Fierce gunbattle erupts after gunmen attack Pakistani army headquarters outside Islamabad

October 10th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Firing was heard near the army headquarters in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi Saturday, a local TV channel reported.

October 10th, 2009 Gunmen attack Pakistani army headquartersISLAMABAD — A Pakistani military official says gunmen have opened fire near the army's headquarters outside the capital of Islamabad. The assault Saturday morning sparked an intense shootout that was ongoing Saturday.

September 3rd, 2009 Attack on minister puts focus on Pakistan securityISLAMABAD — Authorities are holding six suspects in connection with an attack that wounded Pakistan's religious affairs minister and killed his driver, officials said Thursday. Members of his inner circle were among those being questioned.

September 2nd, 2009 Pakistani religion minister wounded in ambushISLAMABAD — Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carrying Pakistan's religious affairs minister Wednesday, wounding him and killing his driver. The attack on Hamid Saeed Kazmi took place close to his office in the capital, Islamabad.

September 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Unknown gunmen opened fire on a government minister's vehicle in the Pakistani capital Islamabad Wednesday, injuring the official and killing his driver, witnesses said. Hamid Saeed Kazmi, the minister for religious affairs, was a few hundred meters from his office in the centre of the city when a man fired several shots with an AK-47 rifle at his vehicle, said Jamil Ahmad, a vendor who witnessed the attack.

September 2nd, 2009 Gunmen wound Pakistan religious affairs ministerISLAMABAD — Police say gunmen have shot and wounded Pakistan's religious affairs minister in an attack in the capital. Police office Mohammad Ishfaq says minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi was in his car when the attack took place Wednesday in Islamabad.

August 23rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Unidentified gunmen shot dead two military officers in Pakistan's northwest, according to media reports Sunday. Police sources were quoted as saying that some armed men opened indiscriminate fire late Saturday night on military intelligence officer Aftab Alam and military transport battalion official Ameer Hamza in front of their homes in the military area at Nowshera, a garrison city some 100 km northwest of Islamabad.

August 21st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Several people, including civilians and Islamic militants, were feared killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan early Friday morning, Geo news reported. The suspected US drone carried out missle attacks on Danday Dar Khel area in Miranshah, a town in North Waziristan, the report said, citing police sources who believe several civilians could have been killed in the attack.

July 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Militants killed 18 of their own wounded men whom they could not take along while retreating from an area in the restive Swat valley, the Pakistani army has said. "We have received information that during the clearance of Biha valley, 18 wounded terrorists who could not be taken to safety were slaughtered by their own men on the orders of their commanders," Dawn quoted the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) as saying Tuesday.

June 17th, 2009 Suspect in Sri Lanka cricket attack arrestedISLAMABAD — Pakistani police say they have made their first arrest in the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in the eastern city of Lahore in March. Lahore police Chief Pervez Rathore said Wednesday the suspect was a member of a banned militant organization, but refused to name the group.

June 17th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani police have arrested a man suspected of involvement in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in March this year, a media report said Wednesday. The suspect, identified as Zubair, has been arrested.

April 23rd, 2009 Police: Gunmen kill officer in NW PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Police say gunmen fired on a vehicle escorting paramilitary troops through a Pakistani district recently infiltrated by the Taliban. The troops were among those deployed Wednesday to protect government buildings and bridges in Buner, a district near the capital of Islamabad.

March 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday assured Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohita Bogollagama that the perpetrators of the assault on his country's cricket team would be punished for their crimes. Bogollagama arrived in Islamabad to discuss Tuesday's brazen attack in the eastern city of Lahore where more than a dozen gunmen ambushed the Sri Lankan team's convoy, killing six Pakistani policemen and wounding seven visiting sportsmen and their coach.

February 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leader Sher Azam was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the country's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Sunday, the police said. The leader was attacked when he was returning home after shopping with family members in Haripur City, 65 km north of Islamabad, the police said.

December 25th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a government official and three other people Friday in northern Pakistan, the police said. Abdul Wahid, director of agriculture department, was killed when his car came under attack near Gilgit, capital city of the Northern Areas, News Network International (NNI) news agency quoted police as saying.