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  1. 05-08-03 India Rejects Pakistan's Offer of No Nukes (CNN News)
      "India's prime minister has rejected Pakistan's offer of mutual nuclear disarmament, but told his parliament that 'friendship with Pakistan' was in both nations' best interests." 5-03

  2. 02-11-04 Pakistan's Nuclear Shame (BBC News - Rashid)
      "Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's best-known nuclear scientist, shocked the nation on Wednesday, when he went on television and confessed to leaking nuclear secrets. He said he took full responsibility for proliferating nuclear weapons to Iran, Libya and North Korea." 2-04

  3. 03-02-04 Severest Assault in Iraq and Pakistan (Bloomberg.com)
      "Bombers attacked Shiite Muslims in Iraq and Pakistan on a holy day, killing at least 184 people and wounding about 590 in a challenge to security in both countries. U.S. officials said a man they have described as an al-Qaeda associate, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, may be behind the Iraqi attacks." 3-04

  4. 03-19-04 Pakistanis Fight to Capture Top of Top Al-Qaeda (Bloomberg.com)
      "Pakistani forces along the border with Afghanistan are in a battle with as many as 400 fighters who may be protecting a 'high-level' target, an army spokesman said today." 3-04

  5. -03-25-05 U.S. Decides to Sell F-16 Military Jets to Pakistan (BBC News)
      "The US government has approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, Bush administration officials say." 3-05

  6. -01-22-06 Pakistan Prime Minister: CIA Report "Bizarre" (CNN News)
      "Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday ridiculed as 'bizarre' a U.S. report that senior al Qaeda leaders were killed in a CIA attack on a home along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border." 01-06

  7. -07-06-07 Pakistan Faces Political Challenges (PBS.org)
      "RAY SUAREZ: Well, is the state moving closer to becoming ungovernable, not just from the mosque siege, but from a combination of many things that are going on across a range of the country's life?"

      "STEVE COLL: Well, there are multiple crises going on simultaneously, and what they have in common is a search for a sustainable political order that is true to Pakistan's history, its constitutional traditions, and to the existence of large political parties in the country."

      "This is a country that has a robust politics. It's just that that politics isn't working under military rule, and the president is isolated. And unless he draws out more partners and opens up the process in a way that allows him to build these alliances, I'm afraid this pressure that Dr. Rizvi refers to is going to continue to build up." 07-07

  8. -07-13-07 Aftermath of Red Mosque Siege in Pakistan (CBS News)
      "The army crackdown on the radical mosque has raised Musharraf's standing among moderates and foreign backers worried about rising extremism in Pakistan."

      "But it has given hard-liners a rallying point and new martyrs to mourn, and has prompted calls from al Qaeda and Taliban for revenge attacks." 07-07

  9. -09-25-07 Perilous Passage to Pakistan (Christian Science Monitor)
      "With Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf in an unusually vulnerable political position, one of that nation's most popular opposition leaders, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, is pledging to return home from self-exile on October 18." 09-07

  10. -11-23-07 Imran Khan Ends Hunger Strike in Pakistan (Daily Express)
      "Drawn and haggard, former cricket superstar Imran Khan ended his hunger strike yesterday."

      "He had vowed to fast to death after his arrest last week in a round-up of political protesters in Pakistan." 11-07

  11. -03-25-08 Pakistan Elects a New Prime Minister (Time.com)
      "Declaring that democratic institutions will be the bedrock of his tenure, Gilani ordered the immediate release of the Supreme Court judges who had been detained since Musharraf declared emergency rule on November 3, when he suspended the constitution. Thirteen Supreme Court judges and 48 other judges had been detained amid a crackdown on civil liberties. 'I order all the detained judges to be released immediately," Gilani told the gathered parliamentarians after the national assembly voted the majority Pakistan People's Party stalwart in as premier. 'Our slain leader Benazir Bhutto sacrificed her life for the cause of democracy, and now it is our responsibility to strengthen the democratic institutions in line with the aspirations of common people.' " 03-08

  12. -06-30-08 Al Qaeda Rebuilds in Pakistan (New York Times)
      "Intelligence reports for more than a year had been streaming in about Osama bin Laden’s terrorism network rebuilding in the Pakistani tribal areas, a problem that had been exacerbated by years of missteps in Washington and the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, sharp policy disagreements, and turf battles between American counterterrorism agencies." 06-08

  13. -07-25-08 U.S. Crisis With Pakistan (Newsweek News)
      "The problem: while President Pervez Musharraf, the old soldier, is fading slowly away, new Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ashfaq Kayani is said to be quietly cutting deal after deal with Al Qaeda-linked militants, whose safe haven is growing beyond the tribal regions. And the still-green civilian government of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is all but powerless to interfere. The result is that militant and terrorist groups, feeling almost cozy in their newly secured territory, are mounting a fresh military and propaganda campaign and establishing a breathing space from which to plot future acts of terror." 07-08

  14. -08-25-08 Pakistan's Government Falls Apart (Time.com)
      "Pakistan's five-month-old coalition government has fallen apart a week after it forced Pervez Musharraf to step down as President. Dispelling any hope that Musharraf's departure would inaugurate an era of political stability, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced today that his minority party, the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N), would pull out of the troubled government, retreating into opposition of the majority, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), led by Asif Ali Zardari." 08-08

  15. -09-02-08 Mental Health Issues Surface on Pakistan's Likely Leader (Newsweek.com)
      "If Pakistan's upcoming election goes as expected, Asif Ali Zardari, widower of assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto, will succeed Pervez Musharraf as the country's next president, giving Zardari at least partial sway over the Muslim country's nuclear arsenal. Concerns spiked last week with the disclosure of medical records indicating that as recently as last year, doctors hired by Zardari had diagnosed him with mental problems including dementia, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. While Zardari's spokespeople say he has been cured, multiple U.S. officials, among them Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, told NEWSWEEK that word of Zardari's mental-health history took them by surprise." 09-08

  16. -09-06-08 Bhutto's Widower Is Elected Pakistan's President (MSNBC News)
      "The widower of slain former leader Benazir Bhutto will succeed Pervez Musharraf as president of Pakistan after winning a landslide election victory Saturday." Visitors sometimes misspell as Packistan, Pakestan, or Packestan. 09-08

  17. -02-16-09 Islamic Law to Be Imposed in Parts of Pakistan (MSNBC News)
      "The government agreed to implement Islamic law across a large swath of northwest Pakistan on Monday in a concession aimed at pacifying a spreading Taliban insurgency." 02-09

  18. -03-15-09 Clashes in Pakistan (CBS News)
      "Pakistan agreed Monday to reinstate Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry as chief justice, a move that could help defuse a political crisis that has sparked street battles and raised fears of instability in the country at a time of surging Islamist violence, a government official said."

      "Opposition leaders and lawyers had vowed to sit-in at the parliament later Monday until the one-year-old civilian government reinstated Chaudhry, who is known for his independence and willingness to challenge authority. The capital has been barricaded with shipping containers and scores of extra police drafted in amid fears of violence." 03-09

  19. Reduction of Hexavalent Chromium Cr(VI) in Water (Pakistan Research Repository)
      "Bacterial strains especially (CrT-1, CrT-l3, CrM-l, CrM-3 and S-6) were very efficient in the reduction of hexavalent chromium into trivalent chromium and this activity extenuated in the presence of Eichonzia crassipes plants. Among these three chromium resistant bacteria CrT-1, CrT -13 and S -6 were selected for 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. Strains CrT -1, CrT -13 and S-6 were isolated from the effluent of tanneries and from chromium contaminated soil. All the three strains were very efficient in the uptake and reduction of toxic hexavalent chromium. Beside this strains were also able to improve the growth of different crops (Triticum aestivum, Helianthus annuus and Vigna radiata) efficiently as compared to others strains from the respective source." Cr(VI) is a by-product of tanneries and making stainless steel. 04-08

  20. -04-15-09 Taliban Cleric Declares Judicial Independence in Pakistan Area (CBS News)
      "The Taliban cleric in charge of Pakistan's Swat Valley has declared the area judicially independent from the country's federal government."

      "Sufi Mohammad said Wednesday that Islamic law, or Shariah, decisions handed down by militants in the mountainous region will not be subject to appeal or overrule by the Pakistani Supreme Court or any other avenue of appeal in the justice system, reports CBS News' Farhan Bokhari." 04-09

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