Pakistani Rape Survivor's Newest Triumph Is a Baby Boy
By NICK SCHIFRIN and HABIBULLAH KHAN ISLAMABAD, Pakistan In 2002, Mukhtaran Bibi – better known as Mukhtar Mai — was brutally gang raped for something she didn’t do. A tribal ...
View ArticleIn wake of the floods, malnutrition threatens thousands of children in Pakistan
JAMSHORO, Pakistan, 21 November 2011 - Mohammad Ali, of Southern Pakistan, is not the world famous boxing legend, but a true fighter nonetheless. This Mohammad Ali is just two-and-a-half-years-old ...
View ArticlePope to meet Pakistan's new Minister for Minorities
Pope Benedict XVI will have an impromptu meeting on Nov. 17 with Akram Masih Gill, Pakistan's new Minister for Interfaith Harmony and Minorities Affairs."I appreciate His Holiness, he ...
View ArticleSlain Pakistani teenager proclaimed as martyr
A Catholic girl who was murdered in Pakistan in November has been proclaimed by local Church leaders as "a martyr of the faith." Mariah Masih, an 18-year-old from Faisalabad, was abducted ...
View ArticleAmericans leave drone base in Pakistan
Washington - United States personnel have taken steps to evacuate a remote airfield in Pakistan that had been used for staging classified drone flights directed against militants, US and Pakistani ...
View ArticlePak eyes India-like uranium deal with Australia
Melbourne: A day after Australia's ruling Labor Party approved uranium sale to India, Pakistan has demanded it be allowed to buy the nuclear raw material if the Gillard administration proceeds ...
View ArticleA year of suffering for Pakistan's Shias
Hundreds of people belonging to the minority Shia community have been killed in Pakistan in 2011. Most of the killings have taken place in the western province of Balochistan. This volatile region ...
View ArticleEconomic woes, Pakistan strain Wests Afghan resolve
BONN (Reuters) - The West wants to use an Afghanistan meeting on Monday to signal enduring support for Kabul as allied troops go home, but economic downturn in Europe and crises with Pakistan and ...
View ArticlePakistani actress alleges Indian magazine faked nude photo
The magazine, FHM India, denies Veena Malik's allegation An attorney for Malik says nude photos in December issue were "doctored" On cover, she holds what appears to be a grenade, ...
View ArticleU.S. vacating air base in Pakistan after troop deaths
NEW: Pakistan's prime minister says he wants good relations with the United States The U.S. is vacating Shamsi Air Base, which is used by unmanned combat vehicles The impact of vacating the ...
View ArticleA peep into Pakistan, specially for Indians
Here's a three-time former Pakistani minister trying to help Indian readers better understand his country. The intent is laudable, but the book meanders through too many reasons to justify why ...
View ArticleISI not in Pakistan government control
International News: Washington, Dec 6 (IANS) Mansoor Ijaz, the man who stirred Pakistan's 'memogate', has alleged that Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), ...
View ArticleDev Anand is forever, says Pakistani daily
International News: Islamabad, Dec 6 (IANS) Dev Anand who left Lahore in 1943 at the age of 19 with just Rs.30 in his pocket and went on to become an iconic actor-director would have scoffed at all ...
View ArticleGermany claims success for 2011 Afghanistan Conference despite...
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has described the international conference on Afghanistan at Bonn as a success despite Pakistan's decision not to participate.
View ArticleUS envoy assures Pak of no repeat of incidents like Salala attack
US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter has said Washington would ensure that incidents like the Salala attack are never repeated in the future.
View ArticleOmar justifies AFSPA withdrawal decision as based on logic, not emotion
Justifying his decision to withdraw the controversial Armed Force Special Powers Act (AFSPA), Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said his action is based on logic and not emotion.
View ArticleShia Muslims 'killed in Pakistan'
Security is tight in Pakistan ahead of the Day of Ashura, which is the climax of a period of remembrance for Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. Already this year, hundreds of Shia ...
View ArticleSenators call for full review of Pakistani ties
Senate Armed Services committee -- said Washington had to be realistic about the deteriorating relationship. They said actions of Pakistan's military, such as its support for militant ...
View ArticleUS asked to vacate Pakistan airbase following NATO attack
The US military is vacating an air base in Pakistan at the request of the Pakistani government in the wake of a NATO attack on a border patrol that killed more than 20 soldiers.
View ArticleMusharraf revises Pak arrival schedule to January
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has reportedly decided to arrive in Islamabad in January next year, instead of on March 23rd.
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