| November 30, 2008 | - Gunmen terrorized
Mumbai for more than two days, killing at least 180 people during attacks at a train station, a restaurant, two five-star hotels, a movie theater, a hospital, a police station, and a Jewish center. At the peak of the violence more than one tweet per second with the word “Mumbai” was being posted to Twitter.com. Indian authorities claimed there were only ten attackers, with nine killed and one captured, but others, including the captive gunman, suggested that many others were involved in the attacks. Evidence suggested that the Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani militant group that has fought with India for control of Kashmir, was responsible for the violence, though the Deccan Mujahideen, a little-known group that may not exist, claimed responsibility. Several Americans were killed, including a father and daughter on a pilgrimage to learn about the roots of the meditation foundation Synchronicity, and Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, who managed the local Chabad-Lubavitch center. Gary Samore, on vacation with his family, survived by hiding in his hotel room at the Taj Mahal Hotel until the American Consulate reached him via BlackBerry to say that the hotel was on fire and he and his family needed to get out. “My BlackBerry,” Samore said, “may have saved our lives.”
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| November 10, 2008 | - American officials revealed that since 2004 the U.S. military has conducted around a dozen previously undisclosed attacks in Syria, Pakistan, and other countries on the authority of a classified order signed by Donald Rumsfeld,.
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New York Times
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| November 6, 2008 | - U.S. missiles fired into a village in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan killed at least ten people.
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New York Times
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| October 14, 2008 | - A classified National Intelligence Estimate showed sharply increased militant activity in Pakistan, and also noted food shortages, rising fuel costs, and a sudden flight of foreign capital. An anonymous official summarized conditions in the nuclear-armed country as “no money, no energy, no government.”
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McClatchy
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| September 20, 2008 | - The Marriott Hotel in Islamabad,
Pakistan, was destroyed by a huge truck bomb, killing at least 53 people and wounding at least 266.
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| September 11, 2008 | - American officials confirmed that in July President Bush gave secret permission to American Special Operations forces to perform ground attacks against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Pakistan without the approval of the Pakistani government. “Orders,” said one official, “have been issued.”
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| September 8, 2008 | - American missiles struck a seminary in Pakistan, killing twenty people, including two children, but not Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani.
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Washington Post
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| August 21, 2008 | -
Suicide bombers blew up a munitions factory in Wah, Pakistan, killing at least 63 people.
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| August 18, 2008 | -
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf resigned.
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Reuters
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| August 1, 2008 | - American intelligence officials claimed that Pakistani spies helped plan the July 7 bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan,.
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| June 16, 2008 | -
Taliban forces raided a prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, allowing 870 prisoners to escape. Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened to send troops across the Pakistan border to fight the Taliban.
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Christian Science Monitor
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| June 15, 2008 | -
British and American special forces were operating in Pakistan in an attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before George W. Bush leaves office. “If he can say he has killed Saddam Hussein and captured Bin Laden,” a U.S. intelligence source told the “Times” of London, “he can claim to have left the world a safer place.”
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| June 15, 2008 | - Sheikh Ali al-Neda, the head of Saddam Hussein's tribe, was killed by a car bomb, and it was reported that Pakistani smuggler A. Q. Khan possessed blueprints for nuclear warheads more advanced than those he is known to have sold to Libya, though it was unclear whether he had sold them to North Korea or Iran.
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| February 24, 2008 | - The Pakistani government caused a global crash of YouTube when it attempted to block the site from its country. “Users are quite upset,” said the convener of the Association of Pakistan Internet Service Providers. “They're screaming at ISPs which can't do anything.”
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| February 19, 2008 | - Benazir Bhutto's party received the most votes in the Pakistani parliamentary election. Calls were made for President Pervez Musharraf to step down after his party performed poorly, and opposition leaders who had been under house arrest since Musharraf declared emergency military rule last November found that their phones had suddenly started working again.
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| January 31, 2008 | - Abu Laith al Libi, alleged to be a high-ranking Libyan member of Al Qaeda, was killed in a missile strike in Pakistan.
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| January 7, 2008 | -
Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son, Bilawal, asked the media to leave him alone after he was made head of his mother's party, and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf blamed Bhutto for her own assassination. “For standing up outside the car, I think it was she to blame alone,” he said. “Nobody else.”
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| November 28, 2007 | - President Pervez Musharraf quit his role as chief of Pakistan's army.
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| November 25, 2007 | - Exiled prime minister Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan. “I have come,” he said, “to save this country.”
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| November 18, 2007 | - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte called on President General Pervez Musharraf to end emergency rule in Pakistan. “Emergency rule,” said Negroponte, the ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, “is not compatible with free, fair and credible elections.”
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| November 9, 2007 | -
Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf said that the country will hold parliamentary elections in January but refused to give a date for ending his emergency decree or stepping down as head of the military. Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest when she tried to attend a political rally. President George W. Bush said that General Musharraf has been an “indispensable ally.”
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| November 6, 2007 | - In Lahore, Pakistan, police armed with clubs and tear gas attacked the thousands of lawyers protesting General Pervez Musharraf's imposition of martial law.
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| October 17, 2007 | -
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto returned from self-imposed exile to Karachi, where bombs struck her welcome parade, killing 134 and wounding 450; police believed they had found the bomber's head.
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| October 17, 2007 | -
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto returned from self-imposed exile to Karachi, where bombs struck her welcome parade, killing 134 and wounding 450; police believed they had found the bomber's head.
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| August 3, 2007 | - Presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Rudy Giuliani pledged to invade Pakistan,.
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| July 15, 2007 | - Militants in northwest Pakistan, misleadingly calling themselves the Taliban, tore up a peace treaty and killed at least 70 people in a series of bombings.
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| June 25, 2007 | - Flooding in Karachi, Pakistan, left 200 people dead and 1,000 homes destroyed.
- Flooding in Karachi, Pakistan, left 200 people dead and 1,000 homes destroyed.
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| June 5, 2007 | - Three adulterers were executed by firing squad in Khyber, Pakistan.
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| May 7, 2007 | - Twenty thousand Pakistanis rallied in Islamabad to protest the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. “The dictatorial system of government and the concept of concentration of power is now ended,” Chaudhry said. “All these are bitter lessons of history.”
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AP via SignonSanDiego.com
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| May 2, 2007 | - American officials denied reports of a plan to require entry visas for British citizens of Pakistani origin.
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| April 29, 2007 | - A suicide bomber killed 26 people in Peshawar, Pakistan, in an attack targeting Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, who was wounded. “We have got the severed head of the bomber, and it is identifiable,” said Information Minister Asif Iqbal Daudzai.
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| March 23, 2007 | - Jamaican police continued to search for the murderer of Bob Woolmer, the coach of Pakistan's cricket team, who, hours after Pakistan lost to Ireland in the cricket World Cup, was strangled in his room at the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston.
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| February 28, 2007 | - A suicide bomber attacked Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, killing twenty Afghans, a South Korean, and two Americans but missing his prime target, Vice President Dick Cheney, who has taken to speaking in the first person on the condition of anonymity. “I've seen some reporting,” said the “senior administration official” of his meeting with Pakistani authorities, “that says, ‘Cheney went in to beat up on them, threaten them.' That's not the way I work.”
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| February 11, 2007 | -
American forces, targeting Taliban fighters, launched artillery rounds into Pakistan.
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| February 6, 2007 | - Pro-Taliban militants in northern Pakistan killed two suspected U.S. collaborators.
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| January 10, 2007 | - Shahwar Matin Siraj, a 24-year-old clerk at an Islamic bookstore in Brooklyn, was sentenced to 30 years in jail for discussing phony plans to bomb a subway station with a police informant; Siraj’s father, mother, and sister, all asylum-seekers, were arrested for deportation to their native Pakistan.
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| December 14, 2006 | -
British
geneticists investigating the case of a 10-year-old Pakistani boy who could walk on burning coals announced that they had discovered a gene that influences the perception of pain. They could not examine the boy directly because he had died after leaping off a roof to impress his friends.
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| September 29, 2006 | - Amnesty International alleged that Pakistani authorities have been selling terrorism suspects to the U.S. for $5,000 or less.
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| September 28, 2006 | - President George W. Bush served Presidents Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan and Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan sea bass with stuffed tomatoes, fondue, and a pomegranate-dressed endive salad at a White House dinner.
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| September 21, 2006 | -
Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf said it was “very rude” for former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to threaten to bomb his country “back to the Stone Age.”
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| September 8, 2006 | - In Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said he was “very happy to hear” Pakistan was not sponsoring terrorist attacks on his country.
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| August 15, 2006 | - The Sri Lankan air force bombed an orphanage and killed dozens of schoolgirls, and the Tamil Tigers failed to kill the High Commissioner of Pakistan with an exploding rickshaw.
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| July 16, 2006 | -
Bombings on trains and in train stations killed 181 people in Mumbai, India, and led India to postpone peace talks with Pakistan. The diamond industry of Mumbai was said to be particularly hard hit by the bombings.
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| July 10, 2006 | -
Airliners crashed in Russia and Pakistan, killing hundreds.
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| July 3, 2006 | - Floods killed dozens of people in Romania, Pakistan, China, and the northeastern United States.
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| June 29, 2006 | - A prison inmate in Pakistan awoke to discover a lightbulb in his anus, which surgeons removed several days later. “Thanks Allah,” said the man. “Now I feel comfort.”
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| June 3, 2006 | -
Pakistan banned
The Da Vinci Code. “Degradation of any prophet,” said Minister of Culture Ghulam Jamal, “is tantamount to defamation of the rest.”
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| March 2, 2006 | - In Pakistan, four people, including a U.S. diplomat, were killed in a suicide bombing.
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| February 19, 2006 | - Riots over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad continued around the world. In Nigeria 16 people were killed in rioting and 11 churches were burned; in Libya at least 10 people were killed; and in Pakistan at least 5 people were killed. In Volgograd, Russia, officials closed the city newspaper after it published a cartoon that showed Muhammad, Jesus, Moses, and Buddha watching TV together. Fifteen thousand people protested the cartoons in London. “We have to speak up,” said a Muslim demonstrator, “to prevent something like the Holocaust from happening.”
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| January 15, 2006 | - The United States bombed Pakistan. The missiles were intended to kill Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was expected at a dinner; instead, 18 people were killed, including women and children, and al-Zawahiri remains alive.
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| December 10, 2005 | -
Pakistan extended its ban on kites due to the deadliness of kiteflying; in February, 19 people died and over 200 were injured during a kite festival.
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| October 10, 2005 | - At least 42,000 people died in an earthquake in Pakistan.
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| September 16, 2005 | -
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was under criticism for saying that rape victimhood was "a money-making concern"; "A lot of people," he explained, "say if you want to go abroad and get a visa for Canada or citizenship and be a millionaire, get yourself raped."
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| August 7, 2005 | - The United States sentenced a South African man to three years in jail for smuggling nuclear bomb parts to Pakistan and India.
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| July 13, 2005 | - A three-express-train crash in Pakistan killed 132 people.
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| May 27, 2005 | - Brigadier General Jay Hood, Guantánamo Bay's commander, said that an investigation at Guantánamo Bay had uncovered five incidents of Koran abuse, but none involved toilets; protesters rallied against Koran abuse in Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Malaysia, and in Lebanon, where they chanted “America is the biggest Satan.”
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| May 18, 2005 | -
Pakistan was working to stop bearbaiting.
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| March 31, 2005 | -
Pakistan successfully test-fired the Hatf II, a short-range nuclear-capable
missile.
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| March 26, 2005 | - The United States approved the sale of U.S. F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, upsetting India. The United States was also planning to sell fighter jets to India.
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| February 22, 2005 | -
Pakistani soldiers were ordered to shoot at U.S.
troops who enter Pakistan without permission.
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| December 31, 2004 | - In Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf announced that he would hold on to his dual post as president and army chief, reneging on his promise to relinquish authority over the country's military by the end of 2004. "The spirit of democracy has been restored in the country," he said.
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| December 29, 2004 | - Peace talks between India and Pakistan went nowhere.
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| October 29, 2004 | -
Pakistan's lower house of parliament passed a bill that would impose the death penalty for honor killings, which have traditionally been ignored.
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| October 7, 2004 | - A suicide car bombing killed at least 39 people at a rally in central Pakistan.
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| October 2, 2004 | - A suicide bomber killed 23 people at a Shiite mosque in Sialkot, Pakistan.
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| September 19, 2004 | - The United Nations Security Council passed another resolution asking the Sudanese government to prevent its proxies from slaughtering people in Darfur (China, Algeria, Pakistan, and Russia abstained). The resolution, which for the first time formally invokes the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, says that the council will "consider" sanctions if the genocide continues.
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| August 7, 2004 | - Bombs exploded in Karachi, Pakistan, and in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and
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| June 27, 2004 | - Three Turks and a Pakistani were kidnapped, and militants threatened to kill a captured U.S. Marine.
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| June 20, 2004 | - A Hindu ascetic was busy rolling his way 800 miles from India to Pakistan to promote world peace.
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| May 24, 2004 | - A land mine blew up a bus in Kashmir; Hizbul Mujahedeen, a terrorist group based in Pakistan, took credit for the attack.
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| May 23, 2004 | -
Pakistan was readmitted to full Commonwealth membership, less than five years after General Pervez Musharraf took power in a coup.
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| May 7, 2004 | - At least ten people died in a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in Karachi, Pakistan.
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| March 28, 2004 | - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, speaking of Pakistan's
nuclear-weapons trafficking, said, "I do not believe that there's any evidence or any suggestion that President Musharraf was involved." Musharraf, for his part, denied that he had made a deal with the Americans to crack down on Al Qaeda in return for lenient treatment for selling nuclear technology to North Korea, Libya, Iran, and others; he also denied that his country's proliferation had done much harm. "If I hand over a missile or a bomb to any extremist, believe me, he can do nothing about it," Musharraf said. "He cannot explode it."
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| March 27, 2004 | - Political violence continued in Kosovo, Gaza, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, Taiwan, Afghanistan, Thailand, and Syria; there was unrest in Haiti, where armed gangs continued to terrorize the people; in Congo, where the government put down a coup attempt; and in France, where firefighters battled police during a strike over retirement benefits. The firefighters threw garbage cans, firecrackers, and smoke bombs; the police fired tear gas.
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| March 25, 2004 | -
India defeated Pakistan in a cricket tournament.
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| March 19, 2004 | -
Pakistan was designated a "major non-NATO ally" by the Bush Administration.
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| March 10, 2004 | -
Pakistan tested a new long-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead.
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| February 23, 2004 | -
Pakistan was preparing for a spring offensive against the Taliban.
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| February 6, 2004 | - The Bush Administration praised Pakistan after General Pervez Musharraf pardoned Abdul Qadeer Khan, the nuclear scientist who took the blame for selling nuclear technology to Iran, Libya, and North Korea; Khan claimed that no one in the government or in the military was aware of his activities.
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| January 26, 2004 | - President Pervez Musharraf admitted that some of Pakistan's top nuclear scientists had sold nuclear technology to other countries but denied that the government was involved; Musharraf was accused of scapegoating the scientists to appease the United States.
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Christian Science Monitor
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| December 28, 2003 | - General Pervez Musharraf, the dictator of Pakistan, survived another assassination attempt.
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Telegraph
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| December 15, 2003 | - President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan was almost assassinated.
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New York Times
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| May 15, 2003 | - Eighteen Shell gas stations were bombed in Karachi, Pakistan.
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| March 4, 2003 | -
Pakistani authorities arrested Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Al Qaeda leader who is suspected of planning the September 11 attacks, and turned him over to the United States.
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| December 24, 2002 | -
The Department of Justice added Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Armenia to the list of countries whose adult male citizens residing in the U.S. must register with federal authorities but later dropped Armenia after it was pointed out that most Armenians are Christian.
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| December 25, 2001 | -
India recalled its ambassador to Pakistan and threatened to go to war if Pakistan did not stop sponsoring terrorist groups such as Jaish-e-Muhammad, which attacked India's parliament building last week.
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| December 25, 2001 | -
Pakistan denied involvement in the attack, but a captured member of the group admitted that the Pakistani Army donated the weapons and that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency provided logistical support.
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| December 18, 2001 | - Hundreds of Al Qaeda fighters made their last stand in Tora Bora, Afghanistan; Osama bin Laden was not found, however, and there were reports that he had escaped to Pakistan.
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| December 11, 2001 | -
Afghan refugees, particularly children, were dying in great numbers; Uzbekistan finally agreed to allow humanitarian aid to cross its border at the “Friendship Bridge.” The CIA asked Pakistan for help in finding Osama bin Laden, whose mother told a Saudi newspaper that she was disappointed in her son.
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| November 13, 2001 | - President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan came to the United States asking President Bush for “visible gestures” of appreciation for betraying the Taliban, and received $1 billion in aid.
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| October 16, 2001 | - The image of Bert from Sesame Street showed up in an Osama bin Laden poster used by protesters in Pakistan; “This is not at all humorous,” said a spokesman for the Sesame Workshop.
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| September 25, 2001 | -
Bush Administration officials announced that they would lift sanctions against Pakistan, which were imposed after it tested nuclear weapons in 1998.
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| September 25, 2001 | - Paleontologists in Pakistan discovered a missing link between the ancient hoofed ancestors of whales and their descendants, who fancied fish, learned to swim, and eventually just stayed in the water.
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| September 18, 2001 | -
Pakistan agreed to American demands that it allow a multinational force to attack
Afghanistan from within its borders, though the military establishment there was divided, with some generals calling for a holy war against the West.
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| August 14, 2001 | - A family of five died in Pakistan when a bomb blew up a school bus.
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| March 6, 2001 | - Important clerics in Egypt, Pakistan, and Iran pointed out that the Mullah's interpretation of the Koran was incorrect. Mawlawi Qudratullah Jamal, the Taliban's minister of information and culture, replied that it was “not a big issue,” that the statues were “objects only made of mud or stone.” After announcing that the destruction of the Buddhas had begun, Jamal noted that “it is easier to destroy than to build.”
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| January 2, 2001 | - There were bombings in Pakistan and Indonesia and Israel.
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| November 7, 2000 | - Computer vandals known as the Pakistan Hackerz Club defaced the website of the Israel Public Affairs Committee and stole email addresses and credit card information, which they posted on the Web.
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