Pakistan prepares for election
Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif enters to a car among his supporters during a visit to the shrine of Muslim saint Data Ganj Bukhsh in Lahore, Pakistan on February 16, 2008. Pakistan has deployed nearly 81,000 soldiers through the region with orders to shoot anyone suspected of committing violence on election day. (UPI Photo/Hossein Fatemi)
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Pakistani authorities have closed Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University and Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta after terrorist attacks killed nearly 90 people.
Police in Pakistan have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of a senior public prosecutor who was investigating the death of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
The Pakistani government can't afford to step away from an Iranian natural gas pipeline because of ongoing energy woes, a Pakistani planning minister said.
A U.S. drone strike has killed at least seven militants in the tribal region of Pakistan, an intelligence official told The New York Times.
The Indian government is considering lending a natural gas hand to the Pakistani government as part of a "test case," an energy official said Thursday.
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif claimed an overwhelming majority of 244 votes Wednesday to be elected Pakistan's prime minister for a third time.
Series of complex issues around the world leave the United States with few good options to help bring any of the problem to a positive outcome.
Pakistan's Prime Minister-elect Nawaz Sharif condemned the U.S. drone attack that killed a senior Taliban leader as a violation of the county's sovereignty.
Members of Pakistan's National Assembly were sworn in Saturday in what officials said was the country's first transition between freely elected governments.
The Pakistani Taliban said Thursday there would be no peace talks with the country's incoming leaders after a top commander was killed by a U.S. drone strike.
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