Pakistan in News
- Pakistan ordered the deportation of about 50,000 Afghan refugees in an insurgency-wracked tribal region amid a major military offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters. - A suicide bomber attacked a lawmaker's house in eastern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 50, officials and a witness said. - A suicide bomber detonated at the home of a lawmaker in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 30 others, a police spokesman said. - Pakistan denied Monday that it had struck a deal allowing US missile strikes against militants on its soil, after a report quoted the country's president as saying there was an "understanding". - A suicide bomber blew himself up at the house of an opposition politician in Pakistan Monday, killing 12 people and wounding more than 50, including the legislator himself, officials said. - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a a legislator's house in central Pakistan on Monday, killing seven people and wounding more than 50, while the MP himself survived, police said. - A suicide bomber killed at least eight people and wounded a leading opposition politician in the central Pakistan province of Punjab, police said. - For Pakistan, moments of success have been few in the fight in its northwestern tribal area against members of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. - Pakistan insisted Monday it had no deal allowing the U.S. to fire missiles at militant hideouts after an American newspaper quoted the new president as suggesting otherwise. - A bomb exploded at the home of an opposition lawmaker in eastern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding 61, officials and a witness said.
