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May 20, 2012 The Pakistani government blocked access to the social networking service Twitter on Sunday, after publicly holding Twitter responsible for promoting a blasphemous cartoon contest taking place on Facebook, officials said. A government spokesman was quoted by local news media as saying that the government had been in talks with Twitter to remove [...]

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8:47 AM EST        Wednesday December 7th, 2011 The Pakistani president’s trip to Dubai for a medical checkup is sparking talk Wednesday about whether the embattled president will resign. The trip occurred Tuesday as speculation intensified over the so-called “Memogate” scandal, in which Pakistan’s civilian leaders were supposedly coming up with a plan [...]

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June 22, 2011  0723 GMT Brigadier General Ali Khan was close to retiring at the end of a distinguished career in the Pakistani Army when he was detained early in May — and accused of links with an outlawed Islamist group. His arrest, which became public Tuesday, shocked fellow officers at army headquarters and again [...]

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June 21, 2011 7:52 a.m. EDT A nine-year-old girl who says she was kidnapped by militants in Pakistan and told to be a suicide bomber was reunited with her parents Tuesday, police said. The girl, Suhana, was kidnapped on Sunday by two men with weapons and two women wearing burqas, she told police. Police did [...]

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Sun, Aug. 22, 2010 06:12 AM The Pakistani men took turns savagely beating the two teenage brothers with sticks, drawing blood before dragging and hanging their dead bodies from a nearby pole. None of the dozens of people watching tried to stop the attack, not even several police. The boys may have been mistaken for [...]

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