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Pakistani police have made their first arrest in the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team, and determined that the assailants planned to take the athletes hostage, a senior official said Wednesday.

At least three other people are killed in the attack at a seminary in Lahore. A prominent Pakistani Muslim cleric who had been publicly condemning the Taliban and its reliance on suicide bomb attacks was killed Friday by a suicide bomber who detonated explosives inside the cleric's office at a seminary in Lahore.

CIA Director Leon Panetta said on Thursday the U.S. intelligence agency believes al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan and hopes joint operations with Pakistani forces will find him.

A powerful explosion Tuesday outside a five-star hotel in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed at least 11 people and wounded 55, Pakistani officials said.

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden purportedly issued another statement Wednesday, saying U.S. policy in Pakistan has generated "new seeds of hatred and revenge against America."

India protests that its neighbor is not serious about bringing Mumbai perpetrators to justice.

A court in Lahore, Pakistan, today ordered the release of a firebrand Islamic cleric with alleged links to the deadly attacks in Mumbai, India, last year, sparking an angry rebuke from Indian officials that Pakistan is not committed to meting out justice to militants.

Back-to-back explosions shook two markets in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday evening, killing two civilians and wounding 70 others, an official from the deputy police superintendent's office said.

Reversing a controversial decision, Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled that Nawaz Sharif could hold office.

The Pakistani Taliban says it wants to return to a peace deal that recently collapsed, sparking an ongoing massive military operation, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Pakistani security forces have entered the main town in a northwestern valley where Taliban fighters are holed up, engaging the ...