07-12-2007, 09:01 PM
<b>Eight killed in Pakistan blasts after mosque raid </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - A suicide blast and a separate roadside bombing killed eight people in Pakistan Thursday, officials said, as a deadly army raid on militants in an Islamabad mosque sparked Islamist anger.
Five people, including three police, were killed and several others wounded outside a religious centre in the Himalayan tourist town of Mingora by the bomb, local administration chief Syed Mohammed Javed told AFP by telephone
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<b>US intelligence chiefs fret over Pakistan </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->WASHINGTON (AFP) - US intelligence chiefs urged Pakistan to wage a more vigorous pursuit of terrorism, warning that its lawless region bordering Afghanistan has become a sanctuary for Al-Qaeda and Taliban diehards.
But despite its own intelligence community's misgivings, the US administration of George W. Bush is standing by President Pervez Musharraf as Pakistan's military ruler faces one of his gravest crises yet.
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Five people, including three police, were killed and several others wounded outside a religious centre in the Himalayan tourist town of Mingora by the bomb, local administration chief Syed Mohammed Javed told AFP by telephone
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<b>US intelligence chiefs fret over Pakistan </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->WASHINGTON (AFP) - US intelligence chiefs urged Pakistan to wage a more vigorous pursuit of terrorism, warning that its lawless region bordering Afghanistan has become a sanctuary for Al-Qaeda and Taliban diehards.
But despite its own intelligence community's misgivings, the US administration of George W. Bush is standing by President Pervez Musharraf as Pakistan's military ruler faces one of his gravest crises yet.
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