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Smoking, biomass fuels strong cause of lung disease in Pakistan

Smoking, biomass fuels strong cause of lung disease in Pakistan Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Shahina Maqbool Islamabad ‘Breathless Not Helpless’ is the theme of the 7th annual World COPD Day, an event held on November 19 each...

Next phase of Paiman launched in Balochistan

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Muhammad Ejaz Khan QUETTA: The next phase of Pakistan Initiative for Mothers and Newborns (Paiman) Project for four new districts of Balochistan was launched here on Tuesday. The new districts being...

Pakistan earthquake: CAFOD partners helping

CAFOD partners in Pakistan are helping those affected by the huge earthquake in Baluchistan province at the end of October The earthquake, measured at a magnitude of 6.4, hit the south-western region on October 28, killing 300,...

Pakistan - Journalists get serious threats, two TV stations

Country/Topic: Pakistan Date: 18 November 2008 Source: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Target(s): television station(s) Type(s) of violation(s): censored Urgency: Threat (IFJ/IFEX) - The following is an IFJ media...

ShelterBox Continues Work in Pakistan

ShelterBox NOVEMBER 17, 2008 ShelterBox responded to a request for assistance after an earthquake hit Pakistan on Wednesday, October 29, 2008. A ShelterBox Response Team departed for Pakistan the following day to distribute an...

IMF-franked Pakistan returns to 'Friends'

Pakistan is turning to the "Friends of Pakistan" group of countries for more bailout cash in the hope that a US$7.6 billion rescue package with the International Monetary Fund will encourage a less cautious response than...

US, Pakistan have tacit accord on Predator strikes

WASHINGTON/ PESHAWAR: The US and Pakistani governments have reached a tacit agreement on Predator strikes on Pakistani territory, under which Islamabad allows them while continuing to complain about t...

Win-Lose Situation

As those seem to be the leading options in Afghanistan. How to win/how to lose roundup kicks off with LTC David Kilcullen, Australia's wartime gift to the world, painting a dire picture of Afghanistan, "Winnable, but only...

Afghan leader pledges to protect Taliban from US

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said he will personally protect the former head of Afghanistan's Taliban regime from the US if he joins peace talks. Afghan leader Hamid Karzai is willing to hold talks with any groups which...

Pakistan to re-open Khyber to supply Western forces (Reuters)

Reuters - Pakistan will reopen a main supply route to Western forces in Afghanistan on Monday, a week after militants hijacked more than a dozen trucks on the road through the Khyber Pass, a senior official said on Sunday.

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