ABC News | Rivals India, Pakistan to Make Travel Easier - ABC News ABC News India and Pakistan on Friday announced a new visa regime that will make cross-border travel easier as part of a thaw in their long-hostile ties. Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik said tensions between the nuclear-powered rivals have eased a great ... Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik hails India ties India eases visa restrictions for Pakistan India and Pakistan seal accord to ease visa restrictions |
Senior al Qaeda leader killed in Pakistan, officials say CNN Sheikh Khalid bin Abdel Rehman, who also went by the code name Abu Zaid al-Kuwaiti, was killed in the strike near Miran Shah in North Waziristan, one of the seven districts of Pakistan's tribal region bordering Afghanistan, the officials said. On ... |
BBC News | 'Militants' threaten Pakistan church school for Malala support BBC News Authorities in Pakistan have held three people over a threat to bomb a church school in Islamabad unless it paid them $51,000 (£38,000), officials say. A letter sent to the school, apparently by a little-known militant group, demanded cash for not ... Girls in Pakistan: Victim, figurehead, martyr In Pakistan, the More Things Change…? |
Deutsche Welle | Being a non-believer in Pakistan | Asia | DW.DE | 14.12.2012 Deutsche Welle The expression of atheistic views or anti-religious ideas can even bring with it a death sentence in Afghanistan, Iran, the Maldives, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, the report noted. Pakistani experts say that discrimination against non ... |
ABC News | News Summary: Gas shortage in Pakistan - Business Breaking ... - Miami Herald MiamiHerald.com (registration) TRYING TO BE TANKFUL: It has become a familiar sight across Pakistan in recent weeks: Long lines of cars and minibuses snaking for hundreds of yards as their frustrated drivers wait to fill up their tanks with natural gas. NATURAL REMEDY: The ... Long lines at the pump: Pakistan's gas crisis exposes country's deepening ... |
Pakistan fails to halt auction of 'smuggled' artifacts DAWN.com ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: A statue of Fasting Buddha smuggled out of Pakistan has gone under the hammer at Christie's, smashing the hopes of the Department of Archaeology and Museums (DOAM) to reclaim the priceless artifact from the 3rd/4th century. |
DAWN.com | We want united Sindh, united Pakistan: Pir Pagara DAWN.com HYDERABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) chief Pir Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi— Pir Pagara— said on Friday that his party supports a united Sindh and a united Pakistan, as he said, they want to see the nation and the country safe and ... We want united Pakistan, united Sindh PML-F wants united Sindh, united Pakistan: Pagara |
Pakistan's Fight for Net Freedom Global Voices Online It's been an active year for digital activism on Internet freedom in Pakistan. The fact that the United Nations deemed it a basic universal human right has not stopped authorities in Pakistan from clamping down on the world wide web in many different ... |
TIME | Pakistan: Ally or Killer? | TIME.com TIME Barbero was discussing his efforts to sit down with the Fatima Group, the Pakistani company that makes the fertilizer that is used to make the explosive found in more than two-thirds of the improvised explosive devices that are the biggest killer of U ... Pakistan Security Brief - December 14, 2012 US presses Pakistan on bomb fertiliser US Senator warns Pakistan of inaction against IEDs |
The Economist | Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban The Economist A RUSH of diplomatic activity in the capitals of Pakistan, Afghanistan and beyond brings hopes that the Afghan Taliban may yet be brought into peace talks. Years of manoeuvring and diplomatic platitudes appear, in the past few weeks, to be giving way ... Pakistan, Afghanistan Moving Ahead on Peace Plan That Cuts US Peace Role Pakistan Extends Refugee Status for Afghans - ABC News Pakistan extends refugee status for Afghans by six months - latimes.com |