U.S. policy to win in Afghanistan must recognize the poor nation’s limitations and its neighborhood, especially its intertwined relationship with U.S. terrorism-fighting ally Pakistan, the top U.S. military commander in the region said Thursday.
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At least 38 people were killed and 25 wounded when a fire ripped through dozens of homes in a shanty town in Pakistan’s largest city Karachi, government and hospital officials said early Friday.
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PESHAWAR: Unknown people destroyed a CD center by causing an explosion in Chamkani area in the outskirts of Peshawar.According to reports the explosives were planted at the CD center which were blown away in the night time, damaging the center and destroying the goods inside. However, no loss of life was reported.
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KARACHI: At least twenty people including many minor children have been burnt to death as blazes engulfed 10 shelties in North Karachi sector five, Chiipa sources said.10 fire tenders have reached on the scene and have started taming the fire while many other people have seriously been burnt who have been shifted to hospital, sources added.No cause of fire eruption in cabins could be reported. Several people are still caught in the fire. Meanwhile, rescue efforts are underway.Eidhi sources added that over two dozens completely burnt dead bodies have been shifted to different hospitals. Emergency has been declared in Abbasi Shaheed hospital, hospital sources informed Geo News.Geo T.V correspondent Faheem Siddiqui reported the deadly blazes overwhelmed around 15 to 20 cabins, as people were fast asleep therefore, they could not get themselves rescued after inferno outbreak.He also feared that as many as two-dozen people must have been burnt in the lethal inferno.
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One civilian was killed and eight people were injured when a bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded Thursday near a security forces vehicle in remote southwest Pakistan, officials said.
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Thousands of Shiite Muslims held peaceful Ashura processions amid tight security across Pakistan Thursday, commemorating the death of the Prophet Mohammed’s grandson Imam Hussein.
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Pakistan has made a promising start into the Mumbai attack investigations and on tackling militancy, but still had a long way to go in eliminating the threat, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.
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ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari held a separate meeting with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani here on Thursday. The meeting between President Zardari and Premier Gilani lasted for an hour.According to sources, earlier, President Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani held a joint meeting with US Ambassador to Islamabad Anne W. Patterson in which Pak-India tension, Ajmal Kasab and issues relating to the national security adviser came under discussion.
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Six weeks after the attacks on Mumbai that killed more than 170 people, officials in India are stepping up pressure on Pakistan to act against the group it believes is responsible. Pakistanis say they are ready to cooperate. Analysts say neither country wants a military conflict, thought they expect the tension to continue for a long time.
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PESHAWAR: CIA and police have arrested 3 suspected persons from Shah Qabool Area here and shifted to an unknown location for investigation.According to police sources, CIA and Shah Qabool police station conducted a joint raid in Sarhad market and arrested three suspected persons. Mobile phones along as well as intercoms were recovered from their possession.
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