Source: Reuters
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security agencies Saturday arrested a senior Afghan Taliban official who had been released from prison in Afghanistan in 2007 in exchange for a kidnapped Italian journalist, intelligence officials said.
Ustad Yasar, who headed a Taliban information wing, was arrested in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, they said.
“Our security forces […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
Sources close to Dr. Riaz report that there is tremendous pressure being applied on Mubina Police Station to arrest Professor Dr. Riaz today on the FIR # 73/08 [Riaz Ahmed vs Anwar ul Haq] the charges are Pakistan Penal Code 337-4F, 2B-R, 353, 186.
The DG Rangers is reported to have said that his […]

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Source: Times Online
FRIENDS of Rashid Rauf, the man wanted in Britain for last year’s Al-Qaeda plot to blow up transatlantic airliners, believe that he did not escape from custody last weekend but was kidnapped by Pakistan’s military intelligence agency (ISI). They fear he may be shot.

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Source: The Emergency Times

By Ahmed S.

Out of all the protests I went to, i think this was the best one. It had everything we needed: a crowd full of enthusiasm, media brimming with fervor and a spirit never seen before. Aitzaz was picked up from the motorway on his way to Islamabad. He was beaten […]

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Two students of FAST-NU along with 10 other civil society activists, were arrested from House of Justice Siddiqui (Tolington Road GOR) where they were participating in the vigil.
After the arrests about 80 to 120 protesters (Students and other civil society members) gathered in front of Race Course Police Station near China Chowk. They started protesting […]

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Hello everyone,
 My name is Natasha Fatah, I’m a radio producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto. I work for a national radio current affairs program that is heard throughout Canada and the United States.
 I would like to speak to people who attended the student demonstration today, and who witnessed Imran Khan getting arrested. 
If you were […]

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Source: Aaj TV News
ISLAMABAD (2007-11-13 14:17:48) :
Interior Ministry of Pakistan said on Tuesday denied reports it was planning to forcibly remove opposition leader and PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto from house arrest in Lahore and fly her back to her home city.
“There is no truth in the reports that Benazir Bhutto is being shifted to Karachi […]

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Friday November 9, 2007
Benazir Bhutto spoke to reporters today outside her house in Islamabad, Pakistan.

 
Photo: Tomas Munita for The New York Times

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