Pakistan braces for Taliban backlash after arrest
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Pakistan braced for reprisals on Saturday, with police on alert for suicide attacks in the city where a senior Taliban leader was captured this week.
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Pakistan has accused a radical group and a Taliban leader. Did they act on their own, on al Qaeda's orders or with elements of the government?
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Close to 300 Pakistani soldiers and officers have been held captive for four days after they were seized by pro-Taliban militants.
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Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif was arrested and taken into detention on Monday about three hours after arriving home from exile vowing to challenge President Pervez Musharraf.
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Sympathy vote for Pakistan People's party expected to give it the edge in election beset by worries of attacks
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Police were on red alert in the southern city of Karachi yesterday, fearing a militant backlash after a top Pakistani al-Qaeda suspect wanted for two assassination attempts against President General Pervez Musharraf was killed in a paramilitary raid.
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Security forces in Pakistan are on alert ahead of expected anti-government protests on Thursday.
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Pakistani authorities arrest 'very important' suspects in hunt for the killers of opposition leader
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A Pakistani court ordered the arrest on Friday of an exiled brother of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, both of whom aim to return home next week to mount a campaign to end embattled President Pervez Musharraf's rule.
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Pakistani police re-arrested the  husband of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto Tuesday, less  than a month after his release from jail raised hopes for  reconciliation with military ruler President Pervez Musharraf.
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Pakistan appears no closer to crippling al Qaeda or snaring its leader, despite scores of militant arrests in recent months which highlighted
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Hundreds of Pakistanis jailed for fighting alongside the Taliban were released from an Afghan prison Sunday &#151; a major gesture meant to better strained relations between the neighboring countries.
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Pakistan's ex-PM Nawaz Sharif is arrested and flown to prison after returning to challenge the president, officials say.
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Pakistan was poised to lift emergency rule on Saturday, but critics said it might make little difference for an opposition complaining President Pervez Musharraf can still engineer an election win for his allies.
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Hundreds of opposition supporters clashed with Pakistan police Tuesday after a court ordered the arrest of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto&#39;s husband in connection with the killing of a former judge and his son in 1996.
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Pakistani police said Sunday they had busted a gang of pro-Taliban militants planning major terrorist attacks in the country.
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Pakistan says its  Afghan refugee camps are a hotbed of support for a resurgent  Taliban and they should be closed, but it seems no one in the  Pir Alizai camp wants to go home.