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A look at some recent major attacks in Pakistan or blamed on Pakistan-based militants:
A United Nations investigation into the killing of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will expose her assassins "and bring them to justice," the organization's chief said Wednesday.
The teenage daughter of slain Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto has found an unusual way to honor her late mother — by placing a rap song on the video Web site YouTube.
Wailing and beating their chests, tens of thousands of people paid homage to Benazir Bhutto Saturday on the one-year anniversary of her assassination — an event that dashed U.S. hopes the moderate Muslim politician would regain power and galvanize the campaign against al-Qaida.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized the governments of Myanmar and Zimbabwe Wednesday and said a year of multiple crises has put human rights on trial.
Countries attending a U.N. interfaith conference Thursday rejected the use of religion to justify acts of terrorism and other violence that kills and injures innocent civilians.
Repeatedly paying homage to his assassinated wife, new President Asif Ali Zardari declared Tuesday that he has a comprehensive plan to fight terrorism and said Pakistan's people are behind him.
Benazir Bhutto's widower swept Pakistan's presidential election on Saturday, offering hope for stability to a nuclear-armed country feeling intense U.S. pressure to crack down on Islamic militants.
The likely next president of unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan following Saturday's election is a horse-loving aristocrat who has spent more years in prison than in politics — a novice leader lifted to prominence by his marriage to Benazir Bhutto and propelled into power by her murder.
The death toll in a massive suicide blast in Pakistan's militant-plagued northwest reached 35, officials said Sunday, as the country prepared for Benazir Bhutto's widower to take over as president.
The Geneva prosecutor said Monday he has dropped money laundering charges against Asif Ali Zardari, widower of the late Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto and favorite to become the country's next president.
Pakistan's ruling coalition teetered on the brink of collapse as the two main partners squabbled over a successor to ousted President Pervez Musharraf.
A major opposition party on Wednesday backed Benazir Bhutto's widower to become Pakistan's president, as the power struggle following the resignation of Pervez Musharraf intensified.
A lawyer for an alleged al-Qaida-linked militant said Wednesday that he asked a court to halt the sale of a book by slain ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto that he claims defames his client.
The U.N. chief has agreed to Pakistan's request to establish an independent commission that will investigate the killing of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called Saturday for his country's thousands of death sentences to be commuted to life in prison as part of a birthday tribute to slain leader Benazir Bhutto.
Pakistani officials commemorated Benazir Bhutto's birthday Saturday with plans to rename an airport after the slain former prime minister, build a monument on the site of her assassination and grant clemency to thousands of death row inmates.
A suicide car bomber hit a convoy of international soldiers in Kabul on Thursday, killing three Afghans caught in the blast, police said.
A lawyer says a Pakistani court has cleared the widower of slain ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of charges of smuggling artifacts.
A spokesman for Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says Sharif will run for parliament in June.
Pakistan's deposed chief justice claimed Tuesday that he was still the legal head of the Supreme Court and hailed the election defeat of President Pervez Musharraf's allies as the end of "one-man rule."
A man with suspected links to a suicide bombing that killed 150 people at a rally last year for Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was ordered freed from custody Wednesday for lack of evidence, an investigator said.
A prosecutor says a Pakistani court has acquitted the widower of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in the murder of a retired judge.
Pakistan's new prime minister vowed Saturday to make the war on terror his No. 1 priority, but said peace talks and aid programs could be more effective than weapons in fighting militancy in tribal areas along the Afghan border.
Legislators elected Pakistan's first female speaker of parliament Wednesday, seating a follower — and lookalike — of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Israel, Pakistan and USWhen waging war "by way of deception," the motto of Israel's Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe.
Israel's Role In Destabilizing PakistanWhen waging war "by way of deception," the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe.
The Predator WarOn August 5th, officials at the Central Intelligence Agency, in Langley, Virginia, watched a live video feed relaying closeup footage of one of the most wanted terrorists in Pakistan.
Blackwater involved in Bhutto and Hariri hits: former Pakistani army chiefTEHRAN - Pakistan's former chief of army staff, General Mirza Aslam Beg (ret.), has said the U.S. private security company Blackwater was directly involved in the assassinations of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
Ghostly visage of Usama bin LadenGerald Feierstein, US 'missionary' for Pakistan recently repeated the statement that 'ghostly visage' of Usama bin Laden was eluding the justice in tribal regions of Pakistan.
Member of a DC-based Baluch group has accused former dictator and coup leader General Pervez Musharraf for being responsible for killing civilian leaders in Pakistan.
Militant's death exposes army's jihadist sideTelltale details of nexus between militants and Pakistan army are emerging with the profiling of Al-Qaeda-linked militant Ilyas Kashmiri in the media after his reported death in a US drone strike in North Waziristan a few days ago.
Zardari rejects Obama's AfPak strategy ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has rejected the Obama administration's strategy of linking the policy on Pakistan and Afghanistan in an effort to end a Taliban insurgency and bring stability to the region.
Bhutto had asked PAF to be ready to attack India's N-sites: BegIslamabad: Slain former premier Benazir Bhutto had directed the Pakistan Air Force to be ready to attack India's nuclear facilities in case Pakistan's atomic installations were targeted in 1990, former army chief Gen Mirza Aslam Beg has claimed.
Were Pakistanis Deceived By A Politicized Supreme Court?In 2007 Condi Rice, Richard Boucher and British diplomat Mark Lyall Grant created a law called NRO to whitewash the illegal wealth of Benazir Bhutto, Asif Zardari and many other Pakistanis to help them come to power.
'Imran, Benazir had a roaring affair at Oxford'LONDON: The author of a new biography on Imran Khan claims that the cricketer-turned-politician was romantically involved with slain Pakistan PM Bhutto became infatuated with Khan, and the pair enjoyed a 'close' and possibly 'sexual' relationship, says a book.
DAWN.COM | Entertainment | Singer forces PIA flight back to airportYou know how there are some people you could be on a trip with, who go all nuts and make you turn the car around because they forgot one little thing? Well here's one Pakistani singer who forced an airplane to turn around with her tantrums!
High-profile victories in the battle against terrorIt was around 1am on Wednesday and Pakistan's most wanted man had taken the risk of spending the night at the house of a close relative.
Mehsud's Death: One Small Step For Obama, One Giant Leap For CIA?The most wanted terrorist in Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, is most likely in repose, the result of a successful jointed intelligence operation mounted by the U.S. Air Force equipment, the CIA operations officers and Pakistan's ISI.
Terrorist Baitullah Mehsud laid to rest in Nagosa after US strike - his wife and bodyguards also killedISLAMABAD/WANA: Supreme Commander banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Baitullah Mehsud was killed along with his wife and bodyguards in a drone strike two days ago in Ladha area of South Waziristan
Obama, corruption help Taliban: Bhutto heiressGrand daughter and rightful heir to the Bhutto throne, writer and poetess Fatima Bhutto, says President Barack Obama's Af-Pak policies leads to bolstering the Taliban support base in Pakistan. The Bhutto dynasty has seen two premiers and four deaths in three and half decades.
Armageddon in IslamabadTHE ORIGINS of today's crisis of course lie in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The modern global jihad began in the Afghan refugee camps of Pakistan's frontier lands along the one-thousand-five-hundred-mile border between the two countries.
A Dirty American Game In PakistanUS weapons have mysteriously landed in the hands of terrorists in Pakistan. Now we have the Al Qaeda leadership freely accessing the foreign media in Afghanistan saying it would use Pakistani nukes against America.
Cantonment in Swat imperative!On website pkpolitics.com, Ibrahim M Khalil in his article captioned 'Cantonment in Swat' has criticized the decision to establish cantonment in Swat. He started his article with joke denigrating and making mockery of Pakistan's institutions. It was indeed in bad taste.
Israeli & Indian Worries over Obam's Shift US President Barack Obama recently carried out visit of various Arab countries and tried to restore American image in the eyes of public by speaking against the Bush Policies towards Iran and Iraq. His major focus during the visit remained towards Palestine, Israel, Iraq and Iran.
U.N to investigate assassination of Benazir BhuttoAn independent commission will start investigating the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in July, the United Nations has announced.
Family Entertainment: In India, dynasty politics is strangling democracy Last night, my friends and I drank a toast to the late Benazir Bhutto. Some ten years ago in London, Ms Bhutto had asked me why I was returning to India after working abroad for so many years.
Pakistan and the bombThe above title is the latest article in "The Wall Street Journal" by Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer, who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, has been a senior advisor to three US Presidents on Middle East and South Asian issues and chaired President Obama's stra …
Pakistan's nukes are safe, says Canadian reportOTTAWA -- Security around Pakistan's nuclear weapons is "credible" and the threat of them falling into the hands of terrorists or rogue army commanders is remote, Canadian military analysts have concluded...
UPDATE: Hersh did not say Cheney ordered Bhutto assassination; WSJ, American Spectator Linked Phoney ReportsIn a telephone conversation with RAW STORY, Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh refuted reports that he told an Arab television network former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
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