Source: The Christain Science Monitor
Pakistan weighs asking the IMF for a loan, while continuing to battle militants in Swat and Bajaur in the northwest.
By David Montero

As Pakistan’s twin crises – its war against extremism and its wobbling economy – reached new heights over the weekend, Washington dispatched an envoy to Islamabad.
Dawn, a leading English language […]

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Source: The News
DUBAI: Pakistan’s envoy to Afghanistan Tariq Azizuddin, who went missing from Khyber agency, appeared in a video aired by an Arab news channel in which he said the Taliban were holding him.
The kidnapped Pakistani ambassador appealed government to accept demands of the Taliban so that he and his two associates could be released.
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Source: BBC News
Pakistan’s foreign office has denied suggestions that the timing of a visit by top US diplomats is unusual.
US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher arrived in Pakistan early Tuesday.
It was the same day that the new PM, Yusuf Raza Gillani, was sworn in.
Pakistan is a key […]

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Source: Reuters
By Augustine Anthony
ISLAMABAD, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities said on Tuesday they didn’t know whether their ambassador to Afghanistan had been kidnapped, a day after he went missing in a Pakistani tribal region plagued by bandits and militants.
Ambassador Tariq Azizuddin was on his way to Kabul from the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar […]

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