Blast in Pakistan kills up to 12 people

A pre-dawn explosion demolished a house in Pakistan’s turbulent border zone Thursday, killing up to 12 people, intelligence officials and a local militant said. via Buffalo News
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NZ miss U-19 cricket final

NZ miss U-19 cricket finalStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 7 minutes agoIndia will now play the winners of tomorrow's secobd semifinal between defending champions Pakistan and South Africa. Batting first, New Zealand reached 205 …

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Northwestern Pakistan: Where militants rule

Northwestern Pakistan: Where militants ruleChristian Science Monitor, MA - 1 hour agoPeshawar, Pakistan - Every so often, the world witnesses the malice that lives in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt – bombings in London and Madrid and …

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In love with voting, hopelessly

In Tehelka, author and columnist Kamila Shamsie on the long and tortured road to being able to vote in Pakistan, finally  
ONE OF my earliest memories dates back to Election Day, 1977, when I was four years old, and my father showed me a mark on his thumb in indelible ink and explained it was there to […]

Pakistan Lifts Ban on YouTube Web Site - Voice of America

Pakistan Lifts Ban on YouTube Web SiteVoice of America - 18 minutes agoThe Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ordered Internet providers to unblock the site Tuesday. Pakistani officials banned local access to YouTube Friday, …

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Pakistan lifts curbs on YouTube

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s telecommunications regulator said Tuesday that it had lifted restrictions imposed on YouTube over an anti-Islamic video clip, but rejected blame for a cut in access to the Web site in many countries over the weekend.
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Pakistan lifts YouTube ban, says world outage accidental

Pakistan said Tuesday that it has lifted a ban on YouTube after the website removed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, adding that an earlier worldwide outage sparked by its actions was unintentional.
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Pakistan on the YouTube black hole: Never mind

Pakistan on the YouTube black hole: Never mindZDNet - 3 hours agoHaving neatly knocked YouTube off the net for several hours, exposing a key vulnerability in the BRG system and creating a small tumult within Pakistan, …

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Healing touch - the way war on terror should be fought!

There is a lot of talk going on regarding the fate of the war on terror expecially after the change of the tide in Pakistani politics. Most of these concerns are misplaced because the real partners, the legitimate ones in this war are now taking charge in Islamabad. Pakistan People’s Party the leading part in […]

An open letter to Mr Aitzaz Ahsan

This was published in DAWN yesterday
By Raza Rumi
THAT you are principled, charismatic and right is beyond doubt. You have inspired the cynical, intelligentsia, revived a moribund civil society and awakened Pakistan’s traditionally de-politicised middle class.
This is something that history shall record gloriously – reminiscent of the way you re-invoked the essential attributes of ‘Indus […]
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