Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has urged the Pakistani people to come together to help the nation recover from monsoon rains that have left more than 140 people dead and some 1.6 million hectares of land under water in southern parts of the country. Mr. Gilani made his TV appeal late Saturday, after heavy […]
Pakistani PM Makes Plea for Rain-Battered Country
Posted September 10th, 2011 at 8:25 pm (UTC-5)
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Pakistani PM Makes Plea for Rain-Battered Country
Posted September 10th, 2011 at 3:15 pm (UTC-5)
Pakistan’s prime minister is urging the Pakistani people to come together to help the nation recover from torrential rains that have left some areas completely flooded. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani made his appeal on Pakistani television late Saturday, after driving rains pounded the southern city of Karachi. Flood waters ran through the streets of […]
Pakistan Warns of Plot to Free bin Laden’s Family
Posted September 9th, 2011 at 2:45 pm (UTC-5)
Pakistan is warning that the Pakistani Taliban is planning to kidnap senior government officials in order to secure the release of Osama bin Laden’s relatives. Three of the al-Qaida leader’s wives and several children have been in Pakistani custody since U.S. special forces killed bin Laden on May 2 in the town of Abbottabad. Pakistani […]
Pakistani Police Detain Dozens After Suicide Bombings
Posted September 8th, 2011 at 12:51 pm (UTC-5)
Police say they have detained some 170 suspects in connection with Wednesday’s suicide bombings that killed 28 people in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta. Senior police official Hamid Shakil told VOA on Thursday that many of those being questioned are Afghan refugees. Two suicide bombers attacked the home of Farrukh Shehzad, the deputy head […]
Pakistan President Appeals to UN for Flood Assistance
Posted September 8th, 2011 at 12:06 pm (UTC-5)
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has appealed to the United Nations and the international community to provide humanitarian and rehabilitation aid for millions of people affected by recent flooding in his country. The Foreign Office said the president made the appeal on Thursday, noting that some five million people have been displaced and directly affected […]
Pakistan Asks Afghan Help to Free Kidnapped Youths
Posted September 8th, 2011 at 12:00 pm (UTC-5)
Pakistan is again calling on the Afghan government to help secure the release of about 30 Pakistani youths who were kidnapped after mistakenly crossing into Afghanistan. Pakistan’s Cabinet on Thursday condemned the abduction and asked for Kabul’s assistance in freeing the boys. Earlier this week, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik made a similar plea to […]
Pakistani PM Calls for Expedited Iran Gas Pipeline
Posted September 8th, 2011 at 11:00 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Giliani says the country should expedite construction of a pipeline that will allow it to import natural gas from neighboring Iran. Prime Minister Gilani met with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi in Islamabad on Thursday. During the talks, Salehi told the Pakistani leader that the Iranian portion of the […]
Pakistani Police Detain Dozens After Suicide Bombings
Posted September 8th, 2011 at 10:06 am (UTC-5)
Police say they have detained some 170 suspects in connection with Wednesday’s suicide bombings that killed 28 people in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta. Senior police official Hamid Shakil told VOA on Thursday that many of those being questioned are Afghan refugees. Two suicide bombers attacked the home of Farrukh Shehzad, the deputy head […]
Pakistani Police Detain Dozens After Suicide Bombings
Posted September 8th, 2011 at 9:16 am (UTC-5)
Police say they have detained some 170 suspects in connection with Wednesday’s suicide bombings that killed 28 people in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta. Senior police official Hamid Shakil told VOA on Thursday that many of those being questioned are Afghan refugees. Two suicide bombers attacked the home of Farrukh Shehzad, the deputy head […]
Pakistan Officials Raise Death Toll to 26 in Twin Suicide Bombings
Posted September 8th, 2011 at 4:11 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani authorities have raised the death toll from Wednesday’s suicide bombings in Quetta to at least 26. The Pakistani Taliban said it carried out the attack in retaliation for the recent arrest of an al-Qaida leader. Two suicide bombers attacked the home of the deputy head of Baluchistan province’s paramilitary Frontier Corps. Police say the […]
