Rumors and paranoia about the assassination fuel the fears of Pakistanis as they see their country descend into instability
After expressing condolences and outrage over events in Pakistan, presidential candidates turned their discussion toward whose foreign policy credentials were better.
At least two people were killed in Pakistan in the wake of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination as angry mobs took to the streets, blocking roads, torching cars and pelting police with rocks.
Stocks plummeted Thursday afternoon, in a thinly traded session, as political turmoil in Pakistan turned deadly and downbeat economic reports damped investor's enthusiasm.
Stocks plunged Thursday afternoon as political unrest in Pakistan put investors on edge and a mix of downbeat economic data raised concerns about the health of the economy.
Stocks continued to decline Thursday as events in Pakistan stoked geopolitical concerns and mixed economic reports highlighted worries about the domestic economy.
I have long claimed that the rise of extremism and militancy in Pakistan could not happen without support from elements within the current administration. My return to my country poses a threat to the forces of extremism that have thrived under a dictatorship. They want to stop the restoration of democracy at any price. They have exploited a poor, desperate, and powerless people and allowed extremists the right environment in which to flourish.
Stock futures turned lower early Thursday after former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in a suicide attack leaving a rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
A suicide bombing attack on a military convoy killed at least five civilians and one soldier Sunday in troubled northwestern Pakistan, an army spokesman and police said.
Police raided an Islamic school and arrested seven students hours after a blast in a mosque in northern Pakistan left at least 50 dead and dozens injured, according to an Associated Press report.
Rumors and paranoia about the assassination fuel the fears of Pakistanis as they see their country descend into instability
After expressing condolences and outrage over events in Pakistan, presidential candidates turned their discussion toward whose foreign policy credentials were better.
At least two people were killed in Pakistan in the wake of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination as angry mobs took to the streets, blocking roads, torching cars and pelting police with rocks.
Stocks plummeted Thursday afternoon, in a thinly traded session, as political turmoil in Pakistan turned deadly and downbeat economic reports damped investor's enthusiasm.
Stocks plunged Thursday afternoon as political unrest in Pakistan put investors on edge and a mix of downbeat economic data raised concerns about the health of the economy.
Stocks continued to decline Thursday as events in Pakistan stoked geopolitical concerns and mixed economic reports highlighted worries about the domestic economy.
I have long claimed that the rise of extremism and militancy in Pakistan could not happen without support from elements within the current administration. My return to my country poses a threat to the forces of extremism that have thrived under a dictatorship. They want to stop the restoration of democracy at any price. They have exploited a poor, desperate, and powerless people and allowed extremists the right environment in which to flourish.
Stock futures turned lower early Thursday after former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in a suicide attack leaving a rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
A suicide bombing attack on a military convoy killed at least five civilians and one soldier Sunday in troubled northwestern Pakistan, an army spokesman and police said.
Police raided an Islamic school and arrested seven students hours after a blast in a mosque in northern Pakistan left at least 50 dead and dozens injured, according to an Associated Press report.
An express train crowded with holiday travelers derailed in southern Pakistan early Wednesday, killing at least 50 people and injuring many more, officials said.
Eight cases of bird flu among people have been confirmed in Pakistan, the first such cases in the country, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
International health experts have been dispatched to Pakistan to help investigate the cause of South Asia's first outbreak of bird flu in people and determine if the virus could have been transmitted through human contact, officials said Sunday.
Two explosions struck the southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta on Thursday, killing seven people -- three Pakistani security forces and four civilians -- government officials have said.
A man posing as a mentally ill visitor planted a bomb that exploded in an Islamic school, killing at least five people and wounding two others near Quetta, Pakistan Monday, police said.
A bomb exploded inside an Islamic school in southwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing six people and wounding four others, officials said.
Hours after Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf cleared the final legal hurdle to being re-elected to a third five-year term, the 53-nation Commonwealth on Thursday suspended Pakistan from its group.
Elections for Pakistan's national assembly and its four provincial assemblies have been scheduled for January 8, and thousands of people jailed under emergency rule reportedly have been released, officials said Tuesday.
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Pakistan's State of Emergency
Pakistan's President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has carried out another coup to preserve the status quo, and the result has been violence and civil unrest. But chaos is hardly limited to Pakistan.
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A suspected suicide bomb attack near Pakistan's army headquarters in Rawalpindi -- which houses President Pervez Musharraf's office -- killed six people and wounded 10 others Tuesday, police have said.
A suicide attacker targeted a police truck Thursday, killing 24 people -- most of them police -- in the Taliban-dominated area of North West Frontier province, police sources said.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf -- a key U.S. ally -- is less popular in his own country than al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to a poll of Pakistanis conducted last month by an anti-terrorism organization.
Two bomb blasts killed at least 21 people and wounded 74 in Rawalpindi -- a city next to Islamabad -- Tuesday morning, Pakistani police and hospital sources said.
Pakistan's exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Saturday that power-sharing talks with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf had stalled but she planned to return even without a deal.
Pakistan, a South Asian nation with nuclear capability, says it has successfully test-fired a new missile that "can carry all types of warheads."
Pakistan on Saturday shrugged off reports that raised questions about the security of its nuclear weapons in light of recent political turmoil.
At least 12 people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked the site where the country's suspended chief justice was scheduled to address a rally, sources in Pakistan told CNN.
A suicide bomb detonated Thursday inside a mosque in violence-wracked northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 12 people, including children and soldiers, and wounding 25, military officials said.
At least 16 Pakistani soldiers died Wednesday in an attack on a military convoy in northwestern Pakistan, an army spokesman told CNN.
Bombings across Pakistan Thursday killed at least 32 people and wounded 47 others, authorities said.
U.S. forces should go into Pakistan to rout al Qaeda from the safe haven it has found in the mountains on the border with Afghanistan, a co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group said.
Gunfire and explosions rocked a besieged radical mosque in Pakistan's capital Thursday as Islamic militants holed up in the complex snubbed a plea from their captured leader to surrender
At least 42 people died and more than 150 were injured when heavy rains caused buildings in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, to collapse, according to provincial health and police officials.
Pakistan's government has imposed restrictions on the public and broadcast media in advance of a planned Saturday march by the nation's ousted chief justice.
Political clashes that began Saturday have left 49 people dead in the southern port city of Karachi, as a general strike took hold across Pakistan in protest over the suspension of the country's chief justice.
Pakistan successfully tested a short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile with a range of 200 kilometers (124 miles) Saturday, the Pakistan Army said in a statement.
The announcement by Jamaican police that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer's death is being treated as murder has shocked the cricketing world during one of its biggest events.
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India and Pakistan have vowed to press ahead with a peace process despite a bomb attack that sparked a fire and killed more than five dozen people aboard a train connecting the two countries.
A suicide bomber detonated Monday as he tried to enter a Shia religious procession in northwestern Pakistan, killing himself and a police officer, police sources said.
A 22-hour standoff between Indian security forces and a group of heavily-armed militants ended Thursday morning, leaving a total of seven police officers, one civilian and two militants dead, police said.
The Indian government accused Pakistan's military spy agency, the Inter Services Intelligence, of planning the July 11 Mumbai train bombings that killed 209 people.
The road to the Guantanamo Bay detention center begins in Pakistan, according to a report by rights group Amnesty International.
The war in Iraq has not made the world safer from terror, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has told CNN, saying he stands by statements on the subject he makes in his new book, "In the Line of Fire."
British investigators believe some of the money raised to help victims of last year's earthquake in Pakistan may have been used to fund last week's alleged plot to blow up jetliners over the Atlantic.
British investigators believe some of the money raised to help victims of last year's earthquake in Pakistan may have been used to fund the alleged airliner terror plot.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh -- who traveled to a Mumbai hospital to visit injured victims of Tuesday's rush-hour railway terror attacks -- said Friday that Indian-Pakistan relations could be a casualty of the deadly attack as well.
A Pakistan International Airlines plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Multan Airport in eastern Pakistan Monday, killing all 45 people aboard, city officials told CNN.
A car exploded at an army checkpoint near the violence torn border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, killing seven soldiers and seriously wounding five Monday, local government officials told CNN.
The body of a Pakistani journalist was found Friday in a tribal area near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, a family member and local government official said.
Nine militants and three Pakistan army men were killed Tuesday in two incidents in North Waziristan, a tribal area near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, a local government official told CNN.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz sat down with CNN's Becky Anderson to discuss nuclear talks, terrorism and trade.
The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said on Wednesday the way India and Pakistan had obtained nuclear arms was legitimate, in contrast to Iran which he accused of pursuing atomic weapons in violation of its international undertakings.
Unknown attackers gunned down three Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver in southwestern Pakistan Wednesday evening, police sources told CNN.
Twenty-two people have been killed and dozens more were wounded in a suicide attack during a Shiite Muslim holiday procession in the city of Hangu in northwest Pakistan, officials said.
U.S. politicians have expressed regret over the weekend killings of 18 civilians along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, but said the airstrike was justified by the erroneous belief that a top al Qaeda leader was among the group, which included women and children.
An avalanche in northwestern Pakistan killed 24 people as they were exploring mines in search of precious stones, local officials said.
Flying over northwestern Pakistan two months after the strongest earthquake to hit the area in 70 years is a stark testament to what happened on October 8, 2005.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 has shaken southeastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan early Tuesday, just two months after a major quake killed tens of thousands in Pakistan.
A blast has ripped through a weapons shop in northwestern Pakistan, government officials said, killing at least 8 people and injuring more than a dozen others.
A doctor at a Pakistani hospital has been arrested in connection with the rape of an 18-year-old female earthquake victim who was being treated at the facility, officials say.
Emotional campaigning and lobbying at an international donors conference yielded pledges of about $3 billion to assist Pakistan following last month's South Asian earthquake -- enough to cover the estimated expenses of assisting victims and rebuilding the stricken region.
Last month's deadly quake in South Asia will cost Pakistan more than $5 billion -- more than twice the amount pledged so far, two international agencies have found in a joint report.
A top official in the Bush administration visited some of the areas of Pakistan hit hardest by last month's earthquake on Monday, a trip she said would "show the true nature of America."
Pakistan arrested two suspected members of al Qaeda this week in the southwestern city of Quetta following a shootout that left a third suspect dead, Pakistani government and intelligence sources told CNN.
Dozens of villages containing hundreds of thousands of people have received little or no aid nearly four weeks after a devastating earthquake hit Pakistan and India.
India's prime minister has told Pakistan's president there are indications of foreign links to the New Delhi bombings and reminded him of his country's pledge to fight terrorism.
The death toll in Pakistan from the October 8 earthquake has risen to 54,197, while the number of injured has increased to about 78,000, most of them with multiple fractures, the Federal Relief Commission told CNN Wednesday.
At least five people were killed and six others injured when three earthquakes -- thought to be aftershocks of the massive South Asia earthquake -- struck along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials said.
CNN.com asked readers to share their thoughts about the South Asia earthquake. Here is a sampling from the responses, some of which have been edited:
Six suspected al Qaeda members were killed Saturday and two arrested by Pakistani troops who had attempted to stop their vehicle at a check post in South Wazirstan, a tribal area of Pakistan, intelligence officials told CNN.
Rival nations put aside their differences -- at least for the moment -- to help the tens of thousands of people left homeless after last weekend's 7.6 magnitude earthquake devastated south Asia.
Millions of people remain homeless in the Himalayan regions of northern Pakistan and India following last weekend's earthquake that has claimed more than 41,000 lives.
The United States will provide initial aid of up to $50 million for reconstruction and relief efforts in Pakistan in the aftermath of a weekend earthquake that killed at least 30,000 people across the region.
A day after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake killed about 22,000 people in northern Pakistan and India, government officials pleaded Sunday for international assistance to help dig survivors from the rubble, take them to hospitals and begin repairing the country's shattered infrastructure.
The U.N. secretary-general has praised the international community for its response in assisting earthquake victims in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
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Pakistan said Monday it is prepared to erect a fence along its border with Afghanistan to prevent incursions by Taliban and Islamic extremists.
A Muslim cleric and his son, both of whom agreed to deportation after their June arrest on visa violations during a federal terrorism investigation, have been returned to Pakistan, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said Wednesday.
Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf says as part of his crackdown on Islamic extremism in religious schools, or madrasas, foreign students will be thrown out of the country.
Pakistan's president has rejected criticism that his country serves as an incubator for terrorism, telling a U.S. television network in an interview that the July 7 London bombings show Britain has its own problems with Islamic extremists.
British investigators have asked Pakistan to round up a number of men for questioning as part of the probe into the July 7 bombings in London, a Pakistani official says.
The number of people arrested in a Pakistani law enforcement crackdown on banned jihadi and extremist groups has exceeded 200, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has told CNN.
Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, directed law enforcement agencies Friday to launch a nationwide campaign against banned extremist groups, targeting their donations, weapons and the holding of meetings.
Human error is being blamed for a three-train collision in Pakistan Wednesday morning which rail officials say killed 133 people and injured many more.
Coalition forces have recovered all 16 bodies of the servicemen killed in a helicopter crash Tuesday near the Afghan-Pakistan border, according to the U.S. military.
Senior U.S. officials say a deal to sell F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan was approved and the United States will compete for contracts to provide Pakistan's nuclear rival India with the same jets.
The chief minister of Indian Punjab was greeted by thousands of people waving Indian and Pakistani flags as he was driven along the 20-kilometer (12-mile) road from the border to Lahore Monday morning.
The Pakistani army has arrested at least 10 suspected al Qaeda members in North Wazirstan along the border area of Pakistan and Afghanistan, intelligence sources tell CNN.
Experts fear melting snow could trigger further deadly avalanches as bitter-cold temperatures in India and Pakistan warm up.
India and Pakistan have announced the reopening of a bus route between the two sides of the disputed region of Kashmir.
At least 424 deaths are being blamed on heavy rains and snow which have soaked Pakistan for the past two weeks, causing dam breaks, flooding and avalanches, according to officials.
Pakistan has launched a massive rescue and relief operation for hundreds of people stricken by torrential rains in the southwest, as floods and avalanches pushed the death toll to nearly 300 nationwide, officials said on Saturday.
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