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News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 year ago
The function was not held at the Marriott, thus the whole leadership was saved," Malik told reporters but did not say why the plan was changed. A suicide bomber tried to drive his explosives laden lorry into the hotel but was stopped at the entry...
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News Source: South Africa News
| about 1 year ago
A suicide bomber rammed a truck packed with over half a ton of explosives into the outer security gates of the Marriott, killing at least 60 people and wounding more than 260. In another indication on Monday of the scale of unrest gripping nuclear-...
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News Source: USA Today
| about 1 year ago
Pakistan (AP) Pakistan's top leaders were to dine at the Marriott hotel that was devastated by a truck bombing over the weekend, but changed the venue at the last minute, a senior government official said Monday. The blast in Islamabad, the...
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News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 year ago
Afghanistan's ambassador-designate to Pakistan Abdul Khaleq Farahi was on Monday kidnapped by unidentified gunmen, who ambushed his car and shot dead his driver, in the northwestern city of Peshawar, police said. Gunmen stopped the car of Farahi, who...
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News Source: AKI
| about 1 year ago
Pakistan's President, Asif Ali Zardari, and Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gillani, changed the venue at at the last minute to Gilani's residence, Rehman said. "Perhaps, the earlier information on the dinner was leaked to the militants and therefore...
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News Source: Times Online
| about 1 year ago
Pakistan's top leaders were to have attended a state dinner at the luxury Islamabad hotel devastated in a suicide bomb attack on Saturday but changed venue at the last minute, it emerged today. Rehman Malik, who heads the Interior Ministry, said that...
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News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 year ago
At least 60 people had died and more than 200 were injured in the attack, which reduced the five-star hotel's building to ashes within a few hours. It has been likened by politicians and security officials to the New York attacks in 2001. The bombing...
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News Source: CNN
| about 1 year ago
Pakistan's president, prime minister and other Cabinet members were supposed to have been at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad when a massive truck bomb detonated outside, killing 57 and injuring 266, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik said...
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News Source: Taiwan News
| about 1 year ago
British Airways has temporarily suspended flights to and from Pakistan amid security fears stemming from the deadly blast at Islamabad's Marriott Hotel, an airline spokesman said Monday. The airline, which offers six flights to Pakistan each week,...
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News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 year ago
The last flight to Islamabad, the only Pakistani destination served by BA, left yesterday. A scheduled departure from London's Heathrow airport tomorrow has been cancelled and the airline is still assessing whether or not to go ahead with a flight on...