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.

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Pakistan: news

Top Pakistan judge's son in court

Wednesday, June 6th 2012, 10:46

Pakistan's Chief Justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, is presiding over a court hearing of corruption allegations against his own son, Arsalan.
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Strike 'killed top al-Qaeda man'

Tuesday, June 5th 2012, 22:39
related countries: United States
related places: Senior

Senior al-Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al-Libi died in a drone strike in a volatile tribal area of Pakistan, a US official tells the BBC.
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US pulls Pakistan Sesame St aid

Tuesday, June 5th 2012, 20:45
related countries: United States
related places: Islamabad

Funding for the Pakistani version of the children's television series Sesame Street is being withdrawn, US officials in Islamabad say.
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Pakistan angered by drone strike

Tuesday, June 5th 2012, 17:18
related countries: United States

Pakistan summons a US envoy to protest against a surge in drone attacks, the latest of which targeted al-Qaeda's second in command.
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US drone 'targets al-Qaeda chief'

Tuesday, June 5th 2012, 14:08
related countries: United States
related places: Monday

A US drone strike on Monday in Pakistan targeted al-Qaeda's second-in-command Abu Yahya al-Libi, US officials confirm.
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Warsi apology over Pakistan trip

Monday, June 4th 2012, 18:45

Conservative Party co-chairman Lady Warsi apologises to Prime Minister David Cameron over a ministerial trip to Pakistan with her business partner.
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US drone 'kills 15' in Pakistan

Monday, June 4th 2012, 16:39
related countries: Afghanistan, United States

A strike by a US drone aircraft kills 15 suspected militants near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials say.
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Twist in 'Bin Laden doctor' case

Wednesday, May 30th 2012, 15:57

The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama Bin Laden was jailed last week for alleged links to militants, the court judgement shows.
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Siachen buried are declared dead

Tuesday, May 29th 2012, 7:36
related places: Kashmir

Pakistan declares 129 soldiers and 11 civilians dead, seven weeks after a massive avalanche in the disputed Kashmir region buried an army camp.
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'Bin Laden doctor' appeal urged

Monday, May 28th 2012, 17:40
related countries: United States

The brother of a Pakistani doctor recently sentenced to 33 years in prison for helping US intelligence calls for an appeal of the verdict.
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Four die in Pakistan drone strike

Saturday, May 26th 2012, 10:10
related countries: United States

Four die in a US drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region of Waziristan, with officials claiming the dead were militants.
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VIDEO: Bin Laden, the doctor and $33m in aid

Friday, May 25th 2012, 11:27
related countries: United States

A US Senate panel cuts $33m (£21m) in aid to Pakistan in response to the jailing of a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama Bin Laden.
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US cuts Pakistan aid over jailing

Friday, May 25th 2012, 8:31
related countries: United States
related places: Islamabad

A US Senate panel says it is cutting $33m in aid to Pakistan after the jailing of a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama Bin Laden.
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VIDEO: Trying to fight polio in Pakistan

Thursday, May 24th 2012, 17:31

Polio has been declared a "global emergency" by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative after "explosive" outbreaks in countries previously free of the disease
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US drone 'kills 8' in Pakistan

Thursday, May 24th 2012, 7:14
related countries: United States
related places: Taliban

The second US drone strike in 24 hours kills eight people in a volatile tribal area of north-west Pakistan, security officials say.
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Pakistan jails 'Bin Laden' doctor

Wednesday, May 23rd 2012, 18:03

A Pakistani doctor is sentenced to at least 30 years in jail for a false vaccination programme which helped the US find and kill Osama Bin Laden.
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Acid victims seek to block film

Wednesday, May 23rd 2012, 17:24

Acid attack survivors whose plight featured in an Oscar-winning film, Saving Face, threaten to go to court to stop it being shown in Pakistan.
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US drone 'kills four' in Pakistan

Wednesday, May 23rd 2012, 6:57
related countries: United States
related places: North

Four suspected militants are killed by a US drone in the volatile North Waziristan tribal region of north-west Pakistan, officials say.
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Karachi gunmen kill 10 protesters

Tuesday, May 22nd 2012, 17:49
related places: Karachi

At least 10 people are killed after gunmen open fire on a political rally in Pakistan's volatile southern port city of Karachi, police say.
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Pakistan restores Twitter access

Sunday, May 20th 2012, 19:27

Pakistani authorities restore access to the social media website Twitter after a brief ban for what officials called "offensive" content".
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VIDEO: Twitter banned in Pakistan

Sunday, May 20th 2012, 14:39

Pakistan's government has imposed a countrywide ban on the social media website Twitter.
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High stakes of Pakistan's Nato drivers

Thursday, May 17th 2012, 17:35
related places: Nato

Pakistanis who risk all to drive for Nato
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Four dead in Pakistan air crash

Thursday, May 17th 2012, 8:10
related places: Islamabad

Two Pakistan Air Force light aircraft collide on a training mission north-west of Islamabad, killing two trainee pilots and two instructors.
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VIDEO: Pakistan set to lift Nato Afghan blockade

Thursday, May 17th 2012, 3:16
related countries: Afghanistan
related places: Nato

The Pakistani government appears to be on the verge of lifting its six-month blockade on the transport of Nato goods through Pakistan to Afghanistan.
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Pakistan to open Nato supply line

Wednesday, May 16th 2012, 17:05
related countries: Afghanistan
related places: Nato

Pakistan's cabinet orders officials to finalise a deal as quickly as possible to bring an end to a six-month blockade on overland Nato supplies into Afghanistan.
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Pakistan 'to attend' Nato summit

Wednesday, May 16th 2012, 8:13
related countries: Afghanistan
related places: Nato

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is likely to attend Nato's Chicago summit on Afghanistan amid signs a crisis in relations may be easing.
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Bangladesh indicts Islamist chief

Sunday, May 13th 2012, 11:57
related countries: Bangladesh

Bangladeshi Islamist leader Ghulam Azam is charged by a special tribunal with alleged war crimes during the 1971 independence war with Pakistan.
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VIDEO: Pakistan crisis over power cuts

Sunday, May 13th 2012, 0:59

People across Pakistan have begun to protest in the streets as they continue to be affected by power cuts of up to 18 hours a day.
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ICRC suspends Pakistan city work

Thursday, May 10th 2012, 12:16
related places: Karachi, Peshawar

The International Committee of the Red Cross suspends humanitarian activities in two of Pakistan's largest cities, Peshawar and Karachi.
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Pakistan's Shias fear sectarian attacks

Wednesday, May 9th 2012, 23:10

Pakistan's Shias yearn for safety after attacks
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Clinton pushes Pakistan on terror

Tuesday, May 8th 2012, 8:38
related countries: India, United States

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls on Pakistan to do more to crack down on militancy, at the close of a two-day trip to India.
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Top Pakistan policeman shot dead

Tuesday, May 8th 2012, 5:51

A senior police officer in the restive south-western Pakistani province of Balochistan is shot dead by unidentified gunmen, officials say.
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US hostage video plea released

Monday, May 7th 2012, 18:41
related countries: United States
related places: August

US hostage Warren Weinstein, seized in Pakistan in 2011, pleads for his life in a video posted to Islamist sites, a US monitoring group says.
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US drone 'kills nine' in Pakistan

Saturday, May 5th 2012, 11:46
related countries: United States

Nine suspected militants have been killed by a US drone in a volatile tribal region of north-west Pakistan, officials say.
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Pakistan market bomb 'kills 20'

Friday, May 4th 2012, 12:51

A bomb targeting security forces near a marketplace in north-west Pakistan has killed at least 20 people, local officials say.
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Bin Laden 'frustrated at the end'

Thursday, May 3rd 2012, 22:11
related countries: United States

Newly released papers from Osama Bin Laden's hideout reveal a frustrated al-Qaeda leader struggling to master an unruly network, the US military says.
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Fixing scam cricketer Asif freed

Thursday, May 3rd 2012, 12:04

Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Asif has been released after serving half of a 12-month sentence for a fixing scam, his lawyer says.
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Pakistan bus accident 'kills 17'

Thursday, May 3rd 2012, 9:55
related places: Kohistan

At least 17 people are killed and 19 injured in a bus accident in the northern Pakistani region of Kohistan, officials say.
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VIDEO: Military 'did not hide Bin Laden'

Wednesday, May 2nd 2012, 16:38

The Pakistani Army was not involved in hiding Bin Laden, according to Pakistan's former ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani.
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VIDEO: Peshawar - the birthplace of al-Qaeda?

Wednesday, May 2nd 2012, 16:28
related places: Peshawar, University Town

The University Town area in the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar is thought by many to remain a haven for militant groups.
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Lahore 'blood money' murder hunt

Tuesday, May 1st 2012, 18:13

Pakistani police launch a murder hunt after the widow and mother-in-law of a man shot dead by CIA contractor Raymond Davis last year are killed.
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Pakistan bomb attack 'kills two'

Tuesday, May 1st 2012, 13:50
related places: Quetta

At least two people are killed and several others wounded in a bomb attack in the volatile city of Quetta in south-west Pakistan.
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Residents flee Karachi 'war zone'

Monday, April 30th 2012, 15:35
related places: Karachi

Hundreds of families begin fleeing a district in the Pakistani city of Karachi as a stand-off between police and gunmen enters its fourth day.
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Kidnapped UK aid worker murdered

Sunday, April 29th 2012, 20:59
related countries: United Kingdom

A British aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan has been found dead, with a note saying he was killed by the Taliban, local police say.
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Defiant Pakistan PM will not quit

Friday, April 27th 2012, 13:13

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani challenges the opposition to unseat him after being found guilty of contempt of court.
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VIDEO: Bin Laden's family deported

Friday, April 27th 2012, 1:45

Pakistan has deported the wives and children of Osama Bin laden.
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Bin Laden wives deported to Saudi

Thursday, April 26th 2012, 22:51
related countries: Saudi Arabia
related places: Islamabad

The three widows and children of Osama Bin Laden are deported to Saudi Arabia following a year in Pakistani custody since the al-Qaeda leader was killed.
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Pakistani PM guilty of contempt

Thursday, April 26th 2012, 16:35

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is set to hear a Supreme Court verdict in a contempt of court case that could see him jailed.
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VIDEO: Pakistan PM found guilty of contempt

Thursday, April 26th 2012, 6:12

Pakistan's Supreme Court has found Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani guilty in a contempt of court case.
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Pakistan tests ballistic missile

Wednesday, April 25th 2012, 9:18
related countries: India

Pakistan test fires a nuclear-capable ballistic missile, military officials say, less than a week after India also test-launched a long-range missile.
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VIDEO: Pakistan refugee camp 'now a town'

Tuesday, April 24th 2012, 17:40

The BBC's Aleem Maqbool reports from the Jalozai refugee camp in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan.
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Lahore station bomb 'kills two'

Tuesday, April 24th 2012, 16:12
related places: Lahore

At least two people are killed in a bomb blast at the main railway station in the Pakistani city of Lahore, police say.
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Pakistan begins plane inspections

Monday, April 23rd 2012, 9:08

Safety inspections of all airplanes operated by private airlines have begun in Pakistan, days after a crash killed 127 people.
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VIDEO: Pakistan air crash: Black box found

Saturday, April 21st 2012, 14:27
related places: Islamabad, Karachi

All 127 people aboard the Bhoja Air flight from Karachi to Islamabad were killed.
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Deadly Pakistan air crash probed

Saturday, April 21st 2012, 13:11
related places: Islamabad

Air crash investigators comb the wreckage of a passenger jet that crashed near the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing all 127 people on board.
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Airliner crashes near Islamabad

Friday, April 20th 2012, 19:40
related places: Islamabad

A plane carrying 127 people crashes in a residential area near Islamabad international airport - with no reports of survivors.
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VIDEO: Acid attacks increase in Pakistan

Thursday, April 19th 2012, 22:10

Campaigners in Pakistan say cases of acid attacks are increasing in most areas, even though tougher penalties were introduced last year.
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Pakistani women's lives destroyed by acid attacks

Thursday, April 19th 2012, 21:25

The Pakistani women destroyed by brutal acid attacks
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VIDEO: Pakistan searches for avalanche victims

Thursday, April 19th 2012, 19:01

Pakistan has promised it will not stop until it recovers all the bodies of those killed when an avalanche swept through a military base in the Himalayas.
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Bangladesh postpone Pakistan tour

Thursday, April 19th 2012, 13:57
related countries: Bangladesh

Pakistan officials are "surprised" and "disappointed" by a court decision to postpone Bangladesh's planned tour of their country.
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VIDEO: Kashmir avalanche search continues

Thursday, April 19th 2012, 2:56
related places: Kashmir

The search for 140 people, 129 of them Pakistani soldiers, buried by an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier in Kashmir is continuing.
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Pakistan urges glacier pull-out

Wednesday, April 18th 2012, 21:15
related countries: India
related places: Kashmir

Pakistan's army chief says his and India's troops should leave a contested glacier in Kashmir, where a recent avalanche killed scores of troops.
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Bin Laden widows face deportation

Wednesday, April 18th 2012, 18:03

Pakistan is preparing to deport three widows of former al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and their children 'as early as possible', officials say.
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Pakistan jail raid frees hundreds

Sunday, April 15th 2012, 14:22

Almost 400 prisoners escape from a jail in north-west Pakistan after it comes under attack from heavily armed militants, officials say.
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Internationals return to Pakistan

Sunday, April 15th 2012, 13:31
related countries: Bangladesh
related places: Lahore

Pakistan will host its first international matches since 2009 when Bangladesh play two matches in Lahore at the end of April.
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Models have fun as Pakistan fashion grows up

Saturday, April 14th 2012, 17:51

Models have fun as Pakistan fashion grows up
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Rivals open new border trade post

Friday, April 13th 2012, 15:41
related countries: India

Trade between India and Pakistan is expected to rise substantially with the opening of a new checkpost at the Wagah border crossing, amid a series of peace moves.
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Pakistan shifts stance towards US

Thursday, April 12th 2012, 20:25
related countries: Afghanistan
related places: Nato

The Pakistani parliament issues new guidelines that may allow Islamabad to repair ties with the US.
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VIDEO: Pakistan's president meets Indian PM

Sunday, April 8th 2012, 19:39
related countries: India
related places: Delhi

The President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, has been meeting the Indian prime minister in Delhi.
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Pakistani and Indian leaders meet

Sunday, April 8th 2012, 14:31
related countries: India

President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan holds "friendly" talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on a rare visit to India.
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VIDEO: Pakistan's Zardari visits India

Sunday, April 8th 2012, 11:49
related countries: India

The President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, has met the Indian prime minister in the first visit by a Pakistani head of state to India in seven years.
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Kashmir avalanche search resumes

Sunday, April 8th 2012, 8:21
related places: Kashmir

Pakistan's military resumes a search for 135 people, including 124 soldiers, buried by an avalanche in the disputed Kashmir region.
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Kashmir avalanche toll 'may rise'

Sunday, April 8th 2012, 4:18
related places: Kashmir

Up to 135 people are now feared dead in an avalanche which hit a military camp in the disputed Kashmir region, a Pakistan army spokesman says.
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Zardari visit signals slow progress in India-Pakistan ties

Saturday, April 7th 2012, 16:33
related countries: India

Despite deep rivalry, India and Pakistan inch closer together
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US welcomes Zardari Indian trip

Friday, April 6th 2012, 5:32
related countries: India, United States
related places: Sunday

The US welcomes Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to India on Sunday, calling it "very constructive".
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Pakistan suicide bomb kills four

Thursday, April 5th 2012, 10:26
related places: Karachi

A suicide blast in Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi kills at least four people and wounds more than a dozen others, police say.
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VIDEO: Saeed mocks bounty at news briefing

Wednesday, April 4th 2012, 22:45
related countries: United States

Despite a huge bounty on his head, the man who the US blames for masterminding the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, has appeared in public in Pakistan.
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Pakistan militant mocks US bounty

Wednesday, April 4th 2012, 14:42
related countries: United States
related places: Lashkar

The founder of Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba describes a $10m (£6.2m) US bounty on his head as "ridiculous and misguided".
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