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Pakistani police officers look for evidence amid the wreckage of a vehicle at the site of a car bomb blast that killed nine people and wounded 20 others in the suburbs of Peshawar, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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People protest outside a police station following the killing of two men in Lahore, Pakistan, on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. A U.S. consular employee shot and killed two gunmen as they approached his vehicle in a congested street in Pakistan on Thursday, police said. A pedestrian was also killed by a speeding American car trying to help, an officer said. A placard reads "Americans are dogs." (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)

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People protest outside a police station following the killing of two men in Lahore, Pakistan on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. A U.S. consular employee shot and killed two gunmen as they approached his vehicle in a congested street in Pakistan on Thursday, police said. A pedestrian was also killed by a speeding American car trying to help, an officer said. A placard reads "Americans are dogs." (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)

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Pakistani tribesmen protest in Mir Ali, Pakistan, on Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011, to demand an end to U.S. drone strikes. The banner reads: "Stop killing of innocent peoples. Victims of Drones." A pair of suspected strikes killed six militants in Pakistan's troubled North Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan border on Sunday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. (AP Photo/Rasool Dawar)

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Wall Street Journal South Asia bureau chief Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan in 2002. (Associated Press)

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Police officers collect evidence from the site of a bomb explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. A bomb exploded outside a school in a residential area of Peshawar city on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding 14 others. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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People gather at the site of a bomb explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. The bomb exploded outside a school in a residential area of Peshawar city on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding 14 others. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Students look out of their school's window at the site of a bomb explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. The bomb exploded outside the school in a residential area of Peshawar city on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding 14 others. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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An injured student is rushed to an ambulance at the site of a bomb explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. The bomb exploded outside the school in a residential area of Peshawar city on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding 14 others. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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A man carries a wounded student at the site of a bomb explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. A bomb exploded outside a school in a residential area of Peshawar city on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding 14 others. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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People in Jafarabad, 300 kilometers north of Quetta, Pakistan, pray outside their homes as a severe earthquake hits the area on Wednesday morning. The 7.2-magnitude quake shook many parts of the country and caused tremors as far away as India and the United Arab Emirates. (Associated Press)

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An explosion ripped through a minibus traveling near Hungu, Pakistan, in the country's militant-infested northwest, on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. The bomb killed all 17 people on board and two others in a nearby vehicle, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Pakistani demonstrators shout slogans against recent statements by Pope Benedict XVI about Pakistan's blasphemy laws, next to burning tires during a rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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In this Dec. 28, 2010 photo, Shamsah, 18-month-old, a Pakistani girl whose right leg is paralyzed from polio is held by her mother at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. Pakistan has the highest incidence of polio in the world and is the only country to record an increase in cases in 2010 _ 136 (139), up from 89 in 2009, according to recent World Health Organization figures. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., left, at a joint press conference with Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani at the prime minister's residence in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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A billboard showing Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is seen in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. The second-largest member of Pakistan's ruling coalition reversed its decision to join the opposition Friday, Jan. 7, after the government backed down on unpopular economic measures. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Backdropped by a billboard showing Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, right, and his son Abdul Qadir, vendors gather around a fire to warm themselves, in Multan, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2010. Pakistan's prime minister says his government will reverse unpopular fuel price hikes that helped spark the break-up of the governing coalition. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)

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Mumtaz Qadri, foregroung, the suspected killer of Punjab's governor Salman Taseer, leaves a court in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, mobbed by supporters. (AP Photo/Mohammad Riazur Rehman)

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Pakistani women light candles and pray at the site of a shooting that killed Salman Taseer, governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Mr. Taseer was killed on Tuesday by his bodyguard commando, who reportedly was enraged by Mr. Taseer's opposition to laws decreeing death for insulting Islam. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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A Pakistani mourner grieves on an ambulance carrying the coffin of Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer during his funeral procession in Lahore, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Thousands of Pakistani police were on high alert in Lahore on ahead of the funeral for the outspoken provincial governor, allegedly shot dead by a bodyguard reportedly enraged by his opposition to laws decreeing death for insulting Islam. Mr. Taseer, a high-profile, 66-year-old businessman and media tycoon, was a stalwart of the ruling Pakistan People's Party, and his assassination sent nuclear-armed Pakistan reeling at a time of great political turmoil. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)