Source: Times of India
There is a school of thought which has long argued that the creation of Pakistan in 1947 was a geographical, ethnic, cultural, economic, and political artifice, sewn and held together only by the weak thread of a questionable religious homogeneity, and that consequently the project of Pakistan would eventually be torn apart […]

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Source: BBC News
Taleban gunmen in north-west Pakistan have attacked a school bus, killing the driver and injuring three pupils in a sectarian attack, police say.
Some reports say several children were abducted in the attack in Hangu.
Police say the children in the bus were Shia Muslims. It follows the murder of a Shia lawyer in Hangu […]

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Source: BBC News
At least 20 people have died in a bomb explosion at a funeral procession in north-western Pakistan, police say.
The attackers targeted the funeral of a Shia Muslim man who was gunned down on Thursday. There are fears Friday’s death toll could go higher.
The blast took place in Dera Ismail Khan, a town […]

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Source: CNN
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — A bomb attack in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province Wednesday killed a provincial minister, police said. Eight others were injured in the bombing.
The explosion engulfed the vehicle the minister, Alam Zeb, was riding in. Police said the bomb was remotely detonated when the car was driving by about 11:30 a.m.
Pakistani […]

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Source: Al Jazeera
Amid Barack Obama’s inauguration as US president, the war on Gaza and the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan’s media had until recently all but ignored the descent into hell of the Swat Valley in the North-West Frontier Province.
The valley has been transformed from a tourism magnet because of its alpine scenery into […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan: Suspected Taliban militants killed six alleged U.S. spies in a lawless region of northwest Pakistan where U.S. missile attacks have targeted al-Qaida hideouts, police said Tuesday.
Word of the killings came as U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command and commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, […]

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Source: BBC News
Pakistan has approved a long-delayed project to build a dam in the country’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
The Diamer-Bhasha dam on the River Indus is due to cost $12.6bn and take seven years to complete. It is being built mainly to boost power production.
However water from its reservoir can also be used for […]

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Source: Guardian
Man and his driver attacked in Peshawar district where many diplomats and foreign aid workers live
A US aid worker and his driver were shot dead in north-west Pakistan today, police said.
A senior police officer, who requested anonymity, told Reuters the man was attacked after leaving his home in the University Town area of Peshawar, […]

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Source: BBC News
A suicide bomber has killed one person in an attack outside a stadium in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.
Officials said the bomber walked up to the gate and then blew himself up.
The attack happened as the governor of North West Frontier Province left after a sports tournament. He was unhurt but […]

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Source: VOA
Pakistan’s parliament has called for an urgent review of the nation’s security strategy, with an emphasis on dialogue aimed at reducing violence.
In a rare joint session held behind closed doors, both houses of parliament late Wednesday passed a resolution calling for dialogue with all parties willing to abide by the rule of law. That […]

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Source: Reuters
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani judge has extended the detention of a young American man of Pakistani descent for two weeks after he was caught trying to enter a known al Qaeda and Taliban militant sanctuary on the Afghan border.
The man, identified by police as Judi Kenan, was arrested on October 13 while […]

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Source: Daily Times
* Boucher meets NWFP governor, CM
* Assures Hoti ties will be strengthened
* Hoti says no compromise on government writ
* Ghani says lashkars guarantee war on terror success
ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: President Asif Ali Zardari told United States Secretary of State Richard Boucher during a meeting that Afghan drug traffickers are funding terrorists in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas, […]

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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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Source: The Hindu
Karachi (PTI): Radio is serving as an ideal propaganda tool for radical clerics in Pakistan’s restive tribal agencies, and the inking of a peace deal between the government and Pakistan Taliban will provide legal cover to FM stations used by them.
The deal under which licenses will be given to close to 100 […]

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Source: Daily Times 
Plagued by concerns over the teetering coalition at the Centre, and ravaged by the enormous losses in infrastructure being imposed daily by militants, the NWFP government has adopted a policy of least resistance against the militants
According to the peace deal reached between the NWFP government and the Tehrik-e Taliban, the Government has agreed […]

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“The Ismaili Burusho” By Fazal Karim Hunzai
The Hunza valley lies in the midst of the 7.500m high, snow covered mountains of the Karakoram Range, just North of Gilgit, where the Karakoram Highway follows the Hunza River North to China. Local tradition says, that the Hunzakot in the valley: are descendants of ‘ five lost soldiers ‘of […]

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Source: BBC News 
Militants in north-western Pakistan have destroyed a girls’ primary school in the second attack of its kind since Sunday, officials say.
The wooden building was burned to the ground during an overnight raid in the Sherpalam area of Swat district. No group has claimed responsibility.
Another girls school had petrol bombs thrown at it […]

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Source: The New York Times
Elections to fill vacant legislative seats will be delayed by two months, to Aug. 18 from June 18, the Election Commission announced. Election officials said the postponement was necessary because of security concerns in North-West Frontier Province and the presentation of the federal budget in June. Members of the governing coalition […]

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Literacy is the heart and life blood of development. Without it, Pakistan will remain an impoverished and a weak Third World country. If education does not prevail, the problems of Pakistan will reach at a stage which will make this country very vulnerable.
Stastically, Pakistan has made reasonable march since independence in many fields including education. […]

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Source: Al Jazeera English
A relative of a Pakistani Taliban leader just released from custody, has vowed to continue armed struggle for Islamic law in the country’s northwest, despite the signing of a peace accord.
Maulana Fazlullah, son-in-law of Sufi Muhammad, said on Tuesday that his group will not lay down their arms until the government enforces […]

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Source: Boston
GENEVA (Reuters) - Hundreds of Afghans seeking to return home from northwest Pakistan have been stranded because a tribal clash has closed down a road leading to Afghanistan, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.
more stories like thisRon Redmond, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said repatriations along the […]

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Source: Globe and Mail
Democracy is bringing a change in Pakistan that will have far-reaching consequences not just for its people, but for the rest of the world. The forces of the mullah-military alliance have been dealt a decisive blow. However, while the focus thus far has been on the national
elections and the drubbing President Pervez […]

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Source: BBC News
Three Pakistani security forces have been killed in a bomb explosion near a military convoy in the tribal region of north-western Pakistan, the army said.
The blast happened near Khair, the main town in the Bajaur tribal area on the border with Afghanistan.
The dead included a senior paramilitary officer, officials said.
The incident comes ahead […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — A suicide car bomber killed an election candidate and nine other people in northwest Pakistan on Monday, fuelling fears about the increasingly bloody campaign for key national polls in a week’s time.
The blast highlighted the dangers of campaigning in the troubled Islamic republic, with candidates keeping a low profile since the […]

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Source: Unique Pakistan
The United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and Libya will offer Pakistan financial assistance of $130 million to construct New Balakot city planned for the survivors of 2005 earthquake, which flattened their NWFP town, a document says. According to a Planning Commission document, the Libyan government (Gaddafi Foundation), Department for International Development (DFID of UK) […]

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