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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 Our correspondent Islamabad A handful of unruly faculty members, along with post-graduate trainee doctors of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences , created unwarranted commotion here Tuesday by throwing a volley of questions at Secretary Health Khushnood Lashari regarding the inquiry conducted to investigate the ...

Pakistanis have been burying their dead in the wake of Monday's attack on a Shiite procession in Karachi.

The mood in Karachi was somber today, with few cars on the usually bustling roads of a metropolis of 11 million.

The bombing of a Shiite Muslim religious procession in Pakistan's largest city Monday killed at least 30 people as U.S.-backed President Asif Ali Zardari warned of a "conspiracy" against the country's democracy.

Britain was wary of exerting heavy pressure on Pakistan not to execute Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the father of late prime minister Benazir Bhutto, in 1979, secret files released Wednesday showed.

Four NATO petrol tankers were damaged and a driver was wounded in a blast on Tuesday in southwest Pakistani province of Balochistan, police said.

This Aug. 22, 1998 file photo, Jalaluddin Haqqani, then Taliban Army Supreme Commander, talks to reporters in Miram Shah, Waziristan, Pakistan.

Pakistan's financial capital Karachi shut down today to mourn its worst attack in two years and count the cost of rioting after a suicide bomber killed 33 people at a Shiite Muslim procession.

Security was tight as thousands of people gathered in central Karachi for funerals of some of those killed in Monday's bombing of a Shiite procession marking the key holy day of Ashoura.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 11:50 am under Pakistan Breaking news Karachi Blast Martyrs Funeral Today KARACHI, Pakistan News: The funeral prayers of the martyrs of Karachi suicide attack will be offered at Nishtar Park on Tuesday as the metropolis wears a deserted look a day after the attack on a mourning procession on Youm-e-Ashur. According to ...

Police have released footage showing the moment a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a Shiite Muslim procession in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Monday.

At least 10 people were killed in an explosion during a religious procession in Karachi, Mohammed Adnan, a spokesman for Pakistana s Cheepa Ambulance service, said by telephone today.

Monday, December 28, 2009 at 5:07 pm under Pakistan Breaking news 30 Hurt in Karachi Procession Blast KARACHI, Pakistan News: A bombs went off in Muharram procession at MA Jinnah Road in the metropolitan, Dozens are feared dead and wounded in the deadly attack.

Monday, December 28, 2009 at 5:11 pm under Pakistan News 20 killed, 50 Injured in Karachi Blast KARACHI, Pakistan News : 20 killed, 50 injured in Karachi blast, At least 20 people were killed and 50 others injured in a bomb explosion at M A Jinnah road, here on Monday.

KARACHI, Pakistan News : 20 killed, 50 injured in Karachi blast, At least 20 people were killed and 50 others injured in a bomb explosion at M A Jinnah road, here on Monday.

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani have called on the nation to draw inspiration from the sacrifices of Imam Hussain to fight terrorism for the sake of the country's welfare.

Two terrorist strikes targeted Shia religious gatherings in southern port city of Karachi and Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on Sunday, injuring nearly 25 people.

Residents stand near the site of a bomb blast, which took place during a procession of Shi'ite Muslims, in Karachi December 26, 2009.

Muhammed Yasin said the military had used helicopter gunships to destroy three Taliban hideouts in Orakzai Agency.

MORE than 5,000 loyalists flocked to the tomb of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Sunday, mourning the second anniversary of her assassination and demanding her killers be brought to justice.