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‘Jihadis Next Door’: London police pressed for answers
Features/Interviews

‘Jihadis Next Door’: London police pressed for answers

Political leaders on Tuesday continued to question why authorities failed to apprehend Khuram B., one of the suspects in Saturday’s…
Pakistan freezes accounts of 5,000 suspected militants
Middle East

Pakistan freezes accounts of 5,000 suspected militants

Pakistan has frozen the accounts of 5,000 suspected militants, taking about $3 million out of their pockets, but Islamabad could…
Saving Pakistan’s lost city of Mohenjo Daro
Archaeology

Saving Pakistan’s lost city of Mohenjo Daro

The center of a powerful ancient civilization, Mohenjo Daro was one of the world’s earliest cities — a Bronze Age…
Pakistan hate speech investigation against clerics after student killed for alleged blasphemy
Middle East

Pakistan hate speech investigation against clerics after student killed for alleged blasphemy

Pakistani police opened a hate speech investigation involving two Muslim clerics on Sunday after the killing of a university student…
Twenty tortured, then murdered in Pakistan Sufi shrine: police
Middle East

Twenty tortured, then murdered in Pakistan Sufi shrine: police

Twenty people were tortured and then murdered with clubs and knives at a Pakistani Sufi shrine, the police said on…
Pakistan PM orders ‘blasphemous’ content be removed from social media
World

Pakistan PM orders ‘blasphemous’ content be removed from social media

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday ordered that "blasphemous" content on social media websites be removed or blocked and…
Sufi Muslim leader killed in Bangladesh amid surge in attacks
World

Sufi Muslim leader killed in Bangladesh amid surge in attacks

Unknown gunmen killed a Sufi minority spiritual leader and his house help in northern Bangladesh on Monday, police said, amid…
US drone kills two on motorbike in Pakistan: officials
World

US drone kills two on motorbike in Pakistan: officials

A US drone on Thursday killed two men riding a motorbike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, officials said, the first…
Pakistani hosts 10-nation regional economic summit
Middle East

Pakistani hosts 10-nation regional economic summit

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif opened a key economic summit Wednesday aimed at improving regional trade ties and calling for…
Wailing, anger at Sufi shrine in Pakistan after bomber kills 77
Middle East

Wailing, anger at Sufi shrine in Pakistan after bomber kills 77

Wailing Sufi devotees thronged a blood-stained shrine in southern Pakistan on Friday, shouting at police a day after a suicide…
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