A bomb went off outside a Pakistan navy office in the southern port city of Karachi on Thursday, killing at least one person and injuring three others.
Pakistan on Friday dismissed reports claiming Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar had fled from Quetta to Karachi, with the help of the Inter Services Intelligence, to avoid the possibility of being targeted by United States drones."This is ridiculous to say the least," Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit told reporters. He said there had been speculations about Omar's presence in Pakistan 'for years'.
The suicide attack on a Muharram procession in Karachi on Monday, in which 40 people were killed and over 95 sustained injuries, has added to the Pakistan government's woes, as the attack may spell more trouble by igniting massive sectarian clashes.
Nearly 100 people have been killed and 50 others injured, some of them who jumped out of windows to save their lives, in a deadly fire in a three-storey garment factory in Pakistan's financial hub Karachi.
Pakistan cricket team's director Mohammed Hafeez is reportedly making a lot of players in the side "restless" and the major reason behind the simmering disquiet is his tendency to hold "long meetings and lectures".
Pakistan caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Thursday announced a ban on the New Year celebration in the country to express solidarity with the People in Gaza.
Tensions continue to mount on Tuesday with sporadic incidents of violence in Pakistan's commercial capital, even as the Sindh government is contemplating calling the Army to control the recent spate of ethnic and political clashes that has left 25 dead in last few days.
Shiv Sena on Friday attacked Bollywood super star Shah Rukh Khan for raising concern about the exclusion of Pakistani players from the Indian Premier League and dared him to take the players in his team Kolkata Knight Riders.
The Bilawal Bhutto-led Pakistan Peoples Party which won the third largest number of seats in the National Assembly in the elections appears to be split on whether to join a coalition government or sit on Opposition benches.
Seventeen others were injured in the car bomb explosion.
Karachi is considered the safest place by the Taliban to hide in Pakistan. According to a Newsweek report, the Taliban is hardly worried by US' plans to send in more troops to Afghanistan, and believes that as far as they do not foment terror, they can live safely in the city.
In a crucial testimony, the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday told a special court trying the Mumbai terror attack case that Global Positioning System devices used by terrorists had indicated that they had come from Karachi.
Terrorists on Friday targeted a bus carrying a group of people to a Shia religious procession as well as a hospital in Karachi, killing at least 22 people and injuring over 50, in the latest in a wave of attacks across the country.The explosion targeting the bus occurred on Shahrah-e-Quaideen, a key thoroughfare in the city, at 3.05 pm local time.Provincial Health Minister Sagheer Ahmed said 12 people were killed and 50 injured in the attack.
At least 20 people, most of them women and children, were killed and several others injured in a stampede in Karachi on Monday when a trader was distributing free ration.
Newly appointed PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi would be eyeing an assurance from BCCI secretary Jay Shah on India's participation in next year's Champions Trophy in Pakistan during next week's ICC Meeting in Dubai but is unlikely to make headway as of now.
The initial interrogation of terrorists captured in Mumbai has yielded some basic information. According to sources, for some time the directions kept coming "live" to the terrorists in Mumbai via satellite phones
Ever since Headley was arrested in US, there has been a lot of talk regarding the Karachi Project, considered to be one of the most ambitious projects staged by the ISI where it plans to combine Pakistani forces and home-grown terrorists to launch a spate of terror attacks on India, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
Three pistol-waving bearded men stormed a 60-year-old temple in Karachi and desecrated the idol of a Hindu deity, leading to fear among the minority community in Pakistan's largest city, a media report said on Tuesday.
It's hard and it's green and the Pakistan Cricket Board is hoping it will produce a result.
In unprecedented scenes, supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday stormed the Pakistan Army headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi and the Corps Commander's residence in Lahore after his dramatic arrest in a corruption case.
Pakistan would like England play an ODI in Karachi next month despite the bomb blast in the city on Tuesday
Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the captured terrorist in the 26/11 attacks, has revealed that he and the nine other terrorists were confined to a house in Karachi for 45 days, where Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative Abu Hamza taught them how to navigate a boat.
According to a report in the Dawn newspaper, 22 constituencies with a greater number of rejected votes than the margin of victory fell in Punjab, with one each in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh province.
Suspecting that the Pakistan government and the Inter-Services Intelligence have backed United States in its operation against Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, extremist organisations have decided to avenge the killing. There's no stopping the Taliban and more attacks similar to the one at the Karachi naval base are expected, fears the Pakistan media. Tahir Ali reports.
On Sunday, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) formed the committee to probe the explosive allegations levelled by former Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha that widespread rigging aided by the judiciary and the top election body took place against jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
A founder member of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party was shot dead by unidentified gunmen outside her residence in Karachi, hours before partial re-polling for the national assembly seat in the area.
The Sindh Home Department late Sunday night imposed an indefinite ban on pillion riding in the city just a week after lifting it.
"All 10 terrorists have been killed, the airport secured and they were unable to damage any aircraft or installations," a spokesman of the Inter Services Pubic Relations said.
According to the Ministry of Energy, the system of frequency of the national grid went down at 7:34 am local time, resulting in the breakdown.
No one has taken responsibility for the attack.
The IM mastermind's account was created in 2012. Details will be sent to Pakistan to seek his extradition.
A Dawood Ibrahim aide, who is a key accused in the 1993 serial blasts and absconding for the past 15 years, was on Thursday arrested from neighbouring Thane and he claimed that the underwold don continued to live in Karachi.
At least seven persons were killed and 15 more injured when two improvised explosive devices went off in a crowded commercial area in Pakistan's financial hub Karachi on Tuesday evening, officials and witnesses said. The explosions took place near a shopping mall just outside the bustling Hyderi market.
The Bharat Ratna for him comes nine years after the honour was bestowed on former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The two leaders together spearheaded the journey of the Jana Sangh and then the BJP for over five decades.
Meanwhile, the sports ministry has asked the PCB not to offer a long-term contract to its incumbent director of cricket Mohammad Hafeez yet, who came into the role after the 50-overs World Cup last year.
Test venue moved from Multan to Karachi due to 'deteriorating' weather conditions
With Stokes and Brendon McCullum at the helm, Ahmed cuts a relaxed figure.
Political violence has rocked Karachi once again after motorcycle-borne gunmen opened fire in a busy market shooting down 12 people and injuring many others. The attack in the city's biggest junk market for car spare parts occurred on Tuesday night, taking the toll of target killings in the last five days to 55.
Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 150 runs in the fifth and final one-day international to complete a 5-0 series win at National Stadium, Karachi on Saturday.
