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Pakistan Detains Suspect In Mumbai Attack A Day After His Ordered Release

1:26pm December 30, 2014

by Krishnadev Calamur

Police registered an unrelated kidnapping case against Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi. He is believed to have been the operational chief of a group blamed for the deadly 2008 attack on Mumbai.

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Pakistan Court Orders Conditional Release For Suspect In Mumbai Attack

10:39am December 29, 2014

by Krishnadev Calamur

Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi's lawyers argued that extended detention infringed on his rights because he had been granted bail by an anti-terrorism court. The Islamabad High Court agreed.

Pakistani army soldiers patrol near the Kot Lakhpat Central Jail in Lahore as security has been increased to high alert after government lifted a six-year moratorium on executions.

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Pakistan Says It's Killed Dozens Of Extremists In Military Operation

12:50pm December 27, 2014

by Scott Neuman

The operation in tribal North Waziristan involved airstrikes and ground forces, the Pakistan military says.

The documentary film, "Every Last Child," chronicles the efforts to eradicate polio in Pakistan. Women play a key role — they're welcome in homes to share information, while men are not.

How To Make An Unboring Documentary About Polio

8:46am December 26, 2014

by Joanne Silberner

Filmmaker Tom Roberts was definitely not interested when he was first asked to make a movie about the disease. Then he began to do some research. "Every Last Child" is the result.

Pope Francis: 'Many Tears This Christmas'

8:46am December 25, 2014

by Scott Neuman

In his annual Christmas Day blessing, the pontiff condemned killing in Iraq, Syria and Pakistan and the "brutal persecution" of religious and ethnic minorities.

These Pakistani children go to a makeshift school in a clay house, located in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.

Will The Taliban Attack Make Parents Afraid To Send Kids To School?

7:03am December 25, 2014

by Marc Silver

As horrifying as it was, the massacre will not cause parents to pull their kids out, says Madiha Afzal, a professor of public policy who grew up in Lahore.

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Pakistani Court Grants Bail To Suspect In Mumbai Attack

2:24pm December 18, 2014

by Krishnadev Calamur

Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi is one of seven men charged with planning and helping to carry out the 2008 attack that killed more than 160 people. Federal prosecutors had opposed the bail plea.

A Pakistani health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child during a campaign in the northern city of Rawalpindi.

Pakistan Keeps On Vaccinating Despite Tough Terrain And Terror Threat

9:40am December 18, 2014

by Jason Beaubien

Just getting a measles vaccine to a child in Pakistan was once an impossible dream. Despite many obstacles, health workers have made great progress in stopping infectious diseases.

Chairs are upturned and blood stains the floor at the Army Public School auditorium the day after Taliban gunmen stormed the school in Peshawar, Pakistan.

As Pakistan Mourns, Prime Minister Removes Moratorium On Death Penalty

8:27am December 17, 2014

by Eyder Peralta

The country was starting to take stock of a Taliban attack on a school that killed 145 people. Most of them were children.

A Pakistani girl, who was injured in a Taliban attack on a school, is rushed to a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday.

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Taliban Gunmen Storm School, Kill Dozens In Pakistan

2:21pm December 16, 2014

by Eyder Peralta

Officials said at least 140 were killed, more than half of them students. The school is run by the military and the Taliban said they were retaliating for a recent military offensive.