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Image: A man, injured from the site of a bomb explosion, is brought to a hospital for treatment in Quetta

A man, injured from the site of a bomb explosion, is brought to a hospital for treatment in Quetta December 30, 2011. A bomber remotely detonated an explosive-laden car outside the home of a Pakistani former minister, killing at least eight people and wounding 22, police officials in the city of Quetta said on Friday. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)
— Naseer Ahmed / X02910
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Women supporters of Pakistan's slain leader Benazir Bhutto hold her posters at a ceremony to mark the fourth anniversary of her death, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. Bhutto was assassinated in Rawalpindi on Dec. 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
— Muhammed Muheisen / AP
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A Pakistani boy holds a balloon after buying it from a vendor on Christmas day in a Christian neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
— Muhammed Muheisen / AP
Image: Pakistan's former ambassador to United States Husain Haqqani (C) exits the Supreme Court

Pakistan's former ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani (C) exits the Supreme Court after meeting his lawyer Asma Jehangir, in Haqqani's defence in the secret memo scandal case, in Islamabad on December 22, 2011. Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has filed a petition in the Supreme Court to probe the secret memo scandal in which Haqqani is alleged to approach the US authorities to stop the Pakistan Army from a possible action to throw the government out of power after the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Haqqani, who was forced to resign last month, denied any involvement but the court has already put restrictions on him leaving Pakistan. AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
— Aamir Qureshi / AFP
Image: Students wait with their belongings at a police station after being rescued during a late night raid at the Zakariya madrassa on the outskirts of Karachi

Students wait with their belongings at a police station after being rescued during a late night raid at the Zakariya madrassa on the outskirts of Karachi on December 13, 2011. Police in Karachi have rescued 54 students from the basement of an Islamic seminary, or madrassa, where they said they were kept in chains by clerics, beaten and barely fed. Police raided the Zakariya madrassa late on Monday on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan's commercial hub. They were now investigating whether it had any links to violent militant groups, which often recruit from hardline religious schools. REUTERS/ Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST RELIGION EDUCATION)
— Athar Hussain / X01601
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Pakistani acid attack survivor, Azim Mai, 35, holds her daughter Shaziya, 8, while sitting on a bed waiting to have a massage session for their wounds, at the Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF) in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011. Azim Mai's husband allegedly threw acid in her face and their daughter Shaziya last year after she refused to sell their two boys to a man in Dubai to use as camel racers. Rights activists Tuesday praised the laws, which stiffened the punishment for acid attacks and also criminalized practices such as marrying off young girls to settle tribal disputes and preventing women from inheriting property. The Senate provided final approval for two bills containing the new laws Monday. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
— Muhammed Muheisen / AP
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In this Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011 photo, masked Pakistani Taliban militants take part in a training session in an area of Pakistan's tribal South Waziristan region along the Afghan border. Associated Press reporter, photographer and videographer Ishtiaq Mahsud spent six days with fighters from the Pakistani Taliban close to the Afghan border. His account of their travels through South Waziristan offers a glimpse into an area that the Pakistani military claimed had been brought under control following an army offensive two years ago. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)
— Ishtiaq Mahsud / AP
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This handout photograph taken on December 11, 2011 released by the Pakistan's Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) shows Pakistani troops on guard at the Shamsi airbase after the last flight carrying US personnel and equipment had left Shamsi airbase, in the southwestern province of Baluchistan. The United States on December 11 vacated a Pakistani airbase following a deadline given by Islamabad in the wake of anger over NATO air strikes last month that killed 24 soldiers, officials said. AFP PHOTO/ HO/ INTER SERVICES PUBLIC RELATIONS -----EDITORS NOTE---- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE MANDATORY CREDIT \"AFP PHOTO/HO/ INTER SERVICES PUBLIC RELATIONS\" ---- NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo credit should read HO/AFP/Getty Images)
— Ho / AFP
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A Pakistani Shiite Muslim flagellates himself in front of a white horse during a religious procession on the ninth day of holy Islamic month of Moharram in Lahore on December 5, 2011. Pakistan stepped up security across the country as minority Shiites began annual Ashura processions to commemorate the death of Imam Hussain, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, along with his close relatives and supporters in the Battle of Karbala in modern-day Iraq in the year 680. During the annual festival of Ashura, culminating on the 10th day of Moharram when Hussain died, Shiites parade in major cities, beating their chests and whipping their backs with flails. AFP PHOTO/ ARIF ALI (Photo credit should read Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
— Arif Ali / AFP
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Children of the activists of Khaksar Tehreek Pakistan wear army clothes as they take part in a protest against NATO in Lahore on December 4, 2011. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on December 3, called Pakistan's prime minister to offer condolences over the deaths of 24 Pakistani troops killed in NATO air strikes, the State Department said. Following the strikes, Pakistan decided not to take part in this week's Bonn conference on the future of Afghanistan -- a decision which, together with the Taliban's boycott, has cast the event's usefulness into doubt. AFP PHOTO/ Arif ALI (Photo credit should read Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
— Arif Ali / AFP
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Former Pakistani premier and head of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif (C) leaves the Supreme Court in Islamabad on December 1, 2011. Sharif attended the hearing on his petition filed against the memo scandal, seeking US help against the country's powerful military after the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden by US special forces commandos in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad on May 2. AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
— Aamir Qureshi / AFP
Image: A policeman holds shrapnel, collected from the site of a bomb explosion, outside the district coordination officer building in Peshawar

A policeman holds shrapnel, collected from the site of a bomb explosion, for photographers outside the district coordination officer building in Peshawar on December 1, 2011. A bomb exploded near the office of a regional government official in the often restive northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar early on Thursday, police officials said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST DISASTER CRIME LAW)
— Fayaz Aziz / X02543
Image: Young supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami yell anti-American slogans while protesting in Islamabad

REFILE - ADDING DROPPED WORD \"ATTACK\" IN THE FIRST SENTENCE Young supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami, a religious and political party, yell anti-American slogans while protesting in Islamabad against a NATO cross-border attack one day earlier along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, November 27, 2011. Pakistan on Sunday buried 24 troops killed in a NATO cross-border air attack that has pushed a crisis in relations between the United States and an ally it needs to fight militancy towards rupture. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY)
— Faisal Mahmood / X01353
Image: Shaheed, or martyr, is written on the caskets of soldiers killed in a cross-border attack along the Pakistan-Afghan border, as their bodies are being carried for funeral prayers in Peshawar

The word \"shaheed,\" or martyr is written on the caskets of soldiers killed in a cross-border attack along the Pakistan-Afghan border, as their bodies are being carried for funeral prayers in Peshawar November 27, 2011. Pakistan on Sunday buried 24 troops killed in a NATO cross-border air raid that has pushed a crisis in relations with the United States towards rupture. REUTERS/Stringer (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY)
— Stringer/pakistan / X01312
Image: A roadsign shows the distance to cities in Afghanistan after traffic was halted at the Pakistani border town Torkham

A roadsign, photographed from atop gridlocked trucks, shows the distance to cities in Afghanistan after traffic was halted at the Pakistani border town Torkham November 27, 2011. Pakistan on Sunday buried 24 troops killed in a NATO cross-border air raid that has pushed a crisis in relations with the United States towards rupture. REUTERS/Khuram Parvez (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY)
— Khuram Parvez / X02909
Image: A Shi'ite cleric speaks to protesters after clashes between two religious sects of Islam in Karachi

REFILE-ADDING MISSING WORDS IN FIRST SENTENCE A Shi'ite cleric speaks to protesters after clashes between two religious sects of Islam in Karachi November 27, 2011. Two people were killed and two others wounded in an exchange of fire between militants from majority Sunni and minority Shi'ite communities in the southern city of Karachi, government officials said. Angry mobs set fire to several cars and motorcycles. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST RELIGION)
— Athar Hussain / X01601
Image: Drivers, some of whom were carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan, sleep on top of their trucks at a fuel terminal in Karachi

Drivers, some of whom were carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan, sleep on top of their trucks at a fuel terminal in Karachi November 26, 2011. NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations, already deeply frayed, further into crisis. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY POLITICS ENERGY)
— Athar Hussain / X01601
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This handout photograph taken on November 26, 2011 released by the Pakistan's Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) on November 30, 2011 shows smoke rising apparently after a cross-border NATO air strike on Pakistani border posts on a mountain in the Mohmand tribal district. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led calls on Pakistan on November 30 to reconsider boycotting talks on Afghanistan, but stopped short of apologising for the deaths of 24 soldiers in NATO strikes. The Pakistani cabinet took the decision in protest against the November 26 attack in the mountains on the Afghan-Pakistani border, the worst cross-border assault by US-led NATO troops in 10 years of war in Afghanistan. AFP PHOTO / INTER SERVICES PUBLIC RELATIONS (ISPR) -----EDITORS NOTE---- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE MANDATORY CREDIT \"AFP PHOTO / INTER SERVICES PUBLIC RELATIONS\" ---- NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo credit should read ISPR/AFP/Getty Images)
— Ispr / AFP
Image: Pakistani Army Chief General Kayani speaks beside Chinese General Hou, the deputy chief of general staff of the PLA, during a news conference after joint military exercises in Jhelum

Pakistani Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani (L) speaks beside Chinese General Hou Shusen, the deputy chief of general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), during a news conference after joint military exercises in Jhelum, in Pakistan's Punjab province, November 24, 2011. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY)
— Faisal Mahmood / X01353
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Pakistan's former Information Minister Sherry Rehman talks to reporters in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. Pakistan appointed democracy activist Sherry Rehman who has faced militant death threats as its new ambassador to the United States on Wednesday, moving quickly to replace the old envoy who resigned after upsetting the country's powerful military in a scandal dubbed \"memo-gate.\" (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
— B.k.bangash / AP
Image: Girls school allegedly blown up by the Talibans

epa03002023 Local residents look at the debris of a girls school after it was bombed by alleged Taliban militants on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of militancy-hit Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, 13 November 2011. Hundreds of educational institutions including dozens of girls schools have been allegedly bombed by the Taliban militants in past months in country's militancy-hit north-west region. EPA/ARSHAD ARBAB
— Arshad Arbab / EPA
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Pakistani children takes ride during at a local park during the last day of Muslims religious festival Eid-al- Adha in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Nov. 9. 2011.
— B.k.bangash / AP
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A Pakistani boy drinks tea in a makeshift shelter at a livestock market ahead of Eid al-Adha in Lahore on November 5, 2011. The annual Islamic holiday, which falls from November 7 to 8 in Pakistan, is marked by the ritual sacrifice after morning prayers of sheep, goats, cows and other livestock whose meat is then shared with the poor. AFP PHOTO/Arif ALI (Photo credit should read Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
— Arif Ali / AFP
Image: Pakistani cricketers jailed

epa02991320 People carry posters of Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif, who were sentenced by the London's Southwark Crown Court to jail for their role in a fixing affair around a test match against England last year, during a protest in Multan, Pakistan, 03 November 2011. The suspects were charged after an undercover reporter from the now defunct News of the World paper recorded Mazhar Majeed, the agent of the players, as saying he could arrange fixing schemes with Pakistan players. EPA/MK CHAUDHRY
— Mk Chaudhry / EPA
Image: Bomb blast in Peshawar injures at least 13 people

epa02989024 Pakistani police officials inspect the site of a planted bomb blast in Karkhano market Peshawar, Pakistan, on 02 November 2011. Reports state that a bomb planted in a car exploded in Karkhano market Peshawar on 02 November, one man was killed and injured at least 13 people. EPA/BILAWAL ARBAB
— Bilawal Arbab / EPA
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TOPSHOTS Supporters of Pakistani politician Imran Khan and chief of Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) party, burn a replica drone as they shout slogans during protest rally in Islamabad on October 28, 2011 against the US drone attacks in Pakistani tribal regions. Khan staged a rally along with tribal elders in Islamabad against the continued US drone attacks in tribal areas which they said were killing hundreds of innocent people. Nearly 60 US drone strikes have been reported in Pakistan so far this year, dozens of them since Navy SEALs killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the garrison city of Abbottabad, close to the capital Islamabad, on May 2. AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
— Aamir Qureshi / AFP
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Pakistani politician and chief of Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) party, Imran Khan (L) waves to supporters during protest rally in Islamabad on October 28, 2011 against the US drone attacks in Pakistani tribal region. Khan staged a rally along with tribal elders in Islamabad against the continued US drone attacks in tribal areas which they said were killing hundreds of innocent people. Nearly 60 US drone strikes have been reported in Pakistan so far this year, dozens of them since Navy SEALs killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the garrison city of Abbottabad, close to the capital Islamabad, on May 2. AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
— Aamir Qureshi / AFP
Image: Main opposition party PML-N protests against the government in Lahore

epa02983581 A Pakistani police stands guard on a rooftop as supporters of main opposition party Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) rally against the ruling Pakistan People Party, in Lahore, Pakistan on 28 October 2011. Main opposition party PML-N protested against the prolonged electricity outages and urged the government to take steps to address endemic corruption and price hikes. EPA/RAHAT DAR
— Rahat Dar / EPA
Image: Aftermath of the kidnapping of Swiss couple by Taliban

epa02979933 A video grab taken from the video released by Taliban militants and made available to media on 25 October 2011, shows Swiss couple Olivier David Och, 31, (R) and Daniela Widmer, 28, (L), at an undisclosed location near the Pakistani-Afghan border, on 15 October 2011. Taliban militants holding a Swiss couple released a video on 25 October in which the hostages call on the Swiss, Pakistani and the United States' governments to release a Pakistani woman, Aafia Siddiqui, who has been convicted in the US on charges of terrorism. Talibans have warned that if Aafia was not released, then their Islamic court would decide the fate of the Swiss and they will not hesitate to carry out any punishment, an indirect reference to the past execution of Westerners by them. The Swiss couple was seized by gunmen on July 1 in the Loralai district after entering Pakistan from India, and planning to travel on to Iran and Turkey, German media reported 25 October. EPA/DSK STILL PHOTO TAKEN FROM A VIDEO * BEST QUA
— Dsk / EPA
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Pakistani internally displaced girls wait for food handouts at the Jalozai camp in Nowshera district on October 25, 2011. At least 18,000 people have fled their homes in Pakistan's tribal district of Khyber, fearing a fresh onslaught of fighting between the army and Islamist militants, officials said. Families streamed out of the district, a flash point for Taliban and other violent groups on the NATO supply line into neighbouring Afghanistan, after the army ordered them to leave because of military action going on in the area. AFP PHOTO / A. MAJEED (Photo credit should read A. MAJEED/AFP/Getty Images)
— A. Majeed / AFP
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Activists of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) light candles in remembrance of former first lady Nusrat Bhutto in Lahore on October 24, 2011. Thousands of mourners led by President Asif Ali Zardari turned out Monday for the burial of former Pakistani first lady Nusrat Bhutto, the mother of assassinated prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The widow of Pakistan's first democratically elected leader, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, and mother of Pakistan's twice elected prime minister Benazir Bhutto, she died aged 82 after a long illness in Dubai on Sunday. AFP PHOTO / ARIF ALI (Photo credit should read Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
— Arif Ali / AFP
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) leaves the Pakistani Foreign Ministry after talks with Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar (R) in Islamabad on October 21, 2011. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on October 21 urged Pakistan to take \"strong steps\" to deny Afghan militants safe haven and to encourage the Taliban to reconcile after 10 years of fighting. AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
— Aamir Qureshi / AFP
Image: Clash leaves 34 militants, three soldiers, dead

— Arshad Arbab / EPA
Image: Security situation in Chaman

— Matiullah Achakzai / EPA
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People mourn next to the body of their relative killed in a firing incident, at a local hospital in Quetta, Pakistan Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011. Suspected Sunni extremists opened fire on Shiite Muslims traveling through southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
— Arshad Butt / AP
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A supporter of a religious group holds a poster of Mumtaz Qadri, the confessed killer of a liberal Pakistani governor, as others listen to the speech of their leader during a rally to condemn the court decision against Qadri, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011 in Lahore, Pakistan. A Pakistani court on Saturday convicted and sentenced Qadri to death for the killing of a liberal governor earlier this year, a murder that led to fears the country was buckling under the weight of extremism. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
— K.m. Chaudary / AP
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TOPSHOTS Local residents gather at the site of a blast in Islamabad, on September 29, 2011. A blast ripped through the top floor of a hotel building in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, injuring at least six people, police officials said. City police chief Bani Amin said the cause of the blast \"appears to be a gas cylinder\" as gas was still leaking at the Citi Hotel in the Blue Area, a normally bustling district of shops and restaurants. TOPSHOTSAFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
— Aamir Qureshi / AFP
Image: Supporters of Pakistan People's Party wave their country's national flags from atop bus while taking part in anti-American rally near U.S. consulate in Karachi

Supporters of the Pakistan People's Party wave their country's national flags from atop a bus while taking part in an anti-American rally near the U.S. consulate in Karachi September 27, 2011. Pakistan, facing a crisis in relations with the United States, appears to be seeking more support from powerful ally China. Washington accuses Pakistan's powerful ISI spy agency of directly backing the Afghan Taliban-allied Haqqani network and of providing support for the September 13 attack on the U.S. Kabul mission. Pakistan furiously rejected the allegations and warned the United States that it risked losing an ally if it kept publicly criticising Pakistan over the militant groups. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
— Athar Hussain / X01601
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Pakistani Shiite Muslims shout slogans as they carry coffins of their community members during a funeral ceremony in Quetta on September 21, 2011, after their killing in an attack by gunmen. Gunmen shot dead 26 Pakistani Shiite Muslim pilgrims travelling to Iran on September 20, the deadliest attack on the minority community in Pakistan for more than a year, officials said. In a brutal assault, gunmen ordered pilgrims off their bus, lined them up and assassinated them in a hail of gunfire in Mastung, a district 50 kilometres (30 miles) south of Quetta, the capital of the southwest Baluchistan province. AFP PHOTO/BANARAS KHAN (Photo credit should read BANARAS KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)
— Banaras Khan / AFP
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Displaced Pakistani villagers try to handover their identity cards to get permits for relief at an office in Tando Mohammad Khan near Hyderabad, Pakistan on Thursday, Sept, 29, 2011. The latest flooding has killed over 200, destroyed some 665,000 homes and displaced nearly 1.8 million people in Sindh province.
— Pervez Masih / AP
Image: Residents peer past a cloth barrier which was raised to cordon off the site of a suicide bomb attack in Karachi

Residents peer past a cloth barrier which was raised to cordon off the site of a suicide bomb attack in Karachi September 19, 2011. At least eight people were killed, including six policemen, after a Taliban suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden car into the home of a senior police official in Pakistan's commercial hub Karachi on Monday. Police said 300 kg (136 lbs) of explosives were used. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS)
— Athar Hussain / X01601
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Pakistani firefighters attempt to extinguish a fire after a bomb blast at a market in Peshawar on September 19, 2011. A bomb killed at least five people and wounded 28 others at a market selling CDs in the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar on Spetember 19. AFP PHOTO/ A. MAJEED (Photo credit should read A. MAJEED/AFP/Getty Images)
— A. Majeed / AFP
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International and local Pakistani cyclists compete during the second stage of the Himalayas 2011 International Mountainbike Race in the mountainous area of Lake Saif-ul-Maluk in Pakistan's tourist region of Naran in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on September 17, 2011. The cycling event, organised by the Kaghan Memorial Trust to raise funds for its charity school set up in the Kaghan valley for children affected in the October 2005 earthquake, attracted some 30 International and 11 Pakistani cyclists. AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
— Aamir Qureshi / AFP
Image: Policemen pick-up the clothing and shoes of residents who were targeted by a suicide bomber during funeral prayers in Bero Shina, a town in Lower Dir District of Pakistan

Policemen pick-up the clothing and shoes of residents who were targeted by a suicide bomber during funeral prayers in Bero Shina, a town in Lower Dir District of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province September 15, 2011. A suicide bomber attacked a funeral of a member of a pro-government Pashtun tribe in a village in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 20 people, police said. REUTERS/ M. Abdullah (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)
— Stringer/pakistan / X01312
Image: A tear runs down a boy's face as he lies on a bench after being treated for his injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar

A tear runs down a boy's face as he lies on a bench after being treated for his injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar September 13, 2011. Gunmen opened fire on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing at least three children and the driver, a police official said. Fifteen children were wounded, he said. The children on the bus were around nine years old. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
— Fayaz Aziz / X02543
Image: Mohammad Azam, 56, sits injured in front of a dead child, at the site of a double suicide bombing in Quetta

RESEND WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE SCENES INJURY OR DEATH Mohammad Azam, 56, sits injured in front of a dead child, at the site of a double suicide bombing in Quetta September 7, 2011. Two suicide bombers targeting a senior security official struck near government offices in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people, a police official said. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed (PAKISTAN - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) TEMPLATE OUT
— Stringer/pakistan / X01312
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Local residents attempt to extinguish burning vecicles after a car bomb blast in Quetta on August 31, 2011. A car bomb exploded in a parking lot after Eid prayers on August 31 killing at least four people adn wounding 10 others in the restive southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, police said. AFP PHOTO / BANARAS KHAN (Photo credit should read BANARAS KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)
— Banaras Khan / AFP
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Pakistani railway and security officials gather around a train wreckage following a crash in Lahore on August 30, 2011. At least two people were killed and 17 others wounded, five of them critically, when two trains collided in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. Train travel is popular among Pakistan's poorer classes, but the railways have been hit by a severe funding shortfall and a lack of barriers at most level crossings are a frequent cause of small accidents. AFP PHOTO / ARIF ALI (Photo credit should read Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
— Arif Ali / AFP
Image: Security officials recovered arms and ammunition in Dera Ismail Khan

epa02887009 Pakistani Army officials display ammunition and arms recovered during an operation in Dra Zinda outskirts area of Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, 29 August 2011. Pakistan is under intense pressure to eliminate sanctuaries of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in its tribal region, but the militants have responded by intensifying attacks on security and government installations across the country. EPA/SAOOD REHMAN
— Saood Rehman / EPA
Image: A cobbler waits for customers at his shoe repair shop in Quetta

A cobbler waits for customers at his shoe repair shop in Quetta August 29, 2011. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed (PAKISTAN - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY POVERTY)
— Stringer/pakistan / X01312
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Pakistani paramilitary troops enter into a house during a crackdown operation against target killers and the extortion mafia at a troubled area in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Aug 28, 2011. Over hundred people lost their lives in the past week in result of a fresh wave of violence which crippled the Pakistan's largest city of Karachi. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
— Fareed Khan / AP
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Pakistani security personnel examine a crashed American surveillance drone some two kilometres inside Pakistani territory in the town of Chaman in the insurgency-hit Baluchistan province, on August 25, 2011. The American surveillance drone crashed in southwestern Pakistan near a paramilitary base close to the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said. AFP PHOTO / ASGHAR ACHAKZAI (Photo credit should read ASGHAR ACHAKZAI/AFP/Getty Images)
— Asghar Achakzai / AFP
Image: A boy plays in the mud near the Ravi river after a downpour on the outskirts of Lahore

A boy plays in the mud near the Ravi river after a downpour on the outskirts of Lahore August 24, 2011. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY)
— Mohsin Raza / X00228
Image: A girl whose uncle was injured in a shootout by unidentified gunmen, looks at him as he is brought to a hospital for treatment in Karachi

Eight-year-old Sumayya, whose uncle, Imran Ali, was injured in a shootout by unidentified gunmen, looks at him as he is brought to a hospital for treatment in Karachi August 23, 2011. Karachi faced a complete shutdown on Tuesday after the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced that a day of mourning would be observed against the ongoing wave of violence that has claimed nearly 100 lives in less than a week, local media reported. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY)
— Athar Hussain / X01601
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Pakistani shiite Muslims beat their chests during a procession to commemorate the martyrdom of Hazrat Ali son-in-law of prophet Muhammad, in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Aug 22, 2011. Muslims throughout the word are observing the holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)
— K.m.chaudary / AP
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TOPSHOTS Local residents watch the burning NATO supply oil tankers following an attack by gunmen on the main highway at Kolpur village, 25 kilometres (15 miles) south of Quetta, the capital of restive Baluchistan province on August 22, 2011. Gunmen on motorbikes in southwestern Pakistan on August 22 set ablaze at least 19 oil tankers carrying fuel for US-led NATO forces in neighbouring Afghanistan, officials said. TOPSHOTS / AFP PHOTO / BANARAS KHAN (Photo credit should read BANARAS KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)
— Banaras Khan / AFP
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GRAPHIC CONTENT Local residents clean a mosque after a suicide bomb attack in the town of Jamrud, 25 kilometres (16 miles) from Peshawar on August 19, 2011. A suicide bomber hit a Pakistani mosque during Friday prayers, killing at least 43 people and wounding more than 100 others in the tribal district of Khyber, officials said. The Khyber bomb exploded after more than 500 people had packed into the mosque in the town of Jamrud, 25 kilometres (16 miles) from Peshawar, the main city in the northwest where most of the violence in Pakistan is concentrated. AFP PHOTO / A. MAJEED (Photo credit should read A. MAJEED/AFP/Getty Images)
— A. Majeed / AFP
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Pakistani Nargis Shah, 13, enjoys playing on a swing along with other children on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Nathalie Bardou)
— Nathalie Bardou / AP
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TOPSHOTS Pakistani policemen stand guard outside the house of US national after armed men kidnapped him in Lahore on August 13, 2011. At least eight armed men kidnapped a US national in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, police said, having overpowered his security guards. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/Arif ALI (Photo credit should read Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pakistani people take shelter on the high ground after the monsoon rain flooded the area of Tando Muhammad Khan village on August 12, 2011. Devastating rains in Pakistan killed at least 21 people overnight, destroying crops and houses in the flood-prone south of the country, a government official said. Last year, the worst floods in Pakistani history affected 21 million people and killed another 1,750. AFP PHOTO/ Yousuf NAGORI (Photo credit should read YOUSUF NAGORI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Image: Soldier handed death sentence in Pakistan over murder

epa02864165 Police soldiers escort Shahid Zafar (3-L) and five other paramilitary soldiers, after a Pakistani court handed the death sentence to Zafar and life prison terms to six other persons for killing a teenager in Karachi, Pakistan on 12 August 2011. According to media sources, six soldiers and a private contractor were arrested after video of the execution-style murder of SarfarazShah, 19, in June was made public, causing outrage and prompting the Supreme Court to direct an anti-terror court to try them for murder. After a two-month trial, the court issued the death sentence to Zafar for shooting the man and life sentence to five other soldiers for letting him kill the victim, while a civilian contractor who had handed over Shah to Rangers for allegedly robbing a woman in a park was also given a life sentence. EPA/REHAN KHAN
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Image: Family members hold onto a man, crying as the body of his dead brother, a policeman, is brought to the Lady Ready Hospital in Peshawar

Family members hold onto a man, crying as the body of his dead brother, a policeman, is brought to the Lady Ready Hospital in Peshawar August 11, 2011. Four policemen and one child were killed and 14 people wounded when a remote-controlled bomb concealed in a push-cart exploded in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police said. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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Image: A man uses a phone between booths while monitoring share prices during a trading session at the Karachi Stock Exchange

A man uses a phone between booths while monitoring share prices during a trading session at the Karachi Stock Exchange August 10, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: BUSINESS IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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Image: Residential building collapsed in Karachi

epa02854374 Rescue workers and local residents search for survivors amid debris of a residential building that collapsed in Karachi, Pakistan on 04 August 2011. A residential building collapsed in Karachi on 04 August killing at least two people, while some 45 people, mostly women, are still feared trapped in the debris. EPA/REHAN KHAN
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A Pakistani family waits to break their fast in the compound of Pakistan's Mughal era Shahi Mosque during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 in Lahore,. Pakistan. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)
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Image: Peace rally in Karachi

epa02848716 Supporters of political party Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan People Party (PPP) attend a peace rally against target killings in the southern port city of Karachi, Pakistan, 30 July 2011. Hundreds of people have been killed during this month. EPA/REHAN KHAN
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Image: A man holds the feet of his brother, who was killed by unidentified gunmen in a shootout, at a hospital in Quetta

A man holds the feet of his brother, who was killed by unidentified gunmen in a shootout, at a hospital in Quetta July 29, 2011. Seven people were killed and one wounded when two unknown gunmen opened fire at a transport company's office in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, police said. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)
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Paramilitary troops try to control a crowd gather to complain their problems after security forces took control of a troubled area of Karachi, Pakistan on Saturday, July 9, 2011. Gunshots rattled Pakistan's largest city Saturday as authorities scrambled to bring an end to political and ethnic violence that has claimed at least 93 lives in five days. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Image: Taliban militants link release of Swiss couple with Pakistani woman Aafia by US

epa02846834 Waliur Rehman (L), deputy head Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) talks with journalists, in Shawal, lawless South-Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border in Pakistan on 29 July 2011. Taliban militants holding a Swiss couple said on 29 July, that they were ready to swap them for a Pakistani woman, Aafia Siddiqui, who has been convicted in the US on charges of terrorism. The militant leader warned that if Aafia was not released, then their Islamic court would decide the fate of the Swiss and they will not hesitate to carry out any punishment, an indirect reference to the past execution of Westerners by them. EPA/SAOOD REHMAN
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A Pakistani ice cream vendor waits for clients at Sea View beach of Karachi, on July 21, 2011. In its budget for the new fiscal year 2011-2012, the Pakistan government raised defence spending by 11 percent and government employees' pensions by 20 percent, leading to a deficit of four percent of GDP. The weak economy has been made worse by bomb attacks and an energy crisis, while catastrophic floods last year cost the economy USD 10 billion. The International Monetary Fund last year also halted a USD11.3 billion assistance package over a lack of progress on reforms, principally on tax. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Activists and supporters of Pakistani political party Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) march on July 22, 2011, during a funeral procession for people killed in Karachi. At least 11 people were killed and 15 others were wounded in a fresh wave of violence in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, officials said. AFP PHOTO/Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamaat-e-Islami rally to condemn US drone attacks targeting al-Qaida and Taliban militants hiding in Pakistani tribal areas along the Afghanistan border, on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 in Quetta, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
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Pakistani officials collect remains of a Pakistan Navy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which crashed outside an oil refinery in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, July 19, 2011. According to a Pakistan Navy official, the accident was caused by a bird hit. No casualties were reported. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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Image: Video grab of Taliban lining up Pakistani security personnel before shooting at them in a firing squad style

ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE SCENES OF DEATH AND INJURY A still image taken from video released by Pakistani Taliban on July 18, 2011 shows masked militants lining up thirteen Pakistani security personnel before shooting them in firing squad style at an unknown location near the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistani army spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas said on Monday the security forces were captured during a cross-border raid by militants from Afghanistan in the northwestern Dir district on June 1, but gave no other details. REUTERS/LiveLeak.com via Reuters TV (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY IMAGES OF THE DAY) THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. TEMPLATE OUT. MANDATORY CREDIT
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TOPSHOTS A relative of a Pakistani man, shot and killed by unidentified armed men, mourns over his body during a funeral service in Karachi on July 8, 2011. Pakistan ordered 1,000 extra troops to deploy in Karachi with shoot to kill instructions, after another 65 people were killed in the deadliest six months of political violence since 1995. AFP PHOTO/ASIF HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pakistani men read the front pages of newspapers, with pictures of the people killed during the political violence, at a roadside stand in Karachi on July 8, 2011. Pakistan ordered 1,000 extra troops to deploy in the southern port city with shoot to kill instructions, after 65 people were killed since July 5, in the deadliest six months of political violence since 1995. AFP PHOTO/ASIF HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pakistani volunteers check the bodies of people killed when a bus came under attack by unidentified gunmen at a hospital in Karachi on July 7, 2011. At least 10 passengers were killed and 20 injured when armed men opened fire on two buses in Pakistan's port city of Karachi. A third straight day of violence blamed on political and ethnic tensions in the nation's biggest city had killed nearly 49 people. AFP PHOTO/ASIF HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Image: A boy rides as he leads his family camels on an embankment near Khairpur Nathan Shah

A boy, displaced by heavy floods for almost a year, rides as he leads his family camels on an embankment near Khairpur Nathan Shah in Pakistan's Sindh province July 7, 2011. Up to five million people in Pakistan are at risk from floods this year, partly due to poor reconstruction and the inadequate rehabilitation of survivors who are still reeling from last year's epic deluge, the United Nations said. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER HEALTH)
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Image: Ethnic violence claims at least 17 lives in Karachi

epa02811718 Police patrol in tense areas of restive Karachi, Pakistan, 06 July 2011. At least 17 people have been killed on 05 July, in the latest wave of clashes between rival ethnic groups, between the Urdu-speaking majority and minority Pashtu-speaking people in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi, rescue workers said. EPA/REHAN KHAN
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The Swiss identity card of Oliver David Och (L) and the Swiss driving licence of Daniela Wildmer are set on a table at a police station in Quetta, Pakistan on July 4, 2011. Och and Wildmer were abducted on July 1 while driving through impoverished and sparsely populated Baluchistan province, which borders both Iran and Afghanistan in southwest Pakistan. The couple's blue Volkswagen van was found abandoned in Killi Nigah after they were snatched in Loralai district, around 170 kilometres (100 miles) east of the provincial capital Quetta. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
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Tribesmen attend a meeting organized by Pakistan's largest Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, against U.S. missiles strikes in the country's tribal areas, Monday, July 4, 2011 in Peshawar, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Image: Islamic groups condemned US embassy to support gay rights in Pakistan

epa02809426 Supporters of Islamic political party Jamat-e-Islami hold a banner reading in Urdu 'We strongly condemn the American conspiracy of promoting homosexuality in Pakistan', as they shout slogans against the US embassy in Islamabad, for organizing first ever gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) Pride Celebration, during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan, 04 July 2011. According to media reports Pakistan's largest Islamic political party Jamat-e-Islami's head Munawar Hassan, demanded that the government act against the US embassy for violating Pakistani laws which 'strictly forbid gay, lesbian marriages and celebrations'. Under Islamic, or Sharia, laws in Pakistan, homosexual acts are punishable by whipping, imprisonment or death, according to the U.N. EPA/REHAN KHAN
— Rehan Khan / EPA
Image: Cargo vessel crew released by Somali pirates arrive in Pakistan

epa02791427 Wasi Hassan (2L), the captain of an Egyptian cargo vessel that was seized by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden in August 2010, is greeted by Ansar Burney (3L) a social welfare icon, and his relatives upon his arrival in Karachi, Pakistan on 23 June 2011. The 22 member crew including, four Pakistanis, 11 Egyptians, six Indians and one Sri Lankan, were released along with the vessel, MV Suez, after Pakistani based social welfare icon Ansar Burney made efforts to pay a ransom of 2.1 million dollars on June 13 to Somali Pirates. Piracy is rife off the coast of lawless Somalia where armed gangs take to the seas in search of multimillion-dollar ransoms. EPA/REHAN KHAN
— Rehan Khan / EPA
Image: British foreign secretary William Hague visits Islamabad

epa02791226 William Hague (L), British foreign secretary talks with Pakistani deputy foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar (R), during their meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan, 23 June 2011. William Hague is on an official visit to Islamabad to discuss issues of mutal interest with Pakistani leadership. EPA/T. MUGHAL
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An employee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) scans an eye of an Afghan refugee at The UNHCR registration centre on the outskirts of Peshawar on June 20, 2011, prior to returning to their home country Afghanistan, after fleeing civil war and Taliban rule. Pakistan is host a refugee population of 1.9 million. The United Nations sought to debunk what it called \"worrying misperceptions\" about movements of displaced people saying that developing countries hosted 80 percent of the world's refugees. The United Nations' (UN) World Refugee Day is observed on June 20 each year. AFP PHOTO/A. MAJEED (Photo credit should read A. MAJEED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Image: Pakistani youths play cricket

Pakistani youths play cricket at a closed spare parts market in Lahore on June 19, 2011. The International Monetary Fund has urged Pakistan to take further steps to curb inflation and buffer the economic shocks of higher oil prices. AFP PHOTO/ ARIF ALI (Photo credit should read Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pakistani mourners carry the coffin of Abrar Hussain, the former Olympian during his funeral ceremony in Quetta on June 16, 2011. Gunmen shot dead Hussain, a Pakistani Olympic boxer and chief of the local sports board in the volatile southwest province that borders Afghanistan and Iran, police said. AFP PHOTO/Banaras KHAN (Photo credit should read BANARAS KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pakistani policemen frisk motorcyclists in a tense area of Karachi on June 15, 2011. The death toll in a fresh wave of violence blamed on political and ethnic tensions in Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi rose to at least 20 on June 15, an official said. Renewed tensions between the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Awami National Party (ANP), which represent different ethnic communities, have triggered serious fears that the violence could spill over on a wider scale. AFP PHOTO/ Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Image: Policemen escort men, who police said were paramilitary officials charged in the death of an unarmed man, after they were brought before a judge at a court in Karachi

A policeman holds a chain as he and others escort men, who police said were paramilitary officials charged in the death of an unarmed man, an incident captured on video, after they were brought before a judge at a court in Karachi June 13, 2011. The killing has drawn strong condemnation from Pakistani media and human rights groups which have demanded the government to launch an independent inquiry into the incident, media reported. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CRIME LAW)
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EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - A Pakistani boy, injured in an explosion, lies in a hospital's bed in Peshawar, Pakistan, early Sunday, June 12, 2011. Two explosions went off minutes apart in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar Sunday, killing more than 30 people and injuring nearly 100 in one of the deadliest attacks since the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden last month, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair)
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Image: Afghan President Karzai visits Islamabad

epa02773690 Mohammad Sadeq (R), the Pakistani ambassador to Kabul greets Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, upon his arrival at Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad, Pakistan on 10 June 2011. Reports state that Afghan President Karzai arrived in Islamabad on 10 June on a two-day visit to discuss issues of mutual interest and regional security with Pakistani leadership. EPA/T. MUGHAL
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Image: A man identified as Sarfaraz Shah holds the barrel of a weapon of a paramilitary Ranger at a park in the southern city of Karachi shortly before he was shot dead

A man identified as Sarfaraz Shah (L) holds the barrel of a weapon of a paramilitary Ranger at a park in the southern city of Karachi shortly before he was shot dead, in this still image taken from video June 8, 2011. The incident, caught on video and broadcast on local television stations, triggered fresh criticism of Pakistan's human rights record and an unpopular government many say has failed to rein in the police and army, and who seem to act with impunity. REUTERS/Awaz TV via Reuters TV (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST) NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. PAKISTAN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN PAKISTAN. NO COMMERCIAL USE A man identified as Sarfaraz Shah reacts after being shot by a paramilitary Ranger at a park in the southern city of Karachi in this still image taken from video shot June 8, 2011.
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Image: Employees of the Edhi centre lay unidentified bodies to rest at the Edhi graveyard in Karachi

Employees of the Edhi centre lay unidentified bodies to rest at the Edhi graveyard in Karachi June 8, 2011. About four to five unclaimed bodies are brought to the Edhi centre daily and are taken to a hospital for medical examination before being held at the morgue for identification purposes. If unclaimed, the faces of the deceased are photographed and their bodies are prepared for burial. To date, about 73,000 unidentified bodies have been buried in the Edhi graveyard, the Edhi Foundation said. Founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, the foundation is a non-profit social welfare program in Pakistan. Photo taken June 8, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION)
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Vehicles move past Pakistan daily workers, sleeping under a mosquito net, in the middle of a street on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan activists offer prayers during a protest rally in Karachi on June 4, 2011, against US drone attacks in the country. A drone attack June 3 was the ninth reported in Pakistan's border area with Afghanistan, branded by Washington the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda, since US commandos killed bin Laden in the garrison city of Abbottabad on May 2. AFP PHOTO/Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pakistani police and government officials offer funeral prayers for policemen, who were killed during a gun battle with Taliban in the northwestern district of Upper Dir on June 2, 2011, about six kilometres (four miles) from the border with Afghanistan's Kunar province. Hundreds of heavily armed Taliban besieged a Pakistani checkpost on the Afghan border for a second day Thursday, killing 28 police and six civilians in the deadliest fighting for months. AFP PHOTO/Z. JAN (Photo credit should read Z. JAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Image: Pakistani journalists protest in Hyderabad

epa02761691 Pakistani journalists shout slogans during a protest against the killng of their colleague Syed Saleem Shahzad, in Hyderabad, Pakistan, on 01 June 2011. The Pakistani journalist working for the Italian news agency Adnkronos International has been found dead, media reported on 31 May. Syed Saleem Shahzad went missing on 29 May after leaving his house in an upmarket area of the capital Islamabad, to take part in a television talk show. EPA/NADEEM KHAWER
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Image: Fans look through a score board as they watch the third match between Pakistan 'A' and Afghanistan in Faisalabad

Fans look through a score board as they watch the third match between Pakistan 'A' and Afghanistan in Faisalabad May 29, 2011. Afghanistan became the first foreign team to play an international match in Pakistan since gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore in 2009, killing seven people. Pakistan 'A' cricket team hosted Afghanistan in a three-match one-day series. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza (PAKISTAN - Tags: SPORT CRICKET POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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Pakistanis search through the rubble of a government building targeted in a suicide bombing in the Pakistani town of Hangu, Friday, May 27, 2011. A suicide bomber in a pickup truck detonated his explosives near several government offices in northwest Pakistan Thursday, killing many people, in the latest violence to hit the country since the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Image: U.S. Secretary of State Clinton speaks during a joint news conference with Admiral Mullen Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the U. S. embassy in Islamabad

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a joint news conference with Admiral Mike Mullen (R), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the U. S. embassy in Islamabad on May 27, 2011. Clinton said on Friday that Pakistan needed to take decisive steps against Islamist militancy and that relations between the two allies, tense since the killing of Osama bin Laden, had reached a turning point. REUTERS/Stringer (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS)
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Image: Rescue workers retrieve the body of a victim from the rubble of a police station which was leveled by explosives in Peshawar

ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY AND DEATH Rescue workers retrieve the body of a victim from the rubble of a police station which was leveled by explosives in Peshawar May 25, 2011. A suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed car into the police station on Wednesday as the Taliban intensified attacks against Pakistan's security forces after the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. At least five policemen and a soldier were killed in the attack in the northwestern city of Peshawar. The Pakistani Taliban said they were responsible. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz (PAKISTAN - Tags: CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY) TEMPLATE OUT
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Pakistani girls react as they get caught in a sand storm, in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Image: A plume of smoke rises from the background as a military official uses a phone at the entrance to the Mehran naval aviation base which was attacked by militants in Karachi

A plume of smoke rises from the background as a military official uses a phone at the entrance to the Mehran naval aviation base which was attacked by militants in Karachi May 22, 2011. Militants attacked a Pakistani naval aviation base on Sunday, killing at least four people, officials said, the latest attack on a heavily guarded military installation in Pakistan. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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Image: A fire truck is parked near a damaged aircraft at the Mehran naval aviation base after troops ended operations against militants in Karachi

A fire truck is parked near a damaged aircraft at the Mehran naval aviation base after troops ended operations against militants in Karachi May 23, 2011. Troops recaptured the base on Monday after a 16-hour battle with as few as six Taliban gunmen who had launched their brazen attack to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said just six militants were believed involved in the attack on the PNS Mehran base in Karachi late on Sunday, destroying or damaging two aircraft and laying siege to a main building in one of the most heavily guarded bases in the unstable, nuclear-armed country. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CRIME LAW TRANSPORT)
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Pakistani wrestlers, Mohammed Othman, right, and Mohammed Hamid, fight during a local competition in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, May 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Image: Residents stand over the caskets of those killed by a secondary blast at the site of a NATO tanker which was attacked in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Agency

Residents stand over the caskets of those killed by a secondary blast at the site of a NATO tanker which was attacked in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Agency May 21, 2011. At least 16 people were killed in northwest Pakistan on Saturday after a bomb attack claimed by a militant group hit a truck carrying fuel supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan, the latest attack in an upsurge in violence since Osama bin Laden was killed. REUTERS/Stringer (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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Pakistanis cross over a stream using an aerial ferry in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Friday, May 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Image: School children and residents look on as a policeman cordons off the site of a bomb blast in Peshawar

School children and residents look on as a policeman cordons off the site of a bomb blast in Peshawar May 20, 2011. Pakistan's Taliban said on Friday it had attacked a U.S. consulate convoy in the volatile northwestern city of Peshawar, the latest in a surge of violence since U.S. forces killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden earlier this month. U.S. embassy spokesman Alberto Rodriguez said no Americans were killed or seriously wounded in the car bomb attack, which killed one Pakistani and wounded 10 people. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)
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Pakistani security officials seen at the site of suicide attack in Quetta, Pakistan on Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Pakistani security forces shot and killed four would-be suicide bombers, including three women, when they tried to attack an army checkpoint in the southwestern city of Quetta, said Daood Junejo, the city police chief. A fifth suicide bomber detonated his explosives but did not injure anyone, the police chief said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
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In this picture taken on Monday, May 16, 2011, the deputy commander of the Pakistani Taliban Waliur Rehman speaks to The Associated Press in Shaktoi, in Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan along the Afghanistan border. The deputy commander of the Pakistani Taliban says the militant group will complete the mission of Osama bin Laden following his death in a U.S. raid. Rehman said that his men would now fight with a \"new zeal\". Rehman spoke to the AP on Monday May 16, 2011 along the border between North and South Waziristan, two lawless tribal regions where Islamist militants are strong. (AP Photo/Rasool Dawar)
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Pakistani and Palestinians activists shout solangs during a rally against the killing of Palestinians people and also in the support of Arab revolution in Islamabad on May 16, 2011. Palestinian group Hamas denounced Israel for deadly clashes along its borders with Syria and Lebanon during \"Nakba\" day rallies, adding the world community must bear responsibility. AFP PHOTO/Farooq NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)
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Image: A policeman is reflected in a window of a car shattered by bullets, currently parked in a police station in Karachi

A policeman is reflected in a window of a car shattered by bullets, currently parked in a police station, in which a Saudi diplomat was travelling in when under attack by gunmen, in Karachi May 16, 2011. Gunmen on motorcycles attacked the car belonging to the Saudi Arabian consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Monday killing a Saudi diplomat, police and the Saudi ambassador said. REUTERS/Majid Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)
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Pakistani security officials visit the site of bombing at a gate of training school in Shabqadar near Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, May 13, 2011. A police officer says the death toll in a pair of explosions outside a security force training center in northwest Pakistan has risen to 80. Liaqat Ali Khan says 66 victims in the attack Friday were recruits for the Frontier Corps. The attack is the bloodiest in Pakistan since the U.S. raid that killed the al-Qaida chief on May 2. Ahsanullah Ahsan, a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, has said the attack was in retaliation for bin Laden's death(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
— Mohammad Sajjad / AP
Image: At least 60 people most of them paramilitary recruits killed in suicide bomb attacks

epa02730154 A man who was injured in twin suicide bomb attacks targeting a training center of paramilitary Frontier Constabulary, is rushed to a hospital in Peshawar, the provincial capital of militancy-hit Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan on 13 May 2011. At least 60 people most of them paramilitary recruits were killed on 13 May and more than 70 were injured when two suicide bomb attackers detonated explosives outside the Frontier Constabulary training center in Shabqadar, Charsadda area of Pakistan. EPA/ARSHAD ARBAB
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Pakistani Martha Mughar, 62, stands in her vegetables stall waiting for customers in an alley of a Christian neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, May 12, 2011.
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Pakistani security personnel secure the area outside the Saudi consulate in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on May 11, 2011, following a grenade attack. Drive-by attackers lobbed two grenades at the Saudi consulate in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi on May 11, in the first possible violent reaction to the US killing of Osama bin Laden. Officials reported no damage and no casualties after two men on a motorcycle threw the explosives at the heavily fortified building in Clifton, the smartest neighbourhood of Karachi, nine days after bin Laden was killed in Pakistan. AFP PHOTO/RIZWAN TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)
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= RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT \"AFP PHOTO/PRESS INFORMATION DEPARTMENT\" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS = In this handout photograph provided by the Press Information Department, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani addresses to the parliament in Islamabad on May 9, 2011. Pakistan met US demands for an inquiry into how Osama bin Laden lived for years under the noses of its military but refused to be blamed alone for Al-Qaeda or its mastermind. AFP PHOTO/PRESS INFORMATION DEPARTMENT \" (Photo credit should read HO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Image: Activists burn an image of U.S. President Obama during an anti-American rally in Multan

Activists associated with the social group Muthahida Shehri Mahaz (United Citizens Alliance) burn an image of U.S. President Barack Obama during an anti-American rally condemning the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in Multan May 8, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)
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Image: Supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamiat-e-ulema-e-Islam hold an image of Osama bin Laden on the outskirts Quetta

Supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamiat-e-ulema-e-Islam hold an image of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as they shout anti-U.S. slogans, during a rally on the outskirts Quetta May 6, 2011. About 1,500 Pakistani Islamists protested on Friday against the killing of bin Laden, saying more figures like him would arise to wage holy war against the United States. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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Pakistani men stand looking at the house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Thursday, May 5, 2011. The residents of Abbottabad were still confused and suspicious about the killing of bin Laden, which took place in their midst before dawn on Monday. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
— Muhammed Muheisen / AP
Image: A damaged helicopter at the compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad

Part of a damaged helicopter is seen lying near the compound after U.S. Navy SEAL commandos killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, May 2, 2011. Bin Laden was killed in the U.S. special forces assault on the Pakistani compound, then quickly buried at sea, in a dramatic end to the long manhunt for the al Qaeda leader who had been the guiding star of global terrorism. Picture taken May 2, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer (PAKISTAN - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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Image: A security official surveys the site of a roadside bomb attack in Karachi

A security official surveys the site of a roadside bomb attack in Karachi April 28, 2011. Taliban militants detonated the bomb in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Thursday, killing four members of the navy, the third attack on the navy in less than a week. A motorcyclist was also killed in the blast targeted at a navy bus, while at least five people were wounded, navy spokesman Commander Salman Ali and a hospital official said. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW MILITARY)
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A Pakistani girl, one of a group who fled the Pakistani tribal areas of Bajur and Mohmand with their families due to fighting between Pakistani security forces and militants, attends a makeshift school organized by UNICEF with the help of local government, in Jalozai camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, April 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
— Mohammad Sajjad / AP
Image: Supporters of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf condemn US drone attacks

epa02701065 Supporters of political party Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, carry a placard reading in Urdu 'Drone made me orphan' during a rally to condemn US drone attacks targeting suspected Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan's tribal areas along the Afghan border, in Peshawar, Pakistan on 24 April 2011. A suspected unmanned US aircraft on 22 April, fired five missiles into a house in the Spinwam area of the North Waziristan district near the Afghan border, a known hotbed of Taliban and al-Qaeda militants, killing at least 25 people, media reports said. The United States has intensified its drone campaign against suspected militant hideouts in Pakistan?s tribal region in recent years. More than 650 people died last year in around 100 suspected US missile attacks, which are highly unpopular in Pakistan. EPA/ARSHAD ARBAB
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Pakistani human rights activists hold placards in the support of rape victim Mukhtar Mai during a demonstration in Karachi on April 23, 2011. Human Rights Watch called on Pakistan's government to seek a review of the acquittal of five men accused of gang raping a woman in order to punish her brother. Mukhtar Mai, whose case has drawn international outrage, was gang raped in 2002 on orders of a village council after her younger brother -- then 12 -- was wrongly alleged to have had relations with a woman from a rival clan. AFP PHOTO/Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
— Asif Hassan / AFP
Image: A medic stands over a victim of a bomb blast after his body was brought by an ambulance to a local morgue in Karachi Pakistan

A medic stands over a victim of a bomb blast after his body was brought by an ambulance to a local morgue in Karachi April 21, 2011. At least 15 people were killed and several wounded when a bomb ripped through a club for card players in Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi on Thursday, police said. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)
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A released Indian prisoner watches from a railway compartment as he arrives at the railway station in Ahmedabad on April 20, 2011. Some 89 Indian prisoners, mainly fishermen recently released by Pakistani authorities, were welcomed by Gujarat state agriculture minister, Dilip Sanghani at Ahmedabad railway station on their way to the Saurashtra region. TOPSHOTS AFP PHOTO / Sam PANTHAKY (Photo credit should read SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images)
— Sam Panthaky / AFP
Image: Police detain an activist during an anti-American protest in Lahore Pakistan

Police detain an activist of the Pakistani religious and political party Hizb ut Tahrir during an anti-American protest in Lahore April 17, 2011. Police detained two dozen activists after a scuffle broke out as party members attempted to rally past police lines in Lahore, police said. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)
— Mohsin Raza / X00228
Image: Hindu devotees pay homage while moving from the crater of the Chandargup mud volcano to others nearby in Pakistan's Balochistan province

Hindu devotees pay homage while moving from the crater of the Chandargup mud volcano to others nearby during an annual pilgrimage to the Shri Hinglaj Mata Temple in Pakistan's Balochistan province April 24, 2011. Thousands from Pakistan and India take part in the annual four-day pilgrimage to the temple, which is a revered site for Hindus. Picture taken April 24, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT)
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Image: Hospital workers and naval security officials move the body of a bomb blast victim to a hospital morgue in Karachi

Hospital workers and naval security officials move the body of a bomb blast victim to a hospital morgue in Karachi April 26, 2011. Two bombs exploded near buses carrying navy officials in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi on Tuesday, killing four people and wounding over 56, officials said. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)
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Pakistani children help their family members to contruct their house in slums of Karachi, Pakistan on Saturday, April 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
— Fareed Khan / AP
Image: Pakistan government released a jailed Indiam man after 27 years

epa02673482 Released Indiam man, Gopal Das (C), waves as he crosses over to India at the Indo-Pak joint check post at Attari, about 30 kms from the northern Indian city of Amritsar, 07 April 2011. Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari had signed the release document of Gopal Das, languishing in Kot Lakhpat prison in Lahore for 27 years. He was arrested on charges of spying and his jail term was remitted on humanitarian grounds and as a goodwill gesture on the advice of Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. EPA/RAMINDER PAL SINGH
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Pakistan army soldiers cordon off the area of bombing in Quetta, Pakistan on Thursday, April 7, 2011. A suicide car bomber targeted the residence of a senior police officer killing his guard and wounding eight others, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
— Arshad Butt / AP
Image: British Prime Minister David Cameron visits Pakistan

epa02670984 British Prime Minister David Cameron (2-L) and his Pakistani counterpart Yusuf Raza Gilani (2-R) sign documents of a landmark agreement on enhanced strategic dialogue between the United Kingdom and Pakistan to build up bilateral ties in five major areas including security and trade, in Islamabad, Pakistan, 05 April 2011. Cameron's visit comes nine months after he alleged that elements in Pakistan were 'exporting terror'. The remarks caused a diplomatic row between the two countries, particularly since they were made during a visit to Pakistan's arch-rival India. EPA/T. MUGHAL
— T. Mughal / EPA
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This picture taken on April 3, 2011 shows an injured suicide bomber whose explosive vest partially detonated lying on the ground after a suicide bombing at the shrine of 13th century Sufi saint Ahmed Sultan, popularly known as Sakhi Sarwar, in Dera Ghazi Khan district. A teenager arrested as an accomplice to Pakistan's deadliest suicide bombing of the year has said that up to 400 suicide bombers are being groomed to wage carnage in the nuclear-armed nation. Umar Fidayee, 14, said the would-be bombers were being trained in North Waziristan, the premier Al-Qaeda and Taliban fortress in Pakistan's tribal belt where US officials want Pakistan to flush out militant strongholds. AFP PHOTO/ STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
— Str / AFP
Image: A man, injured by a suicide bomb blast in Dir, is treated after being brought to the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar northwest Pakistan

A man, injured by a suicide bomb blast in Dir, is treated after being brought to the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar northwest Pakistan April 4, 2011. A suicide blast at a bus stand in the northwestern town of Dir, near the former Taliban stronghold of Swat, killed eight people and wounded several more, police said. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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Image: Suicide bomb blast targeting Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman rally in Charsadda

epa02662999 Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman (C), head of Islamic political party Jamiat Ulma-e-Islam (JUI), visits people who were injured when a suicide bomb attacker targeted rally of JUI, at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on 31 March 2011. A suicide bomb attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body near a convoy of Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman, the second such attack on him in two days, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than dozen. EPA/ARSHAD ARBAB
— Arshad Arbab / EPA
Image: Pakistanis react while watching on a large screen their national team play India during a ICC Cricket World Cup semi-final match, in Islamabad

Pakistanis react while watching on a large screen their national team play India during a ICC Cricket World Cup semi-final match, in Islamabad March 30, 2011. India kept alive a billion dreams after sinking Pakistan by 29 runs in their World Cup semi-final on Wednesday and set up an all-Asian final against Sri Lanka. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (PAKISTAN - Tags: SPORT CRICKET)
— Faisal Mahmood / X01353
Image: Suicide bomb blast targeting Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman rally in Charsadda

epa02662736 A Pakistani boy mourns over the death of his relative in a suicide bomb blast targeting the rally of a Islamic political-religious party Jamiat Ulma-e-Islam in Charsaada outskirts area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of militancy-hit Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, 31 March 2011. A suicide bomber detonated his explosives near arally of a political-religious party in north-western Pakistan, more than ten were killed people and thirty were injured, a government official said. The 2nd attack took place when the activists from Jamiat Ulma-e-Islam were gathered to welcome their leader Maulana Fazalur Rehman in Charsadda. EPA/ARSHAD ARBAB
— Arshad Arbab / EPA
Image: Army soldiers stand over the coffins of Frontier Corps personnel before their funeral prayers in Peshawar, Pakistan

Army soldiers stand over the coffins of Frontier Corps personnel before their funeral prayers in Peshawar on March 29, 2011. Thirteen members of the Pakistani Frontier Corps, including a colonel, were killed in an apparent friendly fire incident in a northwestern region infested with al Qaeda and Taliban-linked militants, a top military commander said on Tuesday. The deaths occurred late on Monday during an anti-militant operation by the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Khyber, an ethnic Pashtun tribal region near the Afghan border. REUTERS/K. Parvez (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST OBITUARY)
— Stringer/pakistan / X01312
Image: Pakistani Hindu children celebrate Holi

Pakistani Hindu children celebrate Holi at Swami Narain Temple in Karachi on March 19, 2011. The Hindu festival of Holi heralds the arrival of spring AFP PHOTO/ Rizwan TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)
— Rizwan Tabassum / AFP
Image: Residents stand amidst the rubble near a police compound which was attacked by a suicide bomber in Hangu

Residents stand amidst the rubble near a police compound which was attacked by a suicide bomber in Hangu in Pakistan's northwest March 24, 2011. A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police station near the northwestern town of Hangu, killing five people and wounding 25, police said. REUTERS/K. Parvez (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)
— Stringer/pakistan / X01312
Image: Pakistani relatives carry a body of a mi

Pakistani relatives carry a body of a miner at the coal mine in Sorange district of the insurgency-torn province of Baluchistan on March 21, 2011. The death toll from a coal mine collapse in Pakistan has risen to 24 with another two dozen still missing, officials said, fearing it will need a \"miracle\" to find any survivors. AFP PHOTO/BANARAS KHAN (Photo credit should read BANARAS KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)
— Banaras Khan / AFP
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Pakistani tribal elder Malik Jalal, center, flanked by newsmen addresses a news conference to condemn the recent U. S. drone attack in North Waziristan which killed many people, Friday, March 18, 2011 in Peshawar, Pakistan. A rare condemnation by the Pakistan army chief of an especially deadly U.S. drone attack and Washington's abrupt dismissal of his concern is a sign of how troubled the strategically vital relationship between the two countries has become. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
— Mohammad Sajjad / AP
Image: Seven prisoners died in clashes with police

epa02635385 Police fire tear-gas to disperse prisoners as they protest in a jail in Hyderabad, Pakistan on 15 March 2011. Seven prisoners were killed while more than 20 sustained injuries in a clash that broke out between police and prisoners in Central Jail on 15 March 2011, DawnNews reported. The prisoners were protesting against the new Superintendent Police (SP) and refused to co-operate. EPA/NADEEM KHAWER
— Nadeem Khawer / EPA
epa02633145 Muhammad Wasim (L), the eldest brother of Muhammad Fahim, one of the victims shot dead by US national Raymond Davis, speaks to an unidentified man as he leaves a court hearing on the diplomatic immunity case of Davis, in Lahore, Pakistan, on 14 March 2011. A Pakistani court said 14 March it would not rule on whether a US national held for killing two people has diplomatic immunity, referring the matter to the lower court hearing the case. Raymond Davis, 36, was arrested in the eastern city of Lahore in late January after he allegedly shot dead two motorcyclists in what he claimed was an act of self-defense.The US government claims that Davis, a former special forces soldier, was an employee of its embassy and should have diplomatic immunity.  EPA/RAHAT DAR

epa02633145 Muhammad Wasim (L), the eldest brother of Muhammad Fahim, one of the victims shot dead by US national Raymond Davis, speaks to an unidentified man as he leaves a court hearing on the diplomatic immunity case of Davis, in Lahore, Pakistan, on 14 March 2011. A Pakistani court said 14 March it would not rule on whether a US national held for killing two people has diplomatic immunity, referring the matter to the lower court hearing the case. Raymond Davis, 36, was arrested in the eastern city of Lahore in late January after he allegedly shot dead two motorcyclists in what he claimed was an act of self-defense.The US government claims that Davis, a former special forces soldier, was an employee of its embassy and should have diplomatic immunity. EPA/RAHAT DAR
— Rahat Dar / EPA
Image: Six members of the same family killed in rocket attack

epa02629036 ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT - People gather around the bodies of victims after a rocket attack. that killed six members of a family in Jafarabad, a district of restive Balochistan province, Pakistan, on 12 March 2011. Six members of a family including four children were killed by a rocket that hit their house in north-western Pakistan 12 March, government officials said. The house appeared to have been hit by a stray rocket in the early hours of the morning in Jafarabad district Baluchistan province, said Inayat Ullah, an official from the district administration. EPA/ZAHID HUSSEIN ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT
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Afghan refugee girls play in an alley of a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, March 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Nathalie Bardou)
— Nathalie Bardou / AP
Image: Armed policemen lead two of four men, who were draped in cloth to hide their identities, after they appeared in district courthouse in Karachi

Armed policemen lead two of four men, who were draped in cloth to hide their identities, after they appeared in a district courthouse in Karachi March 10, 2011. Senior police official Mohammad Aslam told reporters Wednesday that police raided the group in Karachi after receiving a tip. The militants were believed to be planning attacks in the city, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY)
— Akhtar Soomro / X02626
Image: Medics assist a man injured by a suicide bomb attack at a funeral procession on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan

Medics assist a man injured by a suicide bomb attack at a funeral procession on the outskirts of Peshawar, at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar March 9, 2011. A suicide bomber attacked a funeral procession on Wednesday, killing at least 34 people in the latest of a string of Islamist militant attacks aimed at undermining Pakistan's U.S.-backed government. REUTERS/K. Parvez (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY)
— K. Parvez / X80002
Image: Pakistani naval flag hosting team march past flags of participating countries during a flag hosting ceremony of the multination naval exercise Aman 11 in Karachi

Pakistani naval flag hosting team march past flags of participating countries during a flag hosting ceremony of the multination naval exercise Aman 11 in Karachi March 8, 2011. Exercise Aman 11 is third in line of its biennial series of exercises being conducted off Pakistan's coast, Pakistan Navy said in a statement. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS)
— Akhtar Soomro / X02626
Image: At least 20 dead in bomb blast in Faisalabad

epa02621492 Rescue workers shift an injured person at the scene of a huge bomb explosion, in Faisalabad, Pakistan on 08 March 2011. A car bomb apparently targeted an office of a government investigation agency in Faisalabad, on 08 March killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 90. Several people still feared trapped under the demolished buildings nearby. Pakistan is under intense pressure to eliminate sanctuaries of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in its tribal region, but the militants have responded by intensifying attacks on security and government installations across the country. EPA/ILYAS SHEIKH
— Ilyas Sheikh / EPA
Image: Pakistani Christians carry the coffin of

Pakistani Christians carry the coffin of their slain leader and minister for minorities Shahbaz Bhatti for burial at his family graveyard in his native village Khushpur on March 4, 2011. Up to 15,000 people attended the burial of a slain Christian minister in tight security in central Pakistan amid calls to contain rising extremism. Minority affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, an outspoken campaigner against Pakistan's Islamic blasphemy laws, died in a hail of bullets as he left his mother's home in the capital Islamabad. AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
— Aamir Qureshi / AFP
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A man rushes an injured person to a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday, March 4, 2011. A bomb blast has killed many worshippers at a mosque in Nowshera, Peshawar, Pakistan, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)
— Mohammad Iqbal / AP
Image: Residents gather near a hole in the ground caused by a suicide bomb attack near a checkpoint in Hangu

Residents gather near a hole in the ground caused by a suicide bomb attack near a checkpoint in Hangu, located in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, March 3, 2011. A suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a security checkpoint in the town of Hangu in Pakistan's northwest on Thursday, killing at least nine people, officials said. REUTERS/K. Parvez (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)
— Stringer/pakistan / X01312
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People attempt to collect oil spilled from an Afghanistan-bound NATO oil tanker, after it was allegedly attacked by militants in Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday, March 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
— Mohammad Sajjad / AP
Image: Rlatives of slain Pakistan Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti reacts as they inspect his bullet-riddled car

Unidentified relatives of slain Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti reacts as they inspect his bullet-riddled car following an attack in Islamabad on March 2, 2011. Gunmen shot dead a Catholic Pakistani government minister on March 2, after he had vowed to defy death threats following the murder of another politician opposed to an Islamic blasphemy law. AFP PHOTO/Farooq NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)
— Farooq Naeem / AFP
Image: Pakistani spectators watch a dog fightin

Pakistani spectators watch a dog fighting tournament outside the village of Lora in Abbottabad District, northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on February 27, 2011. Dog fighting and other forms of animal fighting are very common in rural areas of Pakistan where some 70 percent of the population of 167 million reside. AFP PHOTO/Farooq NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)
— Farooq Naeem / AFP
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People look towards burning NATO tankers caused by a bomb explosion in a suburb of Peshawar, Pakistan, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. Militants frequently attack trucks traveling through the Khyber pass carrying supplies to NATO and US troops in landlocked Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
— Mohammad Sajjad / AP
Image: Pakistani authorities and UNHCR camp for diplaced people

epa02596164 A general view of a camp set up by the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for people displaced from the areas in which the Pakistani army is operating against Taliban militants, in the Mohmand tribal region near the Afghan border in Pakistan, on 22 February 2011. Some 50,000 people who fled military operation have been registered in two camps set up by the Pakistani authorities and the UNHCR. Mohmand is a known hotbed of local and foreign militants, and security forces have launched a campaign against them. EPA/AFZAL SHAH
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Pakistani youth enjoy ride on a swing-boat as others watch, in a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, Feb. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
— Anjum Naveed / AP
Image: A vendor cleans his stall as he prepares food at a market early morning in Karachi

A vendor cleans his stall as he prepares food at a market early morning in Karachi February 13, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: FOOD SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY)
— Akhtar Soomro / X02626
Image: Pakistani Judge Rana Nisar Ahmad leaves

Pakistani Judge Rana Nisar Ahmad leaves with his security squad from Adiala prison in Rawalpindi on February 12, 2011, after the case hearing of assassination of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto. A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday issued an arrest warrant for former President Pervez Musharraf over the assassination of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a public prosecutor said. AFP PHOTO/Farooq NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)
— Farooq Naeem / AFP
Image: Pakistani police baton charge on the emp

Pakistani police baton charge on the employees of the flagship Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) outside the Karachi International airport during a strike in Karachi on February 11, 2011. Police baton charged employees of PIA and detained 20 of them following violent protests as all PIA flights remained grounded on February 11 for a second consecutive day. Staff have been on picket lines since February 8, resulting in the cancellation of around 400 flights, the stranding of 60,000 passengers and causing losses of around 22 usd million for the airline, which is on the brink of bankruptcy. AFP PHOTO/ ASIF HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
— Asif Hassan / AFP
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Pakistani sand artist Muhammad Arif gives finishing touches to sand sculptures of the Egyptian pyramids and India's Babri Masjid, on the seashore of Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
— Shakil Adil / AP
Image: Relatives and officials pray near the coffins of victims, who were killed in a suicide attack at a military training centre, during their funeral ceremony in Mardan in northwest Pakistan

Relatives and officials pray near the coffins of victims, who were killed in a suicide attack at a military training centre, during their funeral ceremony in Mardan in northwest Pakistan on February 10, 2011. A boy in a school uniform blew himself up at a Pakistani army recruitment centre on Thursday, killing 20 cadets, officials said, in an attack that challenged government assertions that crackdowns have weakened militants. REUTERS/Stringer (PAKISTAN - Tags: MILITARY OBITUARY)
— Str/pakistan / X01312
Image: Raymond Davis is escorted by police in Pakistan

A U.S. consulate employee is escorted by police and officials after facing a judge in Lahore, January 28, 2011. A Pakistani court on Friday ruled that a U.S. consulate employee would remain in police custody for six days for interrogation, after he was accused of killing two men in a shootout in the eastern city of Lahore on Thursday. Pakistan media identified the man as American Raymond Davis but there was no confirmation from the U.S. embassy. REUTERS/Tariq Saeed (PAKISTAN - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)
— Ariq Saeed / X01312
Image: Qasim, a labourer, smiles as a camel nuzzles him near sacks of grain in a wholesale market in Karachi

Qasim, a labourer, smiles as a camel nuzzles him near sacks of grain in a wholesale market in Karachi February 9, 2011. February 9, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: ANIMALS EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS FOOD SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY)
— Akhtar Soomro / X02626
Image: An aerial view shows tents of flood-disp

An aerial view shows tents of flood-displaced people surrounded by water in southern Sehwan town on February 7, 2011. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) executive secretary Christiana Figueres met with people displaced by last year's devastating floods. Catastrophic monsoon rains that swept through the country in July and August 2010 affected some 20 million people, destroyed 1.7 million homes and damaged 5.4 million acres of arable land. AFP PHOTO/RIZWAN TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)
— Rizwan Tabassum / AFP
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A Pakistani girl shouts slogans while holding a defaced poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during a rally in support of Egyptian anti-Mubarak protesters, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
— Fareed Khan / AP
Image: A girl is treated by medics after suffering injuries from a bomb attack in Peshawar

A girl is treated by medics at the Lady Reading hospital after suffering injuries from a bomb attack in Peshawar February 2, 2011. A bomb exploded in a market on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday, killing at least nine people and destroying around 15 shops, government officials and witnesses said. Around 20 people were wounded. REUTERS/K. Parvez (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY)
— Str/pakistan / X01312
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Supporters of a Pakistani socio-political group, Pasban, shout slogans during a protest against a U.S. consular employee suspected in the shooting deaths of two Pakistani men in Lahore on Thursday, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. A Pakistani court ordered the government Tuesday not to release an American official arrested in the shooting deaths of two Pakistanis despite U. S. insistence that he has diplomatic immunity and has been detained illegally. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
— Shakil Adil / AP
Image: Models Showcase Latest Looks At Islamabad Fashion Week

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - JANUARY 27: Models prepare backstage while waiting for a show to begin at the Islamabad Fashion Week, on 27 January, 2011, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Renowned Pakistani fashion designers showcase their wares over 4 days in the countries capital. Pakistan faces an ongoing social struggle between modernity and conservativeness with the country strongly divided over the role and influence of religion in society. (Photo by Warrick Page/Getty Images)
— Warrick Page / Getty Images AsiaPac
Image: Funeral ceremony of a policeman in Karachi

epa02549840 Pakistani security officials and relatives carry the coffin of a policeman who was killed in a suicide bomb attack targeting a police van during the mourning procession of Shi'ite Muslims marking the Chehlum of Imam Hussein (the end of Ashura mourning), in Karachi, Pakistan, 26 January 2011. A suicide attacker rammed his explosives filled moter-cycle into a police van on 25 January, killing at least six people including three policemen in Karachi. EPA/REHAN KHAN
— Rehan Khan / EPA
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Pakistani police and civilians carry an injured man from the site of a suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. A suicide bomber blew himself up near a march by minority Shiite Muslims in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing several people and wounding dozens, many of them security officers, police said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
— K.m. Chaudary / AP
Image: Six people including four soldiers killed in a Taliban attack on Hungary Oil Company, MOL

epa02541317 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers of Frontier Corps (FC) and relatives stand beside the coffins containing the bodies of the FC soldiers who were killed when suspected Taliban militants ambushed a convoy of a Hungarian oil company in Kohat, during their funeral in Bannu, Pakistan 21 January 2011. Four employees of the Hungarian oil company MOL were traveling from Kohat to Peshawar, the provincial capital on 20 January when an unknown number of attackers struck, killing six people including four paramilitary soldiers, authorities said. EPA/RANA ZAHID
— Rana Zahid / EPA
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Pakistani school children attend an English class in an outdoor school in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
— Muhammed Muheisen / AP
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A Pakistani worker adjusts a carpet laying on the ground to dry them in the sunny day in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
— Anjum Naveed / AP
Image: A rescue worker looks at a rickshaw which was hit by a bomb attack outside a children's school in Peshawar

A rescue worker looks at a rickshaw which was hit by a bomb attack outside a children's school in Peshawar January 19, 2011. A bomb planted outside a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar exploded early this morning, killing one man and wounding 15 people, including five female students, police said. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY)
— Fayaz Aziz / X02543
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A Pakistani girl looks through a gate as a paramilitary soldier stands guard during an operation in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011. Pakistani paramilitary troops went from house to house rounding up dozens of men in a restive neighborhood Tuesday as part of a crackdown on soaring violence in Pakistan's largest city. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
— Shakil Adil / AP
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Supporters of a Pakistani religious party rally against Pope Benedict XVI's recent statements about Pakistan's blasphemy laws, in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI urged Pakistan to reverse its blasphemy laws, saying they were a pretext for violence against non-Muslims, and demanded that all governments do more so Christians can practice their faith without fear. (AP Photo/Chaudary)
— K.m.chaudary / AP
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Pakistani men attempt to identify a body at a hospital morgue following a bomb blast in Jawarza, near the restive town of Hangu on January 17, 2011. A timed bomb blast in a minibus that killed 18 people in Pakistan's northwest on January 17 targeted a Shiite Muslim leader accused of sectarian killings in the area, police said. AFP PHOTO/ HASHAM AHMED (Photo credit should read HASHAM AHMED/AFP/Getty Images)
— Hasham Ahmed / AFP
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A Pakistani cameraman films burning oil tankers after gunmen attacked a terminal in Dera Murad Jamali southwest Pakistan, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011. A government official says gunmen in Pakistan's southwest have set ablaze 14 tankers carrying fuel for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. A driver also was wounded during the Saturday attack. (AP Photo/Fida Hussain)
— Fida Hussain / AP
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Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (R) shakes hands with Iranian Commerce Minister Mahdi Ghazanfari on his arrival for a meeting in Islamabad on January 13, 2011. Ghazanfari said that trade volume between Iran and Pakistan can be enhanced by encouraging their private sectors. AFP PHOTO/Farooq NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)
— Farooq Naeem / AFP
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US Vice President Joe Biden (C) speaks with primer minister cabinet ministers as he leaves after a meeting with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (2L) in Islamabad on January 12, 2011. Biden delivered a bold message of support for key anti-terror ally Pakistan during a trip to Islamabad, telling the country that America is \"not the enemy of Islam\". After talks with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani he described as \"extremely useful\", Biden addressed anti-American sentiment in Pakistan, fanned by the ongoing war in Afghanistan and a covert US drone campaign on its border. AFP PHOTO/ AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
— Aamir Qureshi / AFP
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Supporters of Pakistani religious party Sunni Tehreek react while joining other supporters in chanting slogans supporting Mumtaz Qadri, alleged killer of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, during a rally calling his release in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. Salman Taseer was killed on Tuesday by his bodyguard commando reportedly enraged by his opposition to laws decreeing death for insulting Islam. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
— Muhammed Muheisen / AP
Image: Residents hold placards during a rally protesting the killing of the Governor of Punjab Salman Taseer in Lahore

Residents hold placards during a rally protesting the killing of the Governor of Punjab Salman Taseer in Lahore, January 8, 2011. Taseer was shot dead by one of his guards, who was apparently incensed by the politician's opposition to the blasphemy law, in Islamabad on January 4. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)
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Pakistanis hold candles in commemoration of slain governor of Punjab Salman Taseer in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. Taseer was killed on Tuesday by his bodyguard commando reportedly enraged by his opposition to laws decreeing death for insulting Islam. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
— Mohammad Sajjad / AP
Image: Qadri, bodyguard arrested for the killing of Punjab Governor Taseer, shouts religious slogans while being taken away by police after he was presented at a court in Islamabad

Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the bodyguard arrested for the killing of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, shouts religious slogans while being taken away by police after he was presented at a court in Islamabad on January 5, 2011. Five hundred moderate Pakistani religious scholars have warned that anyone who expresses grief over the assassination of a senior ruling party official who opposed the country's blasphemy law could suffer the same fate. The Punjab province governor was killed on Tuesday by one of his guards, who was apparently incensed by the politician's opposition to the blasphemy law, in a parking lot at the block of shops popular with foreigners in Islamabad. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY)
— Mian Khursheed / X01147
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Pakistani police officers collect evidence at the scene where Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer was shot dead by one of his guards, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. The governor of Pakistan's powerful Punjab province was assassinated Tuesday by one of his guards. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
— Muhammed Muheisen / AP
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A Pakistani passenger van rides past a burning NATO oil tanker on the outskirts of Quetta on August 3, 2011. According to an official, two NATO oil tankers carrying logistic for ISAF forces from Karachi combusted after the vehicles where intercepted by armed men and fired upon. AFP PHOTO/Banaras KHAN (Photo credit should read BANARAS KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)
— Banaras Khan / AFP
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