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Pakistan police investigating girl for blasphemy
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities arrested a Christian girl and are investigating whether she violated the country's strict blasphemy laws after furious neighbors surrounded her house and demanded police take action, a police officer said...Tags: Religion and Belief, Pakistan, Islam, Christianity, Islamabad (Pakistan)
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In Pakistan, attackers bomb women's university bus, hospital
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Militants laid siege to a hospital and bombed a women's university bus in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta in a wave of violence that killed at least 19 people and underscored the challenge facing new Prime Minister...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hospitals and Clinics, Pakistan, Politics, Government Ministers
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Bombings, militant takeover of hospital kill at least 15 in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Militants took over sections of a hospital in the southern city of Quetta on Saturday after bombing a women’s university bus and detonating a second bomb at the hospital in what authorities said were coordinated attacks...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Nawaz Sharif, Hospitals and Clinics, Bombings, Pakistan
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Cricket-High court suspends Ashraf as PCB chairman
ReutersKARACHI, May 28 (Reuters) - Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Zaka Ashraf was suspended by the Islamabad High Court on Tuesday over what it described as the "polluted" process to elect him to the post. The decision came after a petition filed by a former...Tags: Board of Directors, Elections, Politics, Pakistan, Executive Branch
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One dead in latest shooting of polio workers in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Gunmen killed a female polio worker and injured another near the northwest city of Peshawar on Tuesday, the latest in a series of assaults on vaccination teams working to eradicate the disease in Pakistan. The women were...
Tags: Preventative Medicine, Vaccines, Pakistan, Disease Prevention, Shootings
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Pakistan school van fire kills 16 children, teacher
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Sixteen children and a teacher were killed Saturday when their school van burst into flames in eastern Pakistan, apparently due to a short circuit. President Asif Ali Zardari expressed "deep shock" over the tragedy and...
Tags: Pakistan, Islamabad (Pakistan), Energy Resources
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Nawaz Sharif may give Pakistan-India relations a boost
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Indian-Pakistani relations, for years fraught with tension, appear on the surface to have received a boost from the stunning electoral comeback by former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Since Sharif's decisive...
Tags: Armed Forces, Elections, Prisons, India, Newspaper and Magazine
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Obama's restrictions on drone program welcomed in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Obama’s commitment to scaling back the use of unmanned aircraft to kill suspected terrorists could pave the way for improved relations between the United States and Pakistan, analysts and political leaders...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, China, Elections, Politics, Pakistan
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Pakistan's incoming prime minister turns pragmatic
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested....
Tags: Armed Forces, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Elections, India, Pakistan
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Pakistan ex-premier's party sweeps elections
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's overwhelming victory in weekend parliamentary elections returns to power a seasoned politician who historically has had rocky ties with Pakistan's powerful military and is viewed by many...
Tags: Elections, Pakistan, Politics, Parliament, Islam
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Pakistanis vote in landmark election
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Millions of Pakistanis braved threats from militants and voted Saturday in national elections that marked the country's first democratic transfer of governance and appeared to put former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on track for...
Tags: Elections, Rebellions, Parliament, Pakistan, Politics
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Pakistan's Sharif: Seasoned leader is seen as soft on extremists
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections this weekend returns to power a seasoned politician who historically has had rocky ties with Pakistan’s powerful military and is...
Tags: Elections, Parliament, Politics, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia
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