Pakistan
India puts Kashmir in lockdown on rebel’s death anniversary
World
July 8, 2017
India puts Kashmir in lockdown on rebel’s death anniversary
Residents in Indian-controlled Kashmir clashed with government forces Saturday as they defied a stringent curfew on the anniversary of the…
Burn victims overwhelm Pakistani hospitals after tanker fire kills 146
World
June 26, 2017
Burn victims overwhelm Pakistani hospitals after tanker fire kills 146
Pakistani hospitals on Monday struggled to treat scores of severely burned victims of a fuel tanker explosion that killed at…
Pakistan oil tanker explosion kills at least 120
Middle East
June 25, 2017
Pakistan oil tanker explosion kills at least 120
At least 120 people died and 130 were injured when an oil tanker truck exploded in Bahawalpur city in eastern…
Powerful car blast in Pakistan kills at least 11, wounds 20
Middle East
June 23, 2017
Powerful car blast in Pakistan kills at least 11, wounds 20
A powerful car bombing near the office of the provincial police chief in southwestern Pakistan on Friday killed 11 people…
Three men fathered 96 children: Pakistan’s population booms
Society
June 10, 2017
Three men fathered 96 children: Pakistan’s population booms
Three men who have fathered nearly 100 children among them are doing their bit for Pakistan’s skyrocketing population, which is…
‘Jihadis Next Door’: London police pressed for answers
Features/Interviews
June 6, 2017
‘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
June 4, 2017
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
May 16, 2017
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
April 18, 2017
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
April 3, 2017
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…