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Pakistani schoolchildren look out the doorway of their school, before a special class about the victims killed in the Taliban attack on a military-run school in Peshawar, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on December 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)


Pakistan: 67 militants killed after school massacre

Pakistan: 67 militants killed after school massacre

Islamabad, AP—Pakistani jets and ground forces killed 67 militants in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said Friday, days after Taliban fighters killed 148 people—most of them children—in a school massacre. Meanwhile, a Pakistani...
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Pakistani protesters receive food, distributed outside parliament in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)


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Relatives comfort a man grieving over the death of his father, who was killed in a bomb blast at a vegetable market, outside the morgue of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad April 9, 2014. (Reuters/Faisal Mahmood)


Bomb blast in Pakistani capital kills 21

Bomb blast in Pakistani capital kills 21

Islamadad, AP—A bomb ripped through a fruit and vegetable market on the outskirts of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Wednesday morning, killing at least 21 people and leaving dozens more wounded, officials said. The massive blast was the latest attack to shake...
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Pakistani policemen inspect the site of a bomb explosion in Islamabad on April 3, 2014. Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who is on trial for treason, escaped the bomb blast in the early hours, police said. (AFP Photo/Aamir Qureshi)


Pakistan’s Musharraf escapes bomb attack

Pakistan’s Musharraf escapes bomb attack

Islamabad, AP—A bomb exploded near a convoy carrying former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf who is on trial for treason, but the former ruler was not harmed, a police official and his spokeswoman said on Thursday. Musharraf had survived multiple assassination...
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Supporters of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf gesture outside the Special Court formed to try him for treason in Islamabad March 31, 2014. (REUTERS/Stringer)


Former Pakistani president Musharraf denies treason

Former Pakistani president Musharraf denies treason

Islamabad, Reuters—Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf pleaded not guilty to five counts of treason on Monday in the latest chapter of a long-running drama between the increasingly assertive judiciary and its former military ruler. Musharraf faces the death...