Pakistan says Mumbai attack partly planned on its soil (International Herald Tribune)
A senior security official also said that Pakistan was holding six new suspects, including “the main operator.”
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Two brothers shot dead amid robbery in Karachi
KARACHI: Dacoits killed two real brothers amid robbery as brothers resisted against them while a person sustained injuries resisting against bandits during another incident of plundering in Karachi on early Thursday, police said.According to sources, four dacoits broke into a house located in Sajjan Goth in Samanabad area and opened fire on dwellers who resisted against them. Deceased brothers, identified as Abdul Samad and Abdul Aziz, were married whose dead bodies were shifted to Civil Hospital Karachi, police sources added.Other incident occurred in Ibrahim Haydir area where looters opened fire on Kamal Hussain (40) amid an incident of street crime.He was moved to local hospital here for providing medical attainment, sources maintained.
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Assault On Mumbai Planned In Pakistan (Washington Post)
NEW DELHI, Feb. 12 — Pakistan admitted for the first time Thursday that part of the planning for November’s bloody assault on India’s financial capital, Mumbai, occurred on Pakistani soil, and it announced criminal charges against nine men involved.
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Snowfall turns weather chilly in Quetta
QUETTA: Heavy snowfall was reported in Quetta turning weather chilly on Thursday.It rained the torrential before snowfall in Quetta including several other parts of Balochistan province.People had to suffer as rainwater, staying on various roads, intensified their troubles, people said.Met office expected more rainfall and snowfall in many others parts of Balochistan province.
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Mumbai plot partly hatched in Pakistan: Malik
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday acknowledged for the first time that the Mumbai attacks were partly planned in Pakistan and that it has arrested six s
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Pakistan must allay India fears: US intel chief (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Pakistan holds the key to defusing tensions with nuclear rival India by executing a serious clampdown on Islamic militants, US Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said Thursday.
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Private schools perturbed over hindrances in cantt area
RawalpindiA meeting of Rawalpindi Association of Private Schools (RAPS) was held here on Wednesday to discuss the problems being faced by priv
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Official: Afghanistan, Pakistan losing ground (AP via Yahoo! News)
The governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan are losing ground to insurgents and terrorists but the most immediate threat to U.S. security interests is the festering global economic crisis, the nation’s top intelligence official told Congress on Thursday.
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People resent raise in sugar prices
RawalpindiPeople strongly reacting over increase in sugar price, which is selling for Rs46 per kilogram in the market, demanded of the governm
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Rape victim says his life has been ruined
KarachiKhalil Ahmed, the person who was allegedly abducted by three women from Clifton and subjected to sexual harassment says the incident ha
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