Twin Blasts Kill up to 35 in Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD — Militants struck at the heart of Pakistan’s security establishment Saturday, killing up to 35 people in suicide attacks on a checkpoint outside army headquarters and a bus carrying intelligence agency employees, officials said.
The brazen early morning attacks in Rawalpindi coincided with the announcement that a former prime minister overthrown in 1999 by the country’s military leader General Pervez Musharraf, Nawaz Sharif, would return from exile Sunday.
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