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Articles Written by: GRIFF WITTE
Rather, it is the same men who have ruled this territory off and on for decades, regional commanders who have divvied up the land into personal fiefdoms and transformed central government institutions, including the police, into instruments of their ...
He died, his father explains, a soldier's death, shot in the back after his Pakistani army unit marched into a trap in the Swat Valley. Recovering the body took four days because of the ferocity of Taliban sniper fire. It will take Sajad's father far ...
Peshawar's Pearl Continental Hotel had been considered an oasis of relative security in a city that has become a front line in the battle between the Pakistani government and radical Islamist groups such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The hotel, a local ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A massive truck bomb exploded outside a luxury hotel in northwestern Pakistan's provincial capital last night, killing 11 people and injuring at least 50, officials said.
The attack marked the latest salvo by insurgents who have ...
From GRIFF WITTE,
Boston Globe,
10 Jun 2009
Officials says a huge bomb has exploded at a luxury hotel in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least five people and wounding 25 others.
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That was a month ago. Since then, Rahman, a 43-year-old donkey-cart driver, has been solely responsible for sheltering and feeding the 22 distant relatives who have chosen his home as their haven from the fighting that rages between the army and the ...
The army's victory comes nearly a month after it launched a massive offensive aimed at reclaiming Swat from Taliban fighters who had commandeered the picturesque region and enforced their rigid brand of Islamic law. The army started the operation under ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Insurgents used an array of tactics to kill 13 people across northwestern Pakistan yesterday, ambushing police officers with small-arms fire, detonating explosives planted in a crowded market, and attacking security checkpoints ...
From GRIFF WITTE,
Boston Globe,
29 May 2009
Pakistani rescue worker struggle to recover an injured victim from the rubble at the site of suicide car bombing in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday, May 27, 2009. Gunmen detonated a car bomb near police and intelligence agency offices in Lahore on ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's supreme court ruled yesterday that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the nation's most popular politician, can participate in elections despite an earlier ban.
The ruling is expected to ease political tensions in the ...
From GRIFF WITTE,
Boston Globe,
27 May 2009
