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Czech MPs pass bill on e-form handling of official affairs ... Pakistan's top leaders were to have had dinner at the Islamabad Marriott hotel when it was bombed, but the venue was changed at the last minute.
Interior Ministry head Rehman Malik said the president, prime minister and military chiefs should have been there. He told journalists that it would have been a great catastrophe but did not say why dinner plans were changed. A suicide bomb devastated the hotel on Saturday killing at least 53 people and wounding more than 266. Pakistani investigators are targeting an al-Qaeda cell based in Islamabad that they believe was behind the attack. Meanwhile British carrier British Airways has announced it is temporarily suspending flights to and from Pakistan after Saturday's blast.
(Deutsche Welle)
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