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AP News 13 days ago

Pakistan Army soldiers patrol in the area where unknown gunmen opened fire on vehicle of army officer in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. The Pakistani army entered the last of three militant strongholds targeted by a major offensive in the northwest ...

Third gun attack on brigadier in Pakistan capital

AFP South Asian Edition 14 days ago

A Pakistani brigadier escaped assassination Friday in the third gun attack targeting top brass in the capital as the army claimed further gains in a major anti-Taliban offensive in the northwest. Gunmen on a motorbike shot the military intelligence official and his ...

Pakistan troops capture key Taliban town: army

AFP South Asian Edition 18 days ago

Pakistan's military spokesman said Monday that troops had taken full control of Kanigurram, one of the biggest towns in South Waziristan and formerly a key Taliban operational centre. "Kanigurram area has been completely cleared of terrorists," Major General Athar Abbas told a ...

Pakistan's capital now resembles besieged city

AP News 19 days ago

Once an oasis of calm in dangerous country, Pakistani capital now under militant siege An onslaught of militant violence has transformed Pakistan's capital from a sleepy oasis to something of a city under siege, with its tree-lined streets barricaded, schools shuttered and ...

Pakistan Clinton

AP News 21 days ago

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, is seen prior to her meeting with residents of Pakistani tribal regions in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. Clinton held a number of public meetings on Friday, including one with a group of ...

Quake jolts Pakistan: officials

AFP South Asian Edition 22 days ago

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake jolted several Pakistani cities late Thursday, but there were no reports of casualties or damage, officials said. The tremors were felt in several Pakistani cities including capital Islamabad, at 11:44 pm (1744 GMT), chief of Pakistan's meteorological department ...

Major militant attacks in Pakistan in October

AP News 23 days ago

Major militant attacks in Pakistan in October A look at the major attacks in Pakistan this month: _ Oct. 28: A car bomb explodes in a crowded market in main northwest city of Peshawar, killing at least 100 people. _ Oct. 23: ...

Pakistan says 42 killed in anti-Taliban offensive

AFP South Asian Edition 24 days ago

Pakistan claimed Tuesday to have killed 42 Taliban in some of the heaviest fighting of a major offensive after the second gun attack on a senior army officer in the capital in less than a week. Warplanes and helicopters waged multiple bombing ...

Second gun attack on brigadier in Pakistan capital

AFP South Asian Edition 24 days ago

Gunmen riding a motorbike Tuesday sprayed bullets into the car of an army brigadier in Pakistan's capital Islamabad for a second time in less than a week, police said. No one was hurt in the morning attack in the busy I-9 residential ...

Foreign agents behind attacks: Khamenei

AFP Global Edition 25 days ago

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that the bloodshed in Pakistan, Iraq and the Islamic republic was the work of foreign agents and aimed at unleashing Shiite-Sunni conflict. "The bloody actions being committed in some Islamic countries, including Iraq, ...

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