Source: BBC News
An Afghan government official has been kidnapped in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), police say.
They say that the official from the Afghan rural development ministry was abducted in the Drosh area of Chitral - in the north of NWFP.
Akhtar Jan Kohistani is an advisor at the Afghan ministry, and is a former […]

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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: UN News Centre
Hundreds of Afghan refugees set to leave Peshawar in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) to return to their homeland have been left stranded after local tribal disputes shut down a key road between the two countries, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.
Over 360 Afghan families that had been processed […]

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Source: Reuters
By Mike Collett-White
BERLIN - Two new films shed light on Pakistan’s deep-rooted social and political problems by looking at them through the eyes of a child.
Based on a true story, “Ramchand Pakistani” follows the young Hindu boy of the title as he accidentally steps over the ill-defined border between old rivals Pakistan and […]

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Source: BBC News
The governor of Pakistan’s restive North West Frontier Province, Ali Mohammad Jan Orakzai, has resigned.
The development comes amid continuing violence linked to Islamist guerrillas hiding in remote, mountainous villages near the Afghan border.

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD — A top official in charge of Pakistani tribal areas resigned following a surge in violence linked to Al-Qaeda rebels hiding out in the country’s northwest, an official said.
Retired Lieutenant General Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, governor of North West Frontier Province “cited personal reasons behind his decision and President (Pervez) Musharraf has […]

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