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Pakistan's incoming prime minister turns pragmatic
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested....
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Government, Pakistan, Times Square, Elections
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Ejército pakistanà vigila el proceso electoral desde los cuarteles
ReutersPor John Chalmers ISLAMABAD, 8 mayo (Reuters) - Cuando la canción de una banda de rock que se burlaba del Ejército pakistanà fue bloqueada misteriosamente en internet hace poco, a nadie le sorprendió. Pero mientras los partidos compiten por el apoyo...Tags: Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, Islamabad (Pakistan)
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Afghanistan peace negotiator killed in bombing
KABUL, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb killed a provincial peace negotiator and two police officers in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, dealing another setback to President Hamid Karzai’s attempts to get talks started with Taliban militants...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Explosions, Bombings
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Review: 'The Way of the Knife' and 'Drone Warfare'
In a way, it all began with the collapse of the Soviet empire. The raison d'être of the Central Intelligence Agency and American military might evaporated between 1989 and 1991. Washington and Langley might not always realize it, but one of the main...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Government, Pakistan, Assassinations, Prisons
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Syrian Islamist group acknowledges ties to Al Qaeda
BEIRUT — The leader of Al Nusra Front, militant Islamist fighters whose role in the Syria uprising has raised concerns in Washington, acknowledged Wednesday for the first time his group's affiliation with Al Qaeda and the extremist movement’...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, Jihad, Iraq
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Death sentence upheld in 1993 Indian bombing that killed 257
NEW DELHI -- India’s lumbering legal system delivered its final verdict Thursday in a 1993 serial bombing attack in Mumbai that killed 257 people and injured 700, upholding the death penalty for one of the accused masterminds and reducing to life in...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pakistan, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment
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Portland man charged with aiding suicide bomber in Pakistan
SEATTLE—A Portland, Ore., man was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday on charges of aiding one of three suicide bombers who conducted a deadly attack near the headquarters of Pakistan’s intelligence service in Lahore in 2009. At least 30 people...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Religion and Belief, Crime, Law and Justice
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Pakistan coming apart at the seams
Distracted by the deadly violence in Mali and Algeria, no one seems to be paying adequate attention to the tragicomedy under way in Pakistan. This matters because recent events demonstrate without equivocation that Pakistan is an utterly failed state --...
Tags: National Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pakistan, Religion and Belief, Al-Qaeda
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America's go-to man in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province
TARIN KOWT, Afghanistan — A shy boy with filthy hands and a shabby tunic approached the great man, bowed and tried to kiss his hand. Gen. Matiullah Khan was seated like a sultan on a cushion in his hojra, his airy receiving room. He barely...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Government, Pakistan, Religion and Belief, Assassinations
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Pakistan says soldier killed by Indian troops in cross-border raid
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani army accused Indian troops of launching a cross-border raid early Sunday in the disputed Kashmir region that killed a Pakistani soldier, while India countered that it retaliated with small arms fire only after...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pakistan, Science and Technology, Government, Armed Forces
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U.S. suspends training of recruits for Afghan village militia
World NowAmerican special operations forces have suspended the training of new recruits to an Afghan village militia until the entire 16,000-member force can be rescreened for possible links to the insurgency, U.S. officials said Sunday.... -
Ehrlich is wrong on U.S. policy in the Middle East
Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s recent column ("The Obama doctrine: Passivity where leadership is needed," Oct. 14) continues to present a flawed ideological position on the Middle East when a heterodox view is in order. We entered the Middle East and North...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pakistan, Gaza Strip, Religion and Belief, Osama bin Laden
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