Gates: Pakistan may get more help against al-Qaida (AP via Yahoo! News)
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States is prepared to give Pakistan more help fighting al-Qaida forces if its government wants it.
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Bomb blasts in Lahore and Peshawar, Pakistan, leave 46 dead (Washington Post)
LAHORE, PAKISTAN — Bombings in two Pakistani cities killed 46 people Monday, as militants struck back in the wake of an army offensive against a Taliban stronghold in the northwest near the Afghan border.
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Gates: US willing to give Pakistan more help fighting terrorists - Los Angeles Times
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Gates: US willing to give Pakistan more help fighting terrorists
Los Angeles Times KABUL (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States is prepared to give Pakistan more help fighting al-Qaida forces if its government wants … US Believes Pakistan Nuclear Arms Are Secure: Gates US signaling Gates Backs Pakistani Nuclear Security |
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Power looms owners, workers protest against thread crisis
FAISALABAD: The workers of power looms have also started to stage protest along their looms owners against the crisis of thread in Faisalabad on Monday, Geo news reported.
According to sources, the Labour National Movement of Faisalabad (LNMF) held a conference over the unemployment of power looms? workers owing to thread crisis on Monday evening.
On the occasion, the labour leaders, addressing the attendees, said despite the growing assurances from government, the thread crisis has intensified for last two months, leaving workers jobless and leading to closure of factories.
Orators demanded government of immediate ban on thread export, fearing that otherwise all power looms factories will be closed down and which was unacceptable for labours.
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Blasts in eastern Pakistan city kill 48 - USA Today
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Blasts in eastern Pakistan city kill 48
USA Today LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Twin blasts at a market in eastern Pakistan killed up to 48 people as militants struck back amid an army offensive against the … Market Attack in Eastern Pakistan Kills at Least 30 Dozens killed in Pakistan attacks At least 46 killed in Pakistan bombings |
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Blasts in eastern Pakistan city kill 48 (USA Today)
Twin blasts at a market in eastern Pakistan killed up to 48 people as militants struck back amid an army offensive against the Taliban, but the country’s president said the bombings would not deter the government in its campaign.
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US Military Deaths in Afghanistan Region at 853 - New York Times
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US Military Deaths in Afghanistan Region at 853
New York Times 7, 2009, at least 853 members of the US military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the US invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001 … |
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Pakistani fishermen found in Indian jail
KARACHI: It’’s been a decade since Mai Bhagi saw her brother and nephews. For years she thought the fishermen had died when their rickety Pakistani boat was shredded in a cyclone.
Then came a cry for help in a letter from an Indian jail that proved they were alive and spurred the illiterate woman to struggle for their release.
Her task, some officials say, has become harder since Islamist gunmen set sail from Pakistan a year ago and went on the rampage in Mumbai, killing 166 people.
Fishermen from nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan regularly stray across sea borders, where they are arrested, taken ashore to be charged or left languishing in cells without trial, activists say.
“After a frantic search in the Arabian Sea we thought the cyclone ate them up,” said Bhagi, a tall woman with wrinkled forehead and brooding eyes, wearing a traditional dress embroidered with colourful flowers.
She last saw her relatives in 1999, shortly before a cyclone smashed into the tiny town of Shah Bunder along the southern Pakistani coast.
Dozens of fishermen were trapped at sea. Some never returned — Bhagi’’s brother Usman Jutt, nephews Nawaz and Sachoo and cousin Zaman included.
“I waited. We all waited for them to come back home, but they didn”t,” said 60-year-old Bhagi.
A family of six women and half a dozen children was left penniless. Bhagi realised it was time to break the centuries-old tradition of the Jutt clan and leave home.
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Gayle century swings second Test West Indies? way
ADELAIDE: West Indies? captain Chris Gayle has more than his share of critics, often due to an impassive appearance that is sometimes taken for apathy
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Administration Presses Pakistan to Fight Taliban (International Herald Tribune)
The Obama administration warned that if Pakistan does not act aggressively, the U.S. will use more force on the Pakistani side of the border, officials said.
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