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CNN
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A missile strike in a remote part of Pakistan killed at least eight suspected militants and wounded three others Thursday, Pakistan's state media reported.
The strike happened in South Waziristan, a rugged mountainous region of Pakistan near its border..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, will stand for parliament in a by-election, a party spokesman says.
Mr Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N party is currently in negotiations over joining a coalition government.
His party won the second..
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SF Gate
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Voting in Pakistan's parliamentary election went better than expected, but conditions during the campaign period favored the ruling party, European Union monitors said Wednesday.
"There was not a level playing field. It was a field that benefited the r..
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CNN
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At least 25 students were taken hostage in northwest Pakistan Monday by a group of five or six suspected criminals being pursued by police, police told CNN.
The incident happened in the district of Bannu near the town of Karak in Paksitan's North West..
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MSNBC
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They see they've got real problems internally," Fallon said. "My sense is there is an increased willingness to address these problems, and we're going to try to help them." He said U.S. assistance would be "more robust," but he offered few details. "There..
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SF Gate
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A suicide bomber blew himself up among police deployed outside a court in eastern Pakistan ahead of a planned anti-government protest Thursday, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 70, officials and witnesses said.
The blast in front of La..
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SF Gate
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Pummeled by international and domestic skepticism over his government's version of events surrounding Benazir Bhutto's assassination, President Pervez Musharraf announced Wednesday that Pakistan had invited Scotland Yard to help investigate the killing...
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CNN
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Assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest alongside her father in her ancestral home of Garhi-Khuda Baksh after a chaotic funeral procession and scenes of violence in Pakistan on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of people in the surr..
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BBC News
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At least 38 people have been killed in a suicide attack on a mosque in north-western Pakistan, police say.
The explosion tore through the mosque, near the city of Peshawar, as about 1,000 people offered prayers for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha...
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CNN
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Baton-wielding police fought with lawyers outside courthouses in Islamabad and Lahore again Tuesday, arresting dozens more as they enforced Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's crackdown on judicial activism. With one in four lawyers now jailed and many..
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CNN
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Clashes erupted in Pakistan Monday as former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was deported to Saudi Arabia shortly after returning home from seven years in exile hoping to campaign against the country's military ruler. Sharif was briefly taken into police cust..
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CNN
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Pakistan's embattled president Gen. Pervez Musharraf will not impose a state of emergency -- a move that would bolster military rule and suspend democratic freedoms -- a senior government official told CNN Thursday. The decision comes after two days of co..
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CNN
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Pakistan's armed forces killed at least 35 militants in North Waziristan on Monday, two days after President Bush said he was "troubled" by reports al Qaeda was gaining strength in Pakistani tribal areas. The deaths, in fighting that was still under way,..
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FOX News
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Homicide attackers struck a police headquarters and a military convoy on Sunday in Pakistan's northwest, killing at least 28 people in an intensifying anti-government campaign in the border region long known as a haven for the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
The..
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Al Jazeera
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But the Pakistani leader said he would crush extremists throughout Pakistan and would move against religious schools, like the Red Mosque's, that breed them.
He said the mosque and its adjoining girls' Islamic school had been "freed from the hands of ter..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's army says an operation to flush out militants from a mosque in Islamabad is in its final stages - 24 hours after troops stormed the complex.
Several loud explosions and gunfire were heard on Wednesday morning.
During heavy fighting on Tue..
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CNN
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A radical cleric seized by security forces in Pakistan on Thursday urged armed militants still holed up inside a mosque besieged by government troops to end a two-day standoff. Cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz made the appeal on state-run TV shortly after he was..
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Al Jazeera
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Residents in several cities have protested against the award, burning effigies of the writer and of Britain's Queen Elizabeth.
Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Islamabad, said: "Pakistan is a deeply religious country ... the knighthood of Rus..
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Al Jazeera
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If Britain can give a knighthood to Rushdie, we too have the right to make awards to our leaders and heroes," Ashrafi said.
He said that while he was not in contact with bin Laden, the reward would reach the fugitive al-Qaeda chief "at an appropriate t..
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Al Jazeera
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Attacks on people suspected of spying for US forces have escalated over recent months, with several beheadings reported in Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun tribal areas.
However, no group has yet claimed resposibility for the hotel blast.
Local televisio..
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