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  Teachers in Pakistan to carry guns in classroom

  World | January 28, 2015 14:55 IST

  Peshawar: Post Peshawar massacre, teachers in northwest Pakistan are being given firearms training. They will also be allowed to take guns into the classroom in a bid to strengthen security.Last month, militants of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan

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  600 arrested in Pakistan as part of heightened security measures

  World | January 19, 2015 8:00 IST

  Peshawar:  Over 600 people, including 125 illegal Afghan immigrants, have been arrested and a large quantity of arms and ammunition was recovered during raids by police in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province as part of

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  Red-alert in Pak's Punjab after reports warn of terror attacks

  World | January 15, 2015 22:43 IST

  Lahore: The Punjab government today issued a red-alert following intelligence reports that terrorists were planning to target or kidnap foreigners and schoolchildren in Pakistan.“The law enforcement agencies have been put on red-alert following intelligence reports

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  Pakistan to ban JuD and Haqqani network?

  World | January 15, 2015 12:25 IST

  Islamabad: Pakistan plans to ban 10 terror outfits, including 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and the dreaded Afghan-based Haqqani Network, a move seen by experts as a “paradigm shift” in the country's security policy

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  Pakistan teenage activist Malala's attackers arrested: Army

  World | September 12, 2014 23:40 IST

  Islamabad: The 10 Taliban militants who tried to kill Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousufzai for her outspoken views on girls' education in the country's troubled northwest in 2012 have been arrested, the army announced today.Malala,

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  Pakistan Taliban offers security to negotiators

  World | February 03, 2014 17:16 IST

  Islamabad: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has offered security to the members of the Pakistan government's negotiating committee in the areas under its control, a media report said Monday.TTP spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid, in a statement, said