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Pakistan Plunges Into Uncertainty As PM Ousted

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from public office over long-running...

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Three Strikes For Pakistan’s Political Survivor Sharif

Pakistan's three-time premier Nawaz Sharif, whose power base earned him the moniker "Lion of Punjab", is a political...

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Historians Race To Preserve Dying Memories of Partition

Sitting in her Karachi home, Jamshed Jahan Ara looks straight into the camera as she explains in a trembling voice how...

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Five Killed As Building Collapses In Pakistan

Five people died when an apartment building collapsed in southern Pakistan early Tuesday as most of its residents were...

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Pakistan Frees 78 Indian Fishermen

Pakistan on Sunday released 78 Indian fishermen held for trespassing into its territorial waters, officials said. "The...

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Ronaldhino and Friends Boost Pakistan Football

Brazil's Ronaldinho and a host of other former top footballers played an exhibition match in Pakistan on Saturday in a...

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Pakistan Orders Shell To Pay At Least $2.4m After Tanker Fire

Pakistan on Friday ordered Shell Pakistan to pay at least $2.4 million in compensation after more than 200 people were...

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Bus Crash Kills 11 In Central Pakistan

A passenger bus hit a tree and overturned in central Pakistan Wednesday, killing 11 people and wounding 36 others on...

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Death Toll In Pakistan Oil Tanker Fire Rises To 205

The death toll from an oil tanker explosion in central Pakistan last month has risen to at least 205 people, government...

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Death Toll In Pakistan Oil Tanker Fire Rises To 190

The death toll from an oil tanker explosion in central Pakistan has risen to 190, hospital and government officials...

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Death Toll In Pakistan Oil Tanker Inferno Rises To 174

The death toll from an oil tanker explosion in central Pakistan has risen to 174, officials said Thursday, including...

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Wealth, Poverty Propping Up Pakistan’s Illegal Kidney Trade

When Pakistani authorities burst into a makeshift hospital in Lahore this year, doctors were caught mid-way through two...

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Anger Grows In Pakistan Town After Three Attacks In Six Months

Shiites in Pakistan's restive northwest protested Monday as the death toll from twin blasts three days earlier rose to...

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Pakistan Marks Grim Eid After Oil Tanker Inferno Kills 153

Pakistan began Eid in mourning Monday as the death toll in an oil tanker explosion rose to 153, with scores injured...

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The Worst Oil Tanker Fires Around the World

At least 123 people were killed and scores injured in central Pakistan early Sunday when a fire erupted after crowds...

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Pakistan Oil Tanker Inferno Kills At Least 123

At least 123 people were killed when a lorry transporting oil burst into flames near the Pakistani city of Ahmedpur...

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120 Killed When Oil Tanker Explodes In Pakistan

At least 123 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a fire that broke out after an oil tanker overturned in...

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123 Dead, More Than 100 Injured In Pakistan Oil Tanker Fire

At least 123 people were killed and scores injured in a fire that erupted after an oil tanker overturned in central...

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Death Toll From Pakistan Attacks Rises To 57

The death toll from multiple attacks in Pakistan rose to 57, officials said Saturday, a day after the bomb and gun...