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Displaced people from Swat arrive in Mardan near Peshawar
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WASHINGTON As the insurgency of the Taliban
and Al Qaeda spreads in Pakistan , senior American...
officials say they are increasingly concerned about new vulnerabilities for Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, including the potential for militants to snatch a ...
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Pakistan Strife Raises U.S. Doubts on Nuclear Arms
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US air strikes in Afghanistan on Tuesday killed
dozens of civilians including women and children, officials from...
the Red Cross have said. Afghan officials in the western province of Farah told the BBC as many as 100 civilians might have died. The ...
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BBC NEWS | South Asia | US Afghan strikes 'killed dozens'
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... Globe: Globe union faces cuts, furloughs Approval called crucial for paper's future Fox News: White House to Release Photo From New York Flyover Washington Times: Records violations ensnare housing nominee Office handed largest fine in U.S. history USA Today: No stimulus for some police departments after past violations BBC: UN laments the 'choking of Bethlehem' Chicago Sun-Times/AP: Median age for hospitalized flu victims is 15 BBC: Pakistan pounds Taliban positions BBC: Mexico relaxes flu restrictions ...
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... and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari continue for a second day. The Obama administration is skeptical of President Karzai. Afghan troops fired on rock-throwing protestors angry over the U.S. airstrikes that may have killed dozens of people this week. The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan dispatched a joint U.S.-Afghan investigative team to probe into the incident. Pakistan attacked Taliban positions in Swat valley as civilians continue ...
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news.bbc.co.uk 4/4/2009 — A suspected US missile strike in north-west Pakistan, the second drone attack in four days, has killed 13 people. Local officials in North Waziristan, near the Afghan border, said the dead included women and children as well as militants - some of ...
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan Taliban chief 'not dead'
news.bbc.co.uk 8/8/2009 — A close associate of Pakistan's most wanted man, Baitullah Mehsud, who was reportedly killed in a US drone attack, has told the BBC he is alive. Commander Hakimullah Mehsud said reports of the Taliban leader's death three days ago in an attack on a ...
BBC NEWS | South Asia | 'Dozens dead' in US drone strike
news.bbc.co.uk 6/24/2009 — At least 43 people have died in missile strikes by a US drone aircraft in a militant stronghold of Pakistan, a Taliban spokesman has told the BBC. The people killed in South Waziristan had been attending the funeral of a militant commander who had ...
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Disarray on Pakistan Taleban threat
news.bbc.co.uk 4/24/2009 — The Pakistani government and army seem incapable or unwilling to tackle the Taleban threat in the north-west, argues guest columnist Ahmed Rashid. Unprecedented political and military disarray in Pakistan and a growing public feeling of helplessness ...
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Drones 'kill dozens' in Pakistan
news.bbc.co.uk 7/8/2009 — At least 40 people have been killed in a suspected US missile strike in north-west Pakistan, local officials say. They told the BBC three suspected US drones had fired missiles at militants near Ladha in South Waziristan. It is the third strike in two ...
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