<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>North-West Frontier Province: News &amp; Videos about North-West Frontier Province - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/North_West_Frontier_Province</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about North-West Frontier Province from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:39:03 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>North-West Frontier Province: News &amp; Videos about North-West Frontier Province - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/North_West_Frontier_Province</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about North-West Frontier Province from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Deadly car bombs explode in Peshawar</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/12/pakistan.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/12/pakistan.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A pair of bombings in Pakistan killed 10 people and wounded dozens of others Friday, officials said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>17 dead in Pakistani car bombings</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/13/pakistan.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/13/pakistan.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A pair of bombings in Pakistan killed at least 17 people, including security officials, and wounded dozens of others Friday, officials said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:31:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Police: Dozens dead in Pakistan explosion</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/02/pakistan.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/02/pakistan.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people Monday by detonating explosives outside a bank where people had lined up to pick up their monthly checks, police said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Survivors recount narrow escape from deadly Peshawar market bombing</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/28/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/28/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A massive car bomb tore through the heart of a bustling marketplace in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, killing at least 100 people -- including many women and children -- and injuring at least 200 others, officials said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Clinton condemns Peshawar market blast</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/28/clinton.pakistan.relations/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/28/clinton.pakistan.relations/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The militants behind Wednesday's deadly strike on a Pakistani marketplace that killed at least 90 people -- most of them women -- are "on the losing side of history," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at a joint news conference with her Pakistani counterpart.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Battle rages over Pakistan militant stronghold</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/20/pakistan.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/20/pakistan.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Heavily armed militants put up a fierce fight on Tuesday to protect a Taliban stronghold in South Waziristan, Pakistan's military said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>6 killed, 10 wounded in Pakistan blast</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/17/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/17/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Six people were killed and 10 wounded in a car bomb blast in Pakistan's troubled northwest Monday, officials said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistanis return home after fighting ends in Dir Valley</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/11/pakistan.fighting.dirvalley/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/11/pakistan.fighting.dirvalley/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The rugged beauty of the expansive Dir Valley can mask the detail of what is happening on the ground.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan seizes key pro-Taliban cleric</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/26/pakistan.cleric.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/26/pakistan.cleric.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A pro-Taliban cleric who helped negotiate a short-lived cease-fire between the militant organization and the Pakistani government was arrested Sunday in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Government program sending uprooted Pakistanis back home</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/14/pakistan.displaced.return/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/14/pakistan.displaced.return/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A trickle of Pakistanis who fled their homes during the fighting in the country's volatile northwestern region have begun returning under a government operation, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan: At least 1 dead as motorcycle bomber hits bus</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/02/pakistan.suicide.bombing/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/02/pakistan.suicide.bombing/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck a Pakistani Defense Ministry bus Thursday, killing at least one person and wounding 29 others, Rawalpindi police and medical officials said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Roadside bomb kills 2 in Pakistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/13/pakistan.suicide.bombing/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/13/pakistan.suicide.bombing/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two people were killed when a roadside bomb went off near a police bus carrying prisoners Saturday in northwest Pakistan, an official said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blast kills cleric who denounced suicide attacks</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/12/pakistan.cleric/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/12/pakistan.cleric/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A moderate Muslim cleric who denounced suicide attacks as forbidden by Islam was killed Friday in a suicide attack on his mosque in Lahore, authorities said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>At least 9 dead in Pakistani 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battle Taliban militants</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/09/pakistan.anti.taliban/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/09/pakistan.anti.taliban/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hundreds of Pakistani villagers who have formed an anti-Taliban militia battled for the fourth day Tuesday to remove the Islamic militants from a region of northwest Pakistan.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Suspected suicide blast kills 40 at Pakistani mosque</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/05/mosque.attack.pakistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/05/mosque.attack.pakistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suspected suicide attacker detonated his explosives at a mosque in northwestern Pakistan during Friday prayers, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens of others, a local police official said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan: Alleged terrorist detained</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/01/pakistan.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/01/pakistan.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>One of the three suspects detained Friday in Islamabad has been identified as Fida Ullah, a terrorist who recruited suicide bombers here, police said in a news release.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>50 students, staff abducted by militants, Pakistan police say</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/01/pakistan.abductions/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/01/pakistan.abductions/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Militants in a Taliban-held area of Pakistan are believed to have abducted 50 students and staff Monday after a ceremony marking the last day of school, a police official said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan military confronts Taliban in key Swat city</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/23/pakistan.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/23/pakistan.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Security forces in Pakistan have started the "most important phase" of their push against the Taliban -- clearing militants from the largest city in the troubled Swat Valley region.</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 15:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N.: $450M needed to help uprooted Pakistanis</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/22/pakistan.refugees.appeal/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/22/pakistan.refugees.appeal/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Nearly a half-billion dollars in "urgent contributions" are needed, the United Nations said Friday to aid displaced Pakistanis whose numbers are nearing 2 million.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 22:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan military gives journalists tour of battle front</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/22/pakistan.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/22/pakistan.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Pakistani military claimed Friday to have broken the backs of Taliban militants in the Swat region.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 19:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan claims dozens of militants killed</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/16/pakistan.missile.strikes/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/16/pakistan.missile.strikes/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Violence echoed across a volatile Pakistani province and an adjacent tribal region on Saturday, with dozens reported killed in the latest military push, a drone strike, and a car bombing targeting a school bus.</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 17:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistani offensive sparks 'massive displacement' of civilians</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/08/pakistan.swat.taliban.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/08/pakistan.swat.taliban.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The United Nations' refugee agency warned Friday of a "massive displacement" of civilians as Pakistan's military broadens its offensive against Taliban militants in the country's troubled northwest.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 02:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan kills 80 in assault on 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bombing</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/18/pakistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/18/pakistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide bomber in Pakistan rammed his vehicle into a security forces convoy on Saturday, killing at least 20 people and wounding 15 others, police said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan deal enshrines sharia law</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/13/pakistan.swat/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/13/pakistan.swat/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari signed into law Monday a peace deal for the nation's violence-plagued Swat Valley, according to a presidential spokesman.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pro-Taliban cleric pulls out of peace deal</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/09/pakistan.peace.deal/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/09/pakistan.peace.deal/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Mohammad has announced he has pulled out of a peace deal in the violence-plagued Swat Valley, saying the government is not serious about implementing Islamic law, or sharia, in the region.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zardari defends cease-fire in volatile Pakistan region</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/04/zardari.pakistan.swat.deal/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/04/zardari.pakistan.swat.deal/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Pakistan's president has defended his government's recent ceasefire in the country's volatile Swat Valley in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, saying that many in the West have mischaracterized the deal.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: Pakistan agrees fresh Taliban truce</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/24/pakistan.taliban.cease.fire/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/24/pakistan.taliban.cease.fire/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Pakistani security forces will observe a four-day cease-fire with Taliban militants in another region of North West Frontier Province, Pakistan's state-run news agency reported Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Displaced residents wait, hope cease-fire holds in Pakistan's Swat</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/24/pakistan.taliban.feature/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/24/pakistan.taliban.feature/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The refugees mill about aimlessly amid the rows and rows of white tents that are now their homes.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Taliban swaps kidnapped official for militants</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/23/pakistan.kidnap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/23/pakistan.kidnap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Taliban militants released a kidnapped Pakistani official in exchange for two of their men in the troubled Swat Valley, government officials said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:16:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Official kidnapped in Pakistan, despite Swat Valley cease-fire</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/22/pakistan.kidnap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/22/pakistan.kidnap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A top official in Pakistan's troubled Swat Valley was kidnapped Sunday -- a day after a cease-fire between the government and Taliban militants was supposed to go into effect.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>At least 27 dead in Pakistan suicide bombing</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/20/pakistan.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/20/pakistan.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Police moved to dissipate possible sectarian violence after a suicide bombing in the middle of a Shia funeral procession killed at least 27 people and injured 75 others in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Friday morning, police said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:38:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistani government does deal with Taliban on sharia law</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/16/pakistan.taliban.sharia.law/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/16/pakistan.taliban.sharia.law/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Pakistani government officials announced Monday an agreement with the Taliban to allow strict Islamic law, or sharia, to be implemented in parts of North West Frontier Province.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Taliban announce 'cease-fire' in Pakistani valley</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/15/taliban.pakistan.ceasefire/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/15/taliban.pakistan.ceasefire/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan announced a 10-day cease-fire on Sunday in Pakistan's Swat Valley, a volatile region in North West Frontier Province that is largely controlled by the Taliban.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:03:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bombing kills provincial minister in Pakistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/11/pakistan.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/11/pakistan.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A bomb attack in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Wednesday killed a provincial minister, police said. Eight others were injured in the bombing.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Blast strikes school in northwest Pakistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/26/pakistan.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/26/pakistan.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Suspected Taliban militants blew up a government-run school Monday in Pakistan's violence-plagued Swat Valley, bringing to 183 the number of schools destroyed since fighting began in the area six months ago, officials said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan: Security guards die intercepting car bomber</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/23/pakistan.security.guards.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/23/pakistan.security.guards.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two Pakistani security guards were killed Friday when they stopped a suicide car bomber from barreling into a military outpost.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:39:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Soldier killed in Pakistan blast</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/18/pakistan.bomb/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/18/pakistan.bomb/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Pakistani soldier was killed and another wounded Sunday afternoon when an explosive device was detonated beneath a military convoy in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Sunday afternoon, a Pakistani military official told CNN.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Suicide bombing kills six in Pakistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/04/pakistan.bombing.suicide/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/04/pakistan.bombing.suicide/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two explosions have struck a small cafe in volatile northwestern Pakistan, killing six people, including two police officers, local police and an official said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bomb kills 37 at Pakistan polling station</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/pakistan.bomb/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/pakistan.bomb/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide car bomb apparently targeting voters killed at least 37 people and wounded 16 others in the Bunair district of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Sunday, a police official said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Taliban on agenda as Zardari visits Afghanistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/18/afghanistan.pakistan.zardari/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/18/afghanistan.pakistan.zardari/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Pakistan's president will use his first visit to Afghanistan to discuss how the countries can unite to defeat terrorists.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bad weather thwarts Pakistan leader's Afghan trip</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/19/afghanistan.pakistan.zardari/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/19/afghanistan.pakistan.zardari/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A meeting between the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan was canceled Friday when bad weather prevented Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari from traveling to the Afghan capital, Kabul.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:41:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>27 killed, dozens injured in Pakistan blast</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/06/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/06/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A car exploded in front of a Shiite mosque in northern Pakistan on Friday, killing 27 people, police said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:18:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan: Mosque car blast kills at least 19</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/05/pakistan.mosque.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/05/pakistan.mosque.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A car exploded in front of a Shiite mosque in northern Pakistan on Friday, killing 19 people, police said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:10:00 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police said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Suicide attack kills 4 in Pakistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/16/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/16/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide car bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a police station in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Thursday, killing four security officials, authorities said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bomb targets Pakistan anti-extremist</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/13/pakistan.bomb/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/13/pakistan.bomb/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A remote-controlled bomb detonated Monday near the vehicle of a secular Pakistani political leader, who was injured along with four others, police said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan suicide bomber uses candy to get past guards</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/09/pakistan.missile/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/09/pakistan.missile/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A man convinced security guards Thursday that he was delivering a box of sweets to Islamabad police headquarters before setting off a suicide blast, a police official told CNN.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan suicide bomber kills 10</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/06/pakistan.suicide.strike/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/06/pakistan.suicide.strike/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide bomber detonated at the home of a lawmaker in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province Monday, killing at 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7</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/28/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/28/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A bomb targeting a police van killed at least seven people in Pakistan's violence-plagued northwest Thursday, police told CNN.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. official escapes gun attack in Pakistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/26/pakistan.militant.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/26/pakistan.militant.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A U.S. consulate vehicle in Pakistan's violence-plagued northwest came under gunfire Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan hospital bomb kills at least 23</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/19/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/19/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A bomb blast at a hospital in northwest Pakistan killed at least 23 people Tuesday, authorities said. Another 15 to 20 were injured.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deadly blast targets Pakistan military</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/12/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/12/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A bomb targeting an Air Force bus killed at least 12 people in northwestern Pakistan Tuesday, police said. The blast wounded another 15.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistani militants abduct 30 police</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/29/pakistan.abductions/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/29/pakistan.abductions/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Militants in northwestern Pakistan attacked a police checkpoint Tuesday and abducted up to 30 police officers, a police official said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>7/7 accused: I trained in militant camp</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/20/uk.terrortrial/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/20/uk.terrortrial/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A man accused of helping to plot the 2005 terror attacks on London's transport network Tuesday admitted making a trip to a training camp close to the Afghan border.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 18:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blast rocks police station in Pakistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/25/pakistan.bombing/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/25/pakistan.bombing/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An explosion has rocked a police station in a region of Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, police said Friday. </description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. unhappy with Pakistani plan for militant peace deal</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/23/whitehouse.pakistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/23/whitehouse.pakistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The White House on Wednesday expressed concern with reports that Pakistan's new government is working on a peace accord with militant leaders in its tribal regions.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Suicide bombers kill 5 in Pakistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/04/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/04/pakistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Twin suicide bombers set off explosives at a naval college in Pakistan Tuesday, killing at least five other people and wounding at least 16, one critically, the government said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan Votes Amid Tension</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1714206,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1714206,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>People in Pakistan take part in a crucial parliamentary election overshadowed by violence and fears of fraud</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:00:00 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EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Quake zone goes to school</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/11/quakezone.schools/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/11/quakezone.schools/index.html</guid><description>Putting education first is common in Kashmir.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Karachi blast kills dozens</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/11/pakistan.blast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/11/pakistan.blast/index.html</guid><description>An explosion at a celebration of Prophet Mohammed's birthday has killed at least 42 people and sparked a confrontation between Muslims and Karachi police, according to Pakistan's interior minister and local media reports.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. consulate closes after attack 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