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• Officials: U.S. missiles kill 16 in Pakistan

  June 6, 2011 in Nation/World The United States fired missiles at three suspected militant targets near the Afghan border Monday, killing 16 people and keeping the pressure on insurgents days after a strike was believed …

• More rains drench Pakistan

  August 8, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 SUKKUR, Pakistan – Authorities evacuated thousands of Pakistanis living along expanding rivers on Saturday as forecasts predicted even more heavy rain could deepen the country’s flood crisis. As the prime …

• Flooding puts many out of aid’s reach

  August 3, 2010 in City on Page A4 CAMP KOROONA, Pakistan – Relief efforts in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest picked up pace Monday, but survivors complained about government inaction – a worrying sign for authorities seeking public support for …

• Pakistan floods wreak ‘massive’ destruction

  August 2, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 PESHAWAR, Pakistan – The death toll from massive floods in northwestern Pakistan rose to 1,100 Sunday as rescue workers struggled to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by the …

• Two Americans among plane’s dead

  July 29, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 ISLAMABAD – Two Americans were among the 152 passengers and crew members who died Wednesday when an Airbus A321 operated by a private Pakistani carrier crashed amid heavy rain into …

• Leaks give detailed accounts of war

  July 26, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings … 1

• Bomb blasts kill 35 in Pakistan

  July 2, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 LAHORE, Pakistan – Two suicide bombers struck a popular Muslim shrine in Pakistan’s second largest city, killing 35 people and wounding 175 others in the second major attack in Lahore … 1

• Report says Pakistan arms, trains Taliban

  June 14, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan’s main spy agency continues to arm and train the Taliban and is even represented on the group’s leadership council despite U.S. pressure to sever ties and …

• U.S. shows Pakistan evidence on Faisal Shahzad

  May 26, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Senior U.S. officials used an urgent meeting with Pakistan’s president to present a dossier on accused terror suspect Faisal Shahzad, including a detailed chart describing his contacts with …

• Muslim anger prompts Pakistan to block Facebook

  May 19, 2010 in Nation/World Pakistan’s government ordered Internet service providers to block Facebook on Wednesday amid anger over a page that encourages users to post images of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

• Pakistan arrest a good sign

  February 23, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 There’s been a flood of news coverage of a major U.S offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. But a less-heralded operation that’s just been made known could be more …

• Pakistanis protest conviction

  February 5, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan– Pakistanis shouted anti-American slogans and burned the Stars and Stripes on Thursday in protest of a New York jury’s conviction of a Pakistani woman accused of trying to …

• 3 U.S. troops killed in Pakistan blast

  February 4, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 SHAHI KOTO, Pakistan – Police said the suicide bomber who killed three U.S. soldiers in northwestern Pakistan knew which vehicle was theirs in a five-car convoy and rammed his car …

• Three U.S. soldiers reportedly killed in Pakistan

  February 3, 2010 in Nation/World A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers and partly destroyed a girls’ school in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday in an attack that drew attention to a little-publicized American military training …

• Taliban dispute leader’s death

  February 2, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Taliban militants in Pakistan promised on Monday to soon prove their leader was still alive, dismissing as government propaganda reports he may have died from …

• Bomb kills 33 in Pakistan

  December 29, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 KARACHI, Pakistan – A suicide bomber struck a procession marking a key Shiite Muslim holy day in Pakistan’s biggest city Monday, killing at least 33 people in an attack blamed …

• Americans detained in Pakistan interviewed

  December 11, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Five young American men now detained in Pakistan had sought to fight a holy war against U.S. troops in Afghanistan and were in contact with an Islamic …

• Pakistan blasts kill dozens

  December 8, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 LAHORE, Pakistan – 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 …

• Trudy Rubin: Pakistan must build on wins

  November 29, 2009 in Opinion on Page B8 MINGORA, Pakistan – The road to the legendary Swat Valley twists through the Malakand Pass and beneath the Malakand Fort, from which young Winston Churchill sent newspaper dispatches about a …

• Suicide bomber hits Pakistan spy agency

  November 13, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan’s main spy agency building in the northwest today, killing at least seven people and striking at the heart of the institution …

• Pakistan’s Khan confirms China’s help with nukes

  November 13, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – In 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left the western Chinese city of Urumqi with a highly unusual cargo: enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs, according to accounts …

• Bombing kills Pakistani mayor

  November 9, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 PESHWAR, Pakistan – A suicide bomber attacked a livestock market in the suburbs of the violence-racked northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Sunday, killing a mayor who had opposed the …

• Busy Pakistan market bombed

  October 29, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 ISLAMABAD – The deadliest bombing in Pakistan in two years quickly overshadowed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s first official visit here Wednesday, drawing attention away from her goal of …

• U.S. providing spy aircraft to Pakistani army offensive

  October 23, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The U.S. military is providing intelligence and surveillance video from drones and other aircraft to the Pakistani army to assist in its week-old offensive in South Waziristan, marking …

• Pakistan cuts deal with anti-U.S. tribes

  October 20, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Pakistan’s army, in the midst of a major new offensive against Taliban militants, has struck deals to keep two powerful, anti-U.S. tribal chiefs from joining …

• Taliban vow to defeat army

  October 19, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both sides claiming early victories in an army …

• U.S. strategy seeks to convert Taliban fighters

  October 19, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – “Not every Taliban is an extremist ally,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said last week. One of the primary tasks of President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan strategy review, … 1

• Pakistani police sites hit

  October 15, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 LAHORE, Pakistan – Teams of gunmen attacked three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore today, a major escalation in an audacious wave of terrorist strikes as this …

• Taliban waging ‘real kind of war’

  October 13, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – At summer’s end, there were hints of optimism in the battle against Pakistan’s Islamist insurgents. The military said it had routed the Taliban from the verdant Swat …

• Pakistan bombs tribal area

  October 12, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 KHAR, Pakistan – Pakistani fighter jets bombed suspected militant hide-outs today in a tribal region where the military had previously declared victory over the Taliban, killing eight alleged extremists a …

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