Voice of America | Afghanistan Instability Weighing on Pakistan ABC News Pakistan's national security adviser warned U.S. officials on Monday that his country "will have to face the brunt of any instability that may engulf Afghanistan" as the 12-year war there winds down at the end of the year. At the start of top-level ... Pakistan Urges US to Tread Carefully in Afghan Withdrawal Working toward true partnership with Pakistan: John Kerry US says Pakistan can become future economic 'tiger' |
BBC News | Family appeal over Pakistan death sentence BBC News The family of a Scot sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy have appealed to the UK government to intervene. Mohammed Asghar, from Edinburgh, was arrested in 2010 in Rawalpindi for claiming to be the Prophet Mohammed. His family said he ... Mohammed Asghar case: Hopes rise that mentally ill British pensioner may ... Family demand release of British citizen sentenced to death in Pakistan for ... |
DAWN.com | Taliban planning attacks on tourists in Pakistan: officials DAWN.com ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Taliban may be planning attacks on tourists in the country's mountainous north, where 10 foreign climbers were massacred last year, officials warned Monday. Thousands of tourists visit Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral each year ... Pakistan: warning of attacks on tourists by Taliban Pakistan officials warn of Taliban attacks Officials Warn of Taliban Attacks in Mountainous Areas |
IBNLive | Cricket: India could face Pakistan in the UAE gulfnews.com The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Emergent Working Committee, which met in Chennai last week, approved a series against Pakistan and the sudden turnaround is being seen by many as a carrot that has been dangled for the Pakistan Cricket ... Incompetent PCB can't safeguard Pakistan interests, says Abbasi Pakistan Cricket Board should accept ICC revamp plan: Rameez Raza Former Pakistan stars side with 'Big 3' |
The News International | The Doctor At The Heart Of The US-Pakistan Rift NPR Prickly relations between the U.S. and Islamabad are becoming even thornier because of one issue: the case of Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden in 2011. Afridi is seen as a hero by many Americans, but that didn ... Pakistan resists US pressure to release Dr Shakil Afridi |
RT (blog) | Pakistan sentences British paranoid schizophrenic to death for blasphemy RT (blog) An elderly British man with paranoid schizophrenia who claimed he was the Prophet Mohammed has been sentenced to death in Pakistan under the country's blasphemy laws. Despite a long history of mental illness, Mohammad Asghar was convicted and ... Blasphemy case: Briton in Pakistan sentenced to death Pakistan sentences man to death for blasphemy Pakistan court sentences British man to death for claiming to be prophet of Islam |
The News International | PAKISTAN'S SAUDI-IRAN BALANCING ACT DAWN.com A NUMBER of high-profile Saudi visitors have been in Islamabad recently. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al Faisal visited the capital on Jan 7; this was said to be the most high-level Saudi visit to Pakistan in six years. On Monday, another prince from ... Saudi Arabia keen to buy JF-17 Thunder fighter from Pakistan Saudi Arabia to upgrade fleet with Pakistan's JF-17 Thunder jets |
Center for Research on Globalization | Hand Grenade Kills 6 Children in Pakistan ABC News A hand grenade killed six children Sunday who found it while playing in a field in northwestern Pakistan, police said. The dead girl and five boys belong to two families displaced from a nearby tribal region, Orakzai, said Mian Iftikhar, the police ... Pakistan: Thousands flee border after airstrikes Pakistan Security Brief - January 27, 2014 Pakistan Air Force Pounds North Waziristan, Massacring Scores of Civilians |
Cambridge News | Birthplace of Pakistan - in a Cambridge family's semi that's now a place of ... Cambridge News And Tuesday is the anniversary of the day in 1933 when the Cambridge academic published a pamphlet entitled 'Pakistan Declaration' in which the country's name was used for the first time. The declaration was circulated with a covering letter signed by ... |
Economic Times | Pakistan refuses entry to peace bus from India Times of India JAMMU:Authorities in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Monday refused to allow a bus from India to enter, thereby continuing the deadlock over the cross-LoC trade and the peace bus service in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Officials in Poonch ... Cross-LoC trade stand-off: No breakthrough at India, Pakistan meet Pakistan refuses entry of 'peace bus' carrying 17 passengers The Kashmir issue and Pakistan |