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Pakistan Says Election Next Week Is `Difficult’

Pakistan’s Election Commission said it would be “difficult” to hold the parliamentary vote on Jan. 8 and is considering delaying the ballot until next month after Benazir Bhutto’s assassination last week sparked riots.
Provincial officials have asked that voting be delayed until the Islamic holy month of Muharram ends in February, Kanwar Dilshad, secretary of the […]

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At least 27 militants killed in Pakistan: military

At least 27 militants were killed in two days of clashes in restive northwestern Pakistan along the border with Afghanistan, a military official told AFP on Wednesday.
The clashes broke out after pro-Taliban militants kidnapped four Pakistan soldiers in the troubled South Waziristan tribal district on Tuesday, the official said.
“Five militants were killed yesterday and 22 […]

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Hillary: Pakistan troops might have killed Bhutto

Hillary Rodham Clinton waded into Pakistan’s volatile internal political situation yesterday, raising the possibility the country’s military might have assassinated Benazir Bhutto because the killing took place in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
Clinton’s remarks came as Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s government seemed to reject a call for an independent international investigation of the murder that […]

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Nepal bridge collapse: 15 killed, over 100 missing

Fifteen persons were killed, 33 injured and over 100 went missing when a suspension bridge at Suwaghat over Bheri River, linking Mehelkuna and Dahachaur, collapsed today.
The bridge was overcrowded with pilgrims and collapsed when pilgrims who were heading to attend the annual poornima fair in Suwaghat were passing the bridge at around 2 pm today. […]

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