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Pakistan - Nuclear-armed but short of electricity
GUJAR KHAN, Pakistan - A woman named Rehana Yasmin struggles to keep her sick 2-year-old granddaughter cool in a sweltering hospital where working air conditioners are rare and electric fans are idle...
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Pakistani premier: Musharraf should be tried
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's premier said Monday that the military ruler who ousted him in a coup over a decade ago should be tried for treason, but the government stopped short of pressing official charges.
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Pakistani premier: Musharraf to face treason trial
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's prime minister said Monday that the government plans to put the military ruler who ousted him in a coup over a decade ago on trial for treason, setting up a possible clash with...
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Concern rises over Pakistan plan to halt extremism
ISLAMABAD - Suspected Islamic militants killed at least 160 people during the new Pakistani government's first month in office, fueling concern that the country's leaders lack a coherent strategy to...
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Islamic militants leave Pakistan to fight in Syria
ISLAMABAD - Suleman spent years targeting minority Shiite Muslims in his home country of Pakistan as a member of one of the country's most feared militant groups. Now he is on his way to a new...
View ArticleOfficial: Pakistani offensive kills 15 militants
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A senior military official says Pakistani army has killed 15 militants in a new northwest offensive targeting militants who often strike a provincial capital from the mountainous...
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Pakistani prison attacked by Taliban lacked guards
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Only a handful of badly armed guards were posted at a Pakistani prison assaulted by Taliban militants earlier this week even though the government had intelligence...
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US sanctions Islamic school in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - The United States has placed unprecedented sanctions on an Islamic school in northwest Pakistan for allegedly training and financing fighters from al-Qaida and other militant groups.
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Polio breaks out amid militant threats in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Syed Wali desperately wants to immunize his three young children against polio but fears the Islamic militants who banned the vaccine from this remote area in northwest Pakistan...
View ArticlePakistani militants behead anti-Taliban militiamen
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Militants beheaded three members of an anti-Taliban militia in northwestern Pakistan and kidnapped three others, a government official said Tuesday.
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Pakistan: lawyer of doctor who helped CIA has fled
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - The main lawyer for a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden fled Pakistan on Wednesday after receiving death threats from militants, his...
View ArticleGunmen kill 2 workers at Sufi shrine in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Police say gunmen have shot to death two workers at a small Sufi Muslim shrine in northwest Pakistan.
View ArticleAttack on aide of Pakistani prime minister kills 5
MINGORA, Pakistan - A bomb attack targeting an aide of the Pakistan's prime minister killed five people in the country's north Sunday, police said, though the official escaped unharmed.
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Pakistan: Musharraf advised to move to US hospital
ISLAMABAD - A lawyer representing Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf in his high treason trial said Thursday that his client needs to go to the U.S. for further medical treatment following a...
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WHO: Pakistan city is world's largest polio pool
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's city of Peshawar is the world's largest pool of the polio virus, with the vast majority of cases in the country and neighboring Afghanistan tracing back to the restive...
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WHO: Pakistan city is world's largest polio pool
KARACHI, Pakistan - Pakistan's city of Peshawar is the world's largest pool of the polio virus, with the vast majority of cases in the country and neighboring Afghanistan tracing back to the restive...
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Police: Bomb blast in Pakistani cinema kills 5
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani police say a bomb attack in a cinema in the northwestern city of Peshawar has killed five people.
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Pakistan talks with Taliban team delayed
ISLAMABAD - A suicide bomber killed nine people in northwestern Pakistan Tuesday just hours after peace talks between government negotiators and a team representing the Pakistani Taliban were delayed,...
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Pakistan: Militants kill 9 anti-Taliban militiamen
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Militants killed nine members of an anti-Taliban militia on Wednesday in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, police said.
View ArticlePakistani students clash over Valentine's Day
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani police say two rival student groups have clashed at a university in the country's northwest over celebrating Valentine's Day.
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