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FILE - In this May 2, 2012, file photo Afghan security personnel and NATO soldiers, right, stand at the scene of suicide car bomber and Taliban militants' attack in Kabul on a compound, housing hundreds of foreigners in the Afghan capital. The Taliban said the attack was a response to President Barack Obama's surprise visit just hours earlier. U.S. Congressional intelligence leaders said Sunday, May 6, that the Taliban have grown in strength since 2010 troop surge. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)

Taliban string up heads of killed Pakistani soldiers

Last updated Monday, May 7, 2012 - 10:20am

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Taliban fighters killed 14 Pakistani soldiers in a key militant sanctuary along the Afghan border, beheaded all but one of them and hung two of the heads from wooden poles in the center of town, officials said Monday.

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Drone strike kills 8 in Pakistan

Rasool Dawar The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 7:29am

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- An American drone fired a volley of missiles into a house close to the Afghan border on Saturday, killing eight suspected militants and indicating U.S. resolve to continue with the attacks despite renewed Pakistani opposition, officials said.

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A man who was injured in a suicide bombing in the tribal region of Khar in Bajur, is comforted by relatives, in a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, May 4, 2012. A suicide bombing in a Pakistani market close to the Afghan border killed 20 people Friday, officials said, a day after the U.S. released letters seized from Osama bin Laden's compound that criticized Pakistani militants for killing too many civilians. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Suicide bombing in Pakistani market kills 20

Anwarullah Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 4, 2012 - 9:01am

KHAR, Pakistan -- A Taliban suicide bombing in a Pakistani market close to the Afghan border killed 20 people Friday, officials said, a day after the U.S. released letters seized from Osama bin Laden's compound that criticized Pakistani militants for killing too many civilians.

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A Pakistani fireman stands near burning rickshaws after a bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan on Tuesday, May 1, 2012. A roadside bomb targeting paramilitary troops has killed two civilians and left many injured, police official said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Bomb aimed at troops kills 2 civilians in Pakistan

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Last updated Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 9:13am

QUETTA, Pakistan -- A police official says a roadside bomb targeting paramilitary troops has killed two civilians in southwestern Pakistan.

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Pakistani security officials secure the area of a suicide attack in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday, April 5, 2012. Police say a suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives near a vehicle carrying a senior police official in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing two people. (AP Photo)

Pakistan suicide bomber targeting police kills 4

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Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 9:51am

ISLAMABAD -- A Taliban suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a vehicle carrying a senior police official in a southern Pakistani port city on Thursday, killing four people, officials said.

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FILE - In this April 11, 2011 file photo, Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, attends a ceremony in Islamabad, Pakistan. The United States has offered a $10 million bounty for the founder of the Pakistani militant group blamed for the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed,File)

U.S. offers $10 million reward for Pakistani militant

Asif Shahzad, Sebastion Abbott The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 9:48am

ISLAMABAD -- The United States has offered a $10 million bounty for the founder of the Pakistani militant group blamed for the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people, a move that could complicate U.S.-Pakistan relations at a tense time.

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Pakistani women walk past the house where Osama bin Laden's family are being detained in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Monday, April 2, 2012, in Islamabad, Pakistan. The lawyer for Osama bin Laden's family says a Pakistani court has convicted his three widows and two of his daughters on charges of illegally living in Pakistan and sentenced them to 45 days in prison. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Bin Laden's relatives get short prison sentence

Zabar Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 2, 2012 - 9:25am

ISLAMABAD -- A Pakistani court on Monday convicted Osama bin Laden's three widows and two of his daughters of illegally entering and living in the country and sentenced them to 45 days in prison, with credit for time served, their lawyer said.

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Family members of Pakistani acid attack victim Fakhra Younnus, mourn her death at Karachi airport in Pakistan on Sunday, March 25, 2012. Fakhra who committed suicide by jumping from the sixth floor of her flat in Rome, was a victim of an acid attack allegedly carried out 12 years ago by her husband, the son of a feudal politician. (AP Photo)

Female acid attack victim commits suicide in Pakistan

Sebastion Abbott The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 9:28am

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani acid attack victim Fakhra Younus had endured more than three dozen surgeries over more than a decade to repair her severely damaged face and body when she finally decided life was no longer worth living.

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Taliban suicide bomber kills 5 rival militants in Pakistan

Riaz Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 23, 2012 - 11:57am

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A Taliban suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of a rival group Friday in northwest Pakistan, killing at least five fighters in the second such bombing this month, militants and a government official said.

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Bomb kills 6 anti-Taliban fighters in Pakistan

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Last updated Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 6:50am

KHAR, Pakistan -- A Pakistani official says a bomb has killed six members of an anti-Taliban militia in a northwestern town close to the Afghan border.

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Suicide bomber hits rival Pakistan militant base; 23 die

Riaz Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 2, 2012 - 7:28am

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber killed 23 people, many of them believed to be militants, in an attack Friday on the headquarters of a rival insurgent group in northwest Pakistan, a government official said.

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People look at damage caused by a powerful bomb explosion in Quetta, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. A bomb exploded late Tuesday night in a market injuring two people, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

US kills al-Qaida-linked militant in Pakistan

Ishtiaq Mahsud, Rasool Dawar The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 11:24am

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region Thursday, killing five suspected militants, intelligence officials said. The Taliban identified one of them as a prominent commander who has served as a key link to al-Qaida.

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Family members of a security guard killed in an attack by militants in Pakistani tribal area of Kber, mourn during his funeral on Friday, Feb 3, 2012 in Peshawar, Pakistan. An attack on a security forces check post in Khyber region has left one guard dead and 4 others injured, according to security sources. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Taliban kill 7 Pakistani soldiers, abduct 4

Hussain Afzal The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 3, 2012 - 10:49am

PARACHINAR, Pakistan -- A large group of Islamist militants attacked a Pakistani army checkpoint near the Afghan border on Friday, killing seven paramilitary soldiers and abducting four, a government official and a spokesman for the insurgents said.

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