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A Pakistan People's Party leader Khan Muhammad Lotani was wounded, his son and a Balochistan Levies personnel were killed in a bomb blast in Khuzdar District. [ 142 ] Four soldiers were killed and two wounded in a Balochistan Liberation Front ambush in Kech District .
The Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing occurred on the night of 20 September 2008, when a dumper truck filled with explosives was detonated in front of the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing at least 54 people, injuring at least 266 and leaving a 60 ft (20 m) wide, 20 ft (6 m) deep crater outside the hotel. [4]
Pakistan embarked on its maiden lunar mission with the successful launch of the iCube Qamar (Moon). 8 May: Six militants are killed in separate military raids in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. [55] A girls' school is damaged in a bomb attack in Shawa, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, injuring a guard. [56] 9 May - Seven barbershop workers are killed by militants in ...
In January 2009, Pakistan's National Security Advisor Mahmud Ali Durrani admitted to Kasab being a Pakistani citizen while speaking to the CNN-IBN news channel. The Government of Pakistan then acknowledged that Ajmal Kasab was a Pakistani, but also announced that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had fired Durrani for "failing to take Gilani ...
Pakistan responded to the attacks by lifting its moratorium on the death penalty, committing more resources to the War in North-West Pakistan, and authorizing military courts to try civilians through a constitutional amendment. On 2 December 2015, Pakistan hanged four militants involved in the Peshawar massacre.
Early Sunday morning Pervez Musharraf addressed Pakistan for the first time since declaring the state of emergency [32] in a speech broadcast on state-run PTV. The following is a translation of Musharraf's speech from the original Urdu: [33] Today I make this address because our country is at a dangerous juncture, facing a national crisis.
Pakistan owes US$7.541 billion to Paris Club, US$38.813 billion to multilateral donors, US$7.596 billion to International Monetary Fund, and US$7.8 billion to international bonds such as Eurobonds, and Sukuks. [14] According to a report by AidData, Pakistan's total external debt owed to China amounted to $68.91 billion as of November 2023. [13]
The 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan (also known as the Salala incident, Salala attack or 26/11 attacks) [5] [6] was a border skirmish that occurred when United States-led NATO forces engaged Pakistani security forces at two Pakistani military checkposts along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border on 26 November 2011, with both sides later claiming that the other had fired first. [7]