Pakistan Crisis

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GAO Report: US Lacks Terror Plan For Pakistan

Associated Press | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics

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Terrorists are still operating freely in Pakistan along the country's Afghanistan border, despite the U.S. giving Pakistan more than $10.5 billion in ...

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Blasts Push Pakistan Toward New Policy

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan's crisis deepened after two suicide bombings killed 24 people and wounded more than 200 in this normally peaceful ci...

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Scotland Yard: Bhutto Killed By Bomb Blast

Washington Post | Candace Rondeaux | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Scotland Yard investigators have concluded that Paksitani opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed by the impact of a sui...

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Al-Qaida And Taliban Now Threaten Pakistan's Survival

Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Radical elements are now a threat to the survival of Pakistan, prompting Pakistani military leaders to recognize that more aggressive efforts are need...

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Al-Qaida Commander Moved Freely In Pakistan

Washington Post | Imtiaz Ali and Craig Whitlock | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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A Libyan al-Qaeda commander who was killed last week in northwestern Pakistan had lived there for years and, despite a $200,000 U.S. bounty on his hea...

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Pakistan Rebuffs Secret US Pleas For CIA Buildup

NY Times | ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The top two American intelligence officials traveled secretly to Pakistan early this month to press President Pervez Musharraf to allow the Central In...

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US Shift Seen to Pakistan, Afghanistan

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — In a shift with profound implications, the Bush administration is attempting to re-energize its terrorism-fighting war efforts in A...

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Musharraf Hits Out At Retired Generals

Financial Times | James Blitz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan on Wednesday night angrily hit out at the retired generals who this week said that they no longer had confidence in him, ...

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U.S. Commander Orders Plans on Pakistan

Associated Press | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The commander of U.S. forces in Central Asia has launched planning for more extensive use of U.S. troops to train Pakistani armed f...

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Rice Defends US Aid to Pakistan

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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BERLIN — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday the Bush administration will fight efforts to curb billions of dollars in U.S. aid to ...

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Musharraf: Troops Will "Shoot Anyone" Trying To Disrupt Elections

Associated Press | Munir Ahmed | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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President Pervez Musharraf warned troops would shoot anyone trying to disrupt parliamentary elections meant to bring stability to the country as it ba...

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Motorbike Bomb Kills 9 In Pakistan, Wounds Dozens

AP | ASHRAF KHAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

A bomb planted on a motorbike killed at least nine people and wounded 52 others Monday evening in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, officials said. ...

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Reid Wants Bush To Pressure Pakistan

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday urged President George W. Bush to consider cutting aid to Pakistan unless it restores full civil rights ...

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Pakistan: US Forces Cannot Hunt Al Qaida, Taliban Militants On Our Soil

AP | SADAQAT JAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Pakistan reiterated Sunday that it will not let American forces hunt al-Qaida and Taliban militants on its soil, after a news report said Washington w...

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Islamist Politicians Emerge As Pakistan's Power Brokers

Wall Street Journal | PETER WONACOTT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Just after night fell at a campaign rally last Thursday, conservative Islamist politician Khalid Waqar heard the news: Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's best...

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NYT Op-Ed: Bhutto Allowed Extremists Who Killed Her To Flourish

New York Times | WILLIAM DALRYMPLE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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WHEN, in May 1991, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India was killed by a suicide bomber, there was an international outpouring of grief. Recent ...

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Inappropriate Hottie Rundown: Political Heir Apparents

23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

The new leader of Benazir Bhutto's political party (PPP) is none other than her 19-year-old son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. The teen, whose grandfather a...

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Musharraf Suggest Bhutto Partly Responsible For Her Own Death

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Musharraf said he also reached out to British investigators for assistance to dispel accusations that Pakistan's military or intelligence services wer...

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Pakistan Publishes Photo Of Severed Head Of Bhutto's 'Assassin'

London Times | David Byers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The Pakistani Government today published a picture of what it said was the severed head of the suicide bomber who killed Benazir Bhutto and offered a ...

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Benazir Bhutto Assassinated: Scotland Yard To Help Investigation

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday that he had requested a team of investigators from Britain's Scotland Yard to assist in the invest...

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Violence Delays Pakistan Elections Until February

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Pakistani elections will be delayed until Feb. 18 because of violence following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, authorities said Wednesday, ignor...

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US Not Ready To Accept Pakistan's Findings On Bhutto's Death

New York Times | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

United States intelligence analysts are not convinced by the evidence offered so far by Pakistani authorities that a militant linked to Al Qaeda was r...

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Pakistan Says Turmoil From Bhutto's Death Could Delay Vote

AFP | Nasir Jaffry | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Pakistan indicated Saturday it would delay January elections because of turmoil caused by the death of Benazir Bhutto, as a bitter dispute erupted ove...

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Pakistan Rejects Foreign Help In Bhutto Probe

AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Pakistan rejected foreign help in investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Saturday, despite controversy over the circumstances of her dea...

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Pakistan: Bhutto Died From Skull Fracture, Not Gunshots

AP | MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Pakistan - The Pakistani government said Friday that Benazir Bhutto Bhutto was not killed by gunshots or shrapnel as originally claimed but by a skull...

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