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Mon 09 Sep 2008Pakistan leaders narrowly escaped suicide bombing
Pakistan's leaders narrowly escaped a sucide bombing that killed 53 people in Islamabad's Marriott Hotel last weekend when their scheduled meeting was cancelled, it has emerged.
Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said President Asif Ali Zardari, as well as the prime minister and army commander, had been due to attend a dinner at the hotel on Saturday night but the venue was changed on the prime minister's advice.
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