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Pakistan this weekend:
Dozens of NATO supply trucks torched in Pakistan
By RIAZ KHAN – 21 hours ago
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants attacked a Pakistan transport terminal used to supply NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan, killing a guard and burning 106 vehicles on Sunday.
The assault was the boldest yet on trucks carrying critical supplies to foreign troops in Afghanistan, feeding concern that Taliban militants could cut or seriously disrupt the route through the famed Khyber Pass.
Up to 75 percent of the supplies for Western forces in the landlocked country pass through Pakistan after being unloaded from ships at the Arabian sea port of Karachi.
About 30 assailants armed with guns and rockets attacked the Portward Logistic Terminal near the city of Peshawar before dawn Sunday, police official Kashif Alam said.
Report: ‘India Was Ready to Strike Pakistan’
Sunday, December 07, 2008
The Pakistani High Commissioner in London, Wajid Shamsul Hassan, says India was ready to launch a military strike on Pakistan in retaliation for the Mumbai terror attacks, Sky News reported.
Hassan said British and American officials had to intervene to prevent India from carrying out an attack.
"On the day of the Mumbai attacks, I got some information in London that India was going to act very drastically against Pakistan in retaliation to what happened," Hassan told Sky News.
The senior diplomat alerted the Pakistani government and President Asif Ali Zardari to the threat.
Villagers in Pakistan say captured Mumbai gunman lived in their town
12:51 AM CST on Sunday, December 7, 2008
FARIDKOT, Pakistan – The lone gunman captured alive by Indian police during the terrorist attack on Mumbai a week and a half ago comes from a dirt-poor village in Pakistan’s southern Punjab region where a banned Islamist group has been actively recruiting young men for jihad, according to residents of the village and official records seen by McClatchy Newspapers.
Ajmal Ameer Kasab, the 21-year-old man arrested by Indian authorities in the first hours of the assault, left the village four years ago, several residents said. He would return once a year to his small family home, and one villager recalled him talking about freeing the Muslim-dominated region of Kashmir from India.
His origins are a key to the investigation of the attack and could have a profound impact on relations between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, already at the brink of confrontation. Until now, the Pakistani government has repeatedly said that there was no solid evidence to back Indian accusations that the gunmen came from Pakistan.
A reporter obtained official electoral records, which showed that Mr. Kasab’s parents, as named by the Indian authorities, indeed reside in the village.
27 killed, dozens injured in Pakistan blast
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — A car exploded in front of a Shiite mosque in northern Pakistan on Friday, killing 27 people, police said.
Authorities said the car exploded in front of the Alam Dar Karbala mosque in Peshawar, in North West Frontier Province. Eighty-five people were injured from the blast.
After the explosion, video from the scene showed people crowding the streets. The video also showed some people carrying others who appeared to be injured.
