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Indiana halts support of Pakistani fertilizer plant on US bomb concerns
By Susan Guyett, Reuters Indiana has canceled subsidies for a planned $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in the state because of concerns that a Pakistani company involved in the project makes products used in improvised explosives that kill and injure U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Midwest Fertilizer Corp, which has sought to build the plant in southern Indiana, is 48 percent owned by Fatima Group, ...
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Karachi gunmen kill Khan party woman
Gunmen have killed a Pakistani woman politician from cricket star Imran Khan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of partial election ...
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Pakistans Railroads Sum Up Nations Woes
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Gunmen Kill Pakistan Party Official
Officer Sarfaraz Nawaz said the victim, Zohra Shahid, was gunned down outside her home in Karachi in southern Sindh Province. Ms. Shahid was the vice president of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the party led by the former Pakistani cricket ...
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Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain killed in Karachi
PTI party supporters during the general election in Rawalpindi on May 11, 2013. PTI politician Zahra Shahid Hussain was killed in Karachi outside her home on Saturday evening. (FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty ...
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Power lunch Security on the menu for Kayani Sharif meet
Nawaz Sharif and briefed him on the security situation of the country. Kayani, who sought the meeting, called on Sharif at his brother Shahbaz Sharif's residence in Lahore on Saturday. This was the first meeting between Kayani and Sharif since the PML-N emerged victorious in the elections. The meeting lasted over three hours and the leaders had lunch together. The army chief briefed the ...
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Woman political leader killed in Pakistan
Imran Khan 's Movement for Justice in Pakistan was gunned down Saturday outside her Karachi home, police said. Investigators said the killing of Zahra Shahid Hussain, carried out by two men on motorbikes, was a robbery gone wrong, The (London) Guardian reported. But Khan, the cricket star turned politician, suggested the United National Movement or MQM party, which dominates politics in ...
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Pakistan to benefit fromChinese hybrid rice technology
BEIJING, China - Pakistan wants to benefit in the field of agriculture and particularly in enhancing rice production by employing Hybrid rice technology developed by an expert from Hunan province, said Pakistans Ambassador to China, Masood Khan. Pakistan largely benefited from the Hybrid rice seeds developed by Professor Yuan Long Ping, who is popularly known as Father of Hybrid Rice, said ...
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U.S. state cancels subsidy for investment from Pakistani company
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Indiana has canceled subsidies for a planned $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in the state because of concerns that a Pakistani company involved in the project makes products used in improvised explosives that kill and injure U.S. troops in ...
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Senior member of Pakistani political party gunned down say police
Police say gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party. Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. Shahid was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in Sindh. No one has claimed ...
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Member of Pakistani cricket stars party killed
Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. Shahid was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in ...
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Female politican fatally shot in Pakistan
Gunmen have killed a Pakistani woman politician from cricket star Imran Khan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of partial election re-polling. Zohra Hussain, 59, the vice president of PTI women's wing in the southern Sindh province, was targeted by three gunmen on a motorcycle outside her residence in the city's upmarket Defence neighbourhood. The ...
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Pakistani politician gunned down outside home
Pakistan A senior female Pakistani politician has been shot dead outside her home in the southern city of Karachi.Zahra Shahid Hussain, 59, was the senior vice-president of Pakistan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party, led by former international cricketer Imran Khan.She "was leaving her home for some work when three gunmen attacked her. She thought they wanted to snatch her purse and ...
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Pakistanis hopeful as Nawaz Sharif makes a political comeback
Former prime minister and leader of Pakistan Muslim League party, Nawaz Sharif, gestures while speaking to members of the media at his residence in Lahore, Pakistan, ...
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Fmr. Pakistani PM Sharif Returns to Power
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Shaif is set to return to office after an overwhelming victory in weekend parliamentary elections. Sharif was ousted in a military coup. His latest victory comes as some say relations between the United States and Pakistan are deteriorating. In a post-election interview with ...
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Senior leader of Imran Khans party shot dead
Zahra Shahid Hussain , the vice-president of the party's chapter in Sindh, was shot by two unidentified men outside her home in Defence Phase IV on Saturday. She died while being taken to a nearby hospital. Hussain was a member of the party's central executive committee. The motive for the murder could not immediately be ascertained. The killers escaped on a motorcycle. The shooting ...
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Former Pakistani premier claims third term in power according to unofficial resu…
Former Pakistani premier claims third term in power according to unofficial results from Saturday's elections ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistani Prime Minister Navaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N claimed an early victory in Saturday's parliamentary elections, according to unofficial results.Sharif, toppled 14 years ago in military takeover, was ahead with 130 seats while his main ...
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Musharraf remains under house arrest
Pervez Musharraf will remain on house arrest for at least another two weeks, a Pakistani court ruled Saturday. Musharraf, who returned from self-imposed exile in March in a failed bid to return to power, has been charged with jailing judges who opposed his institution of martial law during his 9-year rule. Pakistan's special Anti-Terrorism Court has barred the retired general from ever ...
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Explosives Shatter Lives in Kashmir
- Aadil Khan and his two siblings had been playing as usual behind their house in the village of Diver, 110 kilometres north of Kashmir's capital, Srinagar, when they came across what they thought was a "plaything" laying on the ground. But no sooner had they picked the object up than it literally shattered their innocent lives into ...
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Pakistan may opt for Chinese navigation system
Pakistan may become the fourth country to opt for China's Beidou navigation system, a rival to the Global Positioning System developed by the United States, even as Chinese officials also look to make a case for it in ...
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China hails Pakistans smooth general election
China has congratulated Pakistan on its smooth general election, pledging continued firm support to the country. "China is glad to see that Pakistan's general election has been smoothly held," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a daily press briefing on Monday. Hong's comments came after the initial results showed, as of 10 a.m. local time on Sunday, Muhammad Nawaz ...
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Pakistan Army Chief Kayani meets Nawaz Sharif
Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani today met Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif and briefed him on the security situation of the ...
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Can positive and negative inducements be effective in containing radicalism in Pakistan
C Christine Fair, in a very well articulated article, titled, 'Can this alliance be saved? Salvaging the US-Pakistan relation', published on Time magazine's website on 30 April, 2013, wrote that Pakistan needs to change its jihadist policy and she blames past and present American administrations' policies of overlooking Pakistani misadventures around its neighborhood, ...
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Pakistan anti-terrorism court extends Musharrafs remand by 14 days
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday extended by 14 days former President Pervez Musharraf's judicial remand over the detention of judges during the 2007 emergency. ...
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2008 Mumbai case Trial of Pakistani suspects adjourned
Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi , charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks was today adjourned till May 25 as the judge was on leave. The reason for Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman going on leave could not immediately be ascertained. Court officials said the case would be taken up again on May 25. ...
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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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