Pakistani officials confirmed on Friday that only two men have been convicted for the attempted killing of the education activist Malala Yousafzai, not 10 as lawyers from her home region of Swat had initially claimed. Although 10 men stood trial, only two were jailed for their role in shooting the[…]
A mass funeral was held in Pakistan for 45 people from a minority community killed in a gun attack on a bus a day before. Hundreds attended the ceremony in the southern city of Karachi, officials said. Pakistan began a nationwide day of mourning over the killings of the members[…]
The White House version of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden was false, and senior Pakistani military officials were in fact aware of the mission, according to an article published on Sunday. “The White House’s story might have been written by Lewis Carroll,” Seymour Hersh wrote of the official[…]
A court in Pakistan Thursday sentenced 10 men to life imprisonment for attempting to kill Nobel-prize winning teenage activist Malala Yousafzai in 2012, officials said, though the chief suspect remains at large. Pakistani Taleban militants boarded the teenager’s school bus and shot her in the head in October 2012 for[…]
Pakistan’s parliament has unanimously passed a resolution affirming the country’s “neutrality” in the Yemen conflict, in a move that indicates the South Asian country will not be joining a Saudi-led military coalition that is currently fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen. A joint session of parliament has been debating the issue[…]
A Pakistani court has freed on bail the alleged mastermind of a 2008 assault on India’s financial capital Mumbai that killed 166 people and seriously strained ties between the neighbouring countries. Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was released late on Thursday, according to an official at Adiyala Prison in Rawalpindi, next to Islamabad.[…]
Pakistan’s minority Christians on Monday blocked roads and pelted police with stones in the eastern city of Lahore, a day after Taliban suicide bombers killed 15 people as they targeted two churches in the city – the latest attack against religious minorities in this increasingly fractured country. Sunday’s twin bombings[…]
A pair of suicide bombers detonated themselves near two churches in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday as worshippers were gathered inside – killing 15 people, officials said, in the latest attack against religious minorities in the increasingly fractured country. In the tense aftermath of the blasts, an[…]
At least 20 people were killed Friday when radicals attacked worshippers at a Shiite mosque in Pakistan’s troubled north-west, officials said. The attackers struck during prayers at the mosque in the Hayatabad area of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, provincial Information Minister Mushtaq Ghani said. The head of Hayatabad[…]
The top recruiter for the Islamic State group in Afghanistan was killed by a drone strike Monday along with at least four other fighters, local officials said, marking the first such attack on the extremist group in a volatile country where it has a small but growing following. The deputy governor[…]
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