Pilot was preparing to land when the plane crashed in bad weather on farmland near capital

 A Pakistani passenger jet with 127 people on board crashed into wheat fields today as it was trying to land in bad weather at an airport near the capital, Islamabad, officials said. Sobbing relatives of those on the flight flocked to the airport as a government minister expressed little hope of finding survivors.

A Taliban suicide bomber has blown himself up near a vehicle carrying a senior police official in the port city of Karachi, killing two people.

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Dwindling crowds have put five-day game in crisis but Pakistan's revival offers some hope

Pakistan's prime minister has sacked the defence secretary, his office said today, in a move likely to ratchet up tension with the powerful military and raise fears of instability in a country vital to efforts to bring peace to Afghanistan.

Embattled President is investigated over claims he sought US aid to rein in military

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari returned home from medical treatment in Dubai to face rising tension between his civilian government and the military over a memo accusing the country's generals of plotting a coup.

Pakistani police discovered drug addicts held in chains at an Islamic seminary that offered rehabilitation services, and said today that young children were also sometimes shackled at the institution.

Pakistan's largest city ground to a halt yesterday, with most residents staying off the streets after its most powerful political party called a strike over the killing of at least 96 people in Karachi in the past week.

rescue workers recover an injured girl from the rubble of a five-storey residential building which collapsed in Karachi yesterday.

At least 34 people have been killed in two days of unrest in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, prompting authorities to call in paramilitary troops.

Police have charged six members of a paramilitary force with the killing of an unarmed man, a government lawyer said, in a rare rebuke to Pakistan's powerful military.

Pakistani authorities are investigating a video that appears to show paramilitary forces shooting dead an unarmed teenager.