A senior Pakistani government official says fired Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry will be reinstated later this month, a move with the potential to ease a political crisis in the country.

Pakistan’s opposition leader defied house arrest on Sunday to lead anti-government protests that briefly turned violent before becoming a jubilant show of force against the country’s pro-Western president.

Police fought running battles with stone-throwing anti-government protesters Sunday after authorities tried to detain opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, fanning a crisis that has alarmed the United States.

Police put opposition leader Nawaz Sharif under house arrest Sunday and clashed with anti-government demonstrators, fanning a political crisis that has caused alarm in the United States about Pakistan’s stability in the face of rising Islamist violence.

Pakistani police suspect local militants were likely responsible for this week’s bloody ambush of the Sri Lankan cricket team in the eastern city of Lahore, an investigator said Friday.

Pakistanis and sports officials are asking how the terrorists who ambushed the Sri Lankan cricket team managed to attack such a high-profile target and then escape unscathed.

A referee accused Pakistani police of abandoning the convoy carrying Sri Lanka’s cricket team as a deadly militant ambush began, and video released Wednesday showed gunmen apparently escaping on an empty street as other attackers casually walked away.

Pakistani police say they have arrested “some suspects” in connection with the attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket team.

At least a dozen men attacked Sri Lanka’s cricket team with rifles, grenades and rocket launchers Tuesday ahead of a match in Pakistan, wounding seven players, an umpire and an assistant coach from Britain in a brazen assault on South Asia’s most beloved

A dozen men attacked Sri Lanka’s cricket team with rifles, grenades and rocket launchers Tuesday ahead of a match in Pakistan, wounding several players and killing six police officers and civilian in a brazen attack on South Asia’s most beloved sport.