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  • Pakistani police make arrests in shooting of girl

    Pakistani police say they have arrested a number of suspects in the case of a 14-year-old girl shot and wounded by the Taliban after promoting girls' education and speaking out about Taliban atrocities.

  • Pakistani women mourn Sept. 13, 2012, the deaths of relatives killed in a fire at a garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan. Police have opened a murder case against the factory's owners and managers for the fire, which killed hundreds of people. (Associated Press)

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  • World Briefs: Cleric may face blasphemy charge

    Pakistani police are investigating whether a Muslim cleric who allegedly tried to frame a Christian girl for blasphemy should be charged with insulting Islam himself and potentially face life in prison, a police officer said Monday.

  • Pakistani police officers escort blindfolded Muslim cleric Khalid Chisti into court in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

    Pakistani cleric faces possible blasphemy charge

    Pakistani police are investigating whether a Muslim cleric who allegedly tried to frame a Christian girl for blasphemy should be charged with insulting Islam himself and potentially face life in prison, a police officer said Monday.

  • Muslim cleric accused of planting evidence

    Pakistani police arrested a Muslim cleric who allegedly tampered with evidence submitted in the case against a Christian girl accused of desecrating a Koran, an investigating officer said Sunday, the latest twist in a religiously charged affair that has focused attention on the country's harsh blasphemy laws.

  • Pakistani police officers escort blindfolded Muslim cleric Khalid Chisti into court in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

    Pakistani police arrest Christian girl's accuser

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  • Mukhtar Khan, a neighbor of an arrested Christian girl, shows the locked house of the girl's family and vowed never to allow them to live in this neighborhood, a suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Monday, Aug. 20, 2012.  (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

    Pakistani police investigating Christian girl for blasphemy

    Pakistani authorities arrested a Christian girl and are investigating whether she violated the country's strict blasphemy laws after furious neighbors surrounded her house and demanded police take action, a police officer said Monday.

  • **FILE** Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani

    Plot to assassinate Pakistani P.M. foiled

    Pakistani police say they have disrupted a plot to assassinate the prime minister and other top officials after engaging in a shootout with Islamist militants on Wednesday.

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