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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: Religious Conflicts, Pakistan, Nursing, Emergency Incidents, Explosions
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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: Religious Conflicts, Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, Explosions, Emergency Incidents
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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: Armed Forces, Islamabad (Pakistan), Military Equipment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Al-Qaeda
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Pakistan's new prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, has no shortage of problems
McClatchy Foreign StaffISLAMABAD Nawaz Sharif was named Pakistan's prime minister for a record third time Wednesday, and he immediately got down to the nitty-gritty of what arguably is the most daunting job in the democratic world. Sharif's swearing-in Wednesday marked the...Tags: Pakistan, U.S. House of Representatives, Government, India, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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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: Hosni Mubarak, Judges, Punishment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, John Kerry
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Pakistani Taliban vows revenge for deputy chief's death
McClatchy Foreign StaffISLAMABAD The Pakistani Taliban confirmed Thursday that its deputy chief had been killed by a drone strike and vowed revenge against the government for allegedly providing the terrorist chief's coordinates to the CIA. Ahsanullah Ahsan, the spokesman of...Tags: The Washington Post, U.S. Congress, Military Equipment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Health and Safety at School
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Drone strike reportedly kills a long-sought target in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For three long years, the CIA hunted the Pakistani militant who had helped send a suicide bomber deep into a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan. The audacious mission killed seven U.S. intelligence officers and contractors, one...
Tags: Faisal Shahzad, Islamabad (Pakistan), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Jay Carney, Bombings
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U.S. drone strike kills four in Pakistan
dpaISLAMABAD A U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's restive northwestern tribal region killed at least four suspected militants early Wednesday, state-run media reported. The unmanned aircraft fired a missile at a house in Chashma village close to Miranshah, the...Tags: Pakistan, Germany, Politics, Afghanistan, Barack Obama
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Nawaz Sharif may give Pakistan-India relations a boost
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Indian-Pakistani relations, for years fraught with tension, appear on the surface to have received a boost from the stunning electoral comeback by former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Since Sharif's decisive...
Tags: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Armed Forces, Manmohan Singh, Islamabad (Pakistan)
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Obama's drone limits may bolster ties with Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Obama's commitment to scaling back the use of unmanned aircraft to kill suspected terrorists could pave the way for improved relations between the United States and Pakistan, analysts and political leaders said...
Tags: Pakistan, Islamabad (Pakistan), Military Equipment, U.S. Department of State, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Zardari likely will lose Pakistan's presidency � and immunity from prosecution
McClatchy Foreign StaffISLAMABAD Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, will almost certainly lose his job in September and like his predecessor, retired Gen. Pervez Musharraf, he's likely to face criminal charges under the government of newly elected Prime Minister Nawaz...Tags: Pakistan, Heads of State, Judges, Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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Afghan security concerns to ease after 2014, Karzai says
NEW DELHI -- Afghan security after the departure of foreign combat troops in 2014 will become easier because of the ill-advised, misdirected and often corrupt ways NATO and its contractors have pursued the "war on terror," Afghan President Hamid Karzai...
Tags: Pakistan, Manmohan Singh, Armed Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government
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