Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, acknowledged publicly August 12 that Taliban forces are using Pakistan’s border region as a base from which to launch attacks against U.S. and NATO troops occupying Afghanistan.
“There is support from these areas to Taliban activity inside Afghanistan,” said Musharraf in a joint appearance with Afghan president Hamid Karzai at the […]

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ISLAMABAD: The Establishment Division on Monday issued an ambiguous notification explaining the package and remunerations of the newly-appointed chairman-cum-managing director of the state-owned Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV).
The letter of the Establishment Division bearing No 1/64/2008-E-6, dated June 30, 2008, says that besides the fixed remuneration of the new chairman PTV, any other “financial benefits” are […]

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Source: Reuters
By Sahibzada Bahauddin
DAMADOLA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Angry residents of a Pakistani village on the Afghan border stopped government officials on Thursday from approaching the ruins of a house struck by missiles suspected to have been fired by a U.S. drone.
Eighteen people including foreign militants were killed when two missiles hit a house in the […]

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Source: Telegraph 
Four people have been questioned by police in connection with seven bomb blasts that killed 80 people and injured 200 in the crowded markets of Jaipur in India.
The suspects were detained as police sifted through mutilated bodies and the remains of buildings following a series of bombs, which are thought to have been planted […]

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Source: Associated Press
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Police say gunmen have killed a Shiite Muslim shop owner and two of his customers in an apparent sectarian attack in Pakistan.
Saturday’s attack happened in Dera Ismail Khan, a town on the Indus River in Pakistan’s northwest.
Police official Abdul Ghafoor said the family of the slain shop […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
KARACHI, Pakistan: Pakistani police were embroiled in a deadly gunbattle with gangsters Wednesday in a notorious slum district of the country’s biggest city.
Police in Karachi sent 100 officers and four armored vehicles into the city’s Lyari district Wednesday in a bid to arrest underworld kingpins who have been fighting a bloody turf […]

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Source: The Economic Times
PESHAWAR/ PAKISTAN: Four people were killed and 30 injured when a car bomb ripped through a police station in northwest Pakistan on Friday, ending a month-long lull in attacks, officials said.
The powerful blast in the city of Mardan destroyed most of the police station, wrecked a hotel and several shops, said local […]

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Source: Los Angeles Times
LAHORE, Pakistan — A festival that draws thousands to Pakistan’s cultural capital to usher in spring by flying colorful kites has fallen victim to the country’s violence and political turmoil.
Lahore’s annual Basant celebration usually occurs over a weekend in February or March. But this year, spring came with no sign of the […]

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Source: Bernama
LAHORE, April 11 (Bernama) — At least eight people were killed and several others injured in blast at a scrap market Thursday in Lahore, capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Pakistan Press International (PPI) reported.
City Police Chief Malik Iqbal confirmed seven people were killed in the blast which also injured 20 others at Misri Shah’s […]

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Source: All Headline News
Siddique Islam - AHN South Asia Correspondent
Karachi, Pakistan (AHN) - At least eight people were killed and 15 others wounded when rival groups of lawyers clashed in the country’s southern port city on Wednesday. More than 50 vehicles have been torched in several areas of Karachi.
Gun-wielding men on motorcycles opened fire at […]

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Whenever, there is a sucide attack in Pakistan, Musharaf blindly points his finger at the people of Waziristan or Baluchistan. When people in North West Frontier hold arms against his Un-Islamic idealogies, he calls them ‘terrorists’ and ‘extremists’ and seek the support of ‘Uncle Sam’. When thousands of lawyers and judges ask Musharaf to go and […]

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The ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan is an unending war as its pinnacle where no one is able to surrender. Americans have brought so much carnage that they cannot leave the battlefield untill and unless stability starts to reside in Afghanistan again. Afghanis consists of Taleban supporters and Karzai supporters which includes the Northern Alliance, […]

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Musharraf has brought loss to our country and nothing else. The proclamations by his aides regarding economic prosperity, peace, low poverty levels and on war on terror illustrates a false image in the minds of the people.
According to a corruption watchdog survey I saw on a website, Pakistani public opinion perceived the first and second […]

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TO WHOM IT SHOULD CONCERN !
No Aid to Musharraf’s Dictatorship in Pakistan! No Arming and Training of Tribal Militias! We need funds for working families at home, not for reckless intervention. The United States is bringing Iraq to Pakistan. Modeled on the costly and dangerous experiment of training and arming Sunni militias in Iraq’s Anbar […]

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Source: Xinhua
ISLAMABAD, March 18 (Xinhua) — Indian High Commission in Pakistan on Tuesday said that the hanging of its national Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death for involvement in bomb attacks in 1990,will “impinge on the positive atmosphere currently existing between India and Pakistan.”
“News reports that Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh will be hanged on April […]

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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: 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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Source: Daily Times
* Coalition spokesman in Afghanistan confirms ‘precision-guided strike’ on ‘Haqqani network compound’
* Bajaur tribesmen protest killings
MIRANSHAH/KHAR: Pakistan lodged a protest with coalition forces in Afghanistan on Thursday after two Pakistani women and two children were killed by US fire from across the border in North Waziristan, the army said, AFP reported.
“They fired five […]

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Source: VOA News
At least six people have died in an overnight clash between Pakistani security forces and insurgents operating near the border with Afghanistan.
A five-hour battle erupted in the Bajaur tribal area of northwestern Pakistan late Tuesday night, after a security vehicle on patrol was hit by an improvised roadside bomb. Military personnel exchanged fire […]

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Source: The Associated Press
A look at suicide attacks in Pakistan this year:
_ March 11: Separate bombers shatter seven-story police headquarters and house in Lahore. At least 27 people killed, more than 200 wounded.
_ March 4: Two bombers blow themselves up at navy training college in Lahore, killing four college employees.
_ March 2: Bomber attacks tribesmen […]

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Government officials in Pakistan placed the country on high alert Tuesday after two powerful bomb blasts killed an estimated 31 people and injured 170 in two coordinated attacks in the city of Lahore.
The first blast occurred about 9:30 a.m. inside the offices of the Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency as hundreds of staff […]

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Source: China View
ISLAMABAD, March 11 (Xinhua) — Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a passenger train at eastern Pakistan city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing four people, the state-run television reported.
The gunmen sprayed bullets at a train coming from the industrial city of Faisalabad to Lahore, the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab Province, PTV reported.
The gunmen fled […]

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Dear Jihadis,
Do you think that the suicidal and other bomb blasts in Pakistan can deter the Pakistan government from going after you? If yes, then you are sadly mistaken. Besides the Pakistani army and other forces are there in such large number that ultimately they will prevail over you. In the process you would have […]

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Source: NDTV
After a slow start, voting picked up in Pakistan on Monday but the shadow of violence loomed large with two blasts through the morning in Quetta.
In Lahore, five people including a Muslim League (N) candidate were gunned down in an election-eve attack.
The victims included a provincial assembly constituency 154 candidate from Nawaz Sharif’s party.
Gunmen […]

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Source: Jamaica Cleaner
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) says, in 2007, violence against journalists reached extreme levels for the third year in succession with 171 confirmed deaths, just below the record set a year earlier.

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