Pakistan

A Pakistani court ordered the release Tuesday of a hard-line Islamist cleric because there was insufficient evidence to link him to last year's deadly Mumbai attacks, his lawyer said.

MINGORA, Pakistan — The military lifted curfews Monday in seven towns in the Swat Valley in a further sign of confidence that its military offensive against the Taliban there is making progress, though violence flared elsewhere.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan's defence secretary said Sunday that a month-long offensive to crush Taliban fighters in the northwest could end within days, as security forces hunted down the militant leadership.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani military says security forces have taken back the city of Mingora from the Taliban, calling it a significant victory in its offensive against the Taliban.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for a deadly suicide attack on a police building in Lahore, eastern Pakistan that killed at least 27 -- and vowed similar attacks in other cities.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded on Thursday in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar killing six people and gunmen on rooftops ambushed police as they arrived at the scene, officials and witnesses said.

At least 30 people were killed and more than 250 injured Wednesday when an explosives-ridden car blew up outside a police building in the Pakistani city of Lahore, government officials said.

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided that the services sector and capital gains of real estate would be taxed from the next fiscal year and the existing tax net would be expanded to meet the higher revenue collection target for 2009-10, Secretary...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan's military said Monday it was facing "stiff resistance" as it battled to wrest Swat valley out of Taliban hands, in an offensive that has now scattered 2.38 million terrified civilians.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Security forces in Pakistan have started the "most important phase" of their push against the Taliban -- clearing militants from the largest city in the troubled Swat Valley region.