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BBC News
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The main party backing President Pervez Musharraf has admitted defeat in Pakistan's elections.
The two main opposition parties, the PPP of late PM Benazir Bhutto and the PML-N, led by another former PM, Nawaz Sharif, have a clear majority.
If they f..
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CNN
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf Monday pledged to work with whoever won violence-dogged parliamentary elections as polls closed in a ballot that could prove pivotal for Washington's key ally as he struggles to exert his authority over the nuclear-ar..
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SF Gate
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An express train crowded with holiday travelers derailed in southern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 58 people and leaving hundreds of terrified survivors to claw their way out of the wreckage in total darkness.
The train, which derailed at abo..
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CNN
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Pakistan election officials on Monday disqualified opposition party leader and former former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from participating in January parliamentary elections. A spokesman for Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League told CNN Monday that Sharif had..
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BusinessWeek
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The President declares a state of emergency, but his army is no longer so popular and the U.S. may withdraw military aid
Pakistan's political crisis has reached its predictable zenith, with President Pervez Musharraf declaring a state of emergency on N..
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MSNBC
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Officials at six hospitals in Karachi reported 136 dead and around 250 wounded, making it one of the deadliest bombings in Pakistan's history. Karachi police chief Azhar Farooqi said that 113 people died, including 20 policemen, and that 300 people were w..
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CNN
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Pakistan, a South Asian nation with nuclear capability, says it has successfully test-fired a new missile that "can carry all types of warheads."
The army said in a statement that the country on Saturday fired an "air-launched cruise missile called Hat..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's top court has reinstated the country's chief justice in a move being seen as a serious blow to the authority of President Pervez Musharraf.
Iftikhar Chaudhry was suspended by the president four months ago amid claims of corruption, but has s..
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CNN
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Ten people drowned and thousands fled to higher ground as a tropical cyclone lashed Pakistan's coastline with heavy rains and high winds, officials said.
Navy ships rescued 75 people from four floundering vessels Tuesday and were searching for more boa..
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CNN
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Pakistan's top judge, whose suspension by the country's military leader has sparked a political crisis, urged lawyers to continue their fight to uphold the independence of the judiciary.
Lawyers and opposition figures have staged protests across the co..
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Associated Press
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Pakistan said Tuesday it will plant land mines and build a fence on parts of its long, rugged frontier with Afghanistan to meet criticism it does too little to stop Taliban and al-Qaida guerrillas from crossing the border...
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ABC News
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More than 20,000 supporters of an Islamic alliance rallied Sunday, demanding the government withdraw changes to a controversial rape statute that they say go against Islam...
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BBC News
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Pakistan's national assembly has voted to amend the country's strict Sharia laws on rape and adultery...
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ABC News
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Ayman al Zawahiri was the target of a Predator missile attack this morning on a religious school in Pakistan, according to Pakistani intelligence sources...
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BBC News
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Ministers belonging to one of the main parties in Pakistan have handed in their resignations, just three months after landmark general elections.
Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif decided to pull his PML-N out of the government because of differences over the reinsta..
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BBC News
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The leaders of Pakistan's ruling coalition have begun urgent talks on meeting their pledge to restore judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf.
PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif and the PPP's Asif Zardari are meeting over lunch in Dubai, officials said...
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BBC News
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Pakistan's new parliament has convened for the first time since President Pervez Musharraf and his allies suffered a heavy blow in elections.
Correspondents say the stage is set for a confrontation between President Musharraf and the government.
The..
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BBC News
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Millions of people in Pakistan's largest city have been without electricity, following a power outage.
Pakistan's state-run utility said it had cut supplies to Karachi because the city's power company had not paid its bills. Outages occurred in the mor..
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BBC News
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Polls have officially shut in Pakistan, after a key election which it is hoped will help end the country's crisis.
The parliamentary poll was delayed after the killing of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, and is intended to complete a transition to civ..
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MSNBC
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As critical elections in Pakistan approach, President Pervez Musharraf is increasingly losing support from major constituencies, including his traditional military base, amid growing questions in both Pakistan and the United States about his ability to go..
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