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The Pakistani Foreign Ministry reveals that it on August 18 placed financial sanctions on dozens of Taliban members, including chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and deputy head and Haqqani network leader Sirajuddin Haqqani. The sanctions were placed to avoid placing the country on the Financial Action Task Force blacklist.
2020-08-21

Two passenger buses collide in the city of Dera Ghazi Khan, in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, resulting in 19 deaths and 40 injuries.
2018-10-22

Pakistani forces rescue Canadian Joshua Boyle, American Caitlan Coleman, and their family, in the Kurram Valley. The family had been kidnapped by the Taliban nearly five years ago in Afghanistan's Wardak Province.
2017-10-12

Pakistan lifts a three-year ban on YouTube after Google launches a local version that allows the government to demand removal of material it considers to be offensive. Similar systems have existed in China for many years.
2016-01-19

Pakistani police arrest 170 suspected militants following the February 2013 Quetta bombing that killed 84 people and injured another 190.
2013-02-19

Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician who helped the CIA to track down Osama bin Laden by collecting DNA samples from residents of bin Laden's compound, is sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment for treason.
2012-05-23

A U.S. drone attack kills at least nine insurgents in Pakistan's North Waziristan.
2012-05-5

A Christian woman, Asia Bibi, is sentenced to death for blasphemy by a court in Lahore, Pakistan.
2010-11-11

An American claiming to be hunting Osama bin Laden is arrested with a sword, a pistol and night-vision goggles in northwestern Pakistan.
2010-06-15

Airstrikes kill 10 militants in northwestern Pakistan as part of a military operation that has eliminated more than 300 fighters in the last three weeks.
2010-04-11