Pakistan’s President Ali Zardari has acknowledged in a television interview the Taliban is present “in huge amounts” of the country and Pakistani forces are “fighting for the survival of Pakistan.”
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A letter accompanying the video said that the hostage, John Solecki, would be killed unless the authorities released 141 women who it said were being held in Pakistan.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) — Predator planes that launch missile strikes against militants are based in Pakistan, a senior lawmaker said during a Senate hearing.
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Kidnappers threatened on Friday to kill an American employee of the United Nations within 72 hours and issued a grainy video of the blindfolded captive saying he was “sick and in trouble.” A letter accompanying the video delivered to a Pakistani news agency said the hostage, John Solecki, would be killed unless authorities released 141 women it said were being held in Pakistan.
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The Taliban has established itself across a large part of Pakistan, forcing the country to fight a war against the hard-line Islamist group that is about Pakistan’s own survival, President Asif Zardari told CBS News.
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Kidnappers who seized a senior United Nations official in Pakistan release a video of him appealing for freedom.
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A video that aired Friday on Pakistan’s Geo TV network appears to show John Solecki, an American U.N. official kidnapped earlier this month in Quetta, Pakistan.
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QUETTA: Baluch Liberation United Front (BLUF) has released pictures and video of abducted UN official John Solecki and demanded the release of 141 women detainees within 72 hours.Solecki, who was abducted on February 2 from Quetta, was apparently shown in a video aired by Geo News on Friday, calling for his release saying he was unwell.The video shows close up the face of a blindfolded man, apparently that of John Solecki.”This is a message to the United Nations. I am not feeling well, I am sick and in trouble. Please help solve the problems soon so I can gain my release,” the person says.It was not apparently clear if he was speaking under threat.The video was shot on a mobile phone and delivered on a memory card to the television station.It was not immediately clear when the video was taken.BLUF demanded the release of 141 women detainees within 72 hours and to know the whereabouts of 6,000 missing people.
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Kidnappers of an American working for the U.N. refugee agency in Pakistan on Friday released a video in which he pleaded for the United Nations to help win his release.
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A kidnapped American UN official abducted in Pakistan 11 days ago was apparently shown in a video aired by Pakistani television on Friday, appealing for his release and saying he was unwell.
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