5 April, 2009

Freed American UN aid worker leaves Pakistan
The Associated Press
NEWARK, NJ (AP) — The family of a New Jersey man abducted more than two months ago while working for the United Nations in Pakistan is eagerly awaiting his …
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Bomb explodes in Shiite mosque in Pakistan
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A police official says a bomb has exploded in a Shiite mosque south of the Pakistani capital, killing and injuring multiple people. …
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Taliban threaten 2 attacks per week in Pakistan
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide bombing at a crowded Shiite mosque south of Pakistan’s capital killed 22 people Sunday, the latest evidence of how security in …
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In Pakistan, 3 Suicide Attacks in 24 Hours
New York Times – United States
It was the third suicide attack in Pakistan in 24 hours, in a sign that the Pakistani Taliban are overwhelming the nation’s security forces. …
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/world/asia/06pstan.html?hp

Jihad Watch: Pakistan: Suicide bomber kills 22 in Shi’ite mosque
By Marisol
Violence in Pakistan has spread well beyond the dangerous Afghan border region, including a suicide bombing in Islamabad on Saturday that killed eight paramilitary personnel and a deadly commando-style attack against a police academy …
www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025529.php

Suicide bomber kills 22 in Pakistan Shiite mosque
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Suicide bomber kills 22 in Pakistan Shiite mosque – The Huffington Post.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/05/suicide-bomber-kills-22-i_n_183230.html

Desicritics.org: The Problem with Pakistan
By Dhiraj Singh
Politics: The Problem with Pakistan – ‘Islamabad is an hour’s drive from Pakistan.’
desicritics.org/2009/04/05/104444.php

Freed American UN aid worker leaves Pakistan – Democratic Underground
ISLAMABAD (AP) — An American U.N. worker abducted more than two months ago headed home Sunday, a day after he turned up unharmed alongside a road in western Pakistan with his hands and feet bound and pleading “Help me, help me.” …
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/
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Suicide bomber kills 22 in Pakistan Shiite mosque | Home Other …
ISLAMABAD (AP) – A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Shiite mosque south of the Pakistani capital on Sunday, killing 22 people and wounding dozens more in the latest carnage to hit the US-allied nation, officials said.
www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=45
5729&publicationSubCategoryId=200

NewsDaily: At least 22 killed in Pakistan suicide bombing
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a gathering of minority Shi’ite Muslims in Pakistan on Sunday killing 22 people a day after a deadly suicide attack in the capital, police said.
www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5340tr-us-pakistan-violence/

24 killed, 35 injured in Pakistan mosque bombing (Fifth Lead …
By Sindh Today
Islamabad, April 5 (IANS) At least 24 people, including four children, were killed and 35 others injured Sunday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of a Shia mosque in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
www.sindhtoday.net/pakistan/83518.htm

Outrage over Taliban flogging of Pakistani girl could threaten …
Christian Science Monitor – Boston,MA,USA
Mingora, Pakistan – The public flogging of a 17-year-old girl in Pakistan’s Swat Valley sparked a wave of protests across the country this weekend, …
www.csmonitor.com/2009/0405/p90s01-wosc.html

Taliban blamed for suicide attack on Pakistan mosque
guardian.co.uk – UK
Relatives carry the body of a suicide blast victim at a hospital in
Chakwal, Pakistan. Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images A suicide blast ripped …
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/
05/pakistan-mosque-attack-taliban

Suicide bomber kills 22 in Pakistan Shiite mosque › Japan Today …
A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Shiite mosque south of the Pakistani capital on Sunday, killing 22 people and wounding…
www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/
suicide-bomber-kills-22-in-pakistan-shiite-mosque

Sky News: Upwards of 20 killed in Pakistan blast
Pakistan has been plagued by rising violence outside the dangerous Afghan border region, including a suicide bombing in Islamabad on Saturday that killed eight paramilitary personnel and a deadly commando-style attack against a police …
www.skynews.com.au/news/article.aspx?id=319101

Suicide bomber kills 22 in Pakistan Shiite mosque – Democratic …
Pakistan has been plagued by rising violence, much of it caused by Taliban militants based near Afghanistan who said recently they would step up attacks unless the U.S. stops drone missile strikes against fighters in the border region. …
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/
duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3816197

The Online News Page “ At least 20 dead in Pakistan mosque blast
By Editor
At least 20 dead in Pakistan mosque blast. A suicide bombing at a mosque in Pakistan has killed at least 20 people, according to local police. – RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com. April 5th, 2009 | Tags: breaking news, …
www.rocketnews.com/2009/04/05/at
-least-20-dead-in-pakistan-mosque-blast/

Pakistan suicide blast in Chakwal kills 20 (Third Lead) | Sindh Today
By Sindh Today
Islamabad, April 5 (IANS) A teenaged suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday at a mosque in Pakistan’s Punjab province, killing at least 20 people and injuring several others, media reports said. The explosion ripped through a…
www.sindhtoday.net/pakistan/83446.htm

US Afghan envoy Holbrooke in Kabul for talks
Reuters – USA
Richard Holbrooke, whose mandate also covers Pakistan, is making his second visit in his new role, at a time when violence in Afghanistan has reached its …
www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSSP407861._CH_.2400

Violence rocks Pakistan – asia – world | Stuff.co.nz
Violence rocked nuclear-armed Pakistan on Saturday, with a pilotless US drone aircraft killing 13 people including militants in the northwest and a suicide bomber killing eight soldiers in the capital Islamabad. …
www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/2315846/Violence-rocks-Pakistan

20 killed in Pakistan mosque bombing (Second Lead) | Sindh Today
By Sindh Today
Islamabad, April 5 (DPA) At least 20 people were killed and dozens injured as an explosion ripped through a Shiite mosque Sunday in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a police official said. A suicide bomber blew himself up at the main …
www.sindhtoday.net/pakistan/83384.htm

Jihad Watch: Pakistan: Islamic groups reluctant to condemn lashing …
By Robert
Pakistan: Islamic groups reluctant to condemn lashing of 17-year-old girl.“Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). …
www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025522.php

At least 17 killed in Pakistan suicide bombing Asharq Alawsat …
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up in a religious centre for minority Shi’ite Muslims in central Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 17 people, a day after a deadly suicide attack in the capital, officials said. …
www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=16292

US Drone Fires Missile in Pakistan, 13 Dead – World – Javno
Later Pakistani Taliban militant leader Baituallah Mehsud claimed responsibility for a shooting at a US immigration centre in New York.
www.javno.com/en-world/us-drone-
fires-missile-in-pakistan-13-dead_248570

At least 20 feared dead in Pakistan mosque blast
CNN International – USA
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — A suicide bombing at a mosque in Pakistan has killed at least 20 people, according to local police. The attack occurred about …
edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/05/pakistan.blast/

Pakistan mosque blast ‘kills 15'
BBC News – UK
A bomb has exploded at a religious gathering of Shia Muslims in north-eastern Pakistan, killing at least 15 people, police say. …
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7984105.stm

‘Pakistan find 46 dead Afghans in truck container’
AFP
QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistani and Afghan officials were Sunday preparing to send home the bodies of 46 Afghans found crammed into a truck container …
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Pakistan’s Swat valley seen as a test case for strict Islamic law
MiamiHerald.com – Miami,FL,USA
By SAEED SHAH MINGORA, Pakistan — A hundred miles northwest of Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, the Swat valley offers a chilling vision of what much of the …
www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/985254.html

Dinocrat “ Blog Archive “ Pakistan’s problems
By admin
James Traub has an article called “Can Pakistan be governed?” in the NYT Magazine. It is hard to follow all the ins and outs, but one sentence seems to capture the essence of the piece: No democratic government in the history of …
www.dinocrat.com/archives/2009/04/05/pakistans-problems/

World News Australia – Kidnapped American freed in Pakistan
An American UN worker abducted more than two months ago in Pakistan has turned up unharmed, lying by a road with his hands and feet bound.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1014406/
Kidnapped-American-freed-in-Pakistan

Pakistan finds 46 dead Afghans in truck container
By AFP
“We have all come from Afghanistan and we were going to Iran,” he said without being able to explain why they were bound for the Islamic republic, which borders both Pakistan and Afghanistan, or when they left home. …
www.business24-7.ae/Articles/2009/4/Pages/
Pakistanfinds46deadAfghansintruckcontainer.aspx

Pakistan: Now or Never? “ Blog Archive “ Defending women’s rights …
By Myra MacDonald
Barely had President Barack Obama outlined a new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan meant to narrow the focus to eliminating the threat from al Qaeda and its Islamist allies, before the U.S.-led campaign ran into what was always …
blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/2009/04/04/defending
-womens-rights-in-afghanistan-and-pakistan/

American UN official freed by Pakistan kidnappers (AFP) — But As …
By armchairmba
AFP – The American UN official kidnapped in Pakistan two months ago was released unharmed Sunday, ending the most high profile hostage ordeal for a Westerner here since Daniel Pearl’s 2002 killing.
www.butasforme.com/2009/04/04/american
-un-official-freed-by-pakistan-kidnappers-afp/

SGPC unlikely to send pilgrims to Pakistan on Baisakhi | Sindh Today
By Sindh Today
Chandigarh, April 4 (IANS) The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) is unlikely to send a group of pilgrims to Pakistan on the occasion of Baisakhi, the harvest festival of Punjab, later this month in view of security …
www.sindhtoday.net/south-asia/83217.htm

Kidnapped American UN Worker Freed In Pakistan – Politics News …
ISLAMABAD — An American UN worker abducted more than two months ago turned up unharmed Saturday, lying alongside a road in western Pakistan with his hands and feet bound and pleading “Help me, help me,” the man who found him said.
www.wdsu.com/politics/19093821/detail.html

Bomb hits Pakistan police base
BBC News – UK
A suicide bomber has killed at least five paramilitary police in an attack on a security base in the Pakistan capital, Islamabad. The BBC is not responsible …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7983892.stm

Pakistan: 62 Migrants Suffocated To Death Inside Shipping Container
By The Huffington Post News Editors
QUETTA, Pakistan — At least 62 illegal migrants suffocated to death inside a shipping container found stuffed with more than 100 people in southwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan on … QUETTA, Pakistan&mdash …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/04/
pakistan-62-migrants-suff_n_183154.html

The Raw Story | American UN hostage released in Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan – An American UN official kidnapped in Pakistan has been released safe and sound after a two-month ordeal, hoping to be reunited with his family as soon as possible, officials said Sunday. …
rawstory.com/news/2008/American_UN
_hostage_released_in_Pakistan_0404.html

62 migrants found dead inside truck in Pakistan | International …
Truck was carrying Afghanis through Pakistan and was headed for Iran.
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename
=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1238562907390

Obama: NATO committed to strengthen Pakistan | Euro News 24
02:22 STRASBOURG, France – President Barack Obama says NATO is committed to strengthening Pakistan’s ability to meet the needs of its people. He says that’s key to Pakistan’s struggles against the Taliban and al-Qaida.
www.euronews24.org/world/obama-nato
-committed-to-strengthen-pakistan/

UN Rated Pakistan One of Fastest Growing Country in Telecom …
By Zaheer Khan
With a user base of 91008042, Pakistan is rated one of fastest growing in Telecommunication Industry across the world by the United Nations. According to PTA data, the mobile density in Pakistan is 56.50 percent and around 763 million …
www.zaheerspeaks.com/2009/04/04/un-rates-
pakistan-one-of-fastest-growing-country-in-telecom/

‘US, Pakistan join hands to kill Mehsud’
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
LAHORE: Pakistan and the US have agreed to stage a joint operation to kill local Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, a Pakistani intelligence official told The …
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20
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Suicide Bomber Kills 8 Paramilitary Officers in Pakistan
Washington Post – United States
By Shaiq Hussain and Pamela Constable ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 4 — A suicide bomber attacked a small paramilitary camp in an exclusive, heavily protected …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/
2009/04/04/AR2009040402279.html?hpid=topnews