A powerful earthquake today jolted a swath of rural southwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing at least 150 people and leaving thousands of others homeless after their mud-brick homes collapsed.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – In a move that could herald changes in Pakistan’s policy toward Islamic militants, the government today named a new chief of its powerful intelligence agency.
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Pakistani investigators combed through the charred wreckage of the Marriott Hotel here today in search of clues to who was behind a suicide truck bombing that killed at least 53 people, including two members of the
U.S. military.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – In a determined show of solidarity, the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan declared today that they stood together in the fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, but they discreetly acknowledged that their common alliance with the United States was fraught with political peril for each of them.
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The ascension of Benazir Bhutto’s widower to the presidency marked an emotional moment today for the slain leader’s supporters, but many Pakistanis wondered whether a political novice such as Asif Ali Zardari could successfully tackle the country’s daunting problems.
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Gunshots today struck a motorcade that was apparently en route to pick up Prime Minister Yusaf Raza Gillani, but he was not in the procession at the time, police and aides to the prime minister said.
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Pakistan’s long-troubled ruling coalition collapsed Monday amid bitter arguments over who should be the country’s next president and whether and how to reinstate dozens of senior judges fired last year.
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The senior party in Pakistan’s ruling coalition inaugurated a push today to elect its leader, Asif Ali Zardari, as the country’s next president.
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Pakistan’s ruling coalition will ask President Pervez Musharraf to seek a confidence vote in Parliament or face impeachment, senior party officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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A Dutch survivor of an ice avalanche that killed nine climbers atop the world’s second-tallest mountain over the weekend described a desperate scramble for self-preservation, with panicked mountaineers abandoning one another in the search for a way down the steep rock face.
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