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Gunmen shot and killed a bodyguard of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Tuesday, police and a party official said.

The Pakistani government, elected in February with great hopes of restoring stability, is not just struggling to deal with a Taliban insurgency, a judicial crisis, and an internally fractured coalition.

It is also managing one of the worst economic periods in the country in the past decade. And as millions of Pakistanis from a cross-section of economic classes feel the heat from a dipping economy, some are beginning to blame the new government.

"The economic situation is deepening the political crisis," says Rasul Baksh Rais, professor of political science at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. "If the government isn't able to address this soon," he says, people could start spilling out onto the streets. And a weak government, he says, might not ready for all this so soon after coming into power.

South East Asia News.Net Thursday 24th July, 2008 Karachi, July 24 : Pakistan intelligence inputs have found that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud has prepared a hit list of around 300 ...

The activists were hoping take part in the World Youth Congress in Quebec City next month, but failed to convince immigration officials they will leave the country after the event ends.

EOBI to pool Rs3bn, SLIC Rs2bn, NBP Rs2bn, besides other banks, financial institutions Friday, July 25, 2008 By Salman Siddiqui KARACHI: The authorities have decided at a meeting held on Thursday that Equity ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission has reportedly urged the United Nations to investigate the alleged detention of a Pakistani national Dr Afia Sadeeqi at a US military base in Afghanistan for the past five ...

KARACHI: Surprise, surprise! Finally some good news: Karachi continues to be the least costly city in Asia, in 141st place with a score of 54.7 in a survey of the cheapest to live in carried out by human ...

KARACHI (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a senior security officer for Asif Ali Zardari, head of Pakistan's ruling party, in the southern city of Karachi on Tuesday, police and party officials said.

Zardari is the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was killed in a suicide gun and bomb attack in the city of Rawalpindi on December 27 while campaigning for an election that her party subsequently won.

Ejaz Durrani, a spokesman for Zardari in Karachi, said the assailants ambushed the security officer, Khalid Shehanshah, outside his house in Karachi's upmarket Defense neighborhood.

Karachi News.Net Friday 18th July, 2008 Islamabad, July 18 At least 10 militants were killed in a gun battle with security forces in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province , Dawn News channel reported.

AEI announced that it has acquired a controlling interest in DHA Cogen Limited , located in Karachi, Pakistan.

The bodyguard of Benazir Bhutto, who was to be a key witness in an investigation into her assassination, has been shot dead.

Karachi, July 23 : Experts have opined that most Pakistani women refuse to have sex with their male partners because of the latter's abusive advances and attitudes.

KARACHI. July 23. KAZINFORM. The top security officer of Pakistani coalition leader Asif Ali Zardari was shot and killed outside his Karachi residence, police said.

The operational chief of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan also said that the recent attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad was conducted by his organisation.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 By Shahzad Anwar KARACHI: Total domestic debt of the country surged to Rs520.111 billion till May 2008, which was recorded at Rs300.112 billion in the corresponding period of fiscal ...

Social taboos that indirectly encourage homosexuality in Pakistan are also compounding the problem of controlling a raging HIV epidemic in the country, says a new report.

Gunmen shot and killed a bodyguard of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Tuesday, police and a party official said.

KARACHI: The death anniversary of Master Afzal Hussain, the man who designed the Pakistani flag, should be commemorated at a national level, urged Master Afzal Hussain Foundation Trust chairperson Qamar Sultana ...

Indian art-film actress Nandita Das has said that Indian directors will soon be able to shoot films in Pakistans scenic locations as cultural relations between the two countries are improving.

As many as 35 young people between the ages of 18 and 25 from Karachi, Hyderabad, Badin, Jamshoro, Umarkot, Mirpurkhas and Tharparkar received training in a three-day visioning workshop to support young people ...