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BARIKOT (Swat) - A 115-metre-long and 16-feet-wide strategic concrete bridge has been constructed over a seasonal river in the mountainous region of Barikot, Swat, by Pakistan Army from funds of over Rs1.3 million provided by the Pakistan Association Dubai, or PAD, and its Pak-Khyber Wing. The funds were provided by the PAD through its NGO in Pakistan, PAD Relief.

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The second largest party in Pakistan’s coalition said on Sunday it would go into opposition, depriving the government, a strategic U.S, ally of its majority in the National Assembly.

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KARACHI - Pakistan’s Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the second largest party in the ruling coalition, will leave the governing alliance and sit in opposition at the federal level, a party spokesman said on Sunday.

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Two US missile strikes about two hours apart killed at least 14 men near the Afghan border in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, two Pakistani intelligence officials said.

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MIRANSHAH — Two US missile attacks in Pakistan’s lawless tribal belt on Saturday killed at least 11 militants and destroyed a Taliban compound, local officials said.

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ISLAMABAD - Thousands of people joined mass protests as religious parties called a strike that closed businesses across Pakistan against a bid to change the blasphemy law by the ruling party.

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ISLAMABAD - The plot to assassinate former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in December 2007 was made at the official residence of an army brigadier, a fresh investigation report has disclosed.

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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has said that his party will not join any “puppet show” to change the government but insisted it would also not back the present ‘corrupt set up’.

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