Source: AFP
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan’s cricket team escaped Tuesday’s attack because they left their hotel five minutes late, coach Intikhab Alam said.
“We usually leave the hotel early on the first day because of the toss and on the second and third day we leave the hotel a bit late, so captain Younus Khan decided […]

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Source: New York Times
A new route to take cargo to American and NATO forces in Afghanistan has opened, American officials said Tuesday, providing an alternative to the primary supply route — through the troubled border with Pakistan — as it comes increasingly under threat.
Some of the cargo, which is made up of commercial goods, was […]

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Source: Al Jazeera
Gaven Scovell, a television producer with TV Ten, was at the scene when fighters attacked Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore on Tuesday. He gave Al Jazeera an account of the incident.
It was about 8:30 in the morning, we had come to the ground to check the cameras as we usually do on the […]

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Source: Bloomberg
By Khalid Qayum and Khaleeq Ahmed
March 2 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan’s top economic policy maker said the International Monetary Fund, which gave the Asian nation a $7.6 billion bailout loan in November, had agreed there is scope to lower interest rates.
“We were able to convince the IMF that as inflation is coming down, we are […]

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Source: VOA News
Pakistani officials say unknown gunmen have opened fire on a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team, killing at least five police officers and wounding six Sri Lankan players.
Lahore police chief Habibur Rehman said at least 12 gunmen attacked the convoy near Lahore’s Gaddafi stadium Tuesday with rockets, hand grenades and automatic weapons. […]

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Source: Telegraph
Pakistan has claimed to have defeated Taliban militants in a key border stronghold.
Maj Gen Tariq Khan, the commander of military operations in five of Pakistan’s seven tribal agencies, said his paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) had driven extremists out of Bajaur, where Pakistani forces have waged a six-month long campaign.
He denied reports –and claims by […]

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Source: AFP
DHAKA (AFP) — Pakistan’s 16-day cricket tour of Bangladesh starting next weekend will go ahead despite last week’s mutiny in Dhaka, when scores of senior army officers were gunned down, an official said on Monday.
Bangladesh Cricket Board spokesman Jalal Ahmed told AFP the Pakistani team would arrive in Dhaka on March 7 as planned.
“As […]

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Source: Washington Post
ISLAMABAD, March 1 — Suspected U.S. missiles killed seven people in a Taliban stronghold in Pakistan on Sunday, officials said, while a cleric’s two-week deadline for the creation of Islamic courts rattled peace talks with militants elsewhere in the country’s northwest.
The missile strike underscored the Obama administration’s unwillingness to abandon a Bush-era tactic, […]

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Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Washington is seeking to build the Pakistani state and its economy as a way to wean the country from Islamic extremism.
Washington - In an admission that its dependence on the Pakistani military has yielded few results against the Taliban, the United States is now seeking to change its relationship with Pakistan […]

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Source: The Associated Press
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suspected separatist group holding an American U.N. worker in Pakistan says it will kill him in four days if its demands are not met.
The threat on the life of John Solecki was made in a letter sent Sunday to local news agency Online International News Network. An […]

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Source: UPI
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 28 (UPI) — Protests against a court ruling banning former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother from holding office entered a third day Saturday.
For his part, Sharif has accused President Asif Ali Zardari of influencing Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision. The high court, in its decision, upheld the ban against […]

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Source: Times of India
There is a school of thought which has long argued that the creation of Pakistan in 1947 was a geographical, ethnic, cultural, economic, and political artifice, sewn and held together only by the weak thread of a questionable religious homogeneity, and that consequently the project of Pakistan would eventually be torn apart […]

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Source: Daily Times
*Admiral Bashir says ‘if Kasab did go from here, when he entered Indian waters, where was the Indian Navy?’
* India rejects claim
Staff Report
KARACHI: Naval Chief of Staff Admiral Nauman Bashir said on Friday he had no proof that Ajmal Kasab – the lone surviving gunman arrested after the Mumbai attacks –used Pakistani waters […]

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Source: BBC News
Taleban gunmen in north-west Pakistan have attacked a school bus, killing the driver and injuring three pupils in a sectarian attack, police say.
Some reports say several children were abducted in the attack in Hangu.
Police say the children in the bus were Shia Muslims. It follows the murder of a Shia lawyer in Hangu […]

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Source: VOA News
Thousands of supporters of opposition leader Nawaz Sharif protested in Pakistan Thursday, angered over a court decision banning him and his brother from elected office.
Sharif denounced the Supreme Court ruling, blamed President Ali Asif Zardari, and called for more protests at a rally near the eastern city of Lahore in Punjab province. Around […]

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Source: CNN
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — A fire broke out at a major international hotel in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad Thursday, five months after it was hit by a deadly suicide bombing.
Smoke could be seen pouring from the upscale Marriott Hotel, close to the country’s presidential palace.
Reports said five people were evacuated with injuries following the blaze, […]

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Source: BBC News
Pakistan has announced a “permanent ceasefire” with Taleban rebels in the north-western Swat valley.
Syed Mohammad Javed, commissioner of Malakand, which includes Swat, revealed the deal. But the Taleban say they are still deciding whether to accept it.
A spokesman said they would wait to see whether a deal to implement Sharia law in Swat […]

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Source: Xinhua News
WUHAN, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) — China on Saturday said it would work with Pakistan to enhance the all-weather friendship and multi-tier cooperation to benefit the two peoples and contribute to regional peace and development.
State Councilor Dai Bingguo made the remarks when meeting with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Wuhan, capital city of […]

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Source: The Hindu
Islamabad (PTI): An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale rocked the northern parts of Pakistan and the Kashmir region on Friday, sending people rushing out of their homes in panic.
The quake, which occurred at 8.49 a.m, had its epicentre at Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir, said Chaudhry Qamar-uz-Zaman, Director General of the […]

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Source: NY Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The police on Friday blamed a suicide bomber for a powerful explosion that killed more than 30 people and wounded at least 50 in the Pakistani city of Dera Ismail Khan, according to residents and Pakistani television reports.
The bombing, which targeted the funeral of a Shiite man who had been […]

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Source: Time
There is an old Chinese proverb that says to attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend. On Friday, an old friend is due to come calling in China. Pakistan’s President Asif Zardari will make his second visit to China in four months for meetings with senior political and business leaders. […]

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Source: BBC News
At least 20 people have died in a bomb explosion at a funeral procession in north-western Pakistan, police say.
The attackers targeted the funeral of a Shia Muslim man who was gunned down on Thursday. There are fears Friday’s death toll could go higher.
The blast took place in Dera Ismail Khan, a town […]

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Source: BBC News
The US has expressed concern over a deal Pakistani authorities reached with pro-Taleban militants in the Swat valley in north-western Pakistan.
The agreement allows the imposition of Sharia law in the region in return for an end to the Taleban insurgency.
Richard Holbrooke, US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said he was worried […]

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Source: BBC News
At least three people have been killed by a car bomb which exploded outside the home of a government official in north-western Pakistan, police say.
They say that the bomb targeted a local anti-Taleban mayor in the suburb of Bazidkhel near the city of Peshawar. He survived but several people were hurt.
Officials say that […]

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Source: BBC News
Pakistan has signed a peace deal with a Taleban group that will lead to the enforcement of the Islamic Sharia law in the restive Swat valley.
Regional officials urged the Taleban, who agreed a 10-day truce on Sunday, to lay down their arms permanently.
Once one of Pakistan’s most popular holiday destinations, the Swat valley […]

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