U.S. and Pakistani officials say the top U.S. intelligence official in Islamabad has returned home because of medical reasons. The Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief, who oversaw the intelligence team that found Osama bin Laden, is not expected to return. The man cannot be named because he is undercover and the CIA has not commented […]
Gunmen Kill 11 Shi’ite Muslims in SW Pakistan
Posted July 30th, 2011 at 9:55 am (UTC-5)
Police in southwestern Pakistan say gunmen opened fire on a minibus Saturday, killing 11 Shi’ite Muslims, including one woman. Officials say at least two people were wounded in the suspected sectarian attack in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan. Hundreds of people staged a demonstration outside a Quetta medical complex to protest the attack, torching […]
Gunmen Kill 11 Shi’ite Muslims in SW Pakistan
Posted July 30th, 2011 at 6:20 am (UTC-5)
Police in southwestern Pakistan say gunmen opened fire on a minibus Saturday, killing 11 Shi’ite Muslims, including one woman. Officials say at least two people were wounded in the suspected sectarian attack in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan. Hundreds of protesters, angry about the attack, staged a demonstration outside a Quetta medical complex. Police […]
Gunmen Kill 11 Shi’ite Muslims in SW Pakistan
Posted July 30th, 2011 at 1:35 am (UTC-5)
Police in southwestern Pakistan say gunmen opened fire on a minibus Saturday, killing 11 Shi’ite Muslims. Officials say at least two people were wounded in the suspected sectarian attack in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan. Pakistan has a history of sectarian violence. Although most majority Sunnis and Shi’ites live peacefully together, small extremist groups […]
Pakistani Taliban Claim They Have Swiss Hostages
Posted July 29th, 2011 at 2:25 pm (UTC-5)
Pakistani Taliban militants say they are holding a Swiss couple kidnapped earlier this month as they traveled through the country’s restive southwestern province of Baluchistan. The deputy head of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan , Wali-ur Rehman, told media outlets Friday that the couple was in good condition and that his group would release them in exchange […]
Pakistani Taliban Claim They Have Swiss Hostages
Posted July 29th, 2011 at 1:20 pm (UTC-5)
Pakistani Taliban militants say they are holding a Swiss couple kidnapped earlier this month as they traveled through the country’s restive southwestern province of Baluchistan. The deputy head of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan , Wali-ur Rehman, told media outlets Friday that the couple was in good condition and that his group would release them in exchange […]
Pakistani Taliban Claim They Have Swiss Hostages
Posted July 29th, 2011 at 10:25 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani Taliban militants say they are holding a Swiss couple kidnapped earlier this month as they traveled through the country’s restive southwestern province of Baluchistan. The deputy head of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan , Wali-ur Rehman, told media outlets Friday that the couple was in good condition and that his group would release them in exchange […]
HRW: Pakistan Fails to Confront Military, Intelligence Agencies on Abuses
Posted July 28th, 2011 at 6:25 pm (UTC-5)
Human Rights Watch says Pakistan’s government should immediately end widespread disappearances of suspected militants and activists by the military, intelligence agencies, and the paramilitary Frontier Corps in southwestern Baluchistan province. In a report released Thursday, the New York-based rights group documents dozens of forced disappearances, in which the authorities take people into custody and then […]
Pakistan Marks 1st Anniversary of Historic Floods
Posted July 28th, 2011 at 4:40 pm (UTC-5)
Pakistan and the international community are marking the 1st anniversary of devastating floods that killed more than 1,600 people, affected up to 20 million others and submerged one-fifth of the country. The scale of the disaster galvanized the Pakistani government and military, as well as the international community. The United Nations made the largest appeal […]
Indian, Pakistani FMs Signal ‘New Era’ of Cooperation
Posted July 27th, 2011 at 5:40 pm (UTC-5)
The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan hailed a “new era of cooperation” Wednesday, after meeting for the first time since peace talks between the two nuclear-armed neighbors resumed earlier this year. Although the talks in the Indian capital, New Delhi, produced no major breakthroughs, Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna said bilateral relations were on […]
