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In Pakistan, police assault and arrest several protestors during a march from Turbat to Islamabad, where around 200 people planned to rally to draw attention to the killing of a man in police custody in Balochistan in November.
2023-12-21

Prime Minister Imran Khan launches the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in Pakistan, with the first dose of Sinopharm's vaccine administered to a doctor in Islamabad.
2021-02-2

Sartaj Aziz, a top foreign affairs adviser for Pakistan, publicly admits for the first time that the Afghan Taliban's leadership is living in the country and that Islamabad has "considerable influence" over them.
2016-03-3

A suicide bomber detonates his explosives near a military vehicle in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing five people.
2014-06-4

The Reserve Bank of India permits Indian investments to and from Pakistan. India's minister of external affairs SM Krishna arrives in Pakistan for a meeting on Saturday in Islamabad with his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar.
2012-09-7

At least 23 people are killed and 60 injured after a bus carrying a wedding party crashes near the Pakistani capital Islamabad. [http:--www.perthnow.com.au-news-breaking-news-bus-crash-kills-23-in-pakistan-story-e6frg12u-1226383707397?from=public_rss (AFP via Perth Now)]date=August 2019
2012-06-4

President of the United States Barack Obama announces in a special TV broadcast that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant Islamist group Al-Qaeda and the most-wanted fugitive on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, was killed on May 2 (Pakistan Standard Time) during an American military operation in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, Pakistan and that his body is in U.S. custody.
2011-05-1

The Government of Pakistan summons the British High Commissioner to Islamabad for a "dressing down" by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi over remarks made by the British Prime Minister David Cameron on Pakistan "looking both ways" on terrorism.
2010-08-2

The black box for Airblue Flight 202 which crashed near Islamabad, Pakistan, is found.
2010-07-31

Heavy monsoon rains delay the salvage of the wreckage of Airblue Flight 202 near Islamabad, Pakistan.
2010-07-29