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Pakistan mosque suicide bomber kills 59, wounds over 150

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck a crowded mosque inside a police compound in Pakistan on Monday, causing the roof to collapse and killing at least 59 people and wounding more than 150 others, officials said.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-peshawar-mosque-bombing-e632e0afcf948bc0502f5dfbd19359c1?

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What’s behind the Pakistani Taliban’s deadly insurgency?

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, claimed responsibility for Monday’s suicide bombing at a mosque inside a police compound in the northwestern city of Peshawar, in one of the deadliest attacks on security forces in recent months.

https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-organized-crime-taliban-pakistan-peshawar-2e8847a3735fb910b7a3cca53da721f4?utm_source=apnews&utm_medium=relatedcontentmodule

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Pakistan bombing raises fears over security breach, 100 dead

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities scrambled on Tuesday to determine how a suicide bomber was able to carry out one of the country’s deadliest militant attacks in years, unleashing an explosion in a crowded mosque inside a highly secured police compound in the city of Peshawar. The death toll from the blast climbed to 100.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-mosque-bombing-death-toll-rises-fdbc592dfd3b9a23ec2081b635d65b6e?

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Peshawar, the city of flowers, becomes epicenter of violence

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s Peshawar was once known as “the city of flowers,” surrounded by orchards of pear, quince and pomegranate trees. It was a trading city, situated at the gates of a key mountain valley connecting South and Central Asia.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-bombing-peshawar-center-of-violence-114a31bb53b3ebe1c9177174965fa91c?

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Militant who killed 101 at Pakistan mosque wore uniform

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber who killed 101 people this week at a mosque in northwestern Pakistan had disguised himself in police uniform and did not raise suspicion among the guards, the provincial police chief said Thursday.

https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-crime-pakistan-government-peshawar-bf0181a7dd63973a15537c4da47ff9d3

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Suicide bomber at political rally in northwest Pakistan kills at least 44 people, wounds nearly 200

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up at a political rally in a former stronghold of militants in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 44 people and wounding nearly 200 in an attack that a senior leader said was meant to weaken Pakistani Islamists.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-bomb-bajur-maulana-fazlur-rehman-b655861c854ff086f118f18b69861ca1

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IS claims responsibility for the bombing that killed 54 at a pro-Taliban election rally in Pakistan

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — An Afghan branch of the Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Pakistan that killed at least 54 people at a pro-Taliban party’s election rally, in one of the region’s worst attacks in recent years.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-funerals-suicide-bombing-cleric-rally-21bc29f3d7c3e75cd5ea9ade1d8d0cd6?

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Imran Khan: Pakistan ex-PM given three-year jail sentence

Ex-Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for nationwide protests after he was handed a three-year jail sentence over corruption allegations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66414696

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Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan goes from high office to high-security prison after sentencing

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan awoke Sunday as an inmate in a high-security prison after a court handed him a three-year sentence for corruption, a development that could end his future in politics.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-imran-khan-attock-prison-arrest-0414d5c81ba974934a21101092265ae4?

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Secret Pakistan Cable Documents U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan

“All will be forgiven,” said a U.S. diplomat, if the no-confidence vote against Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan succeeds.

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cypher-ukraine-russia/?

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Pakistan Confirms Secret Diplomatic Cable Showing U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan

After initially suggesting the cable published by The Intercept was inauthentic, Pakistani officials now claim it doesn’t reveal a conspiracy.

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/16/imran-khan-cable-pakistan-us/?

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Imran Khan Booked Under Pakistan State Secrets Law for Allegedly Mishandling Secret Cable in 2022

A fight over recent amendments to the Official Secrets Act sent Pakistan into a constitutional crisis.

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/21/imran-khan-cable-pakistan-official-secrets-act/?

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Dozens dead after blast in southwestern Pakistan at a rally celebrating birthday of Islam’s prophet

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of people celebrating the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding nearly 70 others, authorities said, in one of the country’s deadliest attacks targeting civilians in months.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-bomb-rally-birthday-islam-prophet-baluchistan-f9d1fab750bc8fcb03bb11e09e22d9de?

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Suicide bomber attacks police station in northwest Pakistan, killing 23 officers and wounding 32

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle at a police station’s main gate in northwestern Pakistan early Tuesday, killing at least 23 troops, wounding 32 and causing a part of the building to collapse, authorities said.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-suicide-bomber-police-station-attacked-466b04b71cb430bcf556f85a26b1febc?

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Suspected militants kill 2 police officers assigned to protect polio workers in northwest Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants shot and killed two police officers assigned to escort polio workers in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, the second such attack in the past 24 hours on officers taking part in a nationwide anti-polio drive.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-police-polio-workers-bombing-7ec3667f7692954c5bf68cef75f108f4?

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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan gets 10 years in prison ahead of elections

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan of revealing official secrets on Tuesday and handed him his harshest sentence yet of 10 years — the latest in a slew of legal cases that supporters say are meant to sideline the imprisoned politician just days ahead of parliamentary elections.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-imran-khan-sentenced-e2305d25c8b81f031a47507063e3b745?

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Bombings at Pakistani political offices kill at least 30 a day before parliamentary elections

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Bombs ripped through two separate political offices in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people, officials said, a day before the country was set to elect a new parliament.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-bombing-baluchistan-killed-election-471783e425dcfc0e63c235da23c52a73?

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Ex-Pakistani PM Sharif strikes confident note in vote marred by controversy, mobile phone shutdown

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed confidence his party would win national elections Thursday, a vote that has been marred by violence and controversy, especially a nationwide mobile phone shutdown and the imprisonment of a popular contender.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-election-new-parliament-bebb49b2ef9df79e491b7cbe2221b0da?

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Pakistan’s ex-PM Sharif says he will seek a coalition government after trailing jailed rival Khan

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif changed tack Friday and said he would seek to form a coalition government after his party trailed independent candidates backed by his imprisoned rival, Imran Khan, in parliamentary election results.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-election-results-sharif-khan-bfa8fa609e29aff4e656491340bba56e?

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From Prison, Imran Khan Says Top Pakistani General Betrayed Secret Deal to Stay Out of Politics

Sources close to the ousted prime minister say Khan also accuses Gen. Asim Munir for assassination attempt and cover-ups.

https://theintercept.com/2024/06/27/imran-khan-pakistan-asim-munir-secret-deal/?

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Pakistan rewards javelin champion Nadeem with $897,000 for record-breaking throw at Paris Olympics

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Olympic javelin gold medalist Arshad Nadeem received a total of 250 million rupees ($897,000) on Tuesday as Pakistan continued to celebrate his record-breaking throw at the Paris Games.

https://apnews.com/article/athletics-olympics-arshad-nadeem-pakistan-df1cb68a098d7b61cfe59a945802ae80?

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Bomb targeting police assigned for polio drive kills 9 people, including 5 children, in SW Pakistan

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in restive southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing nine people including five nearby children, and wounding 17 other people, officials said.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-bomb-police-children-killed-balochistan-cdbe15944594838cc5bd195b839a2139?

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Record-high pollution sickens thousands in Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Record-high air pollution in Pakistan’s Punjab province prompted authorities to close additional schools and keep government employees at home Wednesday, as doctors reported an increase in people seeking treatment for smog-related ailments.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-lahore-record-pollution-3bada25447094a3b1bd62d3be38b5984?

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Taliban say Pakistani airstrikes killed 46 people in eastern Afghanistan, mostly women and children

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children, a Taliban government official said Wednesday, raising fears of further straining relations between the two neighbors.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-afghanistan-militant-camp-air-strikes-1eb6ebd92403795d03856b1b97cac0da?

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Pakistani court sentences ex-PM Imran Khan and his wife to 14 and 7 years in prison in graft case

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced the country’s already-imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to 14 and seven years in jail after finding them guilty of corruption, officials and his lawyer said.

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-court-sentences-imran-khan-corruption-case-1257d85b807f71a9f64dabfae93d3dd0?