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73 articles tagged "Pakistan"
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September 23, 2008, 12:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
Many people were trapped in rooms of the burning five-star Marriott Hotel in the Pakistan capital after a suicide bomber detonated a large truck loaded with a ton of explosives at the hotel gate. The official death toll is 52, including the Czech ambassador, and scores of injured. The ceiling ...
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September 12, 2008, 2:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to a guard wounded in the attack Tuesday, Sept. 9, Abu Haris died of his wounds after missiles hit the compound of Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani killing at least 25 people and injuring twenty. The White House has not commented on the unconfirmed report of the missile attack, suspected ...
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September 8, 2008, 5:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reports that the blocking of the main Torkham fuel route to NATO forces fighting in Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 6, was a warning from Islamabad that no more US ground incursions would be tolerated.
The vital fuel route was shut two days after a US helicopter-borne commando attack ... 
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September 8, 2008, 5:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Pakistan's parliament and four provincial assemblies Saturday, Sept 6, elected Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party and widower of the slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, president to fill the post vacated by Pervez Musharraf Aug. 18.
debkafile adds: To win Washington's support, the unpopular ... 
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August 20, 2008, 9:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
"I might have made some mistakes, but the people of Pakistan will forgive me," said the departing Pakistan president in a televised speech to the nation Monday, Aug. 18. He thus avoided the coalition parties' efforts to make him the first Pakistani president to be impeached.
Saudi envoys are reportedly ... 
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August 2, 2008, 12:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Pakistan's intelligence agency Sunday, July 27, accused the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Israel's Mossad of working hand in glove. debkafile's intelligence sources report that Islamabad, beset by accusations from New Delhi and Kabul of fomenting terror in their countries, injected the Israeli agency into the ...
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July 9, 2008, 11:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
The string of explosions in Karachi Monday, July 7, came a day after a suicide bombing left 19 dead and more than 70 wounded most of them police officers in Islamabad. They were attacked 15 minutes after thousands of Islamic extremists who had gathered for the Red Mosque siege anniversary ...
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June 16, 2008, 9:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US military responded to the Pakistani army's bitter charge Wednesday, June 11, that US-led coalition troops were responsible for the deaths of 11 Pakistani paratroops by destroying a Pakistani Frontier Corps post at Gora Prai, 80 kilometers northwest of Peshawar. The Pakistani military said the incident risked damaging cooperation ...
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March 27, 2008, 1:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
Yousuf Raza Gilani, named by slain Benzair Bhuto's Pakistan People's Party as its candidate for prime minister, was sworn in Tuesday. In an immediate challenge to President Pervez Musharraf, Gilani ordered the release of all judges sacked and detained by Musharraf under emergency rule in November. The party has agreed ...
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March 18, 2008, 9:04 AM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday, March 16, they struck a compound identified as an al Qaeda hideout in Dhoog village near Wana, the main town of Pakistan's tribal South Waziristan district on the Afghan border. An unnamed official said it was an American plane that fired precision-guided missiles at the house, not one of ...
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March 13, 2008, 11:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
Another 175 were injured in the two attacks. One killed 22 people and partly demolished the Federal Investigation Agency headquarters high-rise building using 50 kilos of explosives; the other 15 minutes later killed two children and two adults near an advertising agency. This year, Islamist-linked terror attacks have killed more ...
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March 12, 2008, 8:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, the Turkish chief of staff, said if President Pervez Musharraf lost his grip, Pakistan could fall into Taliban hands and a terrorist organization gain control of nuclear arms for the first time. The general was addressing an international terrorism conference in Ankara Monday, March 10. Sunday, the ...
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February 13, 2008, 6:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Security officials say he was seized in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan near the Afghan border. Mansoor is the borther of a former top Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah who was killed in May 2007.
Near the Afghan border too, a suicide bomber killed Nisar Ali Khan, a candidate of the ...
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February 12, 2008, 7:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to the official, "Just as Mullah Omar is giving strategic direction for the Taliban from Quetta, capital of Balochistan, the al Qaeda senior leadership carries out its planning in Pakistan's tribal areas (FATA) on the Afghan border. He named also Zawahri and Abu Laith al-Libi. The latter was killed ...
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January 28, 2008, 9:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Washington's chosen linchpin-to-be in Islamabad, was an unmitigated disaster for America's war on al Qaeda and its jihadist allies in the key Pakistan-Afghan arena. The 27/12 murder closed a cycle sent spinning by al Qaeda's 9/11 assault on America in the early days of President ...
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January 21, 2008, 7:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
Al Jazeera reports Aitezaz Shah, arrested in the northwest tribal South Waziristan region, admitted he was one of the five suicide bombers sent by Baitullah Mehsud to assassinate the former Pakistani prime minister in Rawalpindi.
Mehsud's regional network is tied to Taliban and al Qaeda debkafile pointed the finger ... 
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December 31, 2007, 10:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
Saturday, Dec. 29, two days after opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's assassination in Rawalpindi, her aides dismissed an interior ministry official's assertion to the press Friday that she was killed by her head hitting the sunroof of her car in a blast caused by a suicide bomber. One aide who sat ...
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December 23, 2007, 8:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
Former interior minister Aftab Sherpao, the apparent target, escaped unhurt but his son and nephew were injured in the blast which occurred during Eid prayers in a mosque at his residential compound northwest of Peshawar. Saturday, dozens of police and intelligence agents raided an Islamic school in the nearby village ...
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December 17, 2007, 9:14 AM (GMT+02:00)
President Pervez Musharraf's powers diminished when he stepped down as army chief earlier this month. Friday, he took formal control of Pakistan's National Command Authority - NCA, which is responsible for security of the country's estimated 90 nuclear warheads. The step was taken to counter US concerns about their vulnerability. ...
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November 16, 2007, 11:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
US deputy secretary of state John Negroponte is due in Islamabad later this week as the row over President Pervez Musharraf's state of emergency escalates.
Musharraf told interviewers Wednesday he had considered resigning but decided he was the man to lead Pakistan to democracy. |
