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UN: 21 nations take up polio ‘emergency’
GENEVA (AP) — Some 21 nations in the Middle East and nearby regions have jointly made the eradication of polio an emergency priority and recognized that Pakistan is a key part of the problem, the...
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Pakistan doctor who helped CIA charged with murder
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been charged with murder in a case related to a teenage boy who died after the doctor performed surgery on...
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Pakistan doctor who helped CIA charged with murder
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been charged with murder over a 2006 surgery he performed, his lawyer said Friday, raising new doubts...
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Pakistan deploys first domestic drones
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani military deployed its first fleet of domestically developed drones Monday, as police cracked down on a protest by demonstrators angry at the U.S. for using similar...
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Some in Pakistan threatened by Turkish TV invasion
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Ottoman Turks never expanded their empire as far as today’s, November 26, Pakistan, but some here fear their descendants are now launching a cultural invasion — via...
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New Pakistani Taliban chief returns to lead group
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The new leader of the Pakistani Taliban has returned to the country from Afghanistan to lead the militant group a month after the former chief was killed in a U.S. drone strike,...
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Bomb kills 1 outside mosque in southwest Pakistan
CHAMAN, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a bomb has exploded outside a mosque in southwest Pakistan, killing at least one person. Local police official Shafqat Mehmood says Thursday’s bombing in the town...
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Pakistan talks with Taliban team delayed
ISLAMABAD (AP) — 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...
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Pakistan Taliban claim deadly airport attack
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban on Monday threatened more attacks after claiming responsibility for a brazen five-hour assault on the country’s busiest airport in which gunmen disguised...
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After lull, US drone strikes kill 13 in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Missiles from U.S. drones slammed into militant hideouts overnight in northwestern Pakistan, killing 13 suspected insurgents and marking the resumption of the CIA-led program after...
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Heavy monsoon rains kill 69 people in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Monsoon rains have killed at least 69 people across Pakistan and in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, where flash floods swept through villages and troops were called in to evacuate...
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Pakistani teachers arming selves in wake of school massacre
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — When Pakistani Taliban militants stormed a Peshawar school and massacred 150 children and teachers, nobody could fight back. Shabnam Tabinda and some of her fellow teachers...
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Two inmates accused in killing of 10 tourists flee from jail
MANSEHRA, Pakistan (AP) — Two prisoners believed to be involved in the 2013 slaying of 10 foreign climbers at the base of one of the world’s tallest mountains escaped from jail in northern Pakistan...
View ArticleGunmen kill prominent female activist in Pakistan
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen on a motorcycle killed a prominent women’s rights activist in Pakistan just hours after she held a forum on the country’s restive Baluchistan region, home to a...
View ArticlePakistan expresses shock over deaths of US, Italian hostage
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has expressed “shock and sorrow” over the inadvertent deaths of an American and an Italian hostage held by al-Qaida in a U.S. drone strike in January near the Afghan border....
View ArticleAfter Pakistan bus attack, worry an insurgency growing worse
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — As hundreds of mourners on Saturday protested the killing of 22 people in deadly bus hijackings in western Pakistan, the assaults raised new fears that a long-simmering...
View ArticleIndia’s heat wave tests water supply; death toll over 1,800
HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Dizzying temperatures caused water shortages in thousands of Indian villages and killed hundreds more people over the past day, driving the death toll from a weekslong heat...
View ArticleGunmen kill prominent female activist in Pakistan
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen on a motorcycle killed a prominent women’s rights activist in Pakistan just hours after she held a forum on the country’s restive Baluchistan region, home to a...
View ArticlePakistan expresses shock over deaths of US, Italian hostage
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has expressed “shock and sorrow” over the inadvertent deaths of an American and an Italian hostage held by al-Qaida in a U.S. drone strike in January near the Afghan border....
View ArticleAfter Pakistan bus attack, worry an insurgency growing worse
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — As hundreds of mourners on Saturday protested the killing of 22 people in deadly bus hijackings in western Pakistan, the assaults raised new fears that a long-simmering...
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