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21 missing Pakistani policemen found shot dead

Pakistan

Twenty-one tribal policemen believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban were found shot dead in Pakistan's troubled northwest tribal region early Sunday, government officials said.

 

Pakistan 'Day of Love' protests over film turn deadly

Pakistan Protest

Protests by tens of thousands of Pakistanis infuriated by an anti-Islam film descended into deadly violence on Friday, with police firing tear gas and live ammunition in an attempt to subdue rioters who hurled rocks and set fire to buildings in some cities.

 

Possible Stowaways on Ship in Port Newark

A cargo vessel from Pakistan suspected to be carrying stowaways was boarded in the waters near Port Newark in New Jersey on Wednesday morning and escorted to a dock there by officers from the United States Coast Guard, the authorities said.

 

At least five dead in blast in Pakistan's Karachi

An explosion brought down a house in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday, killing at least five people, but the cause of the blast was not immediately known, a police said.

 

Pakistan seeks terrorism charges against Americans

Pakistan seeks terrorism charges against Americans

Pakistani police will ask a court to charge five Americans detained in the country this month with planning terrorist attacks and jail them for life, a police official said on Thursday.

 

5 men missing from N.Va. are arrested in Pakistan

5 men missing from N.Va. are arrested in Pakistan

Pakistani police on Wednesday arrested five American men believed to have gone missing from the Washington, DC area last month, officials from both countries said.

 

Series of raids by Pakistan police foil attacks

Pakistani authorities arrested 13 Islamist militants and seized suicide vests, bomb-making material and heroin in separate raids that police said Monday had foiled major attacks in the country's south and east.

 

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