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Hyderabad [r]: Add brief definition or description
Islamabad [r]: The capital of Pakistan ^[e]
Karachi [r]: Pakistan's largest city and port, its commercial center and former national capital, replaced in that role by the planned city of Islamabad ^[e]
Lahore [r]: Add brief definition or description
Peshawar [r]: Capital of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province near the Afghanistan border; in the midst of Taliban insurgency ^[e]
Quetta [r]: Capital of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan. It is believed to be the headquarters of the Taliban Quetta shura governing body under Mullah Muhammad Omar. ^[e]

Prime Minister of Pakistan [r]: Head of government of Pakistan, currently Prime Yousef Raza Gilani ^[e]
- Yousef Raza Gilani [r]: The civilian prime minister and chief of government of Pakistan, who took office on on March 24, 2008 ^[e]
President of Pakistan [r]: Head of state of Pakistan. ^[e]
- Asif Ali Zardari [r]: President of Pakistan since 2008; the widower of Benazir Bhutto ^[e]
- Benazir Bhutto [r]: (1953–2007) Pakistani politician, former prime minister and leader of Pakistan People's Party. ^[e]
- Pervez Musharraf [r]: Former President and Chief of Army Staff in Pakistan, who seized power in a bloodless 1999 coup. ^[e]

Baitullah Mehsud [r]: Leader of Pakistan's main Taliban faction, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which intends to overthrow the government ^[e]

Inter-Services Intelligence [r]: The military intelligence and covert action organization of Pakistan; historically contained strong Islamist elements but also concerned with India-Pakistan security issues ^[e]
Jamaat-i-Islami [r]: Pakistan's oldest Islamist religious party, marginal in national politics but more powerful in the semi-autonomous frontier provinces; possibly affiliated with the Taliban ^[e]
Jamiat-ul-Ulama-i-Islam [r]: A Deoband Islamist and Pashtun, although not separatist, opposition party of Pakistan, with its greatest strength in the Balochistan Province and Northwest Frontier Province ^[e]
Pakistan People's Party [r]: Currently the ruling party of Pakistan, a center-left Islamist political party launched by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1967; espoused socialism in its early days, but has since become more populist; has always had strong associations with the Bhutto family. ^[e]
Taliban in Pakistan [r]: Activities of the Taliban movement to take political control of parts of Pakistan, rather than using Pakistan as a sanctuary to operate in Afghanistan ^[e]
- Tehrik-e-Taliban [r]: A Taliban faction, called TTP, native to Pakistan, formerly led by Baitullah Mehsud‎; as opposed to other Pakistani Taliban groups focused on Afghanistan, it calls for the overthrow of the Pakistani government ^[e]