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Blast At Spy Agency In NW Pakistan Kills Seven

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan's main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and st...

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View from Pakistan: Today's Blast

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

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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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Clinton In Pakistan: "We Are Turning The Page" On Involvement After 8 Years Of Bush

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Offering sympathy for victims of Wednesday's terrorist bombing, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton praised Pakistan's of...

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Peshawar: Car Bomb Kills Almost 100 As Clinton Visits Capital (PHOTOS)

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A car bomb struck a busy market in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 100 people - mostly women and children - as ...

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13 Killed In Latest Pakistan Bomb

AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani military is setting its sights on the Taliban's remote sanctuary after nearly two weeks of big bombings across the cou...

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Peshawar Police Station Hit By Double Blasts, 11 Killed

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home

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At least 11 people have died in two explosions near a police office in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, police said. The bombs were detonated at an in...

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Peshawar Bombing Kills 49 Near Crowded Market (CAUTION: GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — (AP) A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle near a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 49 people and p...

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Girls School Blown Up By Militants In Pakistan

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 09.22.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Suspected Islamist militants blew up a girls school close to the main city in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said...

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A Modest Proposal for Garrisoned Lands

Chalmers Johnson | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

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Chalmers Johnson

While it may be comforting for State Department employees to know that they have some protection, they will now be part of an in-your-face American imperial presence.

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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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Pakistan: Commando-Style Assaults Show Militants Know Sophisticated Tactics

AP | ROHAN SULLIVAN | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Two commando-style assaults in Pakistan in the past two weeks show militants can now pierce the iron-fortified gates, concrete barri...

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In Harsh Times, Pakistanis Seek Comfort On Facebook

Pia Sawhney | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

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Pia Sawhney

While the nation's news media has been prohibited from reporting extensively on military exercises in Swat and Buner districts, on Facebook, questions and concerns crop up swiftly.

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Peshawar's Reaction: Personal Accounts of the Bombing at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Pakistan

Nosheen Abbas | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

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Nosheen Abbas

"People are very very worried in Peshawar, you never know when a bomb could go off... No one goes out to busy places out of fear."

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Peshawar Hotel Attack: A Bomb With Rippling Effects

Refugees International | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

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Refugees International

The bombing of the Pearl Continental hotel may have an impact far beyond the huge crater in the hotel's parking lot - as it could compromise the assistance on which millions of displaced Pakistanis depend.

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PC Hotel Blast: UN Aid Workers Among The Dead

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani officials are moving swiftly to use the suicide bombing of a luxury hotel in their campaign to build public support for mi...

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Pakistan Attacks In 2008, 2009

AP | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

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A look at some recent major attacks in Pakistan or blamed on Pakistan-based militants: _ June 9, 2009: A huge bomb explodes at a luxury hotel in Pesh...

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World In Photos: Peshawar Bombing

Huffington Post | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

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At least 11 people were killed and 46 injured Tuesday in a huge bomb blast at the five-star Pearl Continental hotel in the northwestern Pakistani ci...

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PC Hotel Blast: Pakistani Officials Say Attack Is Revenge For Anti-Taliban Offensive

DAWN.COM | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR: At least seven people were killed and 34 others wounded in a huge bomb blast at the five-star Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar Tuesday, o...

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Pearl Continental Attacked In Peshawar

Rani Singh | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

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Rani Singh

There has just been an attack on the Pearl Continental Hotel in Pakistan. The Marriott-owned building was chosen most likely as part of revenge attack...

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Pearl Continental Hotel Bombing VIDEO

Posted 07.10.2009 | World

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Gunmen stormed the Pearl Continental Hotel in Pakistan today and detonated a "huge bomb." The AP has video from the scene below. Reports indicated se...

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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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Pakistan Taliban Exploit Class Rifts To Gain Power

New York Times | JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The Taliban have advanced deeper into Pakistan by engineering a class revolt that exploits profound fissures between a small gro...

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Pakistani Villagers Form Armed Patrols To Take On Taliban

Christian Science Monitor | Ayesha Nasir | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

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Peshawar, Pakistan - In the town of Budaber, six miles from Peshawar's city center, Daud Khan makes sure his Kalashnikov is loaded before stepping int...

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Pakistan President Emerging As Divisive Figure

Wsj.com | By MATTHEW ROSENBERG and ZAHID HUSSAIN | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan, Peshawar, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Swat Valley, Nawaz Sharif, Taliban, President Asif Zardari, Afghanistan, Gen. Ashaq Kayani, Karachi, Punjab, Islamic Law, World News

When Asif Ali Zardari won the presidency last year, he vowed to unite this fractious country after nearly a decade of military rule. Instead, Mr. Zard...

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Pakistan: Swat Valley Locals Relieved With Sharia Peace

The Times Of India | Nandita Sengupta | Posted 03.20.2009 | World

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There was general merriment on the streets of Mingora, the valley's most important town, say activists based in Peshawar and Mingora. Not everybody su...

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