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

'Three killed' in Pakistan blast

Monday, January 29th 2007, 16:43
related places: Dera Ismail Khan

Police say at least three people are killed in Pakistan's latest suicide blast, in the town of Dera Ismail Khan.
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Pakistan bombing kills 14 people

Saturday, January 27th 2007, 22:22
related places: Peshawar

An explosion in Pakistan's north-west city of Peshawar kills at least 14 people, two of them senior police officers.
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Cricket: S Africa set sights on win

Saturday, January 27th 2007, 16:04
related countries: South Africa

South Africa need 125 more to beat Pakistan and win the deciding third Test after ending day two on 36-2.
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Honours even as Pakistan hit back

Friday, January 26th 2007, 16:10
related countries: South Africa

South Africa end day one of the deciding third Test on 131-5 after skittling Pakistan for 157.
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Iran gas price formula 'agreed'

Friday, January 26th 2007, 15:25
related countries: India, Iran

Iran says it has agreed with Pakistan and India on a pricing formula for the delivery of its gas.
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'Suicide blast' at Pakistan hotel

Friday, January 26th 2007, 14:56
related places: Islamabad

A suicide bomber kills himself and a security guard at a top hotel in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, officials say.
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Impotence fears hit polio drive

Thursday, January 25th 2007, 17:11

Officials in Pakistan say a folk myth that a vaccine causes impotence has hampered a polio immunisation drive.
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'Friendly fire' death in Pakistan

Monday, January 22nd 2007, 16:40
related countries: Afghanistan, United States

Pakistan says US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan have mistakenly killed one of its border soldiers.
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Pakistan troops killed in blast

Monday, January 22nd 2007, 12:14

At least three Pakistan security personnel die in an apparent suicide attack in North Waziristan.
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Cricket: Pakistan in command

Saturday, January 20th 2007, 16:36
related countries: South Africa
related places: Port Elizabeth

South Africa close day two of the second Test with Pakistan at Port Elizabeth still 26 runs behind at 115-3.
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Mullah Omar 'hiding in Pakistan'

Wednesday, January 17th 2007, 17:06

A captured Taleban official says the group' s leader Mullah Omar lives in Pakistan protected by its spy agency.
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India accuses Pakistan at border

Wednesday, January 17th 2007, 15:50
related countries: India
related places: Kashmir

India is to protest to Pakistan after two of its border guards are injured in a shooting incident in Kashmir.
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Taleban spokesman 'arrested'

Tuesday, January 16th 2007, 15:51
related countries: Afghanistan

Afghan intelligence agents say they have arrested a top Taleban spokesman near the Pakistan border.
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Pakistan air raid on 'militants'

Tuesday, January 16th 2007, 10:35

Pakistan says its troops have attacked camps used by militants in the restive tribal area of south Waziristan.
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Pakistani actress to leave India

Tuesday, January 16th 2007, 8:09
related countries: India

Indian authorities ask well-known Pakistani actress Zeba Ali to leave the country for not having a valid visa.
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Pakistan 'nuclear' kidnap foiled

Monday, January 15th 2007, 17:15

Police in north-west Pakistan say they have foiled the attempted kidnapping of six nuclear officials.
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Cricket: Gibbs ban for racist slur

Monday, January 15th 2007, 15:26
related countries: South Africa

South Africa's Herschelle Gibbs is banned for two Tests for making racist comments during the first Test against Pakistan.
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Cricket: S Africa open with win

Monday, January 15th 2007, 12:34
related countries: South Africa

Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis hit fifties to guide South Africa to a seven-wicket win over Pakistan in the first Test.
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'Two die' in Pakistan camp blast

Monday, January 15th 2007, 12:28
related countries: Afghanistan

At least two people are killed in an explosion in a camp for Afghan refugees in north-western Pakistan, police say.
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Cricket: S Africa close to victory

Sunday, January 14th 2007, 16:07
related countries: South Africa

South Africa need 130 more on the final day to beat Pakistan in the first Test.
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India-Pakistan talks 'positive'

Saturday, January 13th 2007, 21:57
related countries: India
related places: Islamabad

A visit to Pakistan by India's foreign minister signals that the peace process is back on track.
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Al-Qaeda 'rebuilding' in Pakistan

Friday, January 12th 2007, 14:26
related countries: United States

US intelligence chief John Negroponte says al-Qaeda leaders have found a secure hideout in Pakistan.
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Seven killed in Pakistan shooting

Friday, January 12th 2007, 10:27
related places: Lahore

A senior government lawyer and six others are killed in a gun battle in the Pakistani city of Lahore.
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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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Cricket: Boucher breaks record

Thursday, January 11th 2007, 16:36
related countries: South Africa

Wicket-keeper Mark Boucher claims a record 367th career catch as South Africa peg back Pakistan in the first Test.
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Misbah's mother in custody offer

Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 16:10
related countries: United Kingdom

The mother of Misbah Rana has dropped her claim for custody, Pakistan's Supreme Court hears.
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Cricket: Shoaib to miss first Test

Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 17:24
related countries: South Africa

Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar will not be available for the first Test against South Africa which starts in Centurion on Thursday.
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Pakistan man jailed over NY plot

Monday, January 8th 2007, 23:10

A Pakistani man convicted of plotting to bomb a New York subway station receives a 30-year jail sentence.
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Court order over Pakistan missing

Monday, January 8th 2007, 16:44

A Supreme Court judge in Pakistan orders the government to speed up efforts to find missing people.
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Cricket: Waqar quits Pakistan role

Sunday, January 7th 2007, 12:02
related countries: South Africa

Waqar Younis resigns as Pakistan bowling coach in protest at only being asked on the South Africa tour for the Tests.
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Pakistan province lifts kite ban

Friday, January 5th 2007, 11:46

Pakistan's Punjab province lifts a ban on kite-flying during the forthcoming Basant spring festival.
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Pakistan pushes border fence plan

Thursday, January 4th 2007, 13:58
related countries: Afghanistan
related places: Kabul

Pakistan reiterates its intention to fence and mine parts of the troubled border with Afghanistan.
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'Honour attack' on Pakistani man

Wednesday, January 3rd 2007, 18:07

Armed men seriously assault a Pakistani man who married a woman without the consent of her family, police say.
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Asif returns to Pakistan colours

Friday, December 29th 2006, 11:52

Controversial paceman Mohammad Asif has been included in a 17-man Pakistan Test squad.
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Karzai lambasts border mine plan

Thursday, December 28th 2006, 13:54
related countries: Afghanistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai criticises Pakistan's plans to fence and plant landmines along their border.
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UN criticises Pakistan mine plan

Thursday, December 28th 2006, 3:51
related countries: Afghanistan

UN officials criticise Pakistani plans to build a fence and mine sections of its border with Afghanistan.
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Pakistan plans border minefield

Tuesday, December 26th 2006, 13:34
related countries: Afghanistan

Pakistan plans to fence and plant landmines along sections of its border with Afghanistan to stop militants.
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Pakistan airport blast kills one

Tuesday, December 26th 2006, 4:54
related places: Peshawar

A car bomb outside Peshawar airport in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province kills one person, the police says.
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Policeman killed in N Waziristan

Friday, December 22nd 2006, 16:09

A policeman is killed in Pakistan's tribal area, three months after a peace deal with pro-Taleban militants.
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UK 'terror plot' suspect in court

Friday, December 22nd 2006, 13:20
related countries: United Kingdom

A British man held in connection with an alleged plot to blow up airliners appears in court in Pakistan.
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India, Pakistan in border talks

Friday, December 22nd 2006, 7:40
related countries: India

India and Pakistan begin talks on a long-running marshlands boundary dispute as part of the peace process.
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Afghanistan 'holds Pakistani spy'

Tuesday, December 19th 2006, 16:49
related countries: Afghanistan

President Karzai's office in Afghanistan says a Pakistani spy who worked with al-Qaeda has been arrested.
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Pakistani wedding fire kills 22

Sunday, December 17th 2006, 7:53

At least 22 women and children die after a fire breaks out in a wedding tent in Pakistan, police say.
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'Taleban law' blocked in Pakistan

Friday, December 15th 2006, 15:24

Pakistan's Supreme Court blocks a bill aimed at enforcing Islamic morality in North West Frontier Province.
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UK 'plot' terror charge dropped

Wednesday, December 13th 2006, 17:49
related countries: United Kingdom

A Pakistani judge drops terrorism charges against a key suspect in an alleged airline bomb plot in the UK.
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Pakistan 'out to enslave Afghans'

Wednesday, December 13th 2006, 13:18

President Karzai hits out at Pakistan for continuing violence, accusing it of trying to turn Afghans into "slaves".
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Cricket: West Indies win

Wednesday, December 13th 2006, 13:02
related places: Multan

Marlaon Samuels hits an unbeaten 100 as West Indies beat Pakistan by seven wickets in Multan.
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Pakistan deals 'aiding Taleban'

Monday, December 11th 2006, 17:50
related countries: Afghanistan

Violence in Afghanistan has surged because of Pakistan's peace deals with pro-Taleban militants, a report says.
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