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MSNBC
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A huge car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy in the Pakistani capital on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding dozens more, officials and witnesses said.
The blast echoed through Islamabad and left a crater more than three feet deep..
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BBC News
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A group of armed men are holding children and teachers hostage in a school near the Pakistani district of North Waziristan.
Officials told the BBC that up to 250 children were inside the school. Unconfirmed reports say most of them have been released...
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BBC News
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The CIA has added its support to the view that a Pakistani militant, Baitullah Mehsud, and al-Qaeda organised Benazir Bhutto's killing.
CIA Director Michael Hayden told the Washington Post that the former Pakistani prime minister was killed by fighters..
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BBC News
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A suicide bomber has killed at least eight Pakistani air force personnel in an attack in central Punjab province.
About 40 others were wounded when the bomber rammed his motorcycle into a bus carrying air force staff near the city of Sargodha, the auth..
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MSNBC
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Suicide bombers attacked an army bus and a commercial district in a city near the Pakistani capital on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people, the army and police said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosions, which injured dozen..
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CNN
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Pakistan's armed forces killed at least 35 militants in North Waziristan on Monday, two days after President Bush said he was "troubled" by reports al Qaeda was gaining strength in Pakistani tribal areas. The deaths, in fighting that was still under way,..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's military has condemned what it says was an air strike by US-led forces that killed 11 Pakistani troops as a "cowardly attack".
Details of the incident on the border with Afghanistan are still unclear.
Reports suggest it took place as US-l..
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MSNBC
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Pakistan's army on Wednesday accused the U.S.-led coalition of killing 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops in an airstrike along the volatile Afghan border.
A Pakistani army statement said the clash in the Mohmand tribal region "had hit at the very basis..
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MSNBC
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A missile struck a house in a Pakistani region known as being a safe haven for al-Qaida early on Thursday, killing 10 suspected militants including foreigners, intelligence officials and residents said.
The attack took place near Kaloosha village in th..
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BBC News
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The Pakistani army's top surgeon has been killed by a suicide attack in the city of Rawalpindi, the military says.
They say that Lt Gen Mushtaq Baig was one of at least three people killed by the attacker who also died.
He is the highest ranking off..
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BBC News
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A leading militant group in the Pakistani region of South Waziristan is reported to have declared a truce and be willing to enter peace talks.
Few details have emerged about the terms of the truce, announced on Wednesday by Tehrik-e-Taleban Pakistan, a..
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CNN
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Pakistani police Thursday arrested two suspects in connection with the assassination of former prime minister and leading opposition figure Benazir Bhutto, a police official told CNN. The two suspects, named only as Rafaqat and Hasnain, were arrested in R..
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BBC News
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Tens of thousands of people have attended the funeral of assassinated Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto.
Grief-stricken mourners converged on the family mausoleum where she was buried next to her father near their home village in Sindh province.
T..
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MSNBC
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Currently, U.S. Special Forces teams make occasional trips to Pakistan for about six weeks at a time to train different groups of Pakistani soldiers. Under the new plan, the 12-man teams would be stationed there for longer assignments, without gaps in bet..
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BBC News
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At least 17 Pakistani soldiers are reported to have been killed in an attack on an army vehicle in the northern region of Swat.
The attack comes one day after the army deployed 2,500 more troops in the area to combat rising militancy.
More than 15 p..
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SF Gate
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Up to 250 people, including at least 45 soldiers, have been killed in fierce fighting in northwestern Pakistan over the past four days, with Pakistani military jets bombing suspected insurgent hideouts amid tough resistance, officials and residents said T..
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BBC News
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At least 45 Pakistani soldiers and 150 pro-Taleban militants have died in three days of fierce fighting in North Waziristan, the Pakistani army says.
It is the heaviest fighting in the Waziristan region, which borders Afghanistan, for many months. Loca..
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SF Gate
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After keeping quiet for much of the year as Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf suppressed domestic opposition, the United States on Monday issued an unusually harsh rebuke to the government for locking up key political rivals ahead of next week's electi..
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USA Today
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Osama bin Laden will release a new message soon declaring war on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, al-Qaeda announced Thursday.
The announcement of the upcoming message came as al-Qaeda released a new video in which bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zaw..
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CNN
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Fifteen soldiers from a Pakistani army unit died in a bombing at their mess hall Thursday, a Pakistani intelligence source said.
The Associated Press said two security officials reported the attack was the work of a suicide bomber.
More than 25 othe..
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