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Close to 300 Muslim students armed with iron bars and sticks attacked a Christian boys' school in northern Pakistan, reportedly in retaliation to French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's controversial drawings of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. The attack left four Christians injured. "It is very sad that Islamic radicals attack Pakistani Christians because of Charlie Hebdo. Christians condemn the blasphemous cartoons. It is a shame that even after 67 years since the birth of Pakistan, Christians have not yet been considered Pakistani citizens, but are seen as 'Western allies,'" Nasir Saeed, director of the NGO Center for Legal Aid Assistance &...

A German man wearing a burka and carrying a pistol was arrested in northwest Pakistan Monday after travelling from an area known as a hub for Al-Qaeda-linked militants, police said. "A German man, wearing a burka, was intercepted at a checkpoint in Bannu while coming from Miranshah with a six-year-old girl," local police station chief Farid Khan told AFP. Two tribesmen travelling with him in the vehicle were also detained, he said. Miranshah is the main town of lawless North Waziristan tribal district, a known hotbed of Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants. Most women in the area wear a burka,...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A huge explosion rocked Pakistan's main northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday, police and residents said. "It was a very big explosion. I could see smoke rising from the scene," Asad Ali, a resident, said by telephone from Peshawar. Police said they were investigating. A Taliban suicide bomber earlier crashed his explosives-laden truck into a police station in Bannu, also in northwestern Pakistan, killing six people and wounding 30, police said.

Over three years ago, radical Islamists seized a school in Beslan in the Russian republic of North Ossetia-Alania and killed 334 people, including 186 children. Last year, jihadists seized the Red Mosque in Pakistan, and more than 170 people died as a result. Now Islamist radicals have seized a school in Bannu, North Waziristan and hold over 250 children as hostages: Pro-Taleban militants are holding children and teachers hostage in a school near the Pakistani district of North Waziristan. Officials told a BBC reporter at the scene that up to 250 children were inside the school. The militants took shelter...

AP News Alert PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN - Police say four rockets hit northwestern city of Bannu, killing 10 people and wounding 35

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 12 — Several men believed to be American citizens have been taken into custody here during the past few weeks on suspicion of being linked to Al Qaeda, senior Pakistani officials said today. The Pakistani officials said most of the men had been picked up along with other suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban members in joint American-Pakistani raids in the country's remote tribal areas near the border with Afghanistan. They said they believe that the men form a disjointed network of disaffected Westerners who converted to Islam and have been drawn to militant causes, fighting alongside Al...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 9/7/02 USS George Washington, Kabul, Peshawar, Bannu, Al Qaeda, Baghdad, cockfight, tatoo, tea house, al-Doura oil refinery, Jerusalem, Gaza, bomb-making factory, South Bend Indiana, Munich Olympics+30 ===================== USS George Washington =================== On the USS George Washington, starting with night time live fire training exercise with 50-calibre machine guns. ===================== Kabul =================== In Kabul, moving to sell her baked bread. In Kabul, at the funerals, after the bomb explosion in downtown Kabul (final pic). ===================== Peshawar =================== In Bannu, 112 miles southwest of Peshawar, Pakistan, proterrorists meet to support Al Qaeda. ===================== Baghdad...