Source: CNN
(CNN) — CNN’s Larry King spoke with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday for Larry King Live. Below is a full transcript of the interview.
Larry King: It’s a privilege to welcome to Larry King Live the president of Pakistan, from his office in Islamabad, President Asif Ali Zardari. He took office in September.
He’s […]

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Source: The Boston Globe
IF THE twin towers of the World Trade Center seemed to symbolize New York, how much more does the storied Taj Mahal hotel, with its overwrought architecture and mock Mughal flourishes, symbolize the great, rambling city of Bombay, which the Indians now call Mumbai.
When it was built in 1903 - the dream […]

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Source: BBC News
Political leaders in Pakistan have joined forces to condemn the attacks in Mumbai but rejected “hasty allegations” made against their country.
The resolution concluded a meeting of the leaders of nearly all Pakistan’s parties and was a rare example of unity among fractious politicians.
The resolution said they shared India’s grief after the Mumbai attacks.
India […]

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This august House expresses strong displeasure, resentment and condemnation over the ruthless killing of more than 172 innocents persons and injuring of a lot more of them in the recent terrorist attacks on Mumbai hotels.
This House expresses all its sympathies with the family members of all those who were either killed or injured or suffered […]

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Source: BBC News
Nadene Ghouri laments the collapse of Pakistan’s most famous tourist destination while spending time as the only guest in a 50 room luxury hotel.
A valley as green as the emeralds that lie beneath the mountains. Cold and clear rivers flowing from the snow-capped peaks of the Hindu Kush. A brilliant blue sky - […]

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Source: Arabian Business
The worsening security situation and a deepening financial crisis are continuing to cause pain and panic in Pakistan, the world’s sixth most populous country. Arabian Business reports on the implications for Gulf investors in the country.
When Benazir Bhutto was assassinated last year, the economic fault lines began to widen in Pakistan. Nearly a […]

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Source: Chicago Tribune
A group of Pakistani-Americans and anti-war activists delivered a letter Thursday to the Chicago office of Sen. Barack Obama, calling on him to cool political rhetoric about bombing targets in Pakistan.
“We are particularly concerned with your public pronouncements earlier this week in support of violating the borders of our ally, the country of […]

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Source: BloombergOct. 9 (Bloomberg) — An explosion rocked a police complex in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, GEO television reported. The explosion was heard across the city.
More than 2,000 people were killed in Pakistan last year in terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings that the government blames on militants who oppose the country’s support for the U.S.-led […]

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Source: Seattle Times
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — War has come to Pakistan, not just as terrorist bombings, but as full-scale battles, leaving Pakistanis angry and dismayed as the dead, wounded and displaced turn up on their doorstep.
An estimated 250,000 people have now fled the gunship helicopters, jets, artillery and mortar fire of the Pakistani army, and the […]

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Source: The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — The United Nations raised its security level for the Pakistani capital after the Sept. 20 truck bombing of Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel, U.N. officials said Thursday.
The move underlines the deteriorating situation in Pakistan, which is under intense U.S. pressure to combat Islamic militants behind rising attacks at home and […]

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Source: The Australian

A FULL-SCALE emergency was sounded at Islamabad’s international airport last night as the al-Qa’ida-linked organisation responsible for bombing Pakistan’s Marriott hotel vowed to launch even bigger attacks.
In a mobile phone message in English sent to reporters, theal-Qa’ida-linked Fidayeen-al-Islam - “Islamic commandos” - warned that “all those who facilitate Americans and NATO crusaders […]

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Source: USA Today
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan on Sunday rejected a U.S. offer to help investigate the weekend suicide bombing that killed at least 53 people and destroyed the Islamabad Marriott, this capital city’s best-known hotel.
“We do not need help. We are competent. We reject it,” Interior Ministry adviser Rehman Malik told reporters Sunday after the […]

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Source: The Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Three British Muslims with ties to Pakistan were found guilty Monday of conspiracy to murder in a terrorist bombing campaign but jurors failed to reach a verdict on whether they plotted to blow up multiple trans-Atlantic airliners with liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks.
The failure to get convictions on […]

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Source: Washington post
American Team A Possible Target In Saturday Attack
By Candace Rondeaux and Allan Lengel
Washington Post Foreign Service
ISLAMABAD — Four FBI agents were among 12 people wounded in a weekend bomb blast at a popular Italian restaurant in Pakistan’s capital, U.S. law enforcement officials said Sunday.
The attack Saturday occurred on the garden patio of Luna […]

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There has been a fresh bomb blast in Peshawar today (Wednesday) afternoon! It is unconfirmed if the blast was a suicide bombing or a remote detonation, but it has caused sustainable damage, causing the Gareebabad bridge to collapse! There are no reports about casualties as yet.

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Source: Daily Times
WASHINGTON: Pakistan came up again as Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama sparred with each other in their last debate on Monday night, six days before the crucial Texas and Ohio primaries. If Clinton loses those two states, she is out of the race for her party’s presidential nomination.
Clinton said, “Senator Obama … last […]

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Source: Rise of Pakistan
By Misha Rehman
In the aftermath of the bomb blast in Lahore, where do we stand in our own country?
For some like Marx, history is a linear progression-from feudalism to capitalism and so on. For the colonizers and now imperialists, man evolved from savages to barbarians to the civilized. Darwin spoke of mankind […]

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Source: AFP
RAWALPINDI — Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide attack on Thursday, just two months after the former premier returned from exile for a political comeback.
Bhutto, a two-time former prime minister, had just addressed a campaign rally for next month’s parliamentary elections when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside […]

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Source: Herald Tribune
QUETTA, Pakistan: A roadside bomb went off near a vehicle carrying supporters of a ruling party candidate in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing two men and wounding five others, police said.
The men were driving to the election office of Tariq Masori, who is seeking a seat in the provincial legislature, when the blast […]

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Source: The New York Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least five soldiers and two suicide bombers were killed Thursday in Quetta, a city in southwestern Pakistan, when the bombers struck a military checkpoint, military officials said.
At least 18 people were wounded in the late- day explosions.
Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan Province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, […]

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Source: VOA News
Pakistani police say a burka-clad suicide bomber blew herself up near a Christian school in the northwestern city of Peshawar Tuesday.
Authorities said the woman was killed, but there were no other casualties. They said it was the first suicide bombing by a woman in Pakistan.

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