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Police say an explosion has occurred near the army's headquarters in Pakistan's Rawalpindi city.
Pakistan said Monday it was investigating a group of foreigners — including a Swedish man once held at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay — for ties to al-Qaida after they were detained on immigration offenses.
A terror suspect recently detained in Pakistan is the same Swedish national once held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay, police said Monday. He and others in his group were allegedly trying to join al-Qaida in the country's lawless tribal areas.
Pakistan rejected accusations its army illegally modified American-made missiles to increase its land-strike capability, denying Sunday that it reconfigured anti-ship weapons in a way that could target India.
The lawyer for two Pakistani students who returned home Saturday after being detained in Britain during a series of terrorism raids said they were frequently strip-searched and served tainted food — a claim the British embassy rejected.
A Pakistani court hearing the case against five men allegedly involved in the Mumbai attacks adjourned for more than a month on Saturday without reading out the charges, a defense lawyer said.
Scores of militants attacked a Pakistani security post near the Afghan border on Saturday, triggering a battle that left 18 combatants dead and cast doubt on claims by Pakistan's army to have regained control of a critical region.
Pakistani authorities ordered inquiries Friday into a video showing the public flogging of a screaming woman in a northwestern valley where officials have yielded to Taliban demands for Islamic law.
Pakistanis on Sunday protested a suspected American missile strike that intelligence officials said killed a British citizen linked to a plot to blow up jetliners, saying their Western-allied government must stop the cross-border attacks.
The 12-year-old son of a woman suspected of links to al-Qaida and facing charges in New York was freed Monday by Afghanistan and sent to his family in Pakistan, two months after he was detained with his mother.
An al-Qaida suspect's 12-year-old son, who was taken into custody with his mother and held for two months, was handed over to Pakistan Monday and returned to his relatives there.
Pakistan opened an investigation Monday into the killings of five women who tried to choose their own husbands, after a provincial lawmaker defended their deaths as a "centuries-old tradition."
A junior party in Pakistan's government called Sunday for its main coalition partner to back the impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf, a day after the former army strongman rebuffed calls from both parties to resign.
President Pervez Musharraf may accept the reinstatement of judges he dismissed if the new government amends the constitution instead of simply passing a parliamentary resolution, a spokesman for his political party said Saturday.
A festival that draws thousands to Pakistan's cultural capital to usher in spring by flying colorful kites has fallen victim to the country's violence and political turmoil.
Security officials warned Wednesday that this week's suicide truck bombing marked a dangerous escalation by militants who are now striking across Pakistan. A police report obtained by The Associated Press shed light on how militants are finding recruits outside their strongholds along the Afghan border.
Pakistan's capital was on high alert Sunday and embassies reviewed security measures after a bomb struck a restaurant, killing a Turkish aid worker and wounding at least 12 others including four FBI personnel.
Police detained eight alleged Islamic militants after a suicide attack on a navy college, the latest in a wave of bombings to rattle Pakistan after elections, an official said Wednesday.
The party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto considered Thursday whether to nominate one of her most loyal lieutenants as the new prime minister of Pakistan.
An Indian man who spent 35 years in Pakistani prisons as an accused spy walked across the border to freedom Tuesday, an unconditional release that Pakistan said was meant to reduce the deep-rooted enmity between the countries.
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a naval college on Tuesday, killing four people and underlining the security challenge facing the winners of Pakistan's landmark elections.
An Indian man granted clemency in Pakistan was heading home Tuesday after spending 35 years in prison, most of them on death row, after he was accused of spying.
A Pakistani court on Saturday acquitted the brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a murder case after the families of the dead suddenly withdrew their accusations, lawyers said.
Pakistan authorities put a prominent lawyer back under house arrest Saturday after he tried to visit the grave of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, his spokesman said.
Police on Sunday arrested a couple who are accused of lying to a Pakistani court about the gender of the husband, who was born female and had sex reassignment surgery 16 years ago.
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