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Pakistan elections: Polls open amid more violence
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistanis went to the polls Saturday to elect a new parliament amid continued violence marring the historic event, as militants detonated a bomb outside a liberal, anti-Taliban party’s campaign office in the southern port...Tags: Karachi (Pakistan), Nawaz Sharif, Asif Ali Zardari, Bombings, Polls
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In Pakistan, clamor for change propels 2 parties
CHINIOT, Pakistan — Even from his hospital bed, with a gash in his head and three broken vertebrae from a 15-foot fall, Imran Khan stumped for votes. "I have done whatever I could do," Khan told the nation as a Pakistani television crew...
Tags: Pervez Musharraf, Yousuf Raza Gilani, Television Industry, Nawaz Sharif, Asif Ali Zardari
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Gunmen kidnap former Pakistani prime minister's son
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Gunmen on Thursday abducted provincial assembly candidate Ali Haider Gilani, the son of former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, at a campaign gathering in the southern city of Multan -- a dramatic escalation of the wave of...Tags: Yousuf Raza Gilani, Kidnapping, Asif Ali Zardari, Shootings, Elections
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Pakistan Taliban plan suicide attacks on May 11 election
ReutersISLAMABAD, May 9 (Reuters) - Pakistan's Taliban plan to carry out suicide bombings during Saturday's election in a bid to undermine the poll, according to a letter from the head of the group. The letter to the Taliban spokesman, which was obtained by...Tags: Suicide, Pakistan
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Pakistani army vows to protect voters in landmark election
ReutersBy Michael Georgy ISLAMABAD, May 9 (Reuters) - Pakistan's military said on Thursday it will send tens of thousands of troops to polling stations and counting centres to prevent the Taliban from disrupting Saturday's election after the insurgent group's...Tags: Nawaz Sharif, Armed Forces, Elections, Pakistan, Politics
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Pakistan bombing again targets Islamist party
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For the second day in a row, a bomb blast killed and maimed participants at a campaign rally being held by one of Pakistan's Islamist religious parties, indicating a broadening of targets in the violence that has primarily...
Tags: U.S. Elections, Parliament, Emergency Incidents, Pakistan, Politics
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Bombs kill 15 at campaign rallies in northwest Pakistan
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two bomb blasts killed at least 15 people and injured more than 40 on Tuesday at campaign rallies in northwest Pakistan, authorities said, the latest in a wave of attacks in recent weeks aimed at derailing parliamentary...Tags: Explosions, Lahore (Pakistan), Suicide, Bombings, Islamabad (Pakistan)
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U.S. turns over troubled dam project to Afghanistan
KAJAKI, Afghanistan — After struggling for more than a decade to upgrade a huge hydroelectric plant in a volatile region that saw heavy American losses in fighting with the Taliban, the United States is trying a new approach: Let the Afghans take...
Tags: Reconstruction, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Department of Defense, Armed Forces, Armed Conflicts
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At least 16 killed in bombing at Pakistan election rally
PARACHINAR, Pakistan -- A bomb blast tore through a political rally held by an Islamist party in northwest Pakistan on Monday. The attack, claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, killed 16 people and underscored an increase in violence ahead of a key election...
Tags: Explosions, Wars and Interventions, Television Industry, Bombings, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Pakistan election violence forces candidates behind high walls
ReutersBy Katharine Houreld PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 7 (Reuters) - Mian Hussain is fighting for his political life from a deserted party headquarters, where two telephones sit silently beside him and the footsteps of a tea boy echo down the corridor. One of...Tags: Government, National Government, Emergency Incidents, Pakistan, Politics
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Afghanistan files formal protest after Pakistan border clash
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government summoned Pakistan’s charge d’affaires in Kabul to the Foreign Ministry on Monday to file a “strong protest” after another clash along the countries' troubled border. The skirmish,...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Forces, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan
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The Week Ahead: Iran and Pakistan on the stump, Mubarak on trial
D-Day for Iranian presidential race Tuesday, May 7 -- So many candidates, so few promising real change. More than a dozen Iranian lawmakers, former Cabinet ministers, revolutionary guardsmen and allies of Islamic leaders have thrown in their hats...
Tags: Arab Spring, Justice System, Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, Punishment
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