Karachi (Pakistan)

Pakistanis vote in landmark election

2013-05-11 19:52:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Millions of Pakistanis braved threats from militants and voted Saturday in national elections that marked the country's first democratic transfer of governance and appeared to put former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on track for...

Polls close in historic Pakistan elections; some bombings occur

2013-05-11 08:42:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a bloody campaign season marred by waves of bombings and candidate assassinations, Pakistanis turned out in large numbers Saturday to elect a new parliament in what is slated to be the first democratic transition of...

Pakistan elections: Polls open amid more violence

2013-05-10 23:29:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistanis went to the polls Saturday to elect a new parliament amid continued violence marring the historic event, as militants detonated a bomb outside a liberal, anti-Taliban party’s campaign office in the southern port...

12 killed in Pakistan campaign violence

2013-04-28 20:18:00

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — At least 12 people were killed and 43 injured Sunday in bomb blasts targeting a candidate's convoy and the election offices of two others in northwestern Pakistan. They were the latest in a series of terrorist strikes that...

Bomb blasts at campaign offices in northwest Pakistan kill 11

2013-04-28 04:48:00

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Bomb blasts targeting the election offices of two candidates in northwest Pakistan killed at least 11 people and injured 30 Sunday, the latest in a string of terror attacks that have cast a shadow over parliamentary elections...

Pakistani police arrest former President Pervez Musharraf

2013-04-19 15:37:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was arrested and placed in police custody Friday, a day after commandos whisked him away from an Islamabad courthouse where he faces charges of illegally detaining dozens of judges...

Pakistani court disqualifies Musharraf from parliament elections

2013-04-16 09:02:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani court on Tuesday barred former President Pervez Musharraf from running in next month’s parliament elections, derailing the onetime general’s bid for an unlikely political comeback in the country he ruled...

Musharraf tells supporters he has returned to save Pakistan

2013-03-24 05:19:00

KARACHI, Pakistan — As former military ruler Pervez Musharraf stepped off the plane at Karachi’s international airport Sunday, he returned to a very different nation from the one he was forced to leave in 2008 — one that has no...

Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf returns to Pakistan

2013-03-24 01:16:00

KARACHI, Pakistan—Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf ended four years of self-imposed exile and returned to Pakistan on Sunday, hoping to craft a political comeback in upcoming parliamentary elections despite pending criminal cases awaiting...

Pakistani man wanted in Daniel Pearl slaying arrested

2013-03-20 09:27:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A crackdown on Sunni Muslim�militants in Karachi has netted a man wanted in connection with the kidnapping and slaying of American journalist Daniel Pearl, Pakistani authorities say. Qari Abdul Hayee was arrested Sunday...

Attack on Pakistani Shiites kills at least 30

2013-03-03 10:42:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least 30 people were killed and dozens injured Sunday when either one or two bombs exploded in a Shiite-majority neighborhood of Karachi, local officials said. Initial reports said that two blasts had detonated near a...

Pakistan militants kill 5 in attack on tribal official's compound

2013-02-18 06:19:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Militants disguised as policemen stormed the compound of a top tribal region official in the northwest city of Peshawar on Monday and killed five police officers, the latest outbreak of violence to rattle the country as its civilian...

Pakistani men try to extinguish a burning truck set on fire by rioters following a bomb blast targeting Shiites in Karachi.

2013-03-04 00:00:00

A Pakistani man removes his bicycle from his damaged house at the site of a bomb blast in Karachi the day after the attack.

2013-03-04 00:00:00

People gather on the site of bomb blast in Karachi. A bomb attack in Pakistan's largest city Karachi on Sunday killed at least 23 people, including women and children, and wounded 50 others, police said.

2013-03-03 00:00:00