ISLAMABAD: In the backdrop of macroeconomic instability, the writing on the wall is that Pakistan is left with no choice but to resort to the International Monetary Fund to seek fresh bailout package in 2013.

Two U.S. drone strikes on northwest Pakistan killed a senior Taliban commander who fought American forces in Afghanistan but had a truce with the Pakistani military, intelligence officials said Thursday.
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