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Pakistan

Bhutto party announces candidate for Pakistani PM

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Pakistan to Try New Approach to Militants

The Taliban bombed three police checkposts and a girls’ school in Darra Adam Khel. Security forces seized three illegal FM radio stations and detained 16 Taliban, including a wanted commander in Swat. A curfew has been imposed in Khairpur after 10 were wounded during sectarian clashes.

Tension and tea along the Pakistani border

Phil Peterson, on assignment with the Embedded Transition Team for the Afghan National Army based out of Forward Operating Base Tillman, recounts a recent patrol along the Pakistani border and the team’s encounter with the Pakistani border guards. With the Taliban watching.

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A suicide bomber killed five Pakistani troops when he detonated outside a paramilitary base near Wana, South Waziristan. The Pakistan People’s Party allegedly selected its choice for the country™s next prime minister, but the decision may already be causing rifts within the party. Pakistan successfully conducted its final flight test of its indigenously developed unmanned […]

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Pakistan suicide bomb kills 5 soldiers

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Pakistan assembly to elect PM on Monday

Inside the Bridge: Behind the scenes of a strike into Pakistan

A behind-the-scenes look at a strike launched from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. Phil Peterson was inside the Joint Operation Center’s operation cell, aka “the Bridge,” during the March 12 strike into Pakistan against the Haqqani Network.

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US VP Cheney expects new Pakistan govt to be good allies

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US Works to Tighten Military Ties with Pakistani

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Pakistan Parliament Elects First Woman Speaker

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Pakistani militant appeals death sentence

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A suicide bomber dressed as a police recruit killed two policemen and wounded five in Swat. Mullah Nazir’s spokesman vowed to retaliate for the missile attack in South Waziristan, which he blamed on the US and Pakistan. The Taliban bombed a girls™ high school in Darra Adamkhel after warning the administration to close the school.

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Showdown looms as Pakistan parliament convenes

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Four of those injured in this weekend™s bombing at an Islamabad restaurant were US FBI agents. A series of missile strikes killed up to 20 in Pakistan™s South Waziristan, obliterating two structures used by insurgents as hideouts. Pakistan has extradited three Saudi nationals believed to be al Qaeda terrorists to Saudi Arabia.

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16 dead in Pakistan missile strike: witnesses, state tv

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Video – Bomb explodes in Islamabad restaurant

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Blast reported in Islamabad restaurant

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The Taliban murdered a tribesman accused as serving as a “US spy” in North Waziristan. Dutch police arrested a Pakistani man who was plotting to carry out attacks in the name of Baitullah Mehsud. Al Qaeda leader Mohammad Rahim al Afghani was captured in Lahore, Pakistan in August 2007.

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Dutch police arrest Pakistani on terror charges

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Al-Qaeda steps up its battle in Pakistan

In Pictures: Patrolling the Pakistani border

Phil Peterson goes on a patrol with the Embedded Transition Team for the Afghan National Army based out of Forward Operating Base Tillman. The patrol skirted the Pakistani border.

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Al Qaeda probed over Lahore blasts

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Video – Pakistani suicide attacks kill 24, injure 200

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Two massive suicide bombs ripped through the eastern city of Lahore, killing over 23 people and leaving close to 200 wounded. The seven-story Federal Investigation Agency building, which houses a department of the federal police’s anti-terrorism unit, was destroyed in the bigger blast. Six suspected insurgents were arrested in raids conducted in Tank and Swat.