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Pakistan’s Tourism Minister Nilofar Bakhtiar has resigned, apparently in protest for not receiving the backing from the ruling PML-Q after she was served with a ‘fatwa’ by radical clerics for hugging her French paratroop trainer in Paris.

Greg Miller
Los Angeles Times
May 20, 2007
WASHINGTON – A major CIA effort launched last year to hunt down Osama bin Laden has produced no significant leads on his whereabouts, but has helped track an alarming increase in the movement of al-Qaida operatives and money into Pakistan’s tribal territories, according to senior U.S. intelligence officials familiar with […]

ABU DHABI: Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by five wickets in the 1st ODI here on Friday after a superb 73 off just 34 balls from Shahid Afridi.
He even managed to hit 32 off just one over for the second highest number of runs scored in an over, to convert what could have been a […]

MIRAN SHAH—Dozens of gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying government officials and kidnapped eight of them, including five women, in a troubled northwestern tribal region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, officials said yesterday.

ISLAMABAD,Hardline clerics holding four Pakistani police at a mosque here won the release of four extremists after a tense day-long stand-off between armed police and baton-wielding students.
The clerics said they would release two of the policemen, snatched late Friday, after authorities partially bowed to their demands.

WASHINGTON: Pakistan is preparing its next-generation of nuclear-capable ballistic missile for deployment, says a report by the Federation of American Scientists.
The report acknowledges that “the main driver for Pakistan’s nuclear modernisation appears to be India’s nuclear build-up, although national prestige probably also is a factor.”

In a sensational development the Bob Woolmer death investigation has revealed that the Pakistani coach died of a heart failure.
A group of Scotland Yard investigators, who were asked to assist with the matter, have concluded that Woolmer died a natural death - a heart failure.

ISLAMABAD - Up to seven Afghan troops were killed in a border clash with Pakistani forces on Sunday in the most serious incident in years between the uneasy neighbours who are officially partners in the US-led war on terrorism.

KARACHI: Sindh Governor, Dr. Ishrat-ul- Ebad Khan, has said the Rangers have been fully authorized to enforce law and order in Karachi.
Talking to Geo News Sunday he said the law and order in the city would not be allowed to be marred at any cost.

KARACHI: Three more persons were killed, several injured and many shops were set on fire in the Karachi violence, which continued on second consecutive day today (Sunday).
While at least 36 people were killed, over 150 people were injured and over 75 vehicles were torched yesterday.