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Pakistan government ends historic 5-year term

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government passed a major milestone Saturday, with the parliament becoming the first democratically chosen body to finish its five-year term in a country

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24 soldiers killed in road accident in Pakistan

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan: A bus carrying Pakistani soldiers slid off a mountainous road and fell into a deep ravine in the country’s northwest on Saturday, killing 24 and injuring five others,

Bomb kills 3 soldiers in NW Pakistan

PARACHINAR, Pakistan: A Pakistani government official says a roadside bomb blast has killed three soldiers in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border. Javed Khan, a local administrator in

Car bomb kills 37, wounds 141 in southern Pakistan

KARACHI, Pakistan: A car bomb exploded outside a mosque on Sunday, killing 37 people and wounding another 141 in a Shiite Muslim dominated neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of

Talk of peace with Pakistan Taliban angers victims

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Hazratullah Khan, who lost his right leg below the knee in a car bombing, answers immediately when asked whether the Pakistani government should hold peace talkswith

Militants attack office in Pakistan, 5 killed

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Militants wearing suicide vests and disguised as policemen attacked the office of a senior political official in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing five people, police and hospital officials said. In Pakistan’s

Death toll in Pakistani bombing climbs to 81

QUETTA, Pakistan: The death toll from a horrific bombing that tore through a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood of southwestern Pakistan climbed to 81 with many

Bomb kills 64 in Pakistan’s Quetta

QUETTA, Pakistan: Sixty-four people including school children died on Saturday in a bomb attack carried out by extremists from Pakistan’s Sunni Muslim majority, police said. A spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a

Bomb kills 20 in Pakistan’s Quetta

QUETTA, Pakistan: A bomb killed at least 20 people in a Shi’ite Muslim area of the Pakistani city of Quetta on Saturday in what a police official said was part

Valentine’s Day under attack in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Romance is not dead in Pakistan, but it’s under attack. Conservatives in Pakistan tacked up posters urging people to boycott Valentine’s Day on Thursday, saying it’s a western-inspired event