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Kerry-Lugar Bill
Oct 30 2009, Karim Khan

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came hard on Pakistan’s government as she bluntly told them that she did not believe that Pakistan’s government did not know where Al Qaeda was based in Pakistan and that the government could not hunt them down...

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