Pakistan

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16-year-old Pakistani girl is a brave heart the Taliban tried to kill

Cal Thomas -

July 18, 2013 4:00 am

USAID gave Pakistani group millions to create jobs, got none

Michal Conger -

June 21, 2013 4:00 am

In this Saturday, June 8, 2013 photo, a passenger checks his e-ticket at Benazir Bhutto airport in Islamabad, Pakistan. Most of Pakistan's planes are more than 25 years old and not in the best of shape, its staff is bloated, and every flight is probably costing the state money instead of adding to its bottom line, with the carrier losing some $300 million a year. That's emblematic of the problems with Pakistan's state-owned enterprises, underlining how difficult it will be for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to carry out a key promise for rebuilding the economy, rescuing, reforming and possibly privatizing a slew of state companies. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

In business, Pakistan’s government bleeds

Nahal Toosi -

June 9, 2013 4:00 am

People comfort a family member of a female polio worker who was killed by unknown gunmen, at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Police say gunmen in Pakistan have shot dead a female polio worker and wounded another in the northwest, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Pakistan polio vaccination suspended after killing

Riaz Khan, Nahal Toosi -

May 28, 2013 4:00 am

Pakistani women mourn the death of their relatives, who were killed in gas cylinder explosion on a minibus, in Gujrat, Pakistan, Saturday, May 25, 2013. Police say that a teacher was among more than a dozen people burned to death in eastern Pakistan when a minibus taking children to school suddenly caught fire. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

16 children, 1 teacher die in Pakistan bus fire

Zaheer Babar -

May 25, 2013 4:00 am

Passengers disembark from Pakistan International Airlines flight PK709 bound for Manchester from Lahore, Pakistan, after it was diverted and landed at Stansted Airport, north of London, England, Friday May 24, 2013. The passenger plane was diverted following an incident on board, and two men were arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an RAF Typhoon jet was scrambled to escort the passenger plane traveling from Pakistan to the UK, police said. (AP Photo / Chris Radburn, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES

UK-bound Pakistan plane diverted, 2 men arrested

Cassandra Vinograd, Danica Kirka -

May 24, 2013 4:00 am

Friends of Pakistani Zohra Shahid, a senior member of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in Sindh, mourn her death at a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Police said gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed Shahid outside her home on Saturday, May 18, 2013, in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistan repeats vote in Karachi despite killing

Atif Raza -

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this Monday, May 13, 2013 file photo, former prime minister and leader of Pakistan Muslim League-N party, Nawaz Sharif, gestures while speaking to members of the media at his residence in Lahore, Pakistan. Over a decade ago, the man now set to become Pakistan's next prime minister stood at this border crossing with archenemy India to inaugurate a

Sharif’s win sparks hope for Pakistan-India ties

Sebastian Abbot -

May 15, 2013 4:00 am

Pakistanis walk under election banners showing former prime minister, leader of Pakistan Muslim League-N, Nawaz Sharif, and other members of his party, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Sunday, May 12, 2013. Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif looked set Sunday to return to power for a third term, with an overwhelming election tally that just weeks ago seemed out of reach for a man who had been ousted by a coup and was exiled abroad before clawing his way back as an opposition leader. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Look at major issues facing Pakistan’s new leader

The Associated Press -

May 12, 2013 4:00 am

$Rescue workers rush Imran Khan, Pakistan's cricket star-turned-politician to hospital in Lahore, Pakistan on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. One of Pakistan's most prominent politicians, former cricket star Imran Khan, fell from a stage at a political rally Tuesday, leaving him with two hairline skull fractures and uncertainty hanging over his ability to campaign ahead of Saturday's general election.(AP Photo/M.S. Shah)$

Pakistan’s Imran Khan has 3 fractured vertebrae

Zaheer Babar, Sebastian Abbot -

May 8, 2013 4:00 am

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