Pakistani authorities say a court has ordered the confiscation of former president Pervez Musharraf’s property and the freezing of his bank accounts in Pakistan. Officials say the court ordered the seizures Saturday. Mr. Musharraf lives in self-imposed exile in Dubai and London since his resignation as president in 2008 after being threatened with impeachment. He […]
Pakistan Court Orders Seizure of Musharraf’s Property
Posted August 28th, 2011 at 6:10 am (UTC-5)
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26 Killed in Pakistan Attacks
Posted August 27th, 2011 at 7:40 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani officials say hundreds of militants from Afghanistan have attacked several Pakistani checkpoints on the Afghan border, killing at least 26 people. Officials say at least nine insurgents were killed in the fighting Saturday. Authorities say the attacks began in Arando village in Pakistan’s northwestern district of Chitral, near Afghanistan’s Nuristan province. Militants then attacked […]
Afghan Militants Kill 12 in Pakistan
Posted August 27th, 2011 at 5:35 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani officials say hundreds of militants from Afghanistan have attacked several Pakistani checkpoints on the Afghan border, killing at least 12 people. Officials say the Saturday fighting included casualties on the militant side, but officials did not say how many. Authorities say the attacks began in Arando village in Pakistan’s northwestern district of Chitral, near […]
Afghan Militants Attack Pakistani Post
Posted August 27th, 2011 at 4:55 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani officials say scores of militants from Afghanistan have attacked a Pakistani checkpoint on the Afghan border, killing at least three soldiers and wounding four. Authorities say the attack happened Saturday in Arando village in Pakistan’s northwestern district of Chitral, near Afghanistan’s Nuristan province. Cross-border raids have raised tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan in recent […]
Gunmen Abduct Son of Slain Pakistani Governor
Posted August 26th, 2011 at 2:15 pm (UTC-5)
Pakistani authorities have launched a major operation to find the abducted son of a Pakistani governor assassinated earlier this year for opposing the country’s controversial blasphemy law. Witnesses say Shahbaz Taseer was abducted in Lahore’s upscale Gulberg area early Friday, when kidnappers intercepted his car and took him away in their vehicle. No one has […]
Torrential Rain, Floods Kill at Least 42 in Pakistan
Posted August 26th, 2011 at 11:50 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani officials say massive floods triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 42 people in the country’s northwest. The officials say at least 20 other people are missing due to the flooding in the mountainous Kohistan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. In an interview with VOA , a member of parliament, Mehboobullah Jan, said […]
Slain Pakistani Governor’s Son Abducted
Posted August 26th, 2011 at 4:50 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani police say gunmen have kidnapped the son of a slain governor who was killed by his bodyguard for opposing blasphemy laws. Police say four men overpowered Shahbaz Taseer’s car Friday in Lahore’s upmarket Gulberg area. No one has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping. The kidnapped man is the son of Salman Taseer who was […]
Bomb Blast Kills 11 in NW Pakistan
Posted August 25th, 2011 at 8:45 pm (UTC-5)
A bomb planted in a child’s bicycle exploded at a crowded market in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province late Thursday, killing 11 people and wounding at least 14 others. Local officials said the bomb went off as people were shopping for the upcoming Muslim festival of Eid in the town of Risalpur. They said the blast […]
Bomb Blast Kills 9 in NW Pakistan
Posted August 25th, 2011 at 3:55 pm (UTC-5)
A bomb explosion late Thursday at a crowded market in the town of Risalpur in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province killed at least nine people and wounded 12 others. Local officials said the bomb, planted on a bicycle, went off as people were shopping for the upcoming Muslim festival of Eid. They said the blast damaged […]
Bomb Blast Kills 9 in Northwest Pakistan
Posted August 25th, 2011 at 1:05 pm (UTC-5)
Pakistani officials say a bomb explosion at a crowded market in the country’s northwest has killed at least nine people. The blast occurred late Thursday in the town of Risalpur in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. At least 12 people were wounded when the bomb went off as people were shopping for the upcoming Muslim festival of Eid. […]
