Pakistan’s army chief will visit Brussels next week for talks with senior NATO officials about US missile strikes on Pakistani soil near the Afghanistan border, the military said.
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Armed men kidnapped an Iranian diplomat in Pakistan’s northwest, a day after the slaying of an American aid worker — heightening fears that Islamic militants are hunting down foreigners.
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U.S. drones fired at least three missiles into Pakistan’s Waziristan tribal region on Friday, killing up to 12 people including five foreigners, government and paramilitary officials said.
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Pakistan is ready to shift its home series against India early next year to a neutral venue if New Delhi refuses to clear its team’s tour over security fears, a top official said Thursday.
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OTTAWA: A Canadian journalist was abducted this week in Pakistan’’s northern tribal region while gathering materials for a documentary, officials said Thursday, days after another was released in Afghanistan. Beverly Giesbrecht, 52, also known as Khadija Abdul Qahaar, was seized at gunpoint on Tuesday while traveling in the Bannu district of Pakistan’’s Northwest Frontier Province, which borders Afghanistan. The English-language Pakistan daily first reported her abduction on Wednesday and the news was picked up by Canadian media the following day. Lisa Monette, a spokeswoman for Canada’’s Foreign Affairs department told media, “The government of Canada is aware of the kidnapping of a Canadian citizen in Pakistan.”"Canadian officials are engaged with Pakistani authorities in seeking her safe and early release,” she said. Daily said: “The Canadian female journalist, Khadija Abdul Qahaar, along with her translator and guide, was on her way to Miramshah in North Waziristan by a taxi when some unidentified armed men kidnapped her.” “District police were combing the area to locate and recover the Canadian journalist and her colleagues,” the daily went on to say.
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U.S. pressure on al Qaeda near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan has put the group “off balance,” but the region remains the biggest terrorism threat to the United States, the CIA’s chief said on Thursday.
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LAHOREPANIC gripped the premises of the Lahore High Court and its bar association when Rescue 15 received a bomb threat here on Thursday.
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KARACHI: The Rs320 million water jet fountain installed at the Oyster Rocks off the Seaview Beach in Karachi was built by the previous chairman of the
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LAHOREA security guard appointed at a kiln shot a 20-year-old shop girl dead over the dispute of Rs 5,000 in the limits of Kahna police statio
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ISLAMABAD: Adviser on Finance Shaukat Tareen, while spelling out IMF conditionalities on the floor of the house, assured the Senate on Thursday that t
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