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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

Read More: Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Mingora, Taliban, Sharia Law, Sharia Peace, Peace, Peace Deal, Pakistan Taliban Peace Deal, Peshawar, Shariah, Middle East, Taliban Peace, Swat Valley, Taliban Swat Valley, Pakistan Peace, Sharia, Islamic Law, World News

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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Pakistan: Black Market For US Military Equipment, Information Thrives

GlobalPost.com | Shahan Mufti | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

Read More: Globalpost, Peshawar, Pakistan Us Military Supplies, Pakistan Open Market, Al Qaeda, Pakistan Black Market, Pakistan, Pakistan Us Military Hardware, Afghan Supply Route, Taliban, Pakistan Afghanistan Border, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Throughout the ages, this ancient Silk Road town near the border of Afghanistan has been the place where the black market thr...

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Alamzeb Khan, Pakistan Nationalist Politician, Assassinated In Peshawar

GroundReport | Posted 03.14.2009 | World

Read More: Peshawar, Pakistan Opposition, Terrorism, Pakistan, Taliban, Pakistan Democracy, Afghan Taliban, Nwf, Alamzeb Khan, Alamzeb Khan Killed, World News
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Published by GroundReport.com, the global citizen media platform covering world news from the ground up. by Shah Zaman Khan PESHAWAR-- Pakistan Na...

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Pakistan's Tribal Areas 'Radicalized As Never Before'

The New York Review of Books | Posted 02.25.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan Tribal Areas, Pakistan Afghan Border, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Taliban, Fata, Hamid Karzai, Nwf, Peshawar, Pakistan Burqa, Al Qaeda, North-West Frontier Province, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan Girls Schools, World News

The relative calm in Iraq in recent months, combined with the drama of the US elections, has managed to distract attention from the catastrophe that i...

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Protesters: Pakistan Must End US-NATO Supply Line

AP | PAUL ALEXANDER | Posted 01.18.2009 | World

Read More: Peshawar, Pakistan Afghan Border, Us Nato, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Pakistan Protest Supply Route, Us Nato Supply Line, Pakistan Protests, Peshawar Protest, World News

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Thousands of anti-government protesters demanded Thursday that Pakistan shut the route along which supplies are ferried to...

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Explosion In Pakistan (SLIDESHOW, VIDEO) (Caution: Graphic Images)

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

Read More: Peshawar, Slideshow, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Car Bombing, Car Bomb, Car Bombs, Bombing, Pakistan Explosion, Explosion, World News

Suspected car bombings killed at least 20 people in Peshawar, Pakistan today. Read more here. Caution: Graphic images UPDATE: Some video from Al ...

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Bombs Rip Through Pakistani Market

BBC News | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan, Islamabad, Peshawar, Pakistan Crisis, Car Bomb, Middle East, World News

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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Shotguns and Munaqababes along the Arabian Sea

Mark Levine | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Heavy Metal, Death Metal, Al-Qa'eda, Islam, Terrorism, Islamism, Pakistan, Iraq, Music, Junoon, War on Terror, Foreign Policy, Pop Music, Religion, Middle East, Central Asia, Rock N' Roll, Peshawar, Politics News
Mark Levine

In the U.S., and even in Pakistan, the North-West Frontier Province is known almost exclusively as a haven for terrorists, ultratraditionalists, and drug and arms smugglers.

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