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The CIA has recalled it top officer from Pakistan after his cover was blown and his life threatened. The alleged name of the CIA's station chief in Islamabad was revealed by a Pakistani man, Kareem Khan, who has threatened to sue the intelligence agency over the death of his son and brother in a U.S. missile strike. Khan and his lawyers told a news conference in November that they would seek a $500 million payment for his family members' deaths and warned they may sue CIA director Leon Panetta, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and the man they identified as...

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 1, Kyodo - Heavy fighting has been raging over the past two days between forces loyal to two rival warlords in the Ghoryan district about 65 kilometers west of Herat in southwestern Afghanistan, Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said Thursday. The Pakistan-based agency said the firefight between fighters loyal to Commander Mohammad Ismael and Commander Mohammad Kareen Khan began Wednesday morning. A spokesman for Kareem Khan told AIP that the fighters under Ismael Khan attacked the area with the support of tanks. He accused Kareem Khan's troops of setting the houses of local residents on fire, burning several...