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Pakistani Blogger And Activist, Known For Criticism Of Army, Killed
A 22-year-old Pakistani blogger and journalist known for criticising the country's military and the spy agency ISI was killed by a man in Islamabad, the police said today.
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Did Pakistani Security Agents Kidnap Bloggers To Make A Point?
In the space of a few days last month, five Pakistani bloggers - all known as left-leaning social-media activists - were abducted and vanished into unknown hands. After a domestic and international outcry, the missing men suddenly reappeared this month - safe and unharmed, but just as mysteriously.
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Kidnapped Pakistani Blogger Breaks Silence
A Pakistani activist abducted last month has broken his silence on his weeks-long disappearance, but is refusing to point fingers in a country where criticising extremism or the security establishment can make you a target.
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Pakistan child activist has 70% survival chance: Doctor
A Pakistani child activist shot in the head by the Taliban has improved but remains in intensive care with a 70 percent chance of survival, doctors said on Thursday as they canvas expert advice abroad.
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Hopes, fears and the diary of Malala Yousufzai
"I was afraid of going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools," wrote Malala Yousufzai in her diary in 2009. The Pakistani teenager on Thursday recuperates in a hospital after being shot at by the Taliban.
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Barack Obama condemns attack on Pakistani blogger
US President Barack Obama decried the "disgusting" shooting of a teenaged Pakistani activist by the Taliban as local authorities announced a reward of more than $100,000 for the gunmen.
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Attack on teenage girl exposed extremist mindset in Pakistan: General Kayani
A day after a teenage rights activist was shot in the head by Taliban militants, Pakistan Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Wednesday condemned the attack on the girl as a "heinous act of terrorism" and warned that it had exposed the "extremist mindset" confronting the country.
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Bullet removed from Pakistani blogger's body who was shot at by Taliban
A group of doctors have successfully removed the bullet lodged near the spine of a 14-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl, who was attacked by Taliban for speaking out against the banned outfits' atrocities, her uncle said on Wednesday.
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Young Pakistanis blog, tweet to push for change
Meet Pakistan's "Teeth Maestro," a dentist who uses his blog to get to the root of the country's many pains. One day it might be trigger-happy soldiers. Another day it's corrupt bureaucrats. Sometimes, it's US meddling.The Teeth Maestro is among a growing group of bloggers, tweeters and others using the Web to influence Pakistani society and govern...
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Pakistani Blogger And Activist, Known For Criticism Of Army, Killed
A 22-year-old Pakistani blogger and journalist known for criticising the country's military and the spy agency ISI was killed by a man in Islamabad, the police said today.
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Did Pakistani Security Agents Kidnap Bloggers To Make A Point?
In the space of a few days last month, five Pakistani bloggers - all known as left-leaning social-media activists - were abducted and vanished into unknown hands. After a domestic and international outcry, the missing men suddenly reappeared this month - safe and unharmed, but just as mysteriously.
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Kidnapped Pakistani Blogger Breaks Silence
A Pakistani activist abducted last month has broken his silence on his weeks-long disappearance, but is refusing to point fingers in a country where criticising extremism or the security establishment can make you a target.
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Pakistan child activist has 70% survival chance: Doctor
A Pakistani child activist shot in the head by the Taliban has improved but remains in intensive care with a 70 percent chance of survival, doctors said on Thursday as they canvas expert advice abroad.
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Hopes, fears and the diary of Malala Yousufzai
"I was afraid of going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools," wrote Malala Yousufzai in her diary in 2009. The Pakistani teenager on Thursday recuperates in a hospital after being shot at by the Taliban.
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Barack Obama condemns attack on Pakistani blogger
US President Barack Obama decried the "disgusting" shooting of a teenaged Pakistani activist by the Taliban as local authorities announced a reward of more than $100,000 for the gunmen.
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Attack on teenage girl exposed extremist mindset in Pakistan: General Kayani
A day after a teenage rights activist was shot in the head by Taliban militants, Pakistan Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Wednesday condemned the attack on the girl as a "heinous act of terrorism" and warned that it had exposed the "extremist mindset" confronting the country.
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Bullet removed from Pakistani blogger's body who was shot at by Taliban
A group of doctors have successfully removed the bullet lodged near the spine of a 14-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl, who was attacked by Taliban for speaking out against the banned outfits' atrocities, her uncle said on Wednesday.
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Young Pakistanis blog, tweet to push for change
Meet Pakistan's "Teeth Maestro," a dentist who uses his blog to get to the root of the country's many pains. One day it might be trigger-happy soldiers. Another day it's corrupt bureaucrats. Sometimes, it's US meddling.The Teeth Maestro is among a growing group of bloggers, tweeters and others using the Web to influence Pakistani society and govern...
