by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 19, 2014 | World
Islamabad, AP—Pakistani jets and ground forces killed 67 militants in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said Friday, days after Taliban fighters killed 148 people—most of them children—in a school massacre. Meanwhile, a Pakistani...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 2, 2014 | World
Islamabad, Reuters—Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chaired a joint session of parliament on Tuesday as a deepening crisis over violent protests demanding his resignation prompted fears of army intervention. Sharif enjoys a solid majority in parliament and by...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 9, 2014 | World
Islamadad, AP—A bomb ripped through a fruit and vegetable market on the outskirts of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Wednesday morning, killing at least 21 people and leaving dozens more wounded, officials said. The massive blast was the latest attack to shake...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 3, 2014 | World
Islamabad, AP—A bomb exploded near a convoy carrying former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf who is on trial for treason, but the former ruler was not harmed, a police official and his spokeswoman said on Thursday. Musharraf had survived multiple assassination...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 31, 2014 | World
Islamabad, Reuters—Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf pleaded not guilty to five counts of treason on Monday in the latest chapter of a long-running drama between the increasingly assertive judiciary and its former military ruler. Musharraf faces the death...
