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1 hr ago | The Washington Post

Suicide bomber strikes vehicle of Afghan religious leader, killing 3 people in Pakistan

Police say a suicide bomber walked up to a vehicle owned by an Afghan religious leader in northwestern Pakistan and set off his explosives, killing three people.

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1 hr ago | Official Wire News

Suicide bomber kills 3 in northwest Pakistan

Police say a suicide bomber walked up to a vehicle owned by an Afghan religious leader in northwestern Pakistan and set off his explosives, killing three people.

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Related Topix: World News, Pakistan, Science / Technology, NASA, Vanderbilt University, Boca Raton, FL

Thu May 23, 2013

The Peninsula

Women from northwest fail to w...

PESHAWAR: A woman contender from Pakistan's northwestern province of Fata and a couple of others from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa made headlines in national and international media after jumping into the election arena, but none of them could win any seat either in national or the provincial assembly.

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Daily Times

Pti CM to take over KP on 31st

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's MPAs-elect will take oath on May 29 which will be followed by the election of speaker and deputy speaker, while the provincial chief executive will be elected on May 31, chief minister-designate Pervez Khattak revealed on Thursday.

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Deseret News

What others say:Obama's forgotten victims

When Barack Obama ran for president of the United States in 2008, his message of hope and change gave us, the citizens of lesser republics, hope that he would close Guantanamo and shut down programs where extrajudicial killing or bribing foreign heads of state with American taxpayer dollars had become standard practice.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, World News, Pakistan, Asia,

KTVN Reno

Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone

Amid lingering concerns about his national security policies, President Barack Obama is outlining measures to clarify the deadly use of drones against terror suspects.

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The York Daily Record

Promoting U.S.-friendly 'Ahmadi' Islam certain to backfire (Other...

Supporters of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party headed by Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, pray during a gathering to celebrate Sharif's victory, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, May 17, 2013.

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Canada.com

Pakistan arrested American before he was killed in US drone strike

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani authorities once arrested an American citizen now known to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in the country, but he escaped after being released on bail.

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CPJ Press Freedom Online

Roots of Impunity

On the evening of January 17, 2012, a year and four days after Geo TV reporter Wali Khan Babar was gunned down on a busy street in Karachi, Mukarram Khan Aatif , a senior journalist in the tribal region of Pakistan, was offering evening prayers at a mosque near his home in Shabqadar.

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Wed May 22, 2013

CNN

Khan home after campaign fall

Imran Khan, head of Pakistan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, leaves the hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, on Wednesday, May 22.

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PakTribune

PTI seeks Sami's help in Taliban peace talks

PESHAWAR: Imran Khan's party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, has sought the help of an elderly pro-Taliban cleric to initiate peace talks with the militants, party officials said Tuesday.

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Asia Times

Speaking Freely : The sea rises in age of drone terror

SPEAKING FREELY The sea rises in age of drone terror By Dallas Darling Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, World News, Pakistan,

Tue May 21, 2013

The Nation

Should ban on YouTube stay?

The YouTube was banned in Pakistan in September 2012 after a blasphemous video titled "Innocence of Muslims" was uploaded on it, and Muslims all over the world protested against it.

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Chambersburg Public Opinion

Promoting U.S.-friendly 'Ahmadi' Islam certain to backfire

Supporters of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party headed by Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, pray during a gathering to celebrate Sharif's victory, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, May 17, 2013.

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Mon May 20, 2013

AlertNet

Don't wear socks, hot Pakistanis told amid power crisis

Election workers use covers of ballot boxes and polling booths to shield themselves from the sun before transporting them to polling stations, at a sports complex used as a storage area for election material in Peshawar, Pakistan, on May 10, 2013.

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Arutz Sheva Israel News

Courageous Women Can Change the World: Malala Yousafzai

In order to fully understand why Malala Yousafzai, now fifteen years old, made an outstanding contribution to changing the world - and we hope she will continue to do so - it is important to take a look at the background of the following story.

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Sun May 19, 2013

CNN

Pakistani voters cast ballots a day after political leader's slaying

Pakistanis cast ballots in Karachi on Sunday, a day after the slaying of a well-known political leader who had accused rivals of vote rigging.

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Sat May 18, 2013

Seattle Times

Hobbled, once-grand railways reflect Pakistan’s decline

Railway workers attempt to fix tracks in Lahore. In its heyday, train travel in Pakistan was an elegant, popular mode of travel for the wealthy and working classes alike.

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The Cyprus Weekly

Mosque bombs kill 10 PESHAWAR - Police say bombings at two mosques in northwest Pakistan have...

Police say bombings at two mosques in northwest Pakistan have killed at least 10 people.

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PakTribune

Taliban kill two soldiers in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: Taliban militants ambushed a military convoy late Thursday in Pakistan's troubled northwestern city of Peshawar, killing two soldiers, security officials said.

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