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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan hit back on Sunday at U.S. critics of its fight against terrorism, insisting its army was best suited to hunt for Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda militants Washington believes enjoy safe haven in Pakistani tribal areas near Afghanistan.
Appearing on CNN’s “Late Edition,” Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri criticized talk […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. would consider military force if necessary to stem al-Qaeda’s growing ability to use its hideout in Pakistan to launch terrorist attacks, a White House aide said Sunday.
The president’s homeland security adviser, Fran Townsend, said the U.S. was committed first and foremost to working with Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf, in his […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities on Sunday discovered an unidentified body and an assault rifle at Islamabad’s Red Mosque - a week and a half after a deadly army assault on militants holed up inside.

Pakistani security forces killed six pro-Taliban militants in fighting in North Waziristan on Sunday, the military said, after overnight battles left 13 rebels dead.
Violence has intensified in the volatile tribal region on the border with Afghanistan after militants tore up a peace deal with the government last week.

“Awarapan”, a movie starring Bollywood actor Emran Hashmi, has triggered a fierce court row between the government and a Pakistani movie producer who wants the film banned.
The ministry of culture and the Censor Board, in a joint reply to the Lahore High Court, have justified the screening of “Awarapan”, saying it was produced in the […]

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto could return to the country as early as September amid speculation that she may do a deal with President Pervez Musharraf, she said on Sunday.
Bhutto, in exile because of corruption claims against her, told The Sunday Times she would only consider an agreement with Musharraf if she felt it […]

Two bombs have exploded in two separate attacks in Pakistan, killing at least 36 people, most of them police.
One of the blasts killed at least 19, including seven police, in a market place in the southern town of Hub, near the city of Karachi.
It was the first such attack in southern Pakistan during the recent […]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Militants in northwest Pakistan tore up a peace pact with the government and launched suicide attacks and bombings that killed at least 70 people, in a dramatic escalation of violence in the al-Qaida infiltrated region.
The weekend attacks followed strident calls by extremists to avenge the government’s bloody storming of Islamabad’s Red Mosque and […]

SWAT: At least 17 persons including 12 security men were killed Sunday when a security forces convoy struck against landmines in Matta area near Swat.
Director General ISPR has said 10 security men were martyred and 29 were wounded in the incident.

LAHORE: Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Dr. Nasim Ashraf has said Richard Done was out of race, among the three candidates, for becoming coach of Pakistan cricket team to succeed Bob Woolmer, who died during the World Cup in the West Indies in March from natural causes after earlier fears he was murdered.