Press TV | Suicide Bomber Strikes Afghan-Pakistan Border Gate Wall Street Journal- India A 15-year-old suicide bomber pushing an explosives-laden refrigerator on a wheelbarrow struck one of the two main border gates between Pakistan and Afghanistan on Thursday, the second attack on the busy crossing in under a week. The device detonated ... Explosion kills two, wounds eight in Pakistan Bomb blast kills 2, injures 8 in southwestern Pakistan Blast kills 3 near SW Pakistan-Afghan borders |
Former UK PM Brown hails Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai as "powerful symbol" CBS News On the day of her 16th birthday on Friday, Malala Yousafzai, the then-15-year-old Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban for going to school, will address the United Nations in New York. The Malala Day event has been organized by Gordon Brown, former ... Malala Yousafzai: Battling for an education in Pakistan In Pakistan, army adamant on fighting the other Taliban Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai to be honoured at UN |
BBC News | Bomb kills two near mosque in Pakistan as attacks spread Reuters PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A motorcycle packed with explosives blew up outside a mosque frequented by both Sunni and Shi'ite worshippers in Pakistan's volatile northwest on Thursday, as the month-old government struggled to curb a rising tide of ... Pakistan bomb kills Zardari security chief Police: Bomb explodes near minority Shiite mosque in northwest Pakistan ... 2 bomb blasts kill 4 in Pakistan |
BBC News | Pakistan party MQM: Police investigate claims it incited violence from London BBC News Police in London are investigating one of Pakistan's biggest political parties, the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) for possible money-laundering. The BBC understands that in raids on MQM-owned properties in London, police found hundreds of thousands ... BBC programme digs deep into Altaf's antics |
The Guardian | Pakistan's Osama bin Laden report is more cover-up than self-criticism The Guardian After the US helicopter assault on Osama bin Laden's quarters in Abbottabad and his assassination by navy Seals in 2011, a shaken Pakistani government set up a commission of inquiry, presided over by a retired judge, Javed Iqbal. Its findings, a part ... The Abbottabad Commission: What Pakistan Must Learn After the bin Laden Raid In aftermath of scathing bin Laden report, Pakistan asks itself hard questions Bin Laden killing: official report criticises Pakistan and US |
New Yorker (blog) | The Women in Abbottabad: What Pakistan Learned New Yorker (blog) When Osama bin Laden moved to his hidden-away compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2005, βhe wore a cowboy hat to avoid detection from above,β according to a newly disclosed report by an independent Pakistani commission. The report continues:. What the Abbottabad report means for Pakistan Punchlines: Bin Laden, Pakistan and a cowboy hat Leaked bin Laden report further strains relations between US and Pakistan |
Reuters Blogs (blog) | Is becoming Pakistan the best Egypt can hope for? Reuters Blogs (blog) After the events in Egypt this past week, some in Washington are debating whether to call a coup a coup. The better question: Was the upheaval that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011 really a revolution? Think of what Egypt was before and after the fall of ... Lessons for Pakistan from Egypt |
Times of Oman | Pakistan's Lahore begins Ramadan fearful of violence Fox News LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) β Pakistanis began celebrating the holy month of Ramadan on Thursday with police on alert in Lahore and shopkeepers braced for a slump in trade after the worst bombing in the city for two years. Five people were killed and nearly ... Pakistan Railways decreases trains fares till 15th Ramadan |
Bombing Kills Top Security Aide to Pakistan President New York Times Published: July 10, 2013. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan β President Asif Ali Zardari's chief security officer was killed in a bombing in the port city of Karachi on Wednesday, raising concerns about the vulnerability of even senior officials to attack by militants. |
Pakistan slammed for reinstating death penalty Deutsche Welle Pakistan is going through one of its worst existential crises. The country is facing Islamist insurgency in its northwestern areas bordering Afghanistan and a protracted separatist movement in the southwestern Balochistan province. Islamist militants ... |