(1998 pop. 529,000). Soon after Pakistan achieved independence in 1947, the idea of the national capital of Islamabad was conceived by President Ayub Khan (1907–1974). Karachi had been contemplated as the capital because it was Pakistan's...

Islamabad (help·info) (Urdu: اسلام آباد) is the capital of Pakistan, and is located in the Potohar Plateau in the north of the country, within the Islamabad Capital Territory, the area has historically been a part of the crossroads of...

A suicide attacker detonated a bomb in a parking area at the international airport that serves Pakistan's capital late Tuesday, wounding at least two police and killing himself, officials said.A security official stopped the bomber, who was on foot, said Mohammed Farooq, a police official...

Police thwarted a suspected suicide attacker at the airport serving Pakistan's capital late Tuesday after a shootout and blast that killed the attacker and wounded three security officials, officials said.The attacker opened fire with a pistol on police who challenged him as he walked in...

Muslim radicals Thursday freed two police officers they abducted amid an effort to enforce a harsh interpretation of Islamic law that has raised alarm about the spread of religious extremism in Pakistan.Abdul Rashid Ghazi, one of two brothers who run Islamabad's Lal Masjid, or Red...

Islamabad's militant Red Mosque reopened Wednesday with a defiant call for Islamic law from its incarcerated prayer leader, nearly three months after an army raid there left more than 100 people dead.Commandos attacked in July after tension over an increasingly violent anti-vice campaign led by...