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View from Pakistan: Today's Blast

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Swat, Pakistan Suicide Bombing, War on Terror, Northwestern Frontier Province, Pakistan, Checkpoints, Proxy War, Fata, Baluchistan, Punjab, British, International Islamic University, Tribal Areas, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Iran, Rawalpindi, South Waziristan, Sindh, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Afghanistan, India, Schools, Hillary Clinton, Nwfp, Universities, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

Pakistani children may be enjoying the break, but most of them know exactly why they can't go to school. I sit stiff as one boy looks up from his video game to tell me the school buses might not be safe right now.

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Rawalpindi: Bombing Kills 35 Near Pakistan's Capital

AP | ASHRAF KHAN and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — A suicide bomb killed 35 people near Pakistan's military headquarters Monday while a second blast wounded several police,...

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Pakistan Takes Taliban Chief's Hometown Of Kotkai

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD and ASHRAF KHAN | Posted 10.25.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani soldiers captured the hometown of the country's Taliban chief Saturday, a strategic and symbolic initial prize as the army...

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Islamabad University Attacked, 4 Killed, As Army Presses Ahead With South Waziristan Offensive

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Suicide bombers attacked an Islamic university popular with foreigners in Pakistan's capital Tuesday, killing four student...

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Time to Worry About Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons

Abdulhadi Hairan | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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Abdulhadi Hairan

The world should not just close its eyes to Pakistan and say, 'there is no danger, everything is safe.' There is currently a dangerous vulnerability in officials who still sympathize with Taliban militants.

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Taliban Claim Responsibility For UN Blast In Pakistan; 5 Killed

AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan braced for more militant attacks ahead of an anticipated offensive against a Taliban stronghold, as the insurgents said the...

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Attack on UN in Islamabad Will Have Serious Ripple Effects

Refugees International | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

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Refugees International

Taliban militants have decided not to bother differentiating between armed forces and UN aid workers. They should remember, however, that they too are bound by international humanitarian law.

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Pakistan: WFP Compound Attacked By Suicide Bomber In Disguise, 5 Killed

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber who killed five staffers at the U.N. food agency's headquarters in Pakistan on Monday was dressed as a security off...

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Afghan Election: Pressure Mounts For Karzai To Strike A Deal

The Observer | Declan Walsh | Posted 09.13.2009 | World

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Five US soldiers were among dozens killed in a wave of violence in Afghanistan as pressure grew on President Hamid Karzai last night to strike a power...

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Urban Pak Youth Meet With Their Swat Counterparts To Work Towards Change

Nosheen Abbas | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

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Nosheen Abbas

This retreat was organized by youths from Islamabad in order to share a message of progressive tolerance.

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Elite Pakistani Students Pick Up Trash To Clean Up The Country

Nosheen Abbas | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

Read More: Youth, Responsibility, Environmentalists, Social Responsibility, Pakistan, Islamabad-Pakistan, Youth Activism, Garbage, Islamabad, Environmentally Friendly, Responsible, Garbage-Reduction, Private Schools, Schools, Citizen, Spotlight on Pakistan, Sop, Spotlight-on-Pakistanyoung, World News
Nosheen Abbas

Tired of hearing people complain about what's wrong with Pakistan, these students decided to do something about it by meeting every Sunday to clean up trash.

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Asking Pakistanis, When?

Betwa Sharma | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Radicalism, Susan Boyle, Islamabad, Pakistan, Swat Valley, Taliban, Karachi, Revolution, Pakistanis, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan Army, World News
Betwa Sharma

Why have Pakistanis endured decades of bad politics and their violent consequences? Why do they watch their leaders play a foolhardy game with the Taliban? Can they not do more?

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Pakistan Taliban Attacks Prevent Return Of Landowners

The New York Times | Jane Perlez and Pir Zubair Shah | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Even as hundreds of thousands of people stream back to the Swat Valley after months of fighting, one important group is conspic...

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Pakistan Asks US To End Missile Attacks

AP | RYAN LUCAS | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Officials say a suicide bomber has killed at least two soldiers in the Pakistani part of Kashmir. Two security officials said the a...

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Pakistan's Refugees Burden Its Major Cities

nytimes.com | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

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Pakistan is experiencing its worst refugee crisis since partition from India in 1947, and while the world may be familiar with the tent camps that hav...

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Hashoo Bombers Strike Again

Derek Flood | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

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Derek Flood

People across the region who depend on the Ismaili establishment for employment, sustenance and remittances have suffered enormously from the Taleban's unforgiving insurgency.

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Islamabad Police Station Hit By Bomb Explosion

Al Jazeera English | Posted 07.07.2009 | World

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A bomb has exploded at a police station in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, as the military continues to battle Taliban fighters in the northwest of the...

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Obama's Deepening AfPak Crisis

William Bradley | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

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William Bradley

With the appropriate huzzahs for Obama's first 100 days still ringing in the air, his new AfPak strategy, for the linked crisis of Afghanistan and Pakistan, is already in deep trouble.

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Pakistan: Who's To Blame?

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Islamabad, Pakistani Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, Pakistan, Mullah Omar, Swat Valley, Asif Ali Zardari, Hillary Clinton, Taliban, Buner, Osama Bin Laden, World News
Jamal Dajani

US attacks on tribal areas in Pakistan have done nothing to reduce the Taliban's influence, but rather have backfired and strengthened it politically.

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Islamabad Police Base Hit By Suicide Bomber

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.05.2009 | World

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A suicide bomber has killed at least five paramilitary police in an attack on a security base in the Pakistan capital, Islamabad, police say....

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Holbrooke Holds Talks In India, Discusses Relations With Pakistan

Al Jezeera | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

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The new US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan has met Indian officials and discussed Afghanistan and simmering tensions between New Delhi and I...

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Pakistan Urges Holbrooke To Take Regional Approach

Daily Times | Sajjad Malik | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

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Islamabad will urge US special envoy Richard Holbrooke to adopt a regional approach to solve the prevailing issues of terrorism and extremism, diploma...

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Bombs Rip Through Pakistani Market

BBC News | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

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At least 20 people have been killed and 70 injured in a suspected car bombing in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say. The blast ...

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Roadway Through the FATA

Ashley Bommer | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Waziristan, Youth, Missiles, U.S. Goverment, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sarhad Rural Support Programme, Vice President-Elect, Pakistani Center for Research and Security Studies, Joe Biden, British Territory, Warzone, Osama Bin Laden, Tribal Areas, Islamabad, Federall Administered Tribal Areas, Al Qaeda, Emissaries, Rural Support Programs, Below Poverty Line, Fata, Anti-Coalition Militias, Extremism, Bajaur, Srsp, Politics News
Ashley Bommer

While the enemy weaves in and out of the tribal areas, living and interacting with the people, we fight the war against Al Qaeda superficially through military airstrikes and covert operations.

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Pakistan: US Missile Strike Kills 27

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Suspected U.S. missiles slammed into two villages close to the Afghan border Friday, killing 27 people including an...

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