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Pakistan president-elect Asif Ali Zardari faced immediate pressure Sunday to tackle an upsurge in militant violence, as the toll from a suicide blast in the country's troubled northwest reached 33.
Two Taliban suicide bombers blew themselves up at Kandahar police headquarters in southern Afghanistan Sunday, leaving at least two people dead and dozens wounded, officials said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, is leading the voting to become Pakistan's next president, officials say.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for a dual suicide attack on Sunday that targeted an Afghan border police commander.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Benazir Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari has swept today's presidential election in Pakistan. Official results say he got more than two-thirds of the votes of federal and provincial parliaments.
The culture-war surge in the U.S. election campaign has come at the expense of meaningful debate about the real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Pakistani authorities now say at least 33 people have been killed in a suicide car bombing in North West Frontier Province. Police issued the revised death toll Sunday after finding more bodies in the rubble from the blast.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) _ The widower of slain former leader Benazir Bhutto will succeed Pervez Musharraf as president of Pakistan after winning a landslide election victory Saturday.
Dead or alive.
The following are some of the major challenges facing Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was elected Pakistan's president by lawmakers Saturday. MILITANTS The government must respond to Western pressure to clamp down on Taliban and al-Qaida guerrillas attacking targets in Pakistan and Afghanistan without provoking a tribal uprising or alienating a public ...
The death toll in a massive suicide blast in Pakistan's militant-plagued northwest reached 35, officials said Sunday, as the country prepared for Benazir Bhutto's widower to take over as president.
Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali Zardari, must dispel the perception he is an artful politician and urgently address a deteriorating economy and worsening militant violence, newspapers said on Sunday.
A U.S. official says two U.S. diplomatic outposts in Pakistan received envelopes containing an unknown white powder last week, sparking a security scare.
Pakistan's military says 24 people have been killed after residents of a village in the volatile northwest foiled a militant kidnap attempt, then were attacked.
Tests are being carried out on a white powder that was sent to two American diplomatic posts in Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD (AFP)--Pakistan president-elect Asif Ali Zardari faced immediate pressure Sunday to tackle an upsurge in militant violence, as the toll from a suicide blast in the country's troubled northwest reached 33.
