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Al Qaeda chief killed in Pakistan

Articles: 13, Last update: Feb 10, 2012 3:36:00 AM, Start: Feb 9, 2012 7:51:00 PM

Sources: 11 , Peak: 11, Current rank: 16, Previous rank: 16, Change: +116%

US drones in Pakistan multiply militants: FM

Articles: 4, Last update: Feb 10, 2012 3:36:00 AM, Start: Feb 9, 2012 11:42:00 PM

Sources: 4 , Peak: 47, Current rank: 52, Previous rank: 50, Change: +33%

KARACHI, PAKISTAN | Qasim Khan waged the unlikeliest of battles with Pakistani authorities Thursday

Articles: 7, Last update: Feb 10, 2012 2:12:00 AM, Start: Feb 9, 2012 10:15:00 PM

Sources: 7 , Peak: 15, Current rank: 57, Previous rank: 55, Change: +133%

Girl Kept In Cellar For A Decade, Court Hears

Articles: 3, Last update: Feb 10, 2012 4:41:00 AM, Start: Feb 10, 2012 1:46:00 AM

Sources: 3 , Peak: 58, Current rank: 59, Previous rank: 58, Change: 0%

Memo commission blames officials for lack of progress

Articles: 3, Last update: Feb 10, 2012 4:34:00 AM, Start: Feb 10, 2012 3:36:00 AM

Sources: 3 , Peak: 59, Current rank: 60, Previous rank: 59, Change: 0%

9 sentenced in Britain for terrorist plots

Articles: 2, Last update: Feb 10, 2012 4:04:00 AM, Start: Feb 10, 2012 3:32:00 AM

Sources: 2 , Peak: 72, Current rank: 84, Previous rank: 84, Change: 0%

Bright idea: Govt to give away 30 million energy savers

Articles: 2, Last update: Feb 10, 2012 3:36:00 AM, Start: Feb 10, 2012 1:32:00 AM

Sources: 2 , Peak: 105, Current rank: 117, Previous rank: 123, Change: 0%

Pakistan censures US on Balochistan hearing

Articles: 2, Last update: Feb 10, 2012 4:13:00 AM, Start: Feb 10, 2012 3:36:00 AM

Sources: 2 , Peak: 111, Current rank: 124, Previous rank: 128, Change: 0%

Somali al-Shabab formally joins al-Qaeda, Al-Zawahri claims

Articles: 21, Last update: Feb 10, 2012 4:41:00 AM, Start: Feb 9, 2012 6:18:00 PM

Sources: 16 , Peak: 14, Current rank: 126, Previous rank: 129, Change: +950%

CNG sector not involved in gas theft: APCNGA

Articles: 2, Last update: Feb 10, 2012 3:36:00 AM, Start: Feb 10, 2012 2:18:00 AM

Sources: 2 , Peak: 136, Current rank: 155, Previous rank: 154, Change: 0%

Articles published more than 10 minutes ago

Afghanistan: USAID/DCHA Winter Emergency Fact Sheet #1, Fiscal Year (FY) 2012

Source country reliefWeb Friday, February 10, 2012 4:56:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[2];

Other categories: UN Bodies; Echo;

Source: US Agency for International Development Country: Afghanistan , United States of America (the) KEY DEVELOPMENTS Media reports indicate that severe cold in recent months has killed 24 children in two informal settlements in Kabul Province, Afghanistan....

Articles published more than 20 minutes ago

Doctors continue protest

Source country TheFrontierPost-en Friday, February 10, 2012 4:43:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[1];

Entities: Nisar Ali[1];

Karachi (PPI): Contract doctors and paramedics of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, Qatar Hospital, Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases and other hospitals staged a protest in front of Civic Centre and blocked the road which caused traffic jam in the surrounding areas while many demonstrators entered into.......

Anti-Bonded Labour Cell to be set up in different districts

Source country TheFrontierPost-en Friday, February 10, 2012 4:43:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[1];

Entities: Abdul Khaliq[2]; Mushtaq Ahmed[1]; Ahmad Shah[1];

KARACHI (APP): A meeting held at Central Police Office (CPO) here on Thursday explored the possibility of establishing Anti-Bonded Labour Cell (ABLC) in districts of Sindh having relatively more incidents of bonded labour issue, a police spokesman said....

Girl Kept In Cellar For A Decade, Court Hears

Source country skynews Friday, February 10, 2012 4:41:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[4];

Entities: Sebastian Vettel[1]; Lamont Peterson[1]; Aamir Khan[1]; Massimo Moratti[1]; Richard Schaeffer[1]; Fabio Capello[1];

Other categories: Immigration; Fight against Fraud; Human Trafficking;

A deaf girl was kept in a cellar for almost a decade and repeatedly raped after being trafficked from Pakistan when she was about 10 years old, a court has been told....

Articles published more than 30 minutes ago

US lawmakers raise issue of ‘Baloch self-determination’

Source country dawn Friday, February 10, 2012 4:34:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[8]; Pakistani[3];

Entities: Ralph Peters[1]; Christine Fair[1]; Dera Bugti[1]; Dana Rohrabacher[1]; Ali Dayan Hasan[1]; Osama bin Laden[2]; Pervez Musharraf[2];

Other categories: Conflict; Society;

Quotes in this article

Dana Rohrabacher said: “They sheltered the man who master-minded the slaughter of 3,000 Americans. Those who still believe Pakistan is a friend, they need to wake up,”

Ali Dayan Hasan pointed out: “beyond the killings’ simple unlawfulness, the militant groups that are responsible demonstrate disturbing willingness to make the education of the province’s children a pawn of their armed agenda”

WASHINGTON, Feb 9: Guilt and shame were the two dominant feelings that overwhelmed many Pakistanis at a US congressional hearing on Wednesday as witnesses detailed human rights abuses in Balochistan....

25th anniversary of Sadequain’s death

Source country dawn Friday, February 10, 2012 4:34:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistani[1];

Entities: Holy Quran[1];

IF has been 25 years since Sadequain’s death, and the artist remains as relevant as ever. With strong academic focus on his works, a younger generation of art lovers, and the expanding world for Pakistani art, a case...

Bill deferred for record sixth time

Source country dawn Friday, February 10, 2012 4:34:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[2]; ISLAMABAD[1];

Entities: Amendment Bill[1]; Khursheed Ahmad[1]; Faisal Karim Kundi[1]; Aly Khan[1]; Nisar Ali[1]; Ahmad Shah[1]; Chaudhry Nisar[1];

ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: After a record sixth deferment of its constitution amendment bill on Thursday, the government said it would take opposition demands to the cabinet within two days, ensuring the National Assembly will remain hostage to a discord between the two sides into the next week....

Intelligence operation

Source country dawn Friday, February 10, 2012 4:34:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[1]; Pakistani[1];

Entities: Raymond Davis[1]; Osama bin Laden[2]; Saleem Shahzad[1];

Other categories: Terrorist Attack;

RECENT setbacks have clearly failed to result in any soul-searching within Pakistan’s security agencies. A series of stories confirm that they continue to operate with stunning impunity despite questions about their conduct....

The Afghan quagmire

Source country dawn Friday, February 10, 2012 4:34:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[17]; Pakistani[2];

Entities: Asad Durrani[1]; Hamid Karzai[1]; Maulana Fazlur Rehman[1]; Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai[1]; Ghairat Baheer[1]; Qazi Hussain Ahmed[1]; Hussain Ahmed[1]; Fazlur Rehman[1]; Ahmad Shah[1]; Qazi Hussain[1]; Hamid Gul[1];

Other categories: Terrorist Attack;

RECENTLY, Peshawar hosted a seminar organised under the auspices of the Centre for Discussions and Solutions, an advocacy organisation created by Qazi Hussain Ahmed of the Jamaat-i-Islami....

Memo commission blames officials for lack of progress

Source country dawn Friday, February 10, 2012 4:34:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Islamabad[1]; Pakistan[1]; Pakistani[2]; ISLAMABAD[1];

Entities: Akram Sheikh[1]; Anwarul Haq[1]; Mansoor Ijaz[2]; Husain Haqqani[2]; Salman Bashir[1]; James L Jones[1]; Maulvi Anwarul Haq[1]; Michael Mullen[1]; Zahid Hussain[1];

ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: The commission investigating the memo case admitted on Thursday that it had achieved nothing so far because of hurdles created by bureaucracy....

PTV nomenclature for Taliban

Source country dawn Friday, February 10, 2012 4:34:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Islamabad[1]; Pakistan[4]; Pakistani[3];

Entities: Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao[1]; Ayman al-Zawahiri[1];

Other categories: Conflict;

FOR some mysterious reasons, PTV seems to have a soft corner for terrorists and murderers like the Taliban. The Taliban’s deeds need no recounting....

System of spoils

Source country dawn Friday, February 10, 2012 4:34:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Islamabad[1]; Pakistan[9]; Pakistani[3];

Entities: Imelda Marcos[1]; Maulana Fazlur Rehman[1]; Fazlur Rehman[1]; Hosni Mubarak[1];

“Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside / A teeming mistress, but a barren bride ...” `SAVE the system` has become a rallying call of Pakistan`s elected kleptocrats over the past few weeks...

Write letter to save PM, Aitzaz told

Source country dawn Friday, February 10, 2012 4:34:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] ISLAMABAD[1];

Entities: Aitzaz Ahsan[1]; Yousaf Raza Gillani[2]; Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry[2];

ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: Both sides stuck to their guns during the hearing of an intra-court appeal in the prime minister’s contempt case on Thursday....

‘PPP stance unchanged’

Source country dawn Friday, February 10, 2012 4:34:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] ISLAMABAD[1];

Entities: Aitzaz Ahsan[1]; Yousaf Raza Gillani[2]; Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry[2]; Qamar Zaman[1]; Qamar Zaman Kaira[1]; Asif Ali Zardari[6];

ISLAMABAD: If one goes by the mood that prevailed during the PPP’s core committee meeting on Wednesday night, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will never write a letter to Swiss authorities to reopen money laundering cases against President Asif Ali Zardari....

Meeting to decide fate of Business Express

Source country dawn Friday, February 10, 2012 4:34:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[3];

Entities: Yousaf Raza Gillani[2]; Saeed Akhtar[1];

LAHORE, Feb 9: Within a week or so after its launch, continuation of the operation of the first non-stop train running between Punjab and Sindh capitals with its passenger facilitation by the private sector has hit snags....

Pakistan’s rulers too busy to help child labourers

Source country iol Friday, February 10, 2012 4:28:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[12]; Pakistani[1];

Entities: Mohammed Naeem[1]; Serena Chaudhry[1]; Shahnaz Wazir Ali[1];

Other categories: UN Bodies;

Quotes in this article

Mohammed Naeem says: “He’s learning to work and he also earns around 300 to 400 rupees. So what’s wrong in that. We are poor,”

Shahnaz Wazir Ali says: “The problem is there and we are not in a state of denial,”

Tears tracing lines of dirt on his face, six-year-old Pakistani boy Nabeel Mukhtar cries while crouching on a pavement to scrub motorbikes, his job for nine hours a day, six days a week. He is one of millions of children driven into labour by poverty in a country where the unpopular government is.......

Supply to NATO continues via Pakistan air space

Source country china Friday, February 10, 2012 4:27:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[4]; Pakistani[3]; ISLAMABAD[1];

Entities: Cameron Munter[1];

Other categories: Terrorist Attack;

ISLAMABAD, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter said here Thursday that the supply to NATO-led forces in Afghanistan is being airlifted through Pakistani air space. Pakistan closed NATO supply route through its territory in protest at cross-border air strike by U.S....

Articles published more than 40 minutes ago

Los drones reaparecen en Pakistán para atacar a Al-Qaida

Source country DiarioVasco Friday, February 10, 2012 4:26:00 AM CET | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Islamabad[2]; Pakistán[3];

Entities: Ilyas Kashmiri[1]; Osama bin Laden[6];

Los aviones no tripulados de EE UU matan a 15 personas, entre ellas un supuesto líder de los islamistas en la región...

Deaf girl trafficked into Britain, locked in a cellar, raped and kept as a slave

Source country bulawayo24 Friday, February 10, 2012 4:23:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[4];

Other categories: Immigration; Fight against Fraud; Human Trafficking;

A deaf girl aged 10 was trafficked into Britain, locked in a cellar, raped and kept as a slave for nearly a decade, a court was told yesterday.According to 'The Mirrior' the orphaned youngster from Pakistan, who is profoundly deaf and has no speech, was locked in a cellar each night where she would.......

Tareen will contest polls from Lodhran

Source country nation Friday, February 10, 2012 4:22:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[2];

Entities: Imran Khan[1]; Jahangir Khan[1];

MULTAN - Central leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Jahangir Khan Tareen declared on Thursday that he would contest next election from NA-154 Lodhran.Addressing a news conference in Lodhran, he said that he did not believe in conventional political tactics as wanted to disseminate a clear and simple message to the residents of Lodhran....

PTI heaps corruption charges on rulers

Source country nation Friday, February 10, 2012 4:22:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[1];

Entities: Imran Khan[1];

Other categories: Fight against Fraud;

OKARA - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Okara chapter chief Dr Shamimul Haque said on Wednesday that only an honest and a sincere leadership can steer the country out of the present crises. The country was under massive debts due to the absence of a better leadership and good governance, he said, and alleged that “our rulers have lust for absolute power”....

Early Sialkot-Jammu border opening demanded

Source country nation Friday, February 10, 2012 4:22:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[2];

Entities: Nasser Ahmed[1]; Held Kashmir[2];

Other categories: EU-Asia;

SIALKOT - AJK government’s Coordinator to European Union Ch Naseer Ahmed has urged both Pakistan and India to ensure early opening of Sialkot-Jammu border in a bid to reunite the divided families from both sides.Addressing a press conference here at a local hotel in Sialkot, he said that the.......

Speakers fear missing of literacy target

Source country nation Friday, February 10, 2012 4:22:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[7];

Entities: Amir Hussain[1];

MULTAN - Speaker at a seminar expressed their fear on Thursday that although Pakistan had set the goal to achieve 100 percent literacy rate by 2015, the indicators showed that it might miss the target because of poor management and low fund allocation....

PPP to sweep Senate elections, claims Wattoo

Source country nation Friday, February 10, 2012 4:22:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Islamabad[1]; Pakistan[1];

Entities: Manzoor Ahmed[1];

OKARA - The federal minister for Kashmir affairs has said those who want postponement of the upcoming Senate elections will get nothing except failure. “In the Senate, the PPP will get majority. The general elections will be held transparently on the specific time. The Kashmiri people are struggling for freedom from India....

Is Myanmar the new Asian tiger?

Source country nation Friday, February 10, 2012 4:22:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[1];

Entities: Thein Sein[3]; Zha Daojiong[1]; Hillary Rodham Clinton[1]; Aung San Suu Kyi[15]; Yingluck Shinawatra[1]; Peter Popham[1]; Lee Kuan Yew[2];

Other categories: Market; Middle East Peace Process; EU-USA; Rail Transport; Banking - Financial Services; Fight against Fraud; EU-Asia; External Relations; Fight against fraud; Taxation; Transport;

While the big story of 2012 in south-west Asia is the increasingly lethal US-Iran psychodrama, there’s no bigger story in south-east Asia in the Year of the Dragon than the controlled opening of Myanmar.Everyone and his neighbour, East and West, have been trekking to Myanmar since US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit last November....

A standing joke

Source country nation Friday, February 10, 2012 4:22:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[1]; Pakistani[1];

Entities: Masood Khan[1];

While we were still enjoying the joke being circulated on SMS on the difference between Pakistani and Indian democracies --- that in India government determines the age of army chief while in Pakistan it’s the army chief who determines the government’ age, came a real news as well....

More provinces?

Source country nation Friday, February 10, 2012 4:22:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[9]; Pakistani[1];

Entities: Ayub Khan[1];

Whether or not to create more provinces is a hot topic these days. As is often the case with almost anything under discussion in Pakistan, very many of the writers adopt an overwhelmingly emotional approach to the issue and that naturally clouds their thinking which gets reflected in their articles....

Civil bureaucracy lapses cost lives

Source country nation Friday, February 10, 2012 4:22:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [Pakistan] Pakistan[2];

Other categories: Fight against Fraud; Consumers;

Blaming politicians alone for the menace of corruption in Pakistan is unjust, since such rampant corruption can take place only with connivance of paid servants of the state, be they part of civil bureaucracy or uniformed services. Collapse of an illegal Pharmaceutical factory in Lahore points to.......

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