Topic: Islamabad

Accidental blast kills one at Pakistan arms depot

An explosion ripped through a Pakistani arms depot just outside the capital Islamabad on Monday, killing a soldier and bringing down the roof of a barracks, officials said."This was an accidental blast in a unit store of the Pakistan Army. One soldier ...

Blast at Islamabad arms depot, 5 killed in suicide

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An explosion at a Pakistani army weapons depot on Monday was an accident likely caused by faulty electrical wiring and not a militant attack, a military official said.The weapons depot at Sihala, on the outskirts of Islamabad, is near ...
Pakistan on Friday warned its cooperation in the US-led war on Al-Qaeda was at risk after heavily criticising the top US military officer for suggesting it could have approved a journalist's murder.The row threatened to further strain relations already damaged by a ...

Pakistan may have sanctioned reporter's death: US

The US military's top officer said Thursday Pakistan's government may have sanctioned the killing of a Pakistani journalist, voicing grave concern over the attack.Asked about media reports that Islamabad sanctioned or approved the killing of the reporter, Admiral Mike Mullen said: "I ...

Deadly suicide attack hits Pakistani capital

A bomber blew himself up in an Islamabad bank on Monday, killing a security guard and wounding four other people in the first suicide attack in the Pakistani capital for nearly two years.The attack comes with Pakistan on edge weeks after US ...

Twin bomb attack kills 35 in Pakistan

Twin bomb blasts minutes apart ripped through a crowded supermarket-hotel complex killing 35 people and injuring over 80 in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar late Saturday.The attack, one of the deadliest since US Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on ...

Pakistan, US discuss future intelligence sharing

CIA chief Leon Panetta held talks with top Pakistani military and intelligence officials and discussed ways to strengthen future intelligence sharing, the Pakistani military said.The talks were held Friday amid a crisis in relations after the unilateral US raid that killed Osama ...

Pakistan orders probe into bin Laden fiasco

Pakistan on Tuesday ordered an investigation to discover "the full facts" of how Osama bin Laden lived undetected, likely for years, on its soil until being killed in a US commando raid on May 2.Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani announced that an ...

Blast in northwest Pakistan kills five people: police

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber killed five people Thursday in an attack outside a police station in the northwestern Pakistan town of Hangu, police said."Apparently it was a suicide attack," Mohammad Ehsan, a police officer, told Reuters by telephone. "Bodies ...

U.S. must keep strategic ties with Pakistan: Clinton

PARIS (Reuters) - Working with Pakistan is a strategic necessity for the United States, even as Washington presses Islamabad to act more decisively on counter-terrorism, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday.Pakistan had been a good partner in international efforts to ...