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Pakistan Courthouse Bombing Kills 16 In Peshawar

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A blast early Friday killed two police offers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwe...

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Was Hillary's Image-Boosting Exercise in Pakistan a Success?

Saad Khan | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Hillary Pakistan, Kerry-Lugar Bill, Peshawar Bombing, Pakistan Corruption, Pakistan Army, Taliban, Pakistan Aid, South Waziristan, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, World News
Saad Khan

If the United States wants to win some hearts in Pakistan, its aid should go to organizations directly working for public health and education. It's time to engage with the common Pakistani.

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Taliban Fight Back Against Pakistan Offensive

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both si...

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Attacks demonstrate Taliban resurgence in Pakistan

AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — A week of terror strikes across Pakistan, capped by a stunning assault on army headquarters, show the Taliban have rebounded and app...

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Pakistan nabs last attacker, ends siege of army HQ

AP | MOHAMMAD YUSUF | Posted 10.11.2009 | World

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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Pakistan's army says commandos have caught the last militant who attacked its headquarters and took dozens of hostages. ...

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Pakistan Army Accused Of Extrajudicial Killings In Swat

nytimes.com | JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH | Posted 11.15.2009 | World

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MINGORA, Pakistan Two months after the Pakistani Army wrested control of the Swat Valley from Taliban militants, a new campaign of fear has taken hold...

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Minus One, Two or Three: Pakistani Politics Is Business Unusual

Hisham Wyne | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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Hisham Wyne

Given that a concentrated campaign is underway to ensure that due democratic process is freed from future army interference and Pakistan is stabilized in the face of persistent existentialist threats, decapitating the political system by removing party heads is not smart.

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Pakistani Army Kills 45 Taliban; Border Reopens

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani soldiers killed at least 45 Taliban militants in scattered gunbattles across the northwestern Swat Valley after a suicide ...

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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 Anti-Taliban Militias Rise Up After Army Leaves

AP | ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

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SULTANWAS, Pakistan — Village leaders in a former Taliban stronghold are rebuilding their own militia to protect the area from militants holding...

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More Clarity Needed About Pakistan's Swat Operation

Madiha Sattar | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

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Madiha Sattar

More and clearer information would go a long way towards winning over a still- skeptical public burned by three failed operations in the past.

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Pakistani Army Helicopter Crash Kills 26

AP | MUNIR AHMED | Posted 08.03.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — U.S. missiles struck a training facility operated by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and a militant communication center F...

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Pakistani Youth Pitch-In To Help Refugees

Nosheen Abbas | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

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Nosheen Abbas

"I really wouldn't give the government any money for the displaced people from the north....you just don't know where it goes" says Muneeba a young so...

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Pakistan Refugee Hosts Stretched To The Limit (IMAGES)

World Vision | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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World Vision

* Scroll down for photos By Chris Webster ISLAMABAD -- Poor communities in Pakistan's northwest are hosting up to two million people uprooted by re...

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Pakistan Swat Valley Operation Destroys Homes, Draws Local Ire

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

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SULTANWAS, Pakistan — When Pakistan's army drove the Taliban back from this small northwestern village, it also destroyed much of everything els...

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Taliban, Swat Outlook 'Pretty Bleak' For Pakistani Army

Financial Times | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

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Pakistan's fight against the Taliban has a limited chance of success because of the army's inexperience and its refusal to accept help from the west, ...

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Young Pakistani Army Officers May Be Defecting To Taliban: CQ

CQ | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

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A retired Pakistani general confided a deep worry to a friend in Washington last week: that some young officers in Pakistan's regular army have become...

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Pakistan Suicide Bombing Kills Dozens

AP | STEPHEN GRAHAM | Posted 05.19.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — A suicide car bomber attacked an army convoy at a checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 27 people near anot...

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Pakistani Police A Growing Target For Militants

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

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The militant attack on a Pakistani police academy Monday in Lahore, compounded with militants' attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team earlier this mont...

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Pakistan troops ordered to open fire on US raiders

AP | STEPHEN GRAHAM | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's army said Tuesday that its forces have orders to open fire if U.S. troops launch another raid across the Afghan...

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