Posts Tagged ‘pakistan’
Pakistan, UK deny call expressing coup fears (AP)
AP – Pakistan’s prime minister telephoned the top British diplomat in the country this week expressing fears that the Pakistani army might be about to stage a coup, a British official and an official in Islamabad said Friday.
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Pakistan army warns of ‘consequences’ to PM charge (AP)
AP – Pakistan’s military warned Wednesday of “grievous consequences” for the country after the prime minister accused the army chief of violating the constitution, adding to a sense of crisis that some believe could end in the ouster of government.
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US fires 1st drone in Pakistan in 6 weeks; 4 dead (AP)
AP – The U.S. carried out its first drone strike into Pakistan since errant November airstrikes by U.S. forces killed two dozen Pakistani troops along the Afghan border. The latest missile attack killed four militants, three of them Arabs, according to Pakistani intelligence officials.
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Bomb kills 25 in northwest Pakistan (AP)
AP – A bomb targeting a militia opposed to the Pakistani Taliban exploded in a market close to the Afghan border Tuesday, killing 25 people in the deadliest blast in the country in several months, officials said.
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U.S. says mistakes led to attack on Pakistan soldiers
An investigation into a NATO attack that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month near the Afghan border has concluded that a combination of mistrust and bad maps led to the airstrikes on two Pakistani outposts.
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Pakistan mulls deploying air defenses to border (AP)
AP – Pakistan may deploy air defense weapons to the Afghan border to prevent future NATO airstrikes such as the ones last month that the Pakistani military claims were pre-planned and that killed 24 of the country’s soldiers, a senior lawmaker said Friday.
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Afghan president says attack came from Pakistan (AP)
AP – Afghanistan’s president vowed Wednesday to confront the government in Islamabad over a devastating suicide bombing against a Shiite shrine in Kabul that he said originated on Pakistani soil.
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