Pakistan prepares for election
Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif enters to a car among his supporters during a visit to the shrine of Muslim saint Data Ganj Bukhsh in Lahore, Pakistan on February 16, 2008. Pakistan has deployed nearly 81,000 soldiers through the region with orders to shoot anyone suspected of committing violence on election day. (UPI Photo/Hossein Fatemi)
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Militants staged two attacks in India's Jammu and Kashmir state across from Pakistan early Thursday, killing at least 10 people, authorities said.
The Iranian and Pakistani heads of state discussed natural gas issues on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting, Iran's Oil Ministry said.
A Pakistani energy official said Russia's state-owned energy company Gazprom could eventually play a role in a long-planned natural gas pipeline from Iran.
Demonstrators turned out in force across Pakistan Monday to protest church bombings in Peshawar that killed 81 people.
The death toll climbed to 78 in twin explosions at a Pakistani church Sunday that also injured 120 people, officials in Peshawar said.
A top Pakistani army general and two other military men died in a roadside bomb explosion in the violence-hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said.
Pakistan continues to suffer from severe and ongoing energy shortages. Pakistan's ramshackle and investment starved private power companies currently have roughly 50 percent less electricity generation capability than actual demand, leaving Pakistan's National Grid facing more than a 5,000-megawatt shortfall in power generation, leading to blackouts (referred to in the Pakistani press as "load shedding") in both urban and rural areas of the country, which can produce blackouts in some areas of up to 20 hours per day.
At least eight people died Wednesday in Karachi, Pakistan, prompting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to call a meeting to discuss increased violence in the city.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai extended his Pakistan visit by an extra day to Tuesday as he seeks Islamabad's help in Kabul's peace talks with the Taliban.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai traveled to Pakistan Monday to enlist its support for peace talks between his government and the Taliban, officials said.
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