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Taliban kill eight in car bomb attack on police chief

19.09.11
A Taliban suicide bomber killed at least eight people in Karachi in an attack which left a crater 10 feet deep.... more

Flooding forces Karachi to halt

13.09.11
Floods triggered by monsoon rains crippled the southern Pakistan city of Karachi today... more

Death sentence over killing on TV

12.08.11
A Pakistani paramilitary soldier is sentenced to death for killing an unarmed man in a shooting broadcast on TV... more

Pakistan troops end siege after Taliban kill 12 at naval base

23.05.11
Pakistani commandos regained control of a naval base today after it was attacked by a team of Taliban militants who killed 12 troops... more

JustGiving's co-founder has good cause to make a profit

16.03.11
A few years ago, I took part in one of those night-time sponsored walks around London. Like the thousands of others plodding the pavements and getting blistered feet, I opened a JustGiving internet account... more

Bomb destroys Pakistan police headquarters

11.11.10
Bomb in the centre of Pakistan's largest city levels a multi-storey police building, killing at least five people and wounding 40... more

No survivors as plane crashes in Cuba mountains

05.11.10
A Cuban passenger jet en route to the capital Havana crashes, killing all 68 people on board... more

DP World says container shipping back at 2008 heights

25.10.10
Port operator DP World forecasts a better second half to the year, with container operations at their highest level in two years in the third quarter... more

Eleven gunned down in Pakistan market

20.10.10
Gunmen kill 11 people in a market in Karachi, raising the death toll from violence in the Pakistani city to 51 since Saturday... more

Pakistan politician was killed by knife and brick

01.10.10
Police find a knife and a brick they believe were used to kill Pakistani politician Dr Imran Farooq outside his London home... more

Stabbed Pakistani exile ‘was victim of political assassins’

17.09.10
Detectives investigating the murder of a leading Pakistani politician in north London are examining the possibility it was a political assassination... more

President Zardari back in Pakistan to face floods critics

10.08.10
President Asif Ali Zardari returns to Pakistan to face a storm of criticism for visiting Europe as his country was gripped by its worst natural disaster... more

Why my uncle Asif Ali Zardari’s rule in Pakistan cannot be trusted

04.08.10
An LSE report on Pakistan's dealings with extremists says President Zardari assured Taliban leaders of his government's support. David Cameron's criticism seems to fall short... more

Foreigners pay a high price for living in London

29.06.10
London is the 17th most expensive place for foreign workers to live in the world, research suggests... more

Fatima Bhutto: Why I'm a public enemy in Pakistan

28.05.10
Bhutto, who addresses the Hay Festival on Monday, says corruption and assassination have stalked her family and dominate her country's politics. Her crime was to write about it... more

Passenger with batteries hidden in shoes held at Pakistan airport

10.05.10
A passenger is arrested at Pakistan’s Karachi airport after electrical circuits and batteries were found in the soles of his tennis shoes... more

Benazir Bhutto's boys

07.05.10
Lydia Slater joins two Bhutto princelings on their new Thames-side yacht to hear the latest twists in the family saga... more

'Suicide vest' explosion kills Taliban in safe house

08.01.10
Eight suspected militants are killed by an explosion at a Taliban hide-out in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi... more

Pakistan allows Taliban rule of Islamic law

14.04.09
The president of Pakistan has signed an agreement to put an area under Islamic Sharia law as part of a peace deal with the Taliban... more

Swann says: I'll pull through for England

25.02.09
Cricket: England are about to discover the true impact of their deeply frustrating draw in Antigua... more

Younis closes in on Lara's Test record

24.02.09
Cricket: Younis Khan is on course to break Brian Lara's world record Test score after cruising past 300 against Sri Lanka... more

We warned India of terror attack from the sea, says US

02.12.08
The United States warned India before last week's attacks in Mumbai that terrorists were believed to be plotting a mostly seaborne assault on the city, a White House official said... more

India demand to Pakistan: hand over the 20 terrorists

02.12.08
India cranked up the tension with Pakistan today by demanding that it hand over suspected terrorists living in the country... more

Stocks slide as Pakistan gets jitters

26.08.08
Shares drop sharply in Pakistan on worries about political instability after the collapse of the ruling coalition.... more

ICC trophy is hit by Aussie withdrawal

20.08.08
With England and others set to follow the champions' lead, the ICC will have to rethink the Champions Trophy... more

ICC Trophy still set for Pakistan

13.08.08
ICC president David Morgan says tournament - now cut to just two venues - will be "safe and secure"... more

Terror fears don't put ICC off Pakistan

24.07.08
England players could be among those to boycott September's Champions Trophy after the ICC decides against moving the two-week event from Pakistan despite security concerns... more

Jailed rapist named as terrorist associate

31.03.08
Convicted London rapist Abdul Makim Khalisadar has been named as a key associate of two of al Qaeda's top leaders... more

Do you want to become a martyr, the al Qaeda chief asked...

31.03.08
Dramatic details of how the al Qaeda commander behind some of the world's worst terror plots asked a Londoner to target the capital in a suicide attack have been revealed... more

Jolie heart-warming

22.05.07
Angelina Jolie is remarkably unstarry in A Mighty Heart as the brave wife of journalist Daniel Pearl, who was brutally murdered in Pakistan.... more


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