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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

Pakistan: news

Pakistan fatwa minister to stay

Wednesday, May 23rd 2007, 10:57

Pakistan's tourism minister, who is under pressure from hard-liners, has her offer to resign rejected by the PM.
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Pakistan fears over US air raids

Monday, July 14th 2008, 15:33
related countries: United States United States

US air strikes in Pakistan's tribal belt are undermining the government's fight against militancy, a senior official says.
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Pakistan film makes India record

Monday, July 14th 2008, 21:46
related countries: India India

A Pakistani film, based on a real-life story, is being released simultaneously in India for the first time.
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Pakistan fires on Nato aircraft

Thursday, September 25th 2008, 17:40
related countries: Afghanistan Afghanistan
related places: Nato

Pakistan says its troops fired warning shots at two Nato helicopters as they crossed the eastern Afghan border.
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Pakistan flood toll rises to 240

Tuesday, July 3rd 2007, 11:16

More than 240 people die in floods after a cyclone and rain swept through Pakistan, relief officials say.
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Pakistan FM on Afghan peace visit

Thursday, December 7th 2006, 9:20
related countries: Afghanistan Afghanistan

Pakistan's foreign minister begins a visit to Afghanistan for talks aimed at stemming the Taleban insurgency.
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Pakistan FM visits bomb survivors

Tuesday, February 20th 2007, 14:41
related countries: India India

Pakistan's foreign minister, in India for peace talks, visits survivors of an attack on a cross-border train.
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Pakistan foils 'Ashura attacks'

Saturday, January 19th 2008, 14:11

Police in Pakistan arrest five men accused of plotting terror attacks on Shia Muslims during a religious festival.
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Pakistan food stampede kills many

Monday, September 14th 2009, 14:57
related places: Karachi

At least 14 women and children die in a stampede to get free flour in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, officials say.
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Pakistan forces 'take key town'

Saturday, October 25th 2008, 13:49

The Pakistan army says it has retaken a key settlement in the troubled north-west, held by militants for nearly three months.
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Pakistan frees 'al-Qaeda suspect'

Monday, August 20th 2007, 18:35

A Pakistani computer expert alleged to have had al-Qaeda links is freed without charge after three years in custody.
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Pakistan frees British national

Friday, September 7th 2007, 11:53
related countries: United Kingdom United Kingdom

A British national held in detention in Pakistan without charge for more than a year is released and sent back to the UK.
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Pakistan frees Iranian 'officers'

Tuesday, October 27th 2009, 5:22
related countries: Iran Iran

Pakistan authorities release 11 Iranian "security officers" who were detained on its border, police say.
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Pakistan funeral bomb 'kills 25'

Friday, February 20th 2009, 11:15

At least 25 people are killed in a bomb explosion at a funeral procession in north-western Pakistan, police say.
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Pakistan fury at deadly US strike

Wednesday, June 11th 2008, 16:51
related countries: Afghanistan Afghanistan, United States United States

Pakistan condemns a US air strike which killed 11 of its soldiers along the border with Afghanistan.
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Pakistan fury at Nato border raid

Thursday, April 24th 2008, 15:27
related countries: Afghanistan Afghanistan
related places: Nato

Pakistan lodges a "strong protest" with Nato and the Afghan military after a soldier is killed in a border skirmish.
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Pakistan fury over 'US assault'

Thursday, September 4th 2008, 17:57
related countries: United States United States

Pakistan summons the US ambassador over an alleged cross-border raid which officials say killed at least 15 villagers.
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Pakistan general hurt in attack

Thursday, December 15th 2005, 13:00

Pakistan's Frontier Corps head and his deputy are hurt after shots are fired at their helicopter in Balochistan.
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Pakistan gets first Awacs plane

Wednesday, December 9th 2009, 17:09
related countries: Sweden Sweden

The Pakistani air force says it has acquired the first of four Awacs surveillance aircraft from Sweden to boost its air defences.
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Pakistan girls' school burnt down

Wednesday, May 7th 2008, 15:04

Militants in north-west Pakistan destroy a girls' school in the second attack of its kind since Sunday.
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Pakistan gives mosque ultimatum

Saturday, July 7th 2007, 11:50
related places: Islamabad

Pakistan's president tells Islamists inside a radical mosque to free women and children "or be killed".
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Pakistan go through with easy win

Tuesday, June 9th 2009, 15:21
related countries: Netherlands Netherlands

Pakistan beat the Netherlands by 82 runs to go through to the Super Eight phase of the World Twenty20.
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Pakistan government set to split

Monday, May 12th 2008, 16:16

One of the main Pakistan parties, the PML-N, says it is pulling out of the government, three months after elections.
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Pakistan government will not quit

Saturday, December 19th 2009, 21:49

Pakistan's government says it will not resign following a ruling quashing an amnesty for politicians facing graft charges.
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Pakistan graft amnesty challenged

Monday, December 7th 2009, 20:06

Pakistan's Supreme Court begins hearing challenges to a law granting politicians amnesty from corruption charges.
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Pakistan hang on to clinch series

Monday, December 19th 2005, 14:10
related places: Rawalpindi

Pakistan beat England by 13 runs to take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the one-day series.
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Pakistan hard-liners 'shot dead'

Monday, April 23rd 2007, 10:01

At least six people die after a hard-line Pakistani Islamist faction clashes with security forces, officials say.
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Pakistan have upper hand in Test

Monday, March 27th 2006, 13:07
related countries: Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
related places: Colombo

Pakistan dismiss Sri Lanka for 185 and are 124-4 at the close on day two of the first Test.
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Pakistan head starts China visit

Sunday, February 19th 2006, 17:30
related countries: China China

Pakistan's President Musharraf prepares to meet China's President Hu on Monday for key bilateral talks.
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Pakistan head urges patience

Friday, July 6th 2007, 8:17
related places: Islamabad

President Musharraf says security forces should halt operations at Islamabad's Red Mosque to let women leave.
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Pakistan hits 'militant hideout'

Thursday, April 13th 2006, 3:40
related countries: Afghanistan Afghanistan

Pakistan's army says it has killed several foreign militants in a helicopter raid near the Afghan border.
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Pakistan holds Iran border guards

Tuesday, October 27th 2009, 0:52
related countries: Iran Iran

Up to eleven Iranians are detained in Pakistan for illegally entering the country, Pakistani police say.
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Pakistan holds key talks with IMF

Tuesday, October 21st 2008, 14:27

Talks get under way between the International Monetary Fund and Pakistan, which faces a serious balance of payments crisis.
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Pakistan holds pro-Taliban cleric

Sunday, July 26th 2009, 14:31
related places: Peshawar, Swat

A radical cleric who brokered a failed peace deal in Pakistan's Swat valley has been arrested, officials say.
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Pakistan holds Woolmer memorial

Sunday, April 1st 2007, 11:44

A cathedral memorial service takes place in the Pakistani city of Lahore for murdered cricket coach Bob Woolmer.
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Pakistan hospital bomb kills many

Tuesday, August 19th 2008, 12:48

At least 25 people are killed in a suicide attack on a hospital in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, officials say.
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Pakistan hostage drama ends

Monday, January 28th 2008, 15:59

Armed men hold children and teachers hostage in a school near the Pakistani district of North Waziristan.
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Pakistan hunt for blast survivors

Sunday, December 28th 2008, 23:46

Rescuers in Pakistan work into the night to search for survivors in rubble left by a car bomb that killed 33.
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Pakistan hunting Swat militants

Saturday, December 8th 2007, 11:14
related places: Swat

Pakistani troops pursue a pro-Taleban cleric's supporters after a major operation to clear the Swat valley.
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Pakistan hunts 'abducted' troops

Friday, August 10th 2007, 10:00

Pakistani troops search for 16 paramilitary soldiers believed abducted by Islamic militants in Waziristan.
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Pakistan imposes new petrol tax

Thursday, July 9th 2009, 8:02

Pakistan imposes a levy to offset revenue lost because of an earlier Supreme Court decision to cut a carbon tax and reduce oil prices.
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Pakistan in 'French nuclear deal'

Friday, May 15th 2009, 19:24
related countries: France France

French and Pakistani leaders have talks about nuclear co-operation, but there is confusion over what was agreed.
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Pakistan in border warning to US

Tuesday, September 16th 2008, 16:48
related countries: Afghanistan Afghanistan, United States United States

Pakistan's army says incursions by US troops across the border from Afghanistan will not be tolerated.
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Pakistan in deal with militants

Wednesday, May 21st 2008, 16:46

Pakistan agrees to pull troops out of a valley in the north-west under an accord with pro-Taleban militants.
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Pakistan in humanitarian plea

Thursday, May 21st 2009, 10:56

Donors offer $224m in aid for Pakistan's displaced as PM Yusuf Raza Gilani appeals for urgent cash to help two million people.
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Pakistan in Mumbai suspect alert

Thursday, August 6th 2009, 14:08
related countries: India India
related places: Mumbai

Pakistan issues a global alert for 13 suspects in connection with November's attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai, officials say.
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Pakistan in Nato Afghan warning

Monday, June 25th 2007, 16:47
related countries: Afghanistan Afghanistan
related places: Nato

Pakistan says that Nato needs to act more carefully after civilians are killed in Pakistan from cross-border fire.
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Pakistan in sovereignty warning

Saturday, September 20th 2008, 11:18

Pakistan's president says he will not allow his nation's sovereignty to be violated by foreign powers in their fight against terror.
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