Source: BBC News
US Gen David Petraeus is due to meet Pakistan’s army chief on his first visit to the country since becoming head of US Central command.
The trip comes amid tensions between Islamabad and Washington over US missile strikes on suspected Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan.
Last Friday Gen Petraeus took control of US military operations […]

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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: The News
By Javed Aziz Khan
10/9/2008
PESHAWAR: Suicide bombers have struck 116 times in Pakistan since the first incident of its kind in March 2002 at an Islamabad church, disclosed data collected by a law-enforcement agency.
It was March 16, 2002, when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a church in Islamabad, killing five people and […]

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The Bomb blast in the Marriot hotel in Islamabad has brought Pakistan to a point which has shaken it from its base. Every Pakistani has been pushed into a maze of questions which were deemed sacrilegious to our nationalism sometime back. But now the answers to these questions are the key to our survival.
 
Why was […]

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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: Newsweek
In the battle against militants, President Zardari is increasingly isolated and besieged.
The security guard on the CCTV screen cut a lone, heroic figure. It was Sept. 20, and the guard stood at the barricaded entrance of Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel trying to douse the explosives-laden truck while others around him ran for cover. Seconds later, […]

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Source: Daily Times
The generation entering professional life towards the mid and late 1990s was uni-focal on Islam and conversant only with Islamic discourse on politics, society and global affairs. They had a natural affinity with Islamic radical elements like the Taliban
The September 20 suicide attack in Islamabad was the deadliest so far by Islamic militants […]

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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: Los Angeles Times
If the country doesn’t crack down harder on Islamic radicals, analysts suggest, Pakistan could crumble into chaos.
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — More than any other terrorist attack in this volatile country, the devastating truck bombing of the Marriott Hotel over the weekend has presented government and military […]

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Source: AFP
LONDON (AFP) — Six Britons were among the hundreds of people injured in the deadly blast which tore through the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, killing at least 60 people, the Foreign Office confirmed on Sunday.
Three of them were said to work for the British High Commission in Islamabad.
There has been no claim of responsibility […]

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Source: NDTV
US President George W Bush on Saturday condemned the terrorist bombing at a hotel in Islambad that killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds more.
“This bombing, the latest in a series of terrorist attacks, is part of a continuing assault on the people of Pakistan. This attack is a reminder of the ongoing […]

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War has come to Pakistan’s door step a long time ago. It is most unfortunate that even till yesterday, many of us denied this fact. Not any more. Not when War has pushed in to our house and is now in our living rooms, in our bedrooms, in our backyards, every where around us.
Pakistan is […]

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We have been saying for a long time now that the so-called ‘Pakistani Taliban’ is a group of criminals and not Mujahideen and their agenda is suspicious. These exclusive pictures, released by BRASSTACKS today, provide the proof. This is the Nowshera boy who was arrested before he could pull the trigger on his suicide jacket. […]

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 This opinion was first published at The WeCite Blog
I’m not convinced we are winning it in Afghanistan. I am convinced we can… We are looking at a new, more comprehensive strategy for the region that would cover both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. In my view, these two nations are inextricably linked in a […]

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Source: The Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants bombed a bus carrying prisoners in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least nine people as fighting between security forces and extremists flared across the country’s tribal belt.
The powerful blast left a massive crater in the middle of a bridge in Bannu and left the burnt-out […]

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Islamabad and Karachi bomb blast – perfect timings – innocent victims – known culprits – Mush & Altaf Husain’s strike on PPP government
Within few hours after broadcast of Altaf Husain’s threat widely publicized on GEO and ARY, MQM terrorists strike almost whole Karachi, news are coming. There is no doubt it is planned and implemented […]

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I am going to try to be as blunt and straight-forward as possible without deviating from the issue at hand (NOTE: I said I’ll try!).
This ‘one sided’ peace agreement with the Taliban holed up in Pakistan’s North is NOT GOING TO WORK!
Unless Islamabad has a few tricks up their sleeves and are earnestly at […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan Monday slashed its leg of the Olympic torch relay for security reasons, a senior sports official said, the latest amendment to the world tour which has been dogged by protests.
The torch, which arrives in Pakistan Wednesday on the first stop in its Asian leg of the tour, was supposed to […]

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Source: Associated Press of Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, APR. 14, APP—The Islamabad leg of the Torch Relay for this year’s Beijing Olympics will be held in a grand manner within the Pakistan Sports Complex on Wednesday. The final plans of the Torch Relay were released to Print and Electronic media at a crowded ceremony here on Monday with […]

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Source: Newsline 365
With the settling of the new Pakistani government in Islamabad the peace process between Pakistan and India will be reopened once again.
The process had come to a halt last year when Pakistan had entered into a chaotic phase. According to the foreign office Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, the foreign minister will visit Pakistan on […]

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Source: Boston
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani police yesterday set up a dragnet after a weekend bomb attack that killed a Turkish woman and wounded four FBI agents among several other people dining at a Italian restaurant in Islamabad.
Investigators do not believe the attack was aimed at the FBI agents, who were among five Americans injured in […]

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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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Source: The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A bomb exploded in the back garden of an Italian restaurant popular with foreigners in Pakistan’s capital Saturday night, killing two people and wounding 11, police said.
It appeared to be the first attack targeting foreigners in a recent wave of violence.
A Turkish woman died in the blast, Pakistani […]

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http://naqsha.net now brings you detailed Pakistan Maps overlaid on Google Maps satellite images. You can view in Hybrid mode (satellite overlay) or you can just see the maps generated by naqsha.net. No pluggins required. City details for Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar. Other cities on the way are Faisalabad, Hyderabad, Multan, Quetta, Wah, etc. Click […]

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Source: The News
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is fast throwing away the public parks to influential people for commercial ventures, depriving the children of lower middle class from recreational activities, and that too in bypassing rules.
The latest blunder in this regard is of the handing the F-6 Markaz Park over to an influential but equally […]

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