Tag Archives: Pakistan

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  Quake kills 6 in Pakistan, injures dozens there and in Iran, officials say

  Earlier, state-run media, citing local reports, said at least 40 people died in Iran
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  Pakistani teen at school for first time since shot by Taliban

  Pakistani teen Malala Yousafzai went to school Tuesday for the first time since she was shot in the head by the Taliban in October for campaigning for girls’ education.
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  Suicide bomber kills 83 in busy marketplace

  Pakistani police have revised the cause of a blast that killed 83 people on Saturday, saying a suicide bomber was behind the attack that pulverized a busy marketplace.
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  Pakistani leader meets protesting families of bombing victims

  Pakistan’s Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Sunday met with Shiites in Quetta who are protesting the bombing deaths of 97 people last week.
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  21 missing Pakistani policemen found shot dead by Taliban

  Twenty-one missing Pakistani policemen found shot dead.
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  Suspects questioned and detained in connection with shooting of Pakistani teen

  Three men have been questioned and detained in connection with the shooting of the teenage activist who spoke out against the Taliban.
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  Attack on Pakistani schoolgirl galvanizes anti-Taliban feeling

  A week ago today, a Pakistani schoolgirl who dared to speak out against the Taliban took a bullet to the head for her act of defiance.
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  Doctors pleased with Pakistani teen’s progress

  Doctors in the U.K. treating a Pakistani teenager injured in a Taliban assassination attempt, are “very pleased” with her progress.
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  Pakistanis to show support for schoolgirl activist shot by Taliban

  Pakistanis are gathering Friday to show support for Malala Yousufzai, the schoolgirl activist who was shot by the Taliban and remains unconscious in a military hospital.
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  Girl who spoke out against Taliban shot, wounded in Pakistan

  A 14-year-old girl who was awarded Pakistan’s first National Peace Prize was shot and wounded on her way home from school Tuesday.
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  Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy released on bail

  Her lawyer, Pervez Khan, argued she should be freed on the grounds that she was an innocent girl whose intelligence level was low for her age, according to a medical report.
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  Pakistan court to issue bail decision for girl accused of blasphemy

  A decision was supposed to come Thursday, but was postponed as authorities tried to answer questions about her medical history.