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Thousands gathered outside the American Consulate in Karachi on Sunday to protest against a NATO cross-border air attack that killed 24 Pakistani troops.

The plane, traveling from from Toronto to Karachi, diverts after Canadian police receive a tip that a passenger is carrying explosives. Swedish police evacuated a Pakistan International Airlines jet diverted to Stockholm due to a bomb alert Saturday and detained a passenger on suspicion of preparing aircraft sabotage, officials said.

An explosion brought down a house in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday, killing at least five people, but the cause of the blast was not immediately known, a police said.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for a bombing against a Shiite Muslim procession in the southern city ...