Official: Captive Chinese man freed in Pakistan (AP via Yahoo! News)
An official says a Chinese engineer held captive by militants for six months in Pakistan has been set free and is safe.
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Official: Captive Chinese Man Freed in Pakistan (ABC News)
Chinese official says Chinese engineer held captive by militants in Pakistan is free, safe
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Suspected U.S. missile strike kills 27 in Pakistan (Detroit News)
ISLAMABAD — Dozens of followers of Pakistan’s top Taliban commander were in a compound when a suspected U.S. missile attack hit, killing 27 militants in an al-Qaida stronghold near the Afghan border, intelligence officials said.
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30 killed in U.S. airstrike in Pakistan (Los Angeles Times)
The Predator strike in South Waziristan reportedly targets the home of an associate of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mahsud. Local sources say foreigners were among the dead. Reporting from Istanbul, Turkey, and Peshawar, Pakistan — Suspected U.S. missiles slammed into a Pakistani compound near the Afghanistan border Saturday, killing about 30 people, local officials said. Most of those …
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Pakistan ‘in fight for survival’ (BBC News)
Pakistan’s president says his country is fighting for its survival against the Taleban, whose influence, he says, has spread.
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G7 sets sights on urgent economic reform
ROME: The world’’s richest nations called Saturday for urgent reform of the global finance system and commitments to safeguard free trade as countries struggle with the worst economic crisis in decades. Italy’’s Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti called for a “new world economic order” as he wrapped up the crisis meeting of finance leaders from the Group of Seven leading economies over which he presided here. In a joint declaration, the G7 called for “urgent reforms” of the international financial system and reiterated a bleak outlook for the world economy, after fresh data showed the eurozone recession deepening. The G7 delegates in a joint statement vowed to avoid protectionism as they seek to stabilise the tottering world economy and financial markets and said stabilisation of the world economy was their “highest priority.” The global crisis “has highlighted fundamental weaknesses in the international financial system and that urgent reforms are needed,” the statement said.
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Six Baitullah accomplices arrested
KarachiThe Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Sindh, have busted a network of local Taliban belonging t
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Spiritual and cultural gala begins
LAHORETHE 965th Urs of Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh began on Saturday at his shrine with traditional zeal and spirit and the celebrations turned in
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Rs75bn fund in offing to bail out PSO: FBR
KARACHI: Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Ahmed Waqar has said that a fund worth Rs75 billion is being set up to bail out Pakistan State Oil (P
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Attack kills 27 militants in Pakistan (AP via Yahoo! News)
Dozens of followers of Pakistan’s top Taliban commander were in a compound when a suspected U.S. missile attack hit Saturday, killing 27 militants in an al-Qaida stronghold near the Afghan border, officials said.
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