Strains Intensify in Pakistan's Ethnic Patchwork
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KARACHI, Pakistan -- To Khaled Chema, an unemployed 32-year-old living in a sprawling slum of this mega-city by the sea, Benazir Bhutto wasn't assassinated because she opposed extremism and advocated democracy. She was killed because, like him, she was a Sindhi.
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Pakistanis are hopeful about the future and the changes a new government will bring
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Three days after Benazir Bhutto's killing, driving through her home province is a perilous experience. Charred vehicles, felled trees and rocks litter the highway, and nervous travelers paste her portrait to their cars to appease prowling mobs.
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KARACHI -- Authorities say they are turning up worrying signs that a home-grown network of extremist groups is spawning new cells and forming ties with Al Qaeda, three years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks thrust Pakistan into the US-led war on terrorism.
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Pakistanâs recent past is a numbing rush of political scandals and upheavals -- an environment in which a leaderâs clothing decisions would seem hardly worth attention.
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MINGORA, Pakistan  - Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing a tense northwestern town and outlying villages amid fears of a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist militant Taliban-style movement, residents said.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, July 16 â In hopes of restoring a fragile peace with militant groups in the region along its border with Afghanistan, the Pakistani government dispatched a team of tribal elders there today to meet with leaders of the groups.
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WASHINGTON -- With new fighting expected to break out this spring in Afghanistan, the Pakistan government will soon have to decide what it can do about the tribal authorities who have not been living up to their agreement to prevent Taliban and Qaeda fighters from moving back and forth across the border, according to John Negroponte, the director of national ...
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WANA, Pakistan - Pakistan says it has Islamic militants in the rugged tribal belt bordering Afghanistan on the run after a protracted and hard-fought military campaign.
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The memoirs of Pakistani President   Pervez Musharraf have reopened old wounds in neighboring India   and reinforced perceptions of the military ruler as a man who   cannot be trusted.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 22 -- Fighting intensified between the Pakistani army and insurgents in a volatile tribal area near the Afghan border on Sunday, a week after the collapse of a controversial cease-fire.
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The aftermath of killing  tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti exposes Musharraf's difficulties in trying to control the country's volatile regions
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- Three years after the US invasion, Paktia Province and the rest of southeastern Afghanistan illustrate the mixed results of an intervention that ousted the Taliban regime but has yet to capture Osama bin Laden or forge a stable, centralized state to keep out terrorists for good.
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Dec. 29 -- Nationwide rioting brought life in Pakistan to a standstill Saturday and forced government officials to consider delaying next month's elections, as the country continued to be riven with discord over Thursday's killing of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
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Signs Al-Qaeda is regrouping and the Taliban plotting a new onslaught in Afghanistan are menacing the always sensitive US-Pakistan anti-terror alliance with new strains and scrutiny.
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WANA, Pakistan -- Seventeen people, including 12 Al-Qaeda-linked Uzbeks, were killed yesterday in the first reported clash between militants and tribesmen in a Pakistani region seen as a hotbed of militant support.
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No sooner had Spain repatriated a group of African immigrants than overwhelmed Canary Islanders were dealing with more illegal migrants in the shape of 200 Pakistanis and Sri Lankans -- the first to arrive from Asia.