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| Troops, US drone strike kill 21 rebels |
| A suspected US missile strike in Pakistan’s north-western tribal region yesterday killed at least eight militants, while 13 more died in clashes with Pakistani troops, officials said. |
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| UN office attack suspect arrested |
| Pakistan police said yesterday they were holding a suspect in connection with a suicide attack at a UN office last month and a string of other bombings in the capital Islamabad. |
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| Docs race against time to save baby |
| Doctors at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) in Islamabad are trying to save a baby born with his heart and intestines outside the body. |
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| Work on airport comes to a halt |
| Work on the Rs12bn new Islamabad international airport has come to a grinding halt with the sponsor, the Civil Aviation Authority, watching in utter helplessness and apathy. |
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| First Pak professor hired by Harvard |
| Professor Asim Khwaja has become the first Pakistani to achieve tenure at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Tenure guarantees academic freedom as well as job security. Tenure is offered to the best and brightest of the professors who show the most promise in increasing the university’s reputation through their research, books and unique ideas. |
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