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Sun, 05/08/2011 - 14:19 by Yasser Ali
Take this. The U.S. Navy SEALs get down at Abbottabad, Pakistan in a helicopter, kill Osama bin Laden, and return to Afghanistan, without the Pakistani government even getting a hint of it!
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Thu, 04/14/2011 - 14:07 by Anupreet Kaur
According to the latest research by 'The Lancet,' nearly 2.6 million babies die each year all over the world.
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Wed, 09/08/2010 - 17:48 by Deepika Garg
Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie reached Pakistan on Tuesday to highlight the predicament of people, who are struggling to recover from the catastrophic floods that have wreaked havoc on the impoverished country.
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Wed, 09/08/2010 - 05:44 by Prince damin
Islamabad, Pakistan -- U.S. actress and U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie is visiting relief camps in Pakistan to highlight the plight of flood victims, the organization said.
Jolie's itinerary included visits to the flood-hit areas of Pakistan Tuesday and Wednesday as a personal envoy of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, GEO News reported.
Besides visiting with victims, the Oscar-winning actress will meet with people involved in relief efforts, the non-governmental organization said. She also used the visit to appeal to the global community to help provide aid to the flood victims.
The monsoon-driven floods first hit Pakistan in July, affecting millions.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Sat, 09/04/2010 - 07:35 by Prince damin
Islamabad, Pakistan -- Credit rating agency Moody's Investor Service said floods in Pakistan could undermine the nation's banks.
Although the floods are centered on rural areas, Moody's warned that many loans would fall into arrears as thousands of borrowers have their incomes disrupted, The Financial Times reported Friday.
The floods, which began with the monsoon season in July, have covered about one-fifth of Pakistan and claimed an estimated 1,500 lives, CNN reported.
There are fears that a wave of hunger and disease could claim hundreds more lives.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Fri, 08/13/2010 - 09:35 by Prince damin
Islamabad, Pakistan -- Endangered snow leopards in Pakistan are being protected by an innovative "insurance" program involving local villagers with goat herds, a researcher says.
Shafqat Hussain, an environmentalist and anthropology professor at Trinity College in the United States, says the villagers normally try to kill the leopards in retaliation for attacks on their goats, Inter Press Service reported Thursday.
Hussein's Project Snow Leopard, started in 1999, is funded by the Royal Geographic Society and the U.S.-based Snow Leopard Conservancy.
"I'm not totally indifferent to the loss the local community bears at the loss of their goats," Hussain says.
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Fri, 05/21/2010 - 10:05 by Priyanka
Pakistan seems to be on a banning streak of late; just a day after blocking access to social networking site Facebook on Thursday, government ordered to block Google’s popular video sharing site YouTube and over 450 web links citing “growing sacrilegious content” online.
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Thu, 05/20/2010 - 10:26 by Priyanka
A Lahore High Court (Pakistan) on Wednesday imposed a temporary ban on the use of popular social networking site Facebook in the wake of competition to be held on May 20 called “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.”
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Sat, 12/12/2009 - 14:23 by Ishita Sood
Washington, December 12 -- Saleh-al-Somali, a senior Al-Qaeda operations planner, was killed in an American drone attack in Pakistan, U.S. counter-terrorism officials reported Friday.
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Wed, 06/17/2009 - 16:16 by shiffali
Washington, June 17: The US is to give Pakistan $3.20 billion during 2009 for various tasks, including industrial aid and the war on terror, the country's envoy here has said.
Of this, $950 million would be given as industrial aid, $700 million for the war on terror and $910 million as compensation for the losses Pakistan had faced in the war on terror, Online news agency quoted ambassador Hussain Haqqani as saying.
This apart, the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee had approved the Kerry-Lugar Bill under which Pakistan would annually get $1.5 billion a year for the next five years.
This money, the envoy said, would be spent on education, health and on infrastructure.
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Fri, 04/24/2009 - 15:15 by Salinder Kumar
Islamabad, April 24: Pakistan's Taliban has agreed to move out of Buner district in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), a media report said Friday.
Fear spread among local people in Buner district after Taliban infiltrated from adjoining Swat valley into the area, about 100 km from capital Islamabad.
"Taliban has agreed to leave Buner district," Dawn TV channel quoted an official as saying.
The militants, who entered Buner April 4, were reported to have started patrolling markets, villages and towns in Buner and banned women from appearing in public.
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Thu, 04/23/2009 - 14:47 by Salinder Kumar
Washington, April 23: The situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan tops the reasons the US is "advancing its relationship with India", Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said, while accusing the Pakistani government of "abdicating to the Taliban" and warning that the deterioration of security in Pakistan poses a "mortal threat" to the US and the world.
"The US is advancing its relationship with India as part of a wide-ranging diplomatic agenda to meet today's daunting challenges topped by the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Clinton said in an appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday, her first since being confirmed.
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