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Deaths in factory fires in Pakistan up to 314
Pakistani officials say the death toll from devastating factory fires that broke out in two major cities has risen to 314. Senior government official Roshan Ali Sheikh said on Wednesday that the fire at a garment factory in the southern Pakistani city of...
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Pakistan's presumptive prime minister calls for peace talks with Taliban
Associated PressISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's presumptive prime minister called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government Monday, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country's powerful army. Nawaz Sharif said...Tags: Government, National Government, Elections, Murder, Polio
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Pakistan holds repeat election in Karachi despite shooting death of senior politician
Associated PressKARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan held a repeat election on Sunday in an upscale area of the southern city of Karachi that was plagued with allegations of vote-rigging, despite the shooting death of a senior member of former cricket star Imran Khan'...Tags: Nawaz Sharif, Government, National Government, Shootings, Elections
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Gunmen kill senior member of former Pakistani cricket star's political party
Associated PressKARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police say gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party. Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in...Tags: Government, Politics, Shootings, Elections, Pakistan
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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: Rebellions, Military Equipment, Government, U.S. Elections, National Government
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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...
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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: Nawaz Sharif, Bombings, Government, Elections, Politics
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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: Bombings, Politics, Elections, Explosions, Emergency Incidents
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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: Government, National Government, Bombings, Elections, Politics
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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...
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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...
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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: Government, Science and Technology, Elections, Pakistan, Parliament
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