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Drug scam: Details of visitors to Gilani's home sought

Authorities probing the Rs.7 billion scam of illegal sale of ephedrine, a controlled substance used in medicines, have sought a complete record of visitors to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's house

‘Malik should step down from office to ensure Benazir Bhutto’s independent murder probe’

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The Pakistan Supreme Court has advised suspects in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, including Interior Minister Rehman Malik, to step down from public office to enable an independent probe into the iss

400 broken out of Pak jail

Taliban militants on Sunday attacked a jail in Pakistan’s Bannu district, freeing nearly 400 militants, including one on death row for involvement in an attempt to assassinate former military ruler Pe

Pak jail break: Terrorist had access to mobile phone, facebook

Taliban militants had stormed the a jail in country's northwest primarily to free Adnan Rashid, on death row for an attempt to assassinate former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, and who was in touch

Pakistan to send Osama bin Laden family to Saudi Arabia

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Pakistan will deport Osama bin Laden's three widows and their children to Saudi Arabia next week after they finish a 45-day prison sentence for illegally entering and living in the country, their defe

Pakistan to deport bin Laden family to Saudi Arabia

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Pakistan will deport slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's three widows and children to Saudi Arabia next week after the end of their jail term.

Their lawyer Mohammed Amir Khalil told the media tha

Send Chisty to Pakistan, Zardari tells Manmohan

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Mohammad Khalil Chisty, 80, who has been granted bail by the Indian Supreme Court should be sent to Pakistan on humanitarian grounds, President Asif Ali Zardari has said in a letter to Indian Prime Mi

Nine Shias gunned down in Pakistan

At least nine people, reportedly Shia Muslims, were killed and eight others injured on Saturday in three sectarian attacks in Pakistan's Quetta city, media reports said.

One incident took place aroun

Bashir new Pak envoy to India

Pakistan's former Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir, who has been part of the post-26/11 Indo-Pak dialogue process, is the country's new High Commissioner to India.

60-year-old Bashir has been appoint

Pakistan releases 26 Indian fishermen

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Pakistan on Thursday released 26 Indian fishermen, including a cancer patient, from a jail in Karachi.

After their release from Malir Jail, the fishermen said the authorities treated them well and th

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