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Pakistan makes arrests over Mumbai attacks
Pakistan responded to intense pressure from the US to take action after the Mumbai attacks by arresting 15 people, an official said on Monday.
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Indian finance minister denies call to Pakistani president
India’s foreign minister denied on Sunday that he had phoned Pakistan’s president at the height of the Mumbai terrorist siege.
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Pakistan awaits proof on Mumbai terror links
Pakistan was still awaiting "concrete proof" on Saturday that a group based there carried out the devastating Mumbai attacks.
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Pakistan vows to hunt Mumbai attack plotters
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in Islamabad on Thursday that Pakistan gave assurances that it would root out terrorism.
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Rice in Pakistan, urges ‘tough line’ on terrorism
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a trip to Pakistan on Thursday to urge the Pakistani government to take a ”tough line” on terrorism.
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US sharpens focus on South Asia’s Gordian Knot
The outgoing Bush administration was always going to leave president-elect Barack Obama with the problem of what to do about Pakistan.
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Captured militant tells of training in Pakistan
The gunman captured during the attacks on Mumbai said he had undergone months of commando-style training in a Islamist militant camp in Pakistan.
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Deadly drones fuel anti-American feeling in tribal belt
Drones deliver a silent, deadly payload that has proved effective in killing militants, but has also killed civilians when intelligence goes awry.
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‘Anti-women’ Cabinet riles Pakistan’s activists
Two politicians accused of brutal attitudes towards women have been made Cabinet ministers in Pakistan, causing outrage among human rights activists.
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Shock at new turn in Pakistan violence
A US diplomat whose armoured vehicle was ambushed by suspected Islamic militants in Peshawar in August was unharmed.
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The other Islamabad: A bird-watcher’s paradise
Islamabad often makes the news for political upheaval, but for a band of enthusiasts the city is famous for something very different — bird-watching.
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US missiles hit Pakistani Taliban, 12 dead
Suspected US drones fired missiles into a Pakistani tribal region on Friday, killing 12 people, including five foreigners.
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Pakistan warns US general to stop attacks on its soil
Pakistan delivered a blunt message on Monday to the United States, warning that US missile strikes inside Pakistan must stop.
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Disease spreads among Pakistan quake survivors
A strong aftershock rattled south-western Pakistan on Saturday, as aid agencies warned that disease had begun to spread among earthquake survivors.
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Relief trickles in to Pakistan quake survivors
Pakistani soldiers scrambled on Friday to get aid to tens of thousands of earthquake survivors in remote south-western mountains.
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Freezing Pakistan quake survivors wait for aid
Thousands of villagers in south-west Pakistan waited for aid on Thursday after an earthquake that destroyed homes and killed at least 215 people.
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Scores killed in Pakistan earthquake
A powerful earthquake struck south-west Pakistan before dawn early on Wednesday, killing at least 160 people.
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Pakistan quake kills at least 80, toll seen higher
At least 80 people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck south-west Pakistan on Wednesday, bringing down hundreds of mud-walled houses.
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IMF bails out Pakistan
Pakistan has sought an emergency bail-out from the International Monetary Fund.
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Suspected US drone kills up to 20 militants
A suspected US drone fired missiles on Monday into a Pakistani region on the Afghan border that is a stronghold of a Pakistani Taliban leader.
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Pakistan says 1 500 militants, 73 troops killed
Pakistani forces have killed 1 500 al-Qaeda and Taliban militants during a two-month operation in a remote tribal zone.
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Pakistan dismiss Lawson as coach
Australian Geoff Lawson has been dismissed as coach of Pakistan, the Pakistan Cricket Board said on Friday.
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Pakistan Parliament in war on rodents
Beset by Islamic militancy and economic woes, Pakistani lawmakers now face a new challenge — an infestation of rats.
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ICC reschedules Champions Trophy for 2009
The ICC says it has decided to reschedule the Champions Trophy in Pakistan, postponed this year amid security concerns, to next September.
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Suicide attack on Pakistani tribal council kills 20
A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people in an attack on a tribal council meeting in Pakistan’s north-west Orakzai region on Friday.
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Suicide attack rips apart Islamabad police building
A suicide car bomber rammed an anti-terrorist squad building at Islamabad’s police headquarters on Thursday.
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‘Arabs’ among 20 killed by US strike in Pakistan
Pakistani villagers collected the corpses and body parts on Saturday of at least 20 people, including several suspected Arab militants.
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Casualties of another war
The Marriott bombing is terrible revenge for the Afghan campaign that has gone so badly wrong, writes Tariq Ali.
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Pakistan army says 1 000 militants killed this month
Pakistani forces have killed up to 1 000 Islamist militants in fighting in the Bajaur region this month, an army commander said on Friday.
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Sixty militants killed in Pakistan
Pakistani troops backed by helicopter gunships killed 60 Taliban and al-Qaeda militants near the Afghan border, officials said on Tuesday.
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‘Three were alive, but they’d all lost parts of their bodies’
The "face of Islamabad", the Marriott hotel, was left a charred shell on Sunday, a grim testament to the war against Islamic extremists.
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Truck bomber kills dozens at Islamabad hotel
A suicide truck bomber attacked the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday, killing at least 45 people and wounding nearly 250.