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Bush meets Pakistan's not-so-strong man
The SwampPresident Bush with Prime Minister Gillani, June 28, 2008. (Alex Wong/Getty Images.) by Frank James President Bush and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani met today at the White House and made brief statements to reporters on the White......Tags: Benazir Bhutto, National Government, Pervez Musharraf, Government, George W. Bush
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Musharraf stepping down: report
The Swampby Frank James The New York Times is reporting that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will step down within days from his post, apparently after finding few constituencies in the country, not even the military he once headed, demanding that he......Tags: Benazir Bhutto, National Government, Pervez Musharraf, Government, Armed Forces
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Obama: Afghanistan, Pakistan strategies
The Swampby Paul Richter and Christi Parsons President Obama begins two days of talks today with the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan to hastily overhaul a painstakingly developed security strategy that was unveiled only five weeks ago but is already badly........Tags: National Government, Hamid Karzai, Armed Forces, George W. Bush, Heads of State
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Pakistan bars anti-drone rally from reaching South Waziristan
World NowPakistani cricket legend Imran Khan failed to take his people power campaign to South Waziristan for an anti-drone rally.... -
Ex-President Musharraf says he will return to Pakistan this month
World NowREPORTING FROM ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- Former President Pervez Musharraf said Sunday that he planned to return to Pakistan in late January to prepare to campaign for elections, but authorities said he would be arrested as soon as he arrived at the airport.... -
Pakistani PM Gilani convicted of contempt
World NowISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan’s Supreme Court convicted Prime Minister Yusaf Raza Gilani on contempt charges Thursday for failing to revive a longstanding graft case against the president, a ruling that could pave the way for his eventual ouster... -
Former Pakistani foreign minister leaves ruling party
World NowOnce Pakistan's foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi has severed ties with the country’s ruling party and is now eying a new political life -- possibly with a rising party led by former cricketer turned politician Imran Khan. Qureshi on Monday... -
Suicide bomb blast kills more than 20 in northwest Pakistan
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A suicide bomb blast at a funeral in northwest Pakistan killed at least 20 people Tuesday, including a newly elected provincial lawmaker, authorities said. [Updated, 7:56 a.m. PDT June 18: Authorities later revised the casualty...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Suicide, NATO, Taliban, Bombings
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In Pakistan, attackers bomb women's university bus, hospital
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Militants laid siege to a hospital and bombed a women's university bus in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta in a wave of violence that killed at least 19 people and underscored the challenge facing new Prime Minister...
Tags: Asif Ali Zardari, Government, Explosions, Armed Conflicts, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Bombings, militant takeover of hospital kill at least 15 in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Militants took over sections of a hospital in the southern city of Quetta on Saturday after bombing a women’s university bus and detonating a second bomb at the hospital in what authorities said were coordinated attacks...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Asif Ali Zardari, Bombings, Pakistan
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No money in Pakistan budget for Iranian gas pipeline US opposed
McClatchy Foreign StaffISLAMABAD Pakistan's newly elected government Wednesday unveiled its first budget, which gave the go-ahead for buying two new nuclear power plants from China but made no allocation for a long-proposed natural gas pipeline from Iran that had sparked...Tags: National Government, Pervez Musharraf, Haqqani Network, Armed Forces, International Atomic Energy Agency
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The Week Ahead: Syria festers, Cuba connects, China's Xi tours
No escaping the conundrum of Syria's war Monday-Tuesday, June 3-4 – Russian and European leaders face an agenda packed with economic and political issues at their two-day summit in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg. But as with most...
Tags: Punishment, Trinidad and Tobago, Judges, Cuba, Manmohan Singh
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