On the fateful day of October 27, 1947, Indian troops landed in Srinagar and forcefully started occupying the state. The whole operation was premeditated and launched with the tacit approval of British Raj.

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A leading politician has been killed in a suicide blast in the Swat valley of north-west Pakistan, police say. The bomber targeted a guest house owned by North West Frontier Province (NWFP) assembly member Shamsher Ali Khan.

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PESHAWAR: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said the nation is fighting the war against terrorism like a solid rock and every citizen has matchless spirit of making his contribution in efforts to curb the menace faced by the country.

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A Pakistani army soldier guards his South Waziristan post Nov. 18 as he watches internally displaced civilians fleeing from military operations against Taliban militants

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Indian political leaders, writers and media analysts and intelligence agencies are past masters in creating doubts and misgivings between groups, communities, political parties and institutions to fan ethnic and sectarian tensions, political polarization and foment fissiparous te …

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A bomb attack outside a court in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed at least 19 people and injured many others, medics say. The blast on the busy Khyber Road came during rush hour and is the latest in a series in the city in recent weeks.

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'SHOCKING' is a word bandied about with such ease to describe various situations, serious and not-so-serious alike, that it can rightly be claimed the word has largely lost its meaning.

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There seems to be no end to unpleasant surprises. This is an excerpt from an article in The News today by Mr. Asif Ezdi:

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When waging war "by way of deception," the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe.

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June is never a good month on the plains. It was 46ºC in Fortress Islamabad a fortnight ago. The hundreds of security guards manning roadblocks and barriers were wilting, sweat pouring down their faces as they waved cars and motorbikes through.

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Pakistani troop morale is high three weeks into the army's assault against the Taliban.

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Late last month, suicide attacks hit Pakistan's International Islamic University in relatively peaceful Islamabad, killing at least six people – another violent event that continues to pull the capital further into the fray.

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FATA consisting of seven tribal agencies is backward and poverty stricken with little means of employment. The tribesmen are excellent fighters, revengeful, hospitable, fiercely independent, religious and proud of their traditions.

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Islamabad privately told Clinton to cool it on her claims unless she had some real evidence, which she didn't.

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Will Pakistan, the only Muslim nuclear country, be fragmented as it was done in Iraq? This is the common fear among Pakistanis in view of the forces-United States, Europe and Israel, which turned Iraq and Afghanistan into slaughterhouses, are responsible for the deepening quagmir …

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As things fall apart around us, it is a struggle to make sense of any of it.

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As part of the recently signed Kerry-Lugar Bill authorizing $7.5 billion in economic assistance for Pakistan over the next five years, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S.

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Musharraf proved excessively compliant from the beginning and this came as a shock even to the Bush Administration, but they realised his limitations in terms of compromises at the tactical level because of the military - which often put a spanner in the US agenda for Pakistan.

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India succeeded in creating Bangladesh after dismembering Pakistan into two halves in December 1971. In this RAW played a key role in polluting the minds of Bengalis under Mujibur Rehman against West Pakistan and instigating them to revolt and gain independence.

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Until recently when I heard about Sunni IDPs in Kohat from Parachinar, my own perception was that Parachinar was a 100 per cent Shia town and the Sunnis living there were Afghan refugees.

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ISLAMABAD: The US-led Nato forces vacated more than half a dozen key security checkposts on the Afghan side of the Pak-Afghan border just ahead of the major Pakistan Army ground offensive (code named: Rahe Nijaat) against Taliban-led militants in the volatile tribal area of South …

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Pakistan has been a busy place over the past few weeks.

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The announcement that an army ground offensive had been ordered in South Waziristan tribal region was made by the Governor of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province on 15 June.

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On Saturday, six gunmen armed with guns and grenades, wearing army uniforms attacked Pakistan's army headquarters, the very heart of the country. When stopped by the security guards, they started firing, throwing five grenades inside the headquarters.

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NATO lorries torched again in Pakistan, on their way to Afghanistan. Video included. Gunmen in north-west Pakistan have attacked vehicles being used to take supplies to Nato forces in Afghanistan, police say.

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