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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

At least 304 people are killed after five weeks of monsoon rains and flash floods in Pakistan.
2022-07-21

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

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

12.3 million people have been displaced and 11.2 million homes affected, as well as 1.7 million acres of fertile land inundated, in the wake of the monsoonal 2011 Sindh floods in Pakistan. The death toll from the flooding currently stands at 270.
2011-09-13

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

Airblue Flight 202 crashes in the Margalla Hills outside Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard.
2010-07-28