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Severe flooding in Pakistan has created a dangerous situation for the already-beleaguered civilian government in Islamabad.

July 9th (BBC News) - At least 50 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in a Pakistani tribal village on the border with Afghanistan, officials said.

June 17th (BBC News) - The Afghan Taliban says it has captured dozens of Pakistani soldiers after attacking their checkpoint in a cross-border raid.

June 16th (National Post) - Pakistan's military and political establishment yesterday angrily rejected the findings of a new study that accuses the country's security services of "playing a double-game of astonishing magnitude" by supporting, arming and directing Taliban insurgents fighting in Afghanistan.

June 14, 2010 (AFP) - Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency provides funding, training and sanctuary to the Taliban in Afghanistan on a scale far greater than previously believed, a study claimed Sunday.

June 7, 2010 (Reuters, Zeeshan Haider) -  Pakistan will increase defense spending by 17 percent in the 2010/11 fiscal year as the U.S. ally intensifies its battle against Taliban insurgents operating from their enclaves on the border with Afghanistan.

May 28th (BBC News) - Gunmen have attacked two mosques of the minority Ahmadi Islamic sect in the Pakistani city of Lahore, killing at least 70 people, officials say.

WASHINGTON, May 13th (Dawn) - US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that his administration was working with both Pakistan and Afghanistan to break down some of their old suspicions and bad habits.

NEW DELHI, May 11th (Dawn) - India and Pakistan said Tuesday they plan to hold foreign minister-level talks in Islamabad in July as part of efforts to get their abandoned peace talks back on track after the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

ISLAMABAD, April 30th (Dawn) - The Special Investigation Group of the FIA, which has been asked to fix criminal responsibility in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, has conducted the DNA test of the suicide bomber and the result matched the blood samples taken from his shoes found by investigators from the residence of the ‘facilitator’.