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Pearl Continental Hotel Bombed, Stormed By Gunmen In Pakistan

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Suicide attackers shot their way past guards and set off a massive blast outside a luxury hotel where foreigners and well-t...

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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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No Optimism Yet: Pakistanis Deeply Anxious About Refugee Crisis

Mona Sarika | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

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Mona Sarika

Pakistanis should be rejoicing at their army's success in pushing back the Taliban. But the feeling of relief is overshadowed by the greatest humanitarian crisis in the history of Pakistan.

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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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A Weaver's Welcome

Kathy Kelly | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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Kathy Kelly

Generosity in the face of such massive displacement and suffering is evident everywhere we go. But Pakistan needs help on a much larger scale.

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Pakistani Swat Anti-Taliban Offensive Near End, Pak Media Reports

Rani Singh | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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Rani Singh

Pakistani media outlets are reporting that the anti-Taliban counter-offensive launched by the Pakistani army is largely over.

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Pakistan Drone Attacks Guided By Planted 'Chips'

Wired | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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It sounds like a tinfoil hat nightmare, come to life: tiny electronic homing beacons, guiding CIA killer drones to their targets. But local residents ...

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Pakistan's Problem with Taliban Denial

Olivia Sterns | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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Olivia Sterns

In the long-term, defeating the Taliban will depend not just on resolving the causes they use to recruit, but on uprooting popular denial.

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Gutsy Pakistani Protesters March Against The Taliban

LA Times | Mark Magnier | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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Pundits criticize extremism from the relative safety of TV studios or newspaper offices, but going out in public, where demonstrators may be attacked ...

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Trapped residents emerge, seek food in Swat town

AP | INAM UR-REHMAN | Posted 07.01.2009 | World

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MINGORA, Pakistan — People trapped at home for weeks emerged in search of food at barren shops while corpses lay exposed in the Swat Valley's ma...

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Mingora: Pakistan Army 'Regains' Swat City

Al Jazeera English | Posted 06.30.2009 | World

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Pakistan's army has gained control of the main city in the Swat valley after several days of street-to-street battles with Taliban fighters, a militar...

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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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Pakistan Offers Bounty For Swat Leaders

english.aljazeera.net | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

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Pakistan has offered a cash reward of tens of thousands of dollars for the arrest of Maulana Fazlullah, the Islamic religious leader said to be behind...

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Battleground Lahore: Taliban in the City

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

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Shirin Sadeghi

The insurgents that the Pakistani and U.S. forces are battling are various fronts of poor, largely uneducated men doing what their ancestors have done for centuries: defending the Pashtun way.

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I Don't See How I Can Ever Go Back to Swat Valley

Rani Singh | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

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Rani Singh

Problems in Pakistan are so widespread and endemic that I don't think that things can get too much better, however much money is pledged in aid.

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Pakistani Taliban: We'll Avoid Combat In Swat City

AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — The Taliban on Monday urged civilians to return to the Swat Valley's main city, promising they would not attack security forces batt...

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Taliban Is Foiling Pakistan Army: Washington Post

Washington Post | Griff Witte | Posted 06.23.2009 | World

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The battle for control of Swat has tested the Pakistani government's resolve to confront a raging Islamist insurgency that has gripped much of the nor...

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Pakistani Troops Take On Taliban In Main Swat Town

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 06.23.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani security forces fought street battles with Taliban militants in the Swat Valley's main urban center Saturday, a critical p...

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Pakistan Army Vows To Intensify Campaign Against Taliban

Al Jazeera | Posted 06.22.2009 | World

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The Pakistani military claims to have surrounded Mingora, the Swat valley's main city, seeking to wrest the area from Taliban fighters....

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Pakistan Refugees: UN Seeks $543M To Help Nearly 2M People

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 06.22.2009 | World

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BANAI BABA ZIARAT, Pakistan — A Pakistani flag now flies over army troops dug in on a strategic ridge that until two days ago was held by the Ta...

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Pakistan Reclaims Stronghold From Taliban

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani forces killed 80 militants and drove the Taliban from a major urban stronghold on Wednesday, the army said, as U.S. milita...

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Pakistani Clerics Support Government Anti-Taliban Offensive

McClatchy | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

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Pakistani religious leaders and scholars Tuesday issued a strong denunciation of the tactics of Taliban militants, providing what could be major boost...

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Pakistan Denies Agreement With U.S. On Drones

Reuters | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

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Pakistan denied on Friday that it had an agreement with the United States under which it could request that Washington send surveillance drones over p...

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Pakistani Women Protest Taliban But Support Islamic Law (VIDEO)

Link TV - Global Pulse | Evelyn Messinger | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

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Evelyn Messinger | Link TV - Global Pulse In February, the now-famous video of a young woman being flogged by Taliban brought women in cities across...

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Pakistan Cracking Down On Banned Charity

Posted 06.14.2009 | World

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By Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich | The Independent Pakistani authorities have ordered a fresh crackdown on a banned charity linked to militants b...

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