Posts Tagged ‘ Pakistan ’

NATO, Pakistan both to blame for air strikes: probe 

December 22, 2011
NATO, Pakistan both to blame for air strikes: probe 

  Relatives of Pakistani soldier Havildar Mumtaz Hussain. who was killed in a NATO air strike, gather in front of his grave in the village of Bhagwal, south-east of Islamabad. A NATO investigation into an air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last month concluded that both alliance and Pakistani forces made mistakes in the [...]

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Clinton in Pakistan, presses for more to quash 

May 27, 2011
Clinton in Pakistan, presses for more to quash 

Armed soldiers patrol past a police station, which was destroyed by a car bomb, in Peshawar May 25, 2011. The United States said on Friday that Pakistan has failed to grasp just how much more it must do to quash Islamist militancy, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Islamabad amid tense relations over [...]

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Suicide bomb destroys Pakistan police station 

May 25, 2011
Suicide bomb destroys Pakistan police station 

Pakistani security personnel and volunteers search for victims in the rubble of a destroyed police station following a suicide bomb attack in Peshawar on May 25, 2011. A Taliban suicide bomber flattened a Pakistani police station on Wednesday, killing six people in the latest brazen assault on security forces since US troops killed Osama bin [...]

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Saudi diplomat shot dead in Karachi 

May 16, 2011
Saudi diplomat shot dead in Karachi 

Pakistani security officials gather outside the Saudi consulate in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on May 11, 2011, following a grenade attack. A Saudi diplomat was killed in a drive-by shooting near the consulate in Karachi on Monday, the second attack on Saudi interests in Pakistan’s biggest city in less than a week, officials said. [...]

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Pakistan's parliament condemns bin Laden raid 

May 14, 2011
Pakistan's parliament condemns bin Laden raid 

Family members accompany a man, who was injured by a suicide bomb blast in Charsadda, as he is treated at Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar May 13, 2011. Pakistan’s parliament condemned on Saturday the US raid to find and kill Osama bin Laden, calling for a review of US ties and warning that Pakistan could [...]

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Pakistan denies ‘absurd’ bin Laden allegations 

May 10, 2011
Pakistan denies ‘absurd’ bin Laden allegations 

A Pakistan paramilitary soldier stands guard during a protest over the slaying of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Karachi. Pakistan has dismissed as “absurd” accusations that complicity or incompetence had allowed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to hide out in the country for years and vowed a full investigation. Addressing parliament in his first [...]

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Pakistan 'aware of US raid' after it began 

May 9, 2011
Pakistan 'aware of US raid' after it began 

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik, seen here in 2010, told an Arab satellite TV he knew of the US raid which killed Osama bin Laden only 15 minutes after its launch but had no idea of the target. Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik told an Arab satellite TV on Monday he knew of the US [...]

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Al-Qaeda vows to avenge death of ‘martyr’ bin Laden 

May 7, 2011
Al-Qaeda vows to avenge death of ‘martyr’ bin Laden 

Pakistani Islamists chant anti-US slogans holding a picture of Osama bin Laden during a protest outskirt Quetta. Al-Qaeda and Islamic militants have vowed to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden by US commandos, declaring him a “martyr” and calling on Muslims to rise up against the United States. But US President Barack Obama swept [...]

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Lawsuit accuses ‘Three Cups of Tea’ author of fraud 

May 7, 2011
Lawsuit accuses ‘Three Cups of Tea’ author of fraud 

This undated file photo provided by New Mark Communications shows Greg Mortenson of Roseville, Minn., who founded the Central Asia Institute, a Montana-based organization which builds schools for girls in remote tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Greg Mortenson, author of the bestseller “Three Cups of Tea,” was sued for fraud on Friday in a [...]

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CIA watched bin Laden from nearby safe house inside Pakistan 

May 6, 2011
CIA watched bin Laden from nearby safe house inside Pakistan 

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends a meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini (not in picture) wearing translation earphones in Rome, May 5, 2011. Extensive surveillance of Osama bin Laden’s hideout from a nearby CIA safe house in Abbottabad led to his killing in a Navy SEALs operation, US officials said, a revelation likely [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...