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Xinhua Asia-Pacific News Summary at 1000GMT, Feb. 17

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The Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry has recalled at least 50 diplomats from Sri Lankan missions overseas including 27 heads of the missions.

A government source had told Xinhua that among those recalled are Sri Lanka's ambassadors to the United Nations based in New York, Pakistan and Japan and the high commissioner to Australia.

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera recalled the diplomats Monday on the basis that some of them were political appointments and some non-career diplomats.(Sri Lanka-Diplomats- Recall)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least eight persons were killed and 12 others injured on Tuesday afternoon in a suicide blast outside a police center in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, police said.

City Chief Police Officer (CCPO), Muhammad Amin Wains, said the incident took place at 12:35 p.m. local time when a suicide bomber exploded his jacket outside a police center in the downtown Qilla Gujjar Singh area of the Lahore, provincial capital of the eastern province of Punjab.(Pakistan-Blast-Casualties)

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PUL-E-ALAM, Afghanistan -- At least 10 police died and several others wounded after Taliban militants attacked a police station in the eastern Afghan province of Logar on Tuesday, sources said.

A provincial security source told Xinhua that at least five attackers armed with guns and suicide vests were involved in the attack that occurred at around midday in the provincial capital of Pul-e-Alam.(Afghanistan-Attack-Casualties)

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NEW DELHI -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday broke his silence on religious attacks in this country, strongly condemning such violence and pledging complete freedom of faith for all communities.

"We cannot accept violence against any religion on any pretext and I strongly condemn such violence," Modi said in the wake of a series of attacks on churches in the national capital.(India-PM- Condemn) Endi