Source: CNN
Pakistan (CNN) — Iran has condemned the kidnapping of one of its diplomats in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, calling it an “act of terrorism,” an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said.
“Pakistan should do its best to protect foreign diplomats and their residential places,” the spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said, according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency.
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Source: News.com.au

Gunmen kidnapped Afghanistan’s top diplomat to Pakistan overnight after killing his driver, underscoring worsening security in the nuclear-armed country two days after a suicide bomber killed 53 people.
The Afghan consul general in the northwestern city of Peshawar, Abdul Khaliq Farahi, was seized after gunmen ambushed his car and killed his driver.
Gunmen opened fire on […]

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Source: AP

Pakistan’s top diplomat Wednesday rejected the idea of any foreign troops operating inside Pakistan, reinforcing its refusal to accept U.S. military aid in battling insurgents near the Afghan border.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s comments during a U.N. Security Council session on Afghanistan’s future could deal a blow to the United States’ efforts to […]

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