Pakistan News

The Pakistani election is over, and summer's arrival will present the new government, to be led by Prime Minister-elect Nawaz Sharif, with its first test.

According to police, the Balochistan Constabulary personnel were in a bus en route to Balochistan Secretariat when they came under attack near Link Badini Road in the proximity of Bhossa Mandi on Eastern Bypass.

WASHINGTON: Declaring America at a "crossroads" in the fight against terrorism, President Barack Obama on Thursday revealed clearer guidelines for the use of deadly drone strikes, including more control by the U.S. military, while leaving key details of the controversial program secret.

Amid lingering concerns about his national security policies, President Barack Obama is outlining measures to clarify the deadly use of drones against terror suspects.

A journalist takes part in a demonstration in front of the Parliament building in Islamabad to protest a spate of killings of journalists, Jan.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility on Thursday for an explosion that killed 11 security personnel and two civilians in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani authorities once arrested an American citizen now known to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in the country, but he escaped after being released on bail.

A BOMB planted in a rickshaw has torn through a vehicle used by security forces in southwest Pakistan, killing at least 12 people, police say.

Awais Ahmed, the district police officer for the town of Sibi, said four gunmen on two motorcycles opened fire at a brothel in the town.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang praised the Sino-Pakistan relationship to the hilt on Thursday, urging the "all-weather friends" to boost cooperation in business, trade, energy and infrastructure and build a long-vaunted economic corridor.

A roadside bomb struck a paramilitary truck in Pakistan's troubled south-western province of Balochistan on Thursday, killing at least 11 people, police said, dpa reported.

A security official collects evidence near the remains of a damaged vehicle at the site of a bomb blast in Quetta, May 23, 2013.

A roadside bomb killed 11 security personnel and two civilians on Thursday in southwestern Pakistan where separatist rebels have for decades been battling to control the region's natural gas and other resources.

A car bomb targeting a police vehicle killed 11 policemen and one civilian Thursday in an area of southwest Pakistan wracked by a separatist insurgency and Islamic militancy, police said.

Karachi: May 18, 2013. The Central Executive Council of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC in a meeting here today approved nomination of Mr.

He says a remote-controlled bomb in a car parked along a road targeted a vehicle carrying members of the police's special forces.

Staff Report KARACHI: All Pakistan Junior Ranking Tennis Championship will be staged at Karachi Gymkhana Hard Courts here from May 29 to June 4, the Sindh Tennis Association announced on Wednesday.

A teenage boy stabbed his mother to death at their rented house in the Gulshan-e-Ravi police limits on Wednesday.

To the Editor: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is a tickborne zoonotic disease caused by a member of the virus family Bunyaviridae , genus Nairovirus .

It's a measure of Pakistanis' obsession with eating that even the elections held on May 11 - fiercely contested, marred by violence - are being discussed in culinary metaphors.