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

Pakistan allows convoys to resume

Wednesday, July 4th 2012, 3:43
related countries: Afghanistan, United States
related places: Nato

Pakistan agrees to reopen supply routes to Nato-led forces in Afghanistan, after the US apologises for killing 24 of its soldiers in an air strike.
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VIDEO: Pakistan to reopen Nato routes

Tuesday, July 3rd 2012, 23:04
related countries: Afghanistan, United States
related places: Nato

Pakistan has said it will reopen supply lines to Nato forces in Afghanistan after it received an apology from the United States for an American airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
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Pakistan to reopen Nato routes

Tuesday, July 3rd 2012, 19:54
related countries: Afghanistan, United States
related places: Nato, Washington

Pakistan is expected to reopen supply routes to Nato-led forces in Afghanistan, as Washington apologises for killing 24 of its soldiers in November.
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Clash of Pakistan's governing titans

Tuesday, July 3rd 2012, 0:23

Are early polls the only way out of Pakistan's stalemate?
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Taliban bodies 'back to Pakistan'

Monday, July 2nd 2012, 13:36
related countries: Afghanistan
related places: Taliban

The bodies of nine Taliban fighters, killed after they attacked a Nato convoy in Afghanistan, are brought to the North Waziristan area of Pakistan for burial, sources say.
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Shia strike over Quetta attack

Friday, June 29th 2012, 7:40
related places: Hazara, Quetta

A strike is called by an ethnic Hazara political group in the Pakistani city of Quetta, a day after an attack on a bus carrying Shia pilgrims killed 13 people.
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VIDEO: Pakistan's fat cops battle the bulge

Thursday, June 28th 2012, 16:20

Officers in Pakistan's Punjab police force are busy exercising after they were told that anyone with a waist over 40 inches will be tied down to a desk job from 1 July.
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Fifteen dead in Pakistan blasts

Thursday, June 28th 2012, 16:07

At least 15 people are killed in two separate attacks in Pakistan.
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India spy returns from Pakistan

Thursday, June 28th 2012, 12:25
related countries: India

Indian citizen Surjeet Singh returns after more than 30 years in a Pakistani jail, and admits to spying for his country.
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Blast hits Pakistan rail station

Wednesday, June 27th 2012, 21:33

A bomb explodes at a railway station in the western Pakistani province of Baluchistan, killing at least five people and injuring many more.
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VIDEO: Largest lock in the world?

Wednesday, June 27th 2012, 17:29

A Pakistani man has built a giant lock that he hopes will be entered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest in the world.
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Kaneria handed international ban

Wednesday, June 27th 2012, 12:42
related countries: Denmark

International cricket-playing nations agree in principle to enforce a life ban for Pakistan spinner Danish Kaneria for corruption.
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India renews free Sarabjit appeal

Wednesday, June 27th 2012, 8:50
related countries: India

India welcomes Pakistan's decision to release Surjeet Singh and makes a fresh appeal for the release of death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh.
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VIDEO: Fight to save ancient Pakistan city

Tuesday, June 26th 2012, 23:05

Aleem Maqbool looks around the archaeological site at Mohenjo Daro in southern Pakistan which experts fear could soon be lost.
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Taliban attack Pakistan's Aaj TV

Tuesday, June 26th 2012, 6:33
related places: Karachi

The Pakistani Taliban says it was behind Monday's attack on a private television station in the southern city of Karachi.
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Seized Pakistan soldiers beheaded

Monday, June 25th 2012, 17:57
related places: Taliban

Taliban militants behead seven Pakistani soldiers captured by insurgents in a cross-border attack on Sunday, security officials say.
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Ashraf elected new Pakistan PM

Friday, June 22nd 2012, 15:42

Pakistan's ruling party candidate is elected prime minister, three days after the Supreme Court forced former PM Yousuf Raza Gilani from office.
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Pakistan's ruinous political farce

Friday, June 22nd 2012, 15:02

Constitutional cat and mouse as Pakistan's crisis deepens
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PM candidate switch in Pakistan

Friday, June 22nd 2012, 14:22

Pakistan's ruling party replaces its nominee for prime minister a day after a judge ordered the arrest of President Zardari's preferred candidate.
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Pakistan 'impairing' US diplomats

Friday, June 22nd 2012, 1:01
related countries: United States
related places: Rising

Rising obstruction of the work of US envoys by officials in Pakistan is "impairing" the work of US diplomats there, a state department report says.
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VIDEO: Arrest ordered of Pakistan PM nominee

Thursday, June 21st 2012, 17:02

A judge in Pakistan has ordered the arrest of President Asif Ali Zardari's preferred candidate for prime minister, just a day after he was nominated.
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Pakistan PM nominee arrest sought

Thursday, June 21st 2012, 12:55

A Pakistani judge orders the arrest of prime ministerial candidate Makhdoom Shahabuddin, a day after President Zardari nominated him.
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Pakistan meeting on new PM ends

Wednesday, June 20th 2012, 15:07

A Pakistan People's Party meeting to discuss a new PM ends without any announcement, a day after Yousuf Raza Gilani was disqualified by the top court.
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Pakistan holds 'key al-Qaeda man'

Wednesday, June 20th 2012, 9:31
related countries: France

A French man who is suspected of being a key militant working for al-Qaeda has been arrested in Pakistan, officials say.
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Popular Pakistani singer killed

Tuesday, June 19th 2012, 12:11
related places: Peshawar

Popular Pakistani singer, Ghazala Javed, is shot dead in the north-western city of Peshawar.
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Deadly blast hits Pakistan bus

Monday, June 18th 2012, 10:03

At least four students are killed and many injured by a bomb blast which hit a university bus in the Pakistani province of Balochistan, officials say.
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Deadly bus bombing in Pakistan

Saturday, June 16th 2012, 10:45
related places: Landi Kotal

A car bomb near a marketplace in the north-western Pakistani town of Landi Kotal leaves at least 22 dead, officials say.
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Pregnant woman denies smuggling

Friday, June 15th 2012, 10:33

A pregnant woman from Birmingham has appeared in court in Pakistan after being arrested last month with heroin worth £3.2m in several suitcases.
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Pakistan singer Mehdi Hassan dies

Wednesday, June 13th 2012, 15:29
related places: Karachi

Pakistani singing legend Mehdi Hassan, known as the "king of ghazal" music, dies of multiple organ failure at the age of 84 in Karachi.
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US talks with Pakistan on hold

Monday, June 11th 2012, 20:44
related countries: Afghanistan, United States
related places: Nato

The US temporarily pulls out of talks with Pakistan over re-opening vital supply routes to the Nato-led forces in Afghanistan.
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Bike bomb kills six in Pakistan

Monday, June 11th 2012, 10:55

A bomb planted on a motorbike kills six bus passengers and injured 40 others in the restive Pakistani province of Balochistan, officials say.
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S Asia rivals hold glacier talks

Monday, June 11th 2012, 8:36
related countries: India
related places: Rawalpindi, Top

Top defence officials from India and Pakistan hold talks in Rawalpindi on the contested Siachen glacier.
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Fatal bomb attack on Pakistan bus

Friday, June 8th 2012, 10:33

At least 18 people are killed in a bomb attack on a bus carrying government employees in north west Pakistan, police say.
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Drone strikes 'raise questions'

Friday, June 8th 2012, 8:28
related countries: United States

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay says during a visit to Pakistan that US drone strikes inside the country raise serious legal questions.
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Pakistan blast toll climbs to 15

Friday, June 8th 2012, 6:59
related places: Quetta

The death toll from a blast in the Pakistani city of Quetta rose to 15 on Friday, after some of those injured died in hospital, police say.
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Pakistan religious school blast

Thursday, June 7th 2012, 12:09
related places: Quetta

At least eight people are killed, including children, in a blast outside a religious school in Quetta, Pakistan, officials say.
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Pakistan wedding women 'alive'

Thursday, June 7th 2012, 11:41

Pakistani campaigners say they have made contact with two out of five women previously feared murdered for singing in a wedding video.
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US defends Pakistan drone strikes

Wednesday, June 6th 2012, 14:12
related countries: United States

The US defence secretary backs the use of drones to kill militants in Pakistan, two days after a missile strike reportedly kills an al-Qaeda leader.
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Pakistan 'honour killings' probed

Wednesday, June 6th 2012, 12:01

Officials in Pakistan investigate whether four women who apparently sang and watched as two men danced have been murdered in a so-called 'honour' killing.
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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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