Tag: pakistan

Mohtarama Benazir Bhutto Shaheed (BB Shaheed) was a stateswoman par excellence whose love for her people and for her homeland was her only pride as she believed that like her ...

Allegations by Afghanistan's president that the recent suicide attack on the country’s spy chief was planned in neighboring Pakistan have raised bilateral tensions before key talks between the presidents of ...

A suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan has killed a senior al-Qaida leader who was considered one of the group's most powerful figures in the region. Statements posted on several ...

The U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan is stepping down. The State Department says Marc Grossman will leave next month to return to private life, and will be replaced ...

An attack on a Shia Muslim procession in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi has left 23 people dead, police say. Officials said a suicide bomber targeted the procession as it ...

Pakistan today won the election of United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), by securing 171 votes.  Pakistan is elected for this important UN body for the third time. Pakistan secured ...

About 100 countries have commemorated United Nations Malala Day to honor 14-year-old Pakistani peace activist Malala Yousafzai. On Saturday, events were held in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, the United States, Britain, ...

Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan achieved the near impossible over the weekend. In fact, he did it twice in a single statement. First, he actually made it possible to sympathize for ...

A teenage Pakistani rights activist was flown to Britain for specialist long-term care on Monday after being shot in the head by theTaliban for campaigning for the right to education. Malala Yousafzai, 14, ...

Why can't Pakistanis condemn the Taliban for shooting a 14-year-old girl? On Oct. 9, masked Taliban gunmen stopped Malala Yusufzai, a 14-year-old Pushtun girl from Pakistan's scenic Swat area, identified ...