Islamabad
(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 bee...
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Islamabad (dpa) - A journalist who has been reporting from
Pakistan's troubled tribal region bordering Afghanistan has gone
missing on a visit to Islamabad, media reports ...
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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 se...
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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, officia...
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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 Pak...
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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 de...
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A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 13 people at a hotel Friday after hundreds of stone-throwing protesters clashed with police as the capital's Red Mosque reopened for the first time since ...
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By the time the Pakistani government is done revising history, Benazir Bhutto will have died from carpal tunnel syndrome from waving too hard at well-wishers after a campaign rally — her last...
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Islamabad
BBC journalist missing from Islamabad
