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Pakistan struggles to hold gains against Taliban (AP)

October 22nd, 2010

In this photo taken on Oct. 20, 2010, an internally displaced woman from South Waziristan sits at a World Food Program distribution center in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. For Pakistan's army, ejecting militants from safe havens near the Afghan border has proven to be the easy part. The problems come later: The guerrillas creep back and carry out attacks. Civilians never return. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - For Pakistan’s army, ejecting militants from safe havens near the Afghan border has proven to be the easy part. The problems come later: The guerrillas creep back and…

Police say bombing of mosque in Pakistan kills 2 (AP)

October 22nd, 2010

US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, seen here on October 18. The United States is looking to expand support for Pakistan in high-level talks, but also encouraging its frontline partner to do more after a string of disputes on how to fight Islamic extremism.(AFP/File/Andreas Solaro)AP - Police say a bomb has exploded in a mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least two people.


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Pakistan: 4-day death toll rises to 51 in Karachi (AP)

October 20th, 2010

A Pakistani man walks past closed shops due to a strike in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010. Pakistan's largest city of Karachi reeled Wednesday after gunmen opened fire in a commercial market, killing 11 people in the latest spasm of violence to underscore the poor state of law and order in this U.S.-allied nation. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP - Parts of Pakistan’s largest city shut down Wednesday after an attack on a scrapyard pushed to 51 the number of people killed in four days — a spasm…

Officials: US missile attacks kill 9 in Pakistan (AP)

October 16th, 2010

Photograph taken on November 27, 2008, shows flames gushing out of The Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai. The wife of a key figure in the 2008 Mumbai attacks warned US federal agents three years beforehand that her husband was training with a Pakistani militant group, the Washington Post reported(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)AP - Suspected U.S. unmanned aircraft launched two missile strikes in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border, killing nine people, Pakistani intelligence officials said.


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Pakistan arrests 7 militants, foil plot to kill PM (AP)

October 14th, 2010

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani addresses a news conference after meeting NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels June 4, 2010. REUTERS/Francois LenoirAP - Pakistani police said Thursday they have foiled a plot to kill the country’s prime minister, foreign minister and other senior police, army and government officials by arresting a…

Pakistan reopens Afghan border crossing NATO uses (AP)

October 10th, 2010

Local residents look to burning oil tankers after a militant attack in Mithri, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) east of Quetta, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Gunmen armed with a rocket torched 29 NATO oil tankers in southwestern Pakistan before dawn Saturday, the latest attack on the supply line for binternational/b troops in Afghanistan since Pakistani authorities closed a key border crossing amid a dispute with the United States. (AP Photo)AP - A customs official says Pakistan has reopened a key border crossing used by NATO to ship supplies into Afghanistan.


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Pakistan to reopen border crossing that NATO uses (AP)

October 9th, 2010

Local residents look to burning oil tankers after a militant attack in Mithri, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) east of Quetta, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Gunmen armed with a rocket torched 29 NATO oil tankers in southwestern Pakistan before dawn Saturday, the latest attack on the supply line for binternational/b troops in Afghanistan since Pakistani authorities closed a key border crossing amid a dispute with the United States. (AP Photo)AP - Pakistan will reopen a key border crossing used to transport supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan, authorities said Saturday — the 10th day of a blockade that has…

Gunmen torch 29 more NATO oil tankers in Pakistan (AP)

October 9th, 2010

Pakistani firefighters try to extinguish burning NATO oil tankers following a Taliban attack in Nowshera on October 7, 2010. The US has apologised for a deadly helicopter strike on Pakistani soil in a move Washington hopes will encourage Islamabad to reopen a blocked NATO supply route to Afghanistan that has been repeatedly attacked by Taliban militants.(AFP/A. Majeed)AP - Police say at least 10 gunmen have torched 29 NATO oil tankers in southwest Pakistan.


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Pakistan probes video of apparent army executions (AP)

October 8th, 2010

AP - Pakistan’s army chief ordered an inquiry Friday into video clips that show men in soldiers’ uniforms gunning down a group of bound and blindfolded detainees. The footage has…

Alleged suicide bombs kill 8 at Pakistan Sufi site (AP)

October 7th, 2010

A Pakistani mother mourns foor her two sons who are missing after suicide attacks on the shrine in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. Twin explosions rocked a famed Sufi shrine in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Thursday, killing many people and wounding scores, and sending a stark reminder of the threat posed by Islamist militants to this U.S.-allied nation.(AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP - Two suspected suicide bombers attacked the most beloved Sufi shrine in Pakistan’s largest city Thursday, killing at least eight people, wounding 65 others, and sending a stark reminder…

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