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Yesterday’s attack on Peshawar’s Pearl Continental Hotel was the latest signal of Pakistan’s growing Islamist insurgency.
Since the raid by the Pakistani government on the Red Mosque (Lal Masjid) in Islamabad in July 2007, a wave of revenge...
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Like almost all of the nearly two million refugees escaping the latest round of fighting between the Pakistani army and the Taliban, the Buneris are ethnic Pashtuns.
“We are not considered Pakistani citizens here,” Umar Habib told his...
There could be more political churning in the offing in Pakistan with President Asif Ali Zardari likely to replace Yousaf Raza Gilani as Prime Minister and transferring all presidential powers to the Prime Minister by annulling the constitutional...
The first case of human-to-human transmission of avian flu in Pakistan has been confirmed.
Tests carried out by the World Health Organisation (WHO) show that bird flu killed some members of a family in north-west Pakistan late last year.
The Bush administration is scrambling to engage with Pakistan’s new rulers as power flows from its strong ally, President Pervez Musharraf, to a powerful civilian government buoyed by anti-American sentiment.
Top diplomats John Negroponte and...
Pakistan’s new prime minister was sworn in by President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday, a day after challenging the US-backed leader’s authority by freeing judges he detained under emergency rule.
Yousuf Raza Gilani, a senior member of the...
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