A man sprays insect repellant over the tents and people at the Sheikh Yasin refugee camp at Mardan in northwest Pakistan on Monday. More than 1 million Pakistanis have fled the fighting between the Pakistani army and Taliban militants in the Swat Valley. An estimated 100,000 refugees are living in camps in or near Mardan, which is south of the battle zone. ...more

May 19, 2009

A suicide bomber pretending to need help with his car killed 34 people in northwest Pakistan while the target of another recent attack, the Marriott in Islamabad, partially reopened three months after a brazen truck bombing at the luxury hotel left 54 dead. ...more

December 29, 2008

Pakistan told India on Saturday that it does not want war and is committed to fighting terrorism - a move apparently aimed at reducing tensions after Pakistan moved troops toward their shared border. ...more

December 28, 2008

Pakistani investigators combed through the charred wreckage of the Marriott Hotel here Sunday in search of clues to who was behind a suicide bombing that killed at least 53 people, including two members of the U.S. military. ...more

September 22, 2008

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto is likely to further complicate business relations between the United States and Pakistan, which is already a major manufacturer of clothing and has been pushing for deeper private-sector ties. ...more

December 28, 2007

A resurgent al-Qaida terrorist network has shifted the focus of its attacks to Pakistan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Friday. ...more

December 22, 2007

A tearful President Pervez Musharraf ended a four-decade military career Wednesday, giving up his army commander's ceremonial baton on the eve of taking an oath as the purely civilian president of Pakistan. ...more

November 29, 2007

The political turmoil in Pakistan is threatening to undermine a new long-term counterinsurgency plan by the U.S. military aimed at strengthening Pakistani forces fighting Islamic extremists in the country's tribal areas, according to senior military officials. ...more

November 9, 2007

Why is Pakistan important to the United States? Osama bin Laden may be hiding there. Intelligence experts say a resurgent al-Qaida and Taliban run training camps in tribal territories along the Afghan border. Their strategists operate openly in Pakistani cities. Also, the country possesses what the West most fears terrorists might obtain: nuclear weapons. ...more

November 4, 2007