Sources: dawn
An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 strikes 35 kilometres west of Murghob, Tajikistan. The tremors are felt as far away as northern India and Pakistan. 2021-02-12
Pakistani authorities announce they have arrested five suspected members of al-Qaeda in the eastern province of Punjab, as they are reported to have been planning an attack on security personnel. 2019-12-27
The Financial Action Task Force, an international counter-terrorism finance taskforce, tells Pakistan to improve its counter-terror funding operations by next February or face being added to the group's blacklist. 2019-10-18
An explosion in the Pakistan city of Multan kills at least eleven people and injures 79. 2015-09-13
Over 200 die of heatstroke in Pakistan's Karachi over the weekend in a record heatwave. 2015-06-22
A Pakistani court charges former President Pervez Musharraf with high treason in relation to the imposition of the emergency rule in 2007. 2014-03-31
"Dawn", Pakistan's largest English-language newspaper, begins publication of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables it has obtained in a deal with WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. The cables show that the Pakistani military asked the United States to increase its drone attacks against insurgents on Pakistani territory, a request Pakistani authorities have not admitted in public. 2011-05-21
20 militants are killed and six others wounded as helicopter gunships pound militant hideouts in Khadizai, Shahu Wam, Kasha and Saifal Dara areas of Orakzai tribal region of Pakistan. 2010-10-29
Three troops were killed when a roadside blast struck a military vehicle in Bara area of Khyber, one of the seven tribal agencies in Pakistan's restive northwest bordering Afghanistan. 2010-09-22
Taliban commander Faqir Mohammed is reportedly killed in a drone strike in Pakistan. 2010-03-6