Salman Masood New York Times

A suicide bomber set off a powerful blast close to a children's swing set in a public park Sunday evening in the eastern city of Lahore, killing at least 69 people and wounding about 300, rescue workers and officials said.

A powerful blast ripped through a public park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore Sunday evening, killing at least 52 people and wounding at least 200, including women and children, rescue workers and officials said.

A foreign correspondent in Islamabad has alleged in a series of tweets that his house was searched by Pakistan Rangers this morning.

Members of the band, Laal, whose members have frequently spoken out against the Taliban, confirmed that their Facebook page had been blocked.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani fired his defense secretary, a retired general and confidant of Pakistan's army chief, on Wednesday as the civilian government appeared headed for a collision with the country's powerful military leadership.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani fired his defence secretary, a retired general and confidant of Pakistan's army chief, on Wednesday as the civilian government drew closer to a head-on collision with the country's powerful military leadership.

Just a few months ago, Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani ambassador to the United States, brimmed with charm and confidence as he hosted lavish dinner parties for diplomats, generals, journalists and White House aides in Washington.

Taliban insurgents executed 15 kidnapped security troops and dumped their bodies on a hilltop in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, government and military officials said, in retaliation for the killing of a militant commander by government forces.

Pakistan announced on Tuesday that it would not attend an important international conference on Afghanistan's security and development that is scheduled to begin in less than a week in protest over the weekend strikes that killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers.

Pakistani military officials struggled unsuccessfully on Monday to explain how a small team of insurgents managed to scale the back wall of one of the country's premier naval air stations and destroy two American-provided surveillance planes. Before the fighting was over, the attackers had killed at least 10 Pakistani security officers in a gun bat...

The world's most wanted terrorist lived his last five years imprisoned behind the barbed wire and high walls of his home in Abbottabad, Pakistan, his days consumed by dark arts and domesticity. American officials believe that Osama bin Laden spent many hours on the computer, relying on couriers to bring him thumb drives packed with information from...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday upheld the acquittal of five of the six men accused in the gang rape of Mukhtar Mai, the resilient woman who had gained international recognition and emerged as a symbol of the voiceless and oppressed women in the country. A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, led by Justice Shakirullah Jan, upheld a d...

The only Christian minister in the Pakistan government was shot dead by assailants as he left his home in the capital Wednesday morning to attend a cabinet meeting, an attack strikingly similar to the killing two months ago of another senior politician holding liberal views. Shahbaz Bhatti, the minister of minorities, was shot eight times by gunmen...

Pakistan's governing party patched its coalition government back together on Friday, barely holding onto power, but at a price that officials in Washington had feared: the collapse of reforms critical to stabilizing the nation's economy.The bargain underscored an increasingly urgent problem for both Pakistan and its international backers, especiall...

Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China praised Pakistan's efforts to combat terrorism and promised to further advance the two countries' strategic partnership and economic cooperation in a speech to the Parliament on Sunday.Mr. Wen's remarks came a day after China and Pakistan signed $15 billion worth of trade deals, bringing the total value of the agr...

A suicide bomber set off a powerful blast close to a children's swing set in a public park Sunday evening in the eastern city of Lahore, killing at least 69 people and wounding about 300, rescue workers and officials said.

A powerful blast ripped through a public park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore Sunday evening, killing at least 52 people and wounding at least 200, including women and children, rescue workers and officials said.

A foreign correspondent in Islamabad has alleged in a series of tweets that his house was searched by Pakistan Rangers this morning.

Members of the band, Laal, whose members have frequently spoken out against the Taliban, confirmed that their Facebook page had been blocked.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani fired his defense secretary, a retired general and confidant of Pakistan's army chief, on Wednesday as the civilian government appeared headed for a collision with the country's powerful military leadership.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani fired his defence secretary, a retired general and confidant of Pakistan's army chief, on Wednesday as the civilian government drew closer to a head-on collision with the country's powerful military leadership.

Just a few months ago, Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani ambassador to the United States, brimmed with charm and confidence as he hosted lavish dinner parties for diplomats, generals, journalists and White House aides in Washington.

Taliban insurgents executed 15 kidnapped security troops and dumped their bodies on a hilltop in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, government and military officials said, in retaliation for the killing of a militant commander by government forces.

Pakistan announced on Tuesday that it would not attend an important international conference on Afghanistan's security and development that is scheduled to begin in less than a week in protest over the weekend strikes that killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers.

Pakistani military officials struggled unsuccessfully on Monday to explain how a small team of insurgents managed to scale the back wall of one of the country's premier naval air stations and destroy two American-provided surveillance planes. Before the fighting was over, the attackers had killed at least 10 Pakistani security officers in a gun bat...

The world's most wanted terrorist lived his last five years imprisoned behind the barbed wire and high walls of his home in Abbottabad, Pakistan, his days consumed by dark arts and domesticity. American officials believe that Osama bin Laden spent many hours on the computer, relying on couriers to bring him thumb drives packed with information from...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday upheld the acquittal of five of the six men accused in the gang rape of Mukhtar Mai, the resilient woman who had gained international recognition and emerged as a symbol of the voiceless and oppressed women in the country. A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, led by Justice Shakirullah Jan, upheld a d...

The only Christian minister in the Pakistan government was shot dead by assailants as he left his home in the capital Wednesday morning to attend a cabinet meeting, an attack strikingly similar to the killing two months ago of another senior politician holding liberal views. Shahbaz Bhatti, the minister of minorities, was shot eight times by gunmen...

Pakistan's governing party patched its coalition government back together on Friday, barely holding onto power, but at a price that officials in Washington had feared: the collapse of reforms critical to stabilizing the nation's economy.The bargain underscored an increasingly urgent problem for both Pakistan and its international backers, especiall...

Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China praised Pakistan's efforts to combat terrorism and promised to further advance the two countries' strategic partnership and economic cooperation in a speech to the Parliament on Sunday.Mr. Wen's remarks came a day after China and Pakistan signed $15 billion worth of trade deals, bringing the total value of the agr...