Pakistani cricket star turned politician Imran Khan has launched a so-called motorcade march against U.S. drone strikes. Khan and his Movement for Justice Party, along with Western and local activists, began the drive Saturday in Islamabad. The convoy is headed to the South Waziristan tribal district along the Afghan border, the target of frequent U.S. […]
Russia Sides with Pakistan on US Drone Strikes
Posted October 4th, 2012 at 10:50 am (UTC-5)
Russia says it supports Islamabad’s position that U.S. drone strikes targeting suspected militants within Pakistan’s borders are a violation of the country’s sovereignty. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters in the Pakistani capital Thursday that Moscow believes no one has the right to violate a country’s sovereignty. He spoke alongside his Pakistani counterpart, Hina […]
New Bounty Offered for Anti-Islam Filmmaker
Posted October 1st, 2012 at 11:50 am (UTC-5)
Another Pakistani politician has offered a bounty for the murder of the producer of a video that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad. During a rally in the northwestern city of Peshawar Monday, former Pakistani legislator Ikramullah Shahid said he would give $200,000 to anyone who killed the filmmaker. The low-budget video that was made in the […]
US Drone Strike Kills 2 in NW Pakistan
Posted October 1st, 2012 at 2:10 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. drone strike has killed at least two people in northwestern Pakistan. Officials say the strike Monday hit a vehicle near Mir Ali in the North Waziristan tribal area close to the Afghan border. The identities of the men were not immediately known. North Waziristan is home to insurgent […]
UN Appeals for Pakistan Flood Aid
Posted September 28th, 2012 at 11:50 am (UTC-5)
The United Nations is appealing for more than $15 million to help thousands of people affected by flooding in Pakistan. The country’s National Disaster Management Authority says at least 370 people have been killed and 4.4 million affected by floodwaters that have swept through Sindh, Punjab and Baluchistan provinces in recent weeks. On Friday, the […]
Senior Pakistani Police Officer Killed While Defusing Bomb
Posted September 28th, 2012 at 7:45 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani police say a senior officer has been killed while trying to defuse a bomb in the country’s northwest. Hakam Khan was killed Friday in the city of Peshawar after being dispatched to a main road where two bombs had been planted. Police say Khan successfully defused the first bomb, but was killed while trying […]
President Zardari: Pakistan Suffered Heaviest Losses From Terrorism
Posted September 25th, 2012 at 7:40 pm (UTC-5)
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari says few countries have lost so many people to terrorism or invested so much into fighting terrorists as his has. Listing the number of civilians, soldiers and police, as well as his own wife, who were killed in terrorist attacks in Pakistan, Mr. Zardari told the United Nations General Assembly […]
US Drone Strike in Pakistan Kills Five Militants
Posted September 24th, 2012 at 7:10 pm (UTC-5)
Pakistani security officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed at least five Islamist militants in a restive tribal region near the Afghan border. The two missiles fired late Monday from the unmanned American spy aircraft slammed into a compound in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan. Some of the dead were believed to […]
US Drone Strike Kills 3 in Pakistan
Posted September 22nd, 2012 at 1:55 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed at least three suspected militants in the country’s restive northwest tribal region near the Afghan border. Authorities say the drone fired two missiles Saturday at a vehicle in North Waziristan, a known stronghold of al-Qaida and the Taliban. The drone strike comes as Pakistani Foreign […]
Afghanistan Warns Pakistan about Cross-Border Shelling
Posted September 21st, 2012 at 2:25 am (UTC-5)
Afghanistan is warning that already fragile ties with Pakistan are being further strained by Pakistan’s shelling across the two countries’ mountainous border. Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul told the United Nations Security Council Thursday that his country wants an “immediate and complete end” to the shelling. He said the attacks have taken the lives of […]
