Pakistan Government

Pakistan Suicide Bomb Targets Lawmaker's Home, Leaves At Least 15 Dead

AP | HABIB KHAN | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics


KHAR, Pakistan — Pakistan ordered the deportation of about 50,000 Afghan refugees in an insurgency-wracked tribal region amid a major military o...

Pakistani Government On Brink Of Collapse

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's ruling coalition was at risk of collapsing Monday if its junior partner carries out a threat to quit unless jud...

Pakistan Nears Deal To End Fighting With Militants

New York Times | ISMAIL KHAN and CARLOTTA GALL | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics


The Pakistani government is close to an agreement to end hostilities with the most militant tribes in its turbulent border area, whose main leader is ...

Pakistan Votes; Fears Violence, Rigging

AP | MATTHEW PENNINGTON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Eight weeks after Benazir Bhutto was slain, Pakistan is holding elections that could shepherd a troubled nation into a new...

Analysts: Pakistan Allowing Militants To Regroup And Fortify

New York Times | CARLOTTA GALL and ISMAIL KHAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The announcement of a cease-fire just a few weeks into a determined military operation against one of Pakistan's most wanted men, the militant leader ...