Pakistan suicide attack toll rises to 41: police (AFP via Yahoo! News)

The death toll from a suicide car bombing at a polling station in northwest Pakistan has risen to 41, police said Monday, as Taliban-linked extremists claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Quake strikes Abbotabad, Gilgit and Chitral

PESHAWAR: A moderate 5.7quake jolted upper parts of Pakistan on Monday morning.According to US Geological Survey, the epicenter of the tremor, which occurred at 8:37 am, was located just 141 kilometers beneath the earth whereas 145 kilometers in northwest of Mingora and 71 kilometer in northwest of Chitral.The tremor felt in Dair, Chitral, Malakand,Swat, Peshawar, Attock, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Takhtbai, Mansehra, Dargai Sakhakot, Para Chinar, Kurram Agency, South Waziristan and other tribal areas.There were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage.

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Suicide Bombing Kills 34 in Pakistan as Marriott Hotel Reopens (Washington Post)

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 28 — A suicide bomber pretending to need help with his car killed 34 people in northwest Pakistan on Sunday while the target of another attack, the Marriott in Islamabad, partially reopened three months after a brazen truck bombing at the luxury hotel left 54 dead.

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Tremor jolts parts of Pakistan

PESHAWAR: Strong earthquake jolted Swat, Malakand division, Tarbela Ghazi, Gilgit, Abbotabad, Chitral, Ghazar and Peshawar on Monday morning.

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Blast kills 16 Afghans near Pakistan border (International Herald Tribune)

A suicide bombing on Sunday killed at least 16, including 13 schoolchildren, and wounding 53 in Khost Province near the border with Pakistan, local officials said.

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Schools continue charging extra fee

KarachiDespite an announcement by the Department of Education ordering private schools to not charge fees for the non-tuition periods of June

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CoD implementation vital to progress: Shahbaz

LAHORECHIEF Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that Charter of Democracy should be implemented in letter and spirit by sinking pet

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No easy Indian response to Pakistan’s troop shift (International Herald Tribune)

Policy makers and analysts say an attack on Pakistan could damage India’s economic prospects at a time when the country is already vulnerable to the global downturn.

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Lyari gangster shot dead

KarachiTwenty-five-year-old Sajid Asghar, a Lyari gangster belonging to the Rehman Dakait group was shot dead by his own accomplice Abdul Jabb

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Karachi is not prepared for calamities or war

KarachiAt a time when Pakistan has reached the brink of war with India, both civilian and military-led municipal organisations are neither pre

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