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Pakistanis vote in landmark election
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Millions of Pakistanis braved threats from militants and voted Saturday in national elections that marked the country's first democratic transfer of governance and appeared to put former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on track for...Tags: National Government, Woodrow Wilson, U.S. Elections, Politics, Bombings
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Polls close in historic Pakistan elections; some bombings occur
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a bloody campaign season marred by waves of bombings and candidate assassinations, Pakistanis turned out in large numbers Saturday to elect a new parliament in what is slated to be the first democratic transition of...
Tags: National Government, Armed Conflicts, Politics, Bombings, Islamabad (Pakistan)
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Pakistan elections: Polls open amid more violence
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistanis went to the polls Saturday to elect a new parliament amid continued violence marring the historic event, as militants detonated a bomb outside a liberal, anti-Taliban party’s campaign office in the southern port...Tags: Pakistan, Elections, Nawaz Sharif, Polls, Bombings
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12 killed in Pakistan campaign violence
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — At least 12 people were killed and 43 injured Sunday in bomb blasts targeting a candidate's convoy and the election offices of two others in northwestern Pakistan. They were the latest in a series of terrorist strikes that...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Pakistan, Elections, Bombings, Politics
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Bomb blasts at campaign offices in northwest Pakistan kill 11
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Bomb blasts targeting the election offices of two candidates in northwest Pakistan killed at least 11 people and injured 30 Sunday, the latest in a string of terror attacks that have cast a shadow over parliamentary elections...Tags: Pakistan, Emergency Incidents, National Government, Elections, Bombings
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Pakistani police arrest former President Pervez Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was arrested and placed in police custody Friday, a day after commandos whisked him away from an Islamabad courthouse where he faces charges of illegally detaining dozens of judges...
Tags: Pakistan, Elections, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Pervez Musharraf, Politics
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Pakistani court disqualifies Musharraf from parliament elections
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani court on Tuesday barred former President Pervez Musharraf from running in next month’s parliament elections, derailing the onetime general’s bid for an unlikely political comeback in the country he ruled...
Tags: Pakistan, Political Corruption, Elections, Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf
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Musharraf tells supporters he has returned to save Pakistan
Los Angeles TimesKARACHI, Pakistan — As former military ruler Pervez Musharraf stepped off the plane at Karachi’s international airport Sunday, he returned to a very different nation from the one he was forced to leave in 2008 — one that has no...Tags: Kabul (Afghanistan), Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Politics, Islamabad (Pakistan), Government
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Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf returns to Pakistan
Los Angeles TimesKARACHI, Pakistan—Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf ended four years of self-imposed exile and returned to Pakistan on Sunday, hoping to craft a political comeback in upcoming parliamentary elections despite pending criminal cases awaiting...Tags: Pakistan, Science and Technology, Elections, Nawaz Sharif, Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
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Pakistani man wanted in Daniel Pearl slaying arrested
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A crackdown on Sunni Muslim militants in Karachi has netted a man wanted in connection with the kidnapping and slaying of American journalist Daniel Pearl, Pakistani authorities say. Qari Abdul Hayee was arrested Sunday...
Tags: Pakistan, Religion and Belief, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Islam, Bombings
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Attack on Pakistani Shiites kills at least 30
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least 30 people were killed and dozens injured Sunday when either one or two bombs exploded in a Shiite-majority neighborhood of Karachi, local officials said. Initial reports said that two blasts had detonated near a...Tags: Pakistan, Emergency Incidents, Injuries and Wounds, Television Networks, Politics
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Talk of peace with Pakistan Taliban angers victims
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Hazratullah Khan, who lost his right leg below the knee in a car bombing, answers immediately when asked whether the Pakistani government should hold peace talks with Taliban leaders responsible for attacks like the one...Tags: Pakistan, Murder, Terrorism, Peace Negotiations, Injuries and Wounds
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