Posts Tagged ‘karachi’

VIDEO: Rise of Taliban kidnappings in Karachi

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

In Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, police say the Taliban are generating funds through bank robberies, protection rackets and kidnappings.

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VIDEO: Rise of Taliban kidnappings in Karachi

Taliban’s brisk trade of kidnapping in Karachi

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Taliban’s Karachi kidnappings on the rise

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Taliban’s brisk trade of kidnapping in Karachi

Chained Pakistan students freed

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

About 50 students, some shackled in chains, are freed from a religious school in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, officials say.

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Pakistan shooting soldier to die

Friday, August 12th, 2011

A member of Pakistan’s paramilitary force is sentenced to death for killing an unarmed man in Karachi in an incident caught on videotape.

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Pakistani video killing arrests

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Police in the Pakistani city of Karachi say they have arrested two paramilitary soldiers seen on video killing a young man.

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Nuclear worries

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

Is Pakistan’s weapons arsenal safe after Karachi attack?

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Saudi citizen killed in Karachi

Monday, May 16th, 2011

Gunmen open fire on a car belonging to the Saudi consulate in Karachi, killing a Saudi citizen, police say.

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Saudi citizen killed in Karachi

WikiLeaks Inspires Sanitary Pad Ads

Friday, December 17th, 2010

It sounds like a Saturday Night Live sketch, but turns out this is real: A Pakistani advertising company has created an ad campaign inspired by WikiLeaks. Billboards in Karachi read “WikiLeaks … Butterfly doesn’t,” advertising a popular feminine…

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Cargo plane from Karachi crashes

Saturday, November 27th, 2010

A Russian-made cargo plane with eight people on board crashes shortly after taking off from Karachi airport in Pakistan, with casualties feared.

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Plane crashes in Pakistan neighborhood

Saturday, November 27th, 2010

A plane crashed late Saturday in a residential area of Karachi, Pakistan, sending flames shooting through the air as firefighters worked feverishly to douse them, according to CNN affiliate GEO News.

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Karachi Turns Deadly Amid Pakistan’s Rivalries

Friday, November 19th, 2010

A recent report said that more than 1,350 people had been killed in Karachi in targeted political killings so far this year.

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Karachi bomb attack funerals due

Friday, November 12th, 2010

Funerals are due to be held for victims of the attack on anti-terrorist police headquarters in the Pakistani city of Karachi, which left 20 dead.

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Coordinated Attack Levels Pakistan Police Building

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

Gunmen wielding grenades and a car bomb struck at a police compound in central Karachi on Thursday.

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Blast rips Pakistan police station

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

At least 15 people died and more than 100 were injured in a suicide car bomb attack on a police facility in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police said today.

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Karachi aircraft crash ‘kills 22′

Friday, November 5th, 2010

A charter plane crashes shortly after take-off from Karachi airport and reports say all 22 people on board have been killed.

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Karachi aircraft crash ‘kills 22′