his chief lawyer says.
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Musharraf to 'quit as army chief'

Monday, September 17th 2007, 9:24

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf plans to stand down as army head, a ruling party official says.
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Musharraf to quit army 'in days'

Monday, November 26th 2007, 16:23

President Musharraf will resign as Pakistan's army chief on Wednesday, his spokesman tells the BBC.
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Musharraf treason demands grow

Wednesday, June 4th 2008, 18:45
related places: Lahore

Pakistani ex-servicemen in Lahore give their backing to calls for President Musharraf to be tried for treason.
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Musharraf unveils new interim PM

Thursday, November 15th 2007, 19:57

President Musharraf names a caretaker government, with Pakistan's current Senate chairman appointed as PM.
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Musharraf urged to quit army post

Sunday, July 29th 2007, 15:27

Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf must quit as military chief if he wants to go on as president, says ex-PM Bhutto.
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Musharraf urges 'reconciliation'

Thursday, August 14th 2008, 4:49

President Pervez Musharraf says Pakistan needs political stability for economic development and fighting militancy.
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Musharraf vote 'before elections'

Monday, June 12th 2006, 16:50

Pakistan's ruling party says it plans to re-elect President Musharraf before general elections next year.
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Musharraf vote nomination backed

Saturday, September 29th 2007, 10:22

Election officials in Pakistan approve President Pervez Musharraf's nomination for election, amid angry protests.
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Musharraf vows polls in February

Thursday, November 8th 2007, 18:48

Pakistan will hold elections before 15 February, President Pervez Musharraf says after pressure from the US.
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Musharraf vows to back coalition

Sunday, March 23rd 2008, 9:47

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf pledges full support to the incoming coalition government of his opponents.
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Musharraf vows to end emergency

Thursday, November 29th 2007, 18:32

President Musharraf starts a new term as civilian leader, vowing to end Pakistan's emergency on 16 December.
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Musharraf vows war on militants

Thursday, July 12th 2007, 16:51
related places: Islamabad

President Musharraf vows to end terrorism in Pakistan after dozens are killed by an army assault on a radical mosque.
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Musharraf warns on 'blame game'

Thursday, July 20th 2006, 18:47
related countries: India
related places: Mumbai

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says India should not blame Pakistan for bombings in Mumbai.
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Musharraf wins presidential vote

Saturday, October 6th 2007, 15:22

Gen Musharraf easily wins Pakistan's presidential vote, but a court has yet to rule if his candidacy was legal.
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Musharraf's foes triumph at polls

Tuesday, February 19th 2008, 14:55

The main party backing President Pervez Musharraf admits defeat in Pakistan's elections.
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Musharraf: Rivals will not return

Friday, May 18th 2007, 12:18

President Musharraf says former PMs Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto will not return for Pakistan's elections.
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Mystery of Taliban chiefs deepens

Sunday, August 9th 2009, 14:54
related places: Taliban

Confusion surrounds leadership of Pakistan's Taliban as deadly in-fighting is said to follow Baitullah Mehsud's reported death.
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Nato 'kills 150 Taleban fighters'

Thursday, January 11th 2007, 18:49
related countries: Afghanistan

Up to 150 Taleban militants are killed in a battle near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, Nato says.
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Nato 'prevents Taleban advance'

Sunday, July 27th 2008, 15:32
related countries: Afghanistan
related places: Nato

Taleban fighters have been stopped from taking over an area close to the Pakistan border, Afghan and Nato officials say.
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Nato attacks 'rebels in Pakistan'

Wednesday, July 16th 2008, 17:19
related countries: Afghanistan
related places: Nato

Nato-led forces in Afghanistan say they have fired into Pakistan after coming under attack from there by suspected militants.
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Nato chief holds Musharraf talks

Tuesday, October 10th 2006, 10:26
related countries: Afghanistan
related places: Nato

Nato's chief in Afghanistan meets Pakistan's president amid claims the Pakistani spy agency is helping the Taleban.
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Nato denies 'Afpak' imperial plan

Friday, July 10th 2009, 9:16
related countries: Afghanistan
related places: Nato

The head of Nato's military committee says the alliance has no imperial ambitions in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Nato lorries torched in Pakistan

Friday, October 9th 2009, 5:46
related countries: Afghanistan
related places: Nato

Twenty gunmen in north-west Pakistan attack vehicles used to take Nato supplies to Afghanistan, police say.
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Nato lorries torched in Pakistan

Wednesday, September 9th 2009, 5:36
related countries: Afghanistan
related places: Nato

Gunmen in Pakistan set fire to lorries carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan, police say.
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Nato reviews Afghan supply route

Tuesday, December 9th 2008, 17:07
related countries: Afghanistan, United States
related places: Nato

Nato and the US explore options for supplies into Afghanistan after recent attacks on logistical depots in Pakistan.
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Nato tankers blown up in Pakistan

Monday, August 31st 2009, 5:53
related countries: Afghanistan
related places: Karachi, Nato

Suspected militants attack more than 20 vehicles carrying Nato supplies from Pakistan's Karachi port to Afghanistan, police says.
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Nato to press Pakistan on Taleban

Tuesday, October 10th 2006, 7:07
related countries: Afghanistan

Nato's chief in Afghanistan is in Pakistan amid claims the Pakistani spy agency is helping the Taleban.
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Nato warning on Pakistan fighters

Thursday, July 24th 2008, 12:51
related places: Nato

Nato's chief says an international effort is needed to stop Taleban and al-Qaeda militants gathering in Pakistan's border areas.
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Nawaz Sharif faces murder inquiry

Tuesday, September 8th 2009, 16:01

Pakistan's Supreme court is set to hear petitions for the prosecution of main opposition head, Nawaz Sharif, for murder.
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Nervy Australia book England semi

Wednesday, September 30th 2009, 15:27
related countries: Australia, United Kingdom

Australia limp to a tense two-wicket win over Pakistan to top Group A and set up a Champions Trophy semi-final against England on Friday.
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New 'allies'

Wednesday, June 24th 2009, 15:23

The Pakistan militants opposing Taliban chief
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New aid plan for quake survivors

Saturday, April 22nd 2006, 21:14

Pakistan agrees an action plan with the UN to help victims of last October's earthquake rebuild their lives.
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New attempt to seek Taleban peace

Tuesday, October 28th 2008, 13:57
related countries: Afghanistan

Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to make contact with militant groups, including the Taleban, through a tribal council.
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New by-election date in Pakistan

Wednesday, May 7th 2008, 18:02

Pakistan's Election Commission announces that delayed by-elections will now be held on 26 June.
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New clashes 'kill 12' in Swat

Monday, January 26th 2009, 11:56
related places: Swat

At least 12 people die in fighting between troops and militants in Swat in north-west Pakistan, officials and militants say.
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New controls on media in Pakistan

Monday, June 4th 2007, 17:15

Pakistan's President Musharraf signs into immediate effect measures to increase control over the media.
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'Air strike' kills 30 in Pakistan – 'Key militant killed' in Pakistan'Leading Pakistani militant' held – 'Taleban law' passed in Pakistan'Taleban leader held' in Pakistan – Afghanistan 'border fence' clashAfghanistan 'holds Pakistani spy' – Attacks on Pakistan city kill 12Attacks renewed on Nato supplies – Bhutto homage at Jinnah mausoleumBhutto house arrest order lifted – Blast strikes Pakistan bus depotBlasts hit Pakistan garrison town – Brown urges firmer Pakistan linksBurials follow Waziristan clashes – Clarke inspires Australia victoryClashes at Pakistan refugee camp – Cricket: Australia postpone tourCricket: Ball-tampering 'guess' – Cricket: India turn the screwCricket: Inzamam awaits verdict – Cricket: Pakistan stun IndiaCricket: Pakistan take control – Date for Pakistan judges' returnDate set for Asif drugs hearing – Diary from SwatDinner date with the presidents – Ex-PM Bhutto en route to PakistanEx-PM Bhutto under house arrest – Four die in Pakistan 'drone raid'Four die in Pakistan gun attack – Hanging of Indian 'spy' deferredHanging of Indian 'spy' upheld – India beat Pakistan in bowl-outIndia bullish on disputed glacier – Injury forces Mushtaq to retireInspired Flintoff revives England – Karachi protests over power cutsKarachi residents assail police – Limited successLive - India v Pakistan – Militants claim Marriott attackMilitants free Pakistani soldiers – Mumbai raid 'planned in Pakistan'Mumbai suspects arrested in Italy – Musharraf rules out mosque raidMusharraf rules out resignation – New controls on media in PakistanNew doubt cast on Woolmer murder – Pakistan 'clarifies' Kashmir viewPakistan 'crackdown on militants' – Pakistan Afghan ambassador freedPakistan agent held over 'bomb' – Pakistan atom expert has cancerPakistan atom expert is 'unwell' – Pakistan celebrates cricket winPakistan channel 'facing threats' – Pakistan cricketers return homePakistan cricketers ruled out – Pakistan fatwa minister 'to quit'Pakistan fatwa minister to stay – Pakistan in sovereignty warningPakistan in Taleban prisoner swap – Pakistan militants seize HumveesPakistan militants take hostages – Pakistan police seize explosivesPakistan polio case despite truce – Pakistan releases Taleban in swapPakistan restaurant hit by blast – Pakistan strike 'kills militants'Pakistan strikes 'militant camp' – Pakistan to try Mumbai suspectsPakistan top judge still detained – Pakistan's future in the balancePakistan's many motherless babies – Pakistani parties to share powerPakistani pilgrims visit Kashmir – Peshawar hit by 'rocket attacks'Peshawar hit by fatal bomb blast – Quetta blast wounds top policemanQuetta rocket attack kills woman – S Asia media cautious on US pollS Asia rivals continue key talks – Sikh pilgrims enter Pakistan citySilent guns – Strike in bomb-hit Pakistan townStrike over Karachi bomb attack – Taleban fearsTaleban fighters die in US attack – Thousands flee Pakistan fightingThousands flee Pakistan fighting – UK 'terror plot' suspect in courtUK accused of Musharraf exit deal – Unseen offensiveUS 'agrees Afghan supply route' – US releases border strike footageUS sanctions on AQ Khan 'allies' – Woman elected Pakistani speakerWoman in Pakistan suicide attack – Zawahiri video blasts US strike