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Pakistan Army Accuses US of 'Negative Propaganda'

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani army on Thursday rejected what it called "negative propaganda" by the United States, hours after the top U.S. military officer accused the country's spy agency of continued links to a powerful Afghan Taliban faction. The unusually strident back and forth reflected the poor state of relations...

India, Pakistan PMs Hold Court for Cricket

MOHALI, India -- The prime ministers of India and Pakistan, mixing business with pleasure, joined tens of thousands of cricket fans in a northern Indian stadium Wednesday to watch a key match between their rival nations. Greeting the players on the pitch, India's Manmohan Singh and Pakistan's Yousuf Gilani shook hands...

Mourning Pakistanis Bury Assassinated Christian Official

Thousands of mourners crowded into an Islamabad church today to pay their final respects to Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's only Christian government minister, who was assassinated for opposing the country's harsh blasphemy laws. Bhatti, a 42-year-old Roman Catholic, is the second senior politician to be gunned down in two...

Christians in Pakistan Mourn Slain Catholic Cabinet Minister

Pakistan's forlorn church bells were tolling once again after the sole Christian in the federal government -- a rare voice for moderation and tolerance -- was assassinated by gunmen today outside his widowed mother's Islamabad home. K.M. Chaudary, AP People from Pakistan's Christian community condemn the death...

Gunmen Kill Christian Pakistani Government Minister

ISLAMABAD -- Assailants purportedly sent by al-Qaida and the Taliban killed the only Christian member of Pakistan's federal Cabinet Wednesday, spraying his car with bullets outside his parents' driveway. It was the second assassination in two months of a high-profile opponent of blasphemy laws that impose the death penalty...

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05/28/12 Dollar above 92 in interbank deals Source: Business Recorder - Pakistan The dollar hit another high at 92.30 against the rupee following the strong demand for US currency as the NY forex in the United States was closed for Memorial Day on Monday, dealers said on Monday.
05/28/12 Washington, Islamabad hold different views on Afridi Source: Gulf Times There's a common outrage, a common response wherever you look," said Carl Levin, chairman of the US Senate's armed services committee.
05/28/12 India gives Pak fresh evidence against Hafiz Saeed Source: rediff.com India [ Images ] has given to Pakistan fresh evidence against Lashkar-e-Tayiba [ Images ] founder Hafiz Saeed [ Images ] and asked Islamabad [ Images ] to act against the 26/11 mastermind.
05/28/12 U.S. missiles kill militants in Pakistan Source: NBC - KRNV News 4 - Reno NV Pakistani intelligence officials say an American missile attack has killed five suspected Islamist militants close to the Afghan border.
05/25/12 Pakistan to Open New Islamabad Airport in 2014 Source: Ground Support Worldwide At a seminar held on the sidelines of The Airport Show-2012 running at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC) until Thursday, a senior Pakistani civil aviation official has announced details about the airports developments in the Islamic republic, especially the upcoming Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) in Islamabad.