As Number of Displaced Increases International Medical Corps Expands Emergency Services in Pakistan; Many Experiencing … (AlertNet)

International Medical Corps (IMC) - USA May 10, 2009 Los Angeles, Calif. - International Medical Corps (IMC) is expanding critical assistance to the growing number of displaced in the wake of f a renewed offensive in Pakistan’s Swat Valley …

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Shaky Pakistan Is Seen as a Target of Plots by Al Qaeda (New York Times)

Foreign operatives of Al Qaeda are moving to sow chaos in Pakistan and strengthen the hand of the militant Islamist groups there, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence officials say.

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Families flee Pakistan’s Swat valley (BigPond News)

Hundreds of thousands have fled north-west Pakistan to escape a military onslaught against the Taliban.

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350 people vaccinated for Hepatitis B at KPC

KarachiAs many as 350 people were vaccinated on Sunday during the second round of Hepatitis-B vaccination at the Karachi Press Club (KPC). The vacci

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Pakistan News

Younis regains top spot in Test rankings

LONDON: Pakistan captain Younis Khan regained the number one spot as West Indies” Shivnarine Chanderpaul lost his place at the top of the Internationa

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Steven Gerrard keeps Liverpool title hopes alive

LONDON: Steven Gerrard fired Liverpool title hopes of the Premier League and then voiced optimism that rivals Manchester United could yet slip up in t

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Pakistan’s sharia cease-fire: I knew it wouldn’t work, Zardari says (The Christian Science Monitor)

Political and military leaders in the region try to look to the positive as Taliban fighters entrench in Pakistan’s Swat Valley.

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England add Sidebottom and Bell to Test squad

LONDON: England added batsman Ian Bell and left-arm quick Ryan Sidebottom to their squad on Sunday as they named a 13-man party for the second Test ag

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Pakistan army lets refugees flee Swat battle, and camps fill (McClatchy Washington Bureau)

MARDAN, Pakistan — Tales of Taliban terror, accusations of being shelled by the army, and the misery of sudden destitution fill sprouting refugee camps for those fleeing Pakistan’s military offensive against extremists in Swat valley.

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Treatment facility in need of public help

RawalpindiThe construction of a new block at the only institute of psychiatry in the country at Benazir Bhutto Hospital has been completed wit

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