Latest News on Pakistan

Multiple suicide attacks hit Pakistan; 38 killed - Summary
Islamabad - Taliban militants let loose several suicide squads in Pakistan's heartland and the troubled north-west Thursday, killing at least 38 people, including 11 attackers, officials said. Gunmen wearing explosive ...

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Suicide, rocket attacks kills 16 in Pakistan - Summary
Islamabad - A suicide bombing and a rocket attack at two security installations in north-western Pakistan on Friday killed 16 people, including three soldiers and the same number of policemen, officials said, as the country reeled from a string of mi...

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Suicide bombing at Pakistan police station kills 11 - Summary
Islamabad - At least 11 people were killed and 30 others injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a police station in north-western Pakistan on Thursday, police said. The incident occurred in Kohat, a garrison town 60 kilomet...

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Al-Qaeda number two lashes out at Pakistani military
Islamabad - The Pakistan Army has become a tool in the hands of the crusaders to save American and NATO troops from certain defeat in Afghanistan, al-Qaeda's second-in-command said in a new video message on Tuesday. At this moment Pakistani forces...

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UN condemns attack that killed over 90 people in Pakistan
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned in the strongest terms on Wednesday the bomb attack that killed at least 93 people in Peshawar, Pakistan. I condemn, in the strongest possible terms, today's bomb attack at a market in Peshawar...

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Chinese president hails Pakistan infrastructure projects - Summary
Beijing - Chinese President Hu Jintao praised his country's infrastructure projects in Pakistan on Tuesday, as he and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani reaffirmed the traditional close friendship between the two nations. Hu said China wante...

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Bomb kills 93 in Pakistan market during Clinton visit - Summary
Islamabad - A car bomb ripped through a crowded market in north-western Pakistan Wednesday, killing 93 people, as US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the country and assured fu...

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Car bomb kills 91 in Pakistan market during Clinton visit - Summary
Islamabad - A car bomb ripped through a crowded market in north-western Pakistan Wednesday, killing more than 90 people, as US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the country and assured...

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Twin suicide bombings at Pakistani university - Summary
Islamabad - Six people, including two female students, were killed and many more wounded Tuesday when two suicide bombers struck an Islamic university in Pakistan's capital, officials said. The successive bombings came as government forces pressed ah...

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Iran demands Pakistan hand over terrorist leader
Islamabad - Iran formally asked Pakistan on Friday to hand over the leader of a terrorist organization allegedly involved in a series of deadly attacks, including last weekend's suicide blast that killed at least 42 Iranians. Iran says that Abdolmali...

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Clinton meets Pakistani tribal chiefs
Islamabad - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday had her first face-to-face interaction with tribesmen from Pakistan's violence-plagued north-western areas, a day after she urged Islamabad to eliminate al-Qaeda from the region. The meeting...

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Suicide bomber kills 19 outside Pakistan court - Summary
Islamabad - A suicide bomber on Thursday killed 19 people outside a court complex in Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar, officials said, as troops pressed on with their offensive in the n...

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Two soldiers killed, 10 missing in Taliban attack
Islamabad - At least two soldiers were killed and 10 went missing when the Taliban ambushed a convoy of paramilitary troops in Pakistan's restive tribal region, officials said on Wednesday. The convoy of 52 security personnel from the paramilitary Fr...

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Taliban attacks kill 10 Pakistani soldiers, 10 more missing - Summary
Islamabad - At least 10 soldiers were killed and 10 more went missing in two separate attacks by Taliban militants in Pakistan's restive tribal region, officials said on Wednesday. A spokesman for the country's paramilitary Frontier Corps, Fazal-ur-R...

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Car bombing kills at least 32 in Pakistani market - Summary
Islamabad - At least 32 people were killed and over 50 injured in a car bombing in Pakistan's north-western city of Charsadda, officials said Tuesday. The blast occurred at a busy market in the town, which is located around 30 kilometres north-east o...

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Pakistanis support military action against Taliban in Waziristan
Islamabad - A majority of Pakistanis support the military operation against Taliban and al-Qaeda militants in the country's lawless tribal region near the Afghan border, a poll released on Tuesday showed. Pakistan launched a major assault in the Sout...

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Train collision kills 17 in Pakistan - Summary
Islamabad - A passenger train collided Tuesday with a freight train in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, killing at least 17 people and injuring 38, officials said. The crash occurred near the Juma Goth railway station on the city's outskirts...

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Report: Western jihadists being trained in Afghanistan, Pakistan
Paris - More and more Europeans and Americans are travelling to Afghanistan and Pakistan to be trained to carry out jihad, or Islamic armed struggle, against the West, the online edition of the French daily Le Figaro reported Tuesday on a blog dedica...

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Nine killed in train collision in Pakistan - Summary
Islamabad - A passenger train collided Tuesday with a freight train in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, killing nine people and injuring 40, officials said. The crash occurred near the Juma Goth railway station on the city's outskirts. Negli...

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Schools, universities closed in Pakistan after bombings - Summary
Islamabad - All educational institutions across Pakistan remained closed on Wednesday, a day after twin suicide bombings rocked an Islamic university in the country's capital, killing eight people. The explosions were apparently part of a string of m...

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INTERVIEW: Pakistan foreign minister claims India supports insurgents
Islamabad - Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has accused India of supporting insurgents in Pakistan, including areas bordering Afghanistan. Speaking with the German Press Agency dpa, Qureshi claimed that Pakistan was compiling hard ev...

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Six Pakistani troops, 14 Taliban killed in clashes - Summary
Islamabad - At least 14 militants and six soldiers, were killed Saturday in the latest fighting in the ongoing military operation in Pakistan's restive north-western tribal region, the army said. Nearly 30,000 troops supported by air power and log-ra...

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Pakistan says India planning war against it
Islamabad - Pakistan issued on Tuesday a verbal salvo, accusing its archrival India of preparing for a limited war against it. India has long been working on the so-called 'Cold Start' strategy and preparing for a limited war against Pakistan, Mi...

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Norwegian journalist and Afghan interpreter freed in Afghanistan
Oslo - A Norwegian journalist and his Afghan interpreter who were kidnapped a week ago in eastern Afghanistan have been freed, the Norwegian foreign ministry said Thursday. The November 5 abduction took place near the Pakistan border, the ministry st...

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Car bombing kills more than 30 in Pakistani market - 2nd Update
Islamabad - More than 30 people were killed and over 50 injured in a car bombing in Pakistan's north-western city of Charsadda, health officials said on Tuesday. The blast occurred at a busy market in the town, which is located around 30 kilometres n...

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