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Pakistanis demonstrate in front of the presidential residence in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, to condemn a U.S. Embassy employee suspected in a shooting incident that killed two Pakistanis. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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An armored car carrying a U.S. consular employee suspected in the shooting of two Pakistanis leaves a court in Lahore, Pakistan, on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. A judge ruled that police can keep holding the American, identified by Pakistanis as Raymond Allen Davis, for at least eight more days, officials said. (AP Photo/Hamza Ahmed)

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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)