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/ 12 February 2008

Senior Taliban commander caught in Pakistan

Pakistani security forces wounded and captured a prominent Taliban commander on Monday near the border area with Afghanistan. Mullah Mansour Dadullah took over as commander of Taliban forces in the southern Afghan province of Helmand after his brother, Mullah Dadullah, was killed by British forces in May.

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/ 19 February 2007

Islamists suspected of Pakistan blast

Pakistani investigators were searching on Sunday for clues to a bloody suicide bombing in a court after one person wounded in the blast on the previous day died, taking the death toll to 16. The bomber blew himself up in a court in the south-western city of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, while it was in session on Saturday.

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/ 9 December 2006

Taliban in Pakistan seek revenge for Nato bombings

Elderly Mohammed Nabi pounded his fist on the rug at his mudbrick house in south-west Pakistan and told how the Taliban recruited his cousin to avenge Nato bombings across the border. "He didn’t say he was going for jihad, he said he was going to Afghanistan to visit our ancestral village about two months ago," raged the white-bearded Afghan refugee.

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/ 10 March 2006

Pakistan landmine blast kills 26

A vehicle carrying a wedding party hit a landmine in Pakistan’s restive south-western province of Baluchistan on Friday, killing 26 people and injuring seven, provincial officials said. The blast ripped through a trailer being pulled by a tractor on a remote mountain trail near the town of Rakhni, about 300km east of Quetta.

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/ 11 February 2005

Hundreds missing after dam breaks in Pakistan

More than 400 people are still missing in a remote area of south-western Pakistan after heavy rains caused a large dam to burst, sweeping villagers into the Arabian Sea, a provincial official said on Friday. At least 35 people have been confirmed dead, and more than 1 200 villagers have been pulled alive from the waters.

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/ 10 December 2004

Scenes of chaos after Pakistan market blast

A bomb apparently targeting a military truck killed nine people, including a soldier, and injured at least 21 when it ripped through a market in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, officials said. The device, believed to have been attached to a bicycle, exploded near the vehicle in the main Mizaan Chowk commercial district of the city.