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Taliban in peace talks with Pakistani tribe (Reuters)

October 28th, 2010

Reuters - The Taliban are negotiating a peace deal with a Pakistani tribe in the northwest, tribal elders said on Thursday, that could give militants access to remote strategic areas…

Trying to win Pakistani trust, 1 flight at a time (AP)

October 17th, 2010

In this photo taken on Sept. 29, 2010, a washed away bridge is observed from a U.S. forces Chinook helicopter in flood-affected Swat Valley of Pakistan. The flood water have mostly receded from the Swat Valley, leaving a vast swathe of slit littered with the remains of houses, roads, and bridges. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - The flood waters have mostly receded from the Swat Valley, leaving a vast swath of silt littered with the remains of houses, roads, and bridges.


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German militants training in Pakistani border area (AP)

October 7th, 2010

AP - The video at first seems like many others filmed in Pakistan’s tribal areas: The bearded militant sits cross-legged on the floor, an AK-47 propped against the wall behind…

US apologizes for attack on Pakistani soldiers (AP)

October 6th, 2010

Drivers of Afghanistan-bound NATO vehicles are parked at Pakistani border town of Torkham wait on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - The U.S. apologized Wednesday for a recent helicopter attack that killed two Pakistani soldiers at an outpost near the Afghan border, saying American pilots mistook the soldiers for…

Pakistani officials: Suspected US missiles kill 16 (AP)

October 2nd, 2010

A Pakistani border guard stands near Afghanistan-bound NATO trucks parked on the roadside in Pakistani tribal area of Khyber on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010.  Pakistan closed the Khyber Pass supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Thursday after a coalition helicopter attack mistakenly killed three Pakistani soldiers at a border post, raising tensions in a vital relationship for both Islamabad and Washington. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf)AP - Two suspected American missile strikes killed 16 alleged militants in a northwestern Pakistani tribal region Saturday, intelligence officials said, a sign the U.S. is unwilling to stop using…

Pakistani minister resigns after criticizing army (AP)

September 26th, 2010

Pashtun girls, their homes destroyed by heavy floods, practice the Arabic alphabet and reciting the Koran at a camp for the internally displaced in Charsadda, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, September 26, 2010. Summer floods have killed more than 1,750 people, forced at least 10 million from their homes and caused lasting damage to the economy of Pakistan. REUTERS/Adrees Latif (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)AP - Pakistan’s federal minister for defense production resigned after being summoned by the prime minister to explain comments he made criticizing the army and accusing it of killing prominent…

Pakistani flood victims celebrate Eid in tents (AP)

September 11th, 2010

A Pakistani girls paints hands of her friend with henna to celebrate the Eid, ending of fasting month of Ramadan in Hyderabad, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 10, 2010.(AP Photo/Pervez Masih)AP - Millions of Pakistani flood victims celebrated Islam’s most joyous festival in donated tents and makeshift shelters on Saturday as the country’s leaders — criticized for an inadequate response…

Women, kids among 17 dead in NW Pakistani bombing (AP)

September 7th, 2010

Injured victims of a suicide bombing are treated at a local hospital in Bannu, Pakistan on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. A suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically vital town in northwest Pakistan, killing scores of police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes, police said. (AP Photo/Ijaz Mohammad)AP - A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing 14 women and children and three officers, the latest in a string…

Women, kids among 12 dead in NW Pakistani bombing (AP)

September 7th, 2010

Injured victims of a suicide bombing are treated at a local hospital in Bannu, Pakistan on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. A suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically vital town in northwest Pakistan, killing scores of police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes, police said. (AP Photo/Ijaz Mohammad)AP - A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing 11 women and children and one officer, the latest in a string…

Toll from attack on Pakistani Shiites jumps to 65 (AP)

September 4th, 2010

Volunteers help injured people following an explosion during a Shiite procession in Quetta, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Police say a blast at a Shiite procession has killed scores of people in southwestern Pakistan in the third deadly attack this week on the country's religious minorities.(AP Photo/Arshad Butt)AP - Pakistani police say the death toll from a suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim procession rose from 43 to 65 overnight as critically wounded people died in hospital.


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