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Twelve killed over 20 injured in powerful bombing in Pakistan
Twelve people, including eight police personnel, were killed and over 20 injured on Thursday in a powerful bombing in Pakistan's Quetta city.The deafening explosion took place in Bhosa Mandi area of Quetta Thursday morning, DawnNews reported.Fayyaz Sumbal, a senior police official, said militants targeted the vehicle of police's Rapid Response Force (RRF) through a remote control ...
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Pakistan Blast Kills 13 Officers in Restive Area
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Pakistani police targeted in deadly Quetta car bombing
Pakistan wracked by a separatist insurgency and Islamic militancy, police say.The bombing on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, also wounded 23 people, said the senior police officer Fayaz Sumbal. The car was packed with around 100kg (220lb) of explosives and was parked alongside a road in the city. It was detonated by remote control when a vehicle carrying members of ...
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Car Bomb Kills 12 In Pakistans Southwest
Police in Pakistan say a bomb planted on a vehicle in the southwest of the country has killed 12 people, including 11 police officers. Police officials said the attack just outside Quetta also wounded more than 20. Police said the bomb targeted a vehicle carrying members of the police's special forces. Quetta is the capital of southwestern Balochistan Province, which is a ...
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Nawaz Sharif seeks civil nuclear technology from China
Li Keqiang . Sharif called on Li at a hotel here this morning and discussed ways to strengthen bilateral relations in different fields. He focussed on civil nuclear technology, trade and foreign investment during his talks with Li, Geo News channel quoted its sources as saying. The PML-N chief said China had invested in Pakistani nuclear projects in the past and should provide more cooperation ...
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Blast kills 12 in Pakistans Balochistan province
Militants in Balochistan, a province rich in natural gas, have been fighting Pakistani military forces for self-rule. For years, they have complained that the government has paid little attention to them and their economic ...
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Roadside bomb kills 13 in southwest Pakistan
Pakistan where separatist rebels have for decades been battling to control the region's natural gas and other resources. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bomb in the city of Quetta. It was planted in a three-wheeled auto-rickshaw and blew up as a truck carrying the security men passed by. Sixteen people were wounded and the death toll could rise, said police in the ...
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Indian police say rebel commander killed in Kashmir gunbattle 3 police wounded
SRINAGAR, India - A top police officer in Indian-controlled Kashmir says a local rebel commander has been killed in a fierce gunbattle with government forces. Inspector General of Police Abdul Gani Mir says the fighting started early Thursday after police and paramilitary troops acted on a tip and surrounded a neighbourhood in the disputed Himalayan region's main city of Srinagar. Mir ...
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12 Killed in Pakistan Blast
Officials in southwest Pakistan say an explosion has ripped through a vehicle used by security forces, killing at least 12 people and wounding nearly two ...
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12 die in Pakistan bombing
Islamabad, May 23 : Twelve people, including eight police personnel, were killed and over 20 injured Thursday in a powerful bombing in Pakistan's Quetta ...
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Pakistan summons Afghan envoy over border post firing
Pakistan on Thursday summoned Afghan Charge d'Affaires and lodged protest over unprovoked firing on a border check post, the Foreign Ministry said. The Foreign Ministry said that two soldiers were injured in firing by Afghan troops late Wednesday. "The Afghan Charge d'Affaires was summoned to the Foreign Office today for conveying protest of the Government of Pakistan on an ...
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Lis Pakistan visit signals stronger ties
an official visit to India, Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany , with the first leg in India receiving wide attention from the world's media. Premier Li's visit to Pakistan will also be closely scrutinized, as it immediately follows the country's general ...
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Drone strikes in Pakistan have fallen sharply says report
Ahead of US President Obama's long-awaited address on drones at Washington's National Defence University on Thursday, the New York Times said that drone strikes in Pakistan have fallen sharply since their peak in 2010, perhaps in response to increasing scrutiny of the programme by Congress and the American public. President Obama embraced drone strikes in his first term, and the ...
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Chinese premier raises five-point proposal for boosting cooperation with Pakistan
Chinese premier Li Keqiang presented in Islamabad Wednesday a five-point proposal for further deepening friendship and cooperation with Pakistan.He made the suggestions during talks with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Interim Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, during which the two sides reached important consensuses on boosting the bilateral strategic cooperative ...
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Full text of Premier Lis interview with Pakistani media
Chinese premier Li Keqiang gave an interview to Pakistani media before he embarked Wednesday on an official visit to the South Asian country.The following is the full text of the interview:1. We have learned that you made your first visit to Pakistan 27 years ago. Could you tell us what impression you got on that visit? This is your first visit to Pakistan since you took office as Chinese ...
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China Pakistan to be good partners brothers forever premier
China and Pakistan will always be good partners and brothers that are reliable and sincere to each other, visiting Premier Li Keqiang said Wednesday.The two neighboring countries "are all-weather friends," Li said during a meeting with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari shortly after he landed here before noon.The bilateral friendship boasts a solid foundation and enjoys great ...
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Chinas premier offers to help end Pakistan energy crisis
China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, as Islamabad seeks to end an energy crisis that triggers power cuts of up to 20 hours a day, bringing the economy to a near standstill. Li arrived in the Pakistan capital under extra-tight security on Wednesday on the second leg of his first official trip since taking office in March and ...
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Li moots China-Pak eco corridor
Li Keqiang on Wednesday linked growth in his country's restive west with that in sluggish Pakistan, saying the two sides wanted to create an "economic corridor" to boost development. Li, on his first overseas trip since taking over in a once-in-a-decade power transfer in Beijing, congratulated Pakistan on its recent general election and hailed the countries' long-standing ...
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One Drone Victim’s Trail From Raleigh to Pakistan
WASHINGTON -- When Jude Kenan Mohammad was about 18 and living in Raleigh, N.C., according to people who knew him, he came under the influence of an older ...
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Court Details Fatal Pakistani-U.S. Family Feud
She fled her husband and her family, sneaking out of her home in Pakistan to take sanctuary in the American Embassy, which then whisked her to a secret hide-out in the United States. The thrilling escape seemed to end the harrowing ordeal of Amina Ajmal, an American citizen who said she had been held captive for years by her own relatives in Pakistan and forced to marry a man there who ...
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China-Pakistan bond unbreakable premier
The relationship between China and Pakistan is unbreakable, and the two neighbors are intent on deepening their strategic cooperation, visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here ...
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Amnesty Report Notes Worldwide Abuses As Well As Courage Of Activists
In a new report, the global rights group Amnesty International (AI) documents abuses in 159 countries and territories that it says were "inflicted by those in power on those who stand in the way of their vested interests." The findings were published on May 23 in Amnesty International's annual report, "The State of the World's Human Rights," for 2012. It ...
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Lis QA with Pakistani media
/enpproperty--> Editor's note: The following is an English translation of a written interview given to the Pakistani media by Premier Li Keqiang. Q1. We have learned that you made your first visit to Pakistan 27 years ago. Could you tell us what impression you got on that visit? This is your first visit to Pakistan since you took office as Chinese Premier. What expectations do ...
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China Pakistan to bolster ties
/enpproperty--> China and Pakistan said on Wednesday they will set up an economic corridor to further connect their two economies. The announcement came as ...
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Looking at Pakistans new era under Nawaz Sharif for the 3rd time
Good, bad or ugly, the 2013 elections are over; and now testing times are ahead for the new incumbents. It is the third coming for Nawaz Sharif, a remarkable turn of fortune for a leader who was ousted from power by the military at gunpoint in 1999 and convicted on treason ...
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Pakistan's darkest hour
What began as the normal monsoon season has turned into the greatest disaster, the greatest humanitarian crisis and the worst floods ever seen in the history of Pakistan. According to the UN, the disaster in Pakistan from 2010 floods is now worse than the 2005 earthquake in the country and the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia combined.
It is a catastrophe of mammoth proportions and the challenge faced by a centrally weak government is how to get food aid to the some 6 million in need of help and provide relief facilities to the 20 million people impacted by the disaster. Read more
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