Source: AP
A Pakistani official says a clash between Taliban militants and pro-government tribal elders has left at least five people dead.
Israr Khan is a government representative in Bajur, a region on the Afghan border where troops and tribal militias are battling Taliban guerrillas.
Khan said Taliban gunmen exchanged fire with tribal leaders holed up in a […]

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Source: CNN
Pakistan’s military discovered the location of al Qaeda’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, recently but missed catching him, a top official said Monday night.
A $25 million reward has been offered for Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second-in-command.
Rahman Malik, the adviser to the prime minister on internal affairs and, effectively, Pakistan’s interior minister, told reporters that […]

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Source: China National News

Two Chinese engineers have been missing since Friday in the troubled northwest Pakistan, an official of the Chinese embassy said here Sunday.
A search operation has been launched to trace the engineers who were found missing along with their driver and security guard, both Pakistanis, the official said.
The two engineers are from Zhongxing […]

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Source: AFP
Two people were killed and two wounded Wednesday when a missile fired from Afghanistan landed near a border post in a Pakistani tribal area, a senior security official said.
It was not clear if the missile that hit the troubled Bajaur district was launched by Taliban militants in Afghanistan or international forces fighting them, the […]

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Source: Bloomberg
By Jason Gale
Almost half the population of Pakistan, the world’s seventh-most-populous nation, faces difficulty gaining access to affordable food because of the soaring cost of cereals, a World Food Program official said.
The Rome-based United Nations agency increased its estimate of the number of so-called food insecure people in Pakistan to 77 million from 60 […]

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Source: Reuters
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani authorities published on Wednesday photographs of a severed human head and two men standing in a crowd moments before Benazir Bhutto was killed and offered a reward for their identification.
Opposition leader and former prime minister Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide-bomb attack as she left a rally in […]

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Source: [Emergency] Mailing List
Courtesy: Abeer Hamid
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The Official Figures
38 people killed
53 people injured
173 banks torched completely
26 banks damaged

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