Taliban Fast Facts
Facts:Reclusive leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has led the Taliban since the early 1990s. Taliban, in Pashto, is the plural of Talib, which means student. Most members are Pashtun, the largest…
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Pakistani Officials Issue Arrest Warrants Over Refusals of Polio Vaccine
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Determined to curb Pakistan’s polio crisis, police officials in the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa said Friday that they had issued hundreds of arrest warrants for parents for…
Powerful Sports Scoreboards Tally War ‘Death Count’ To Reduce Violence In India, Pakistan
The score ticked up to India: 547,290, Pakistan: 546,228. But that tally — displayed on scoreboards in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan — wasn’t indicative of the ICC Cricket…
Refugees Are Pushed to Exits in Pakistan
TORKHAM, Afghanistan — First, the Afghan families’ homes were raided by Pakistani policemen wielding sticks. Then the men were hauled off to jail, released only after relatives paid bribes. When…
Reuters Bureau Chief Is Found Dead in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau chief for Reuters, Maria Golovnina, was found dead at her office in Islamabad on Monday, according to a statement by Reuters and…
Pakistanis Try to Nudge Taliban Along the Path to Peace Talks With Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan — Pakistan’s top military and intelligence officials have begun pressing the Taliban to sit down for face-to-face discussions with the Afghan government, potentially opening a path for direct…
Jury will be first to see evidence seized in bin Laden raid, prosecutor says
Abid Naseer, 28, who was arrested in 2009 in Manchester, England, where he had been living on a student visa, was described by Brooklyn federal prosecutor Celia Cohen as a…
U.S. allows armed drone sales to allies
READ: FAA proposes to allow commercial drone use – The U.S.’s own use of drones in military operations has drawn past criticism, particularly for use in Pakistan.
Terror groups take advantage of power vacuums, insecurity to thrive at home
For all the well-founded worries in the West and elsewhere around the developed world, these kinds of locales are more likely stopping points than long-term homes for terror groups. Such…
Deadly Suicide Attack Hits Busy Neighborhood in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan — A Taliban suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a congested neighborhood here on Tuesday after failing to breach the security cordon around the city’s Police Headquarters, killing…
Cricket World Cup: Irish eyes smiling as West Indies suffer shock defeat
It’s a mere eight years since Ireland made its tournament debut. Back in 2007, they tied with Zimbabwe and picked up victories over Pakistan and Bangladesh. Four years on, there…
India vs. Pakistan: How a great cricketing rivalry matured
A few years later my family moved from London to Calcutta. We had migrated from the birthplace of cricket to the game’s burgeoning new Mecca. India’s 1983 win turned out…
Attack on Polio Vaccination Team in Pakistan Leaves One Dead
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Gunmen attacked a vehicle carrying a polio vaccination team in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing the driver and leaving one health care worker wounded, according to police…
Suicide Attackers Stage Deadly Assault on Pakistani Mosque
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Heavily armed militants killed at least 19 people and wounded more than 40 after they stormed into a Shiite mosque during Friday Prayer in a suburb of…
Pakistan Credits Afghanistan in Arrest of Militants in Peshawar Attack
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In a sign of closer cooperation between often hostile neighbors, Pakistan’s military on Thursday credited Afghanistan with helping to capture the Taliban militants who orchestrated the attack…
Pakistan Braces for Major Water Shortages
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Energy-starved Pakistanis, their economy battered by chronic fuel and electricity shortages, may soon have to contend with a new resource crisis: major water shortages, the Pakistani government…
Pakistani LGBT Community’s Fight For Rights
Lahore, Pakistan – The transgender community in Pakistan has gained ground with the Supreme Court recognising a third gender on national identity cards, however, it remains widely discriminated against in…
For Saudis and Pakistan, a Bird of Contention
For decades, royal Arab hunting expeditions have traveled to the far reaches of Pakistan in pursuit of the houbara bustard — a waddling, migratory bird whose meat, they believe, contains…
A Mother's Illness, a Daughter's Duty
Credit Klaus Pichler Credit Daniel Owen Credit Adriane Ohanesian Credit Diego Acosta López The four Borowick ladies lay in the backyard of their Westchester home on Mother’s Day 2014. This…
Blast Kills Scores at Mosque in Southern Pakistan
KARACHI, Pakistan — An explosion ripped through a Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan during weekly prayers on Friday, killing more than 40 people and wounding at least 50 in an…
Swept Away by a Love for Dust
Credit Adriane Ohanesian Credit Diego Acosta López Credit Joseph Rodriguez Credit Mark Abramson Fine Art Photo Gallery.” – Israeli soldiers with a military vehicle that was hit by a missile…
Widespread Blackout in Pakistan Deals Another Blow to Government
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Towns and cities across Pakistan plunged into darkness early Sunday when an apparent militant attack on a transmission line short-circuited the national electricity grid, presenting a fresh…
Nawaz Sharif Fast Facts
Birth Place: Lahore, Pakistan Marriage: Kulsoom Sharif Children: four Education: Government College Lahore; Punjab University Law College, Law degree, Lahore, Pakistan Timeline:1977 – Opens Ittefaq Industries, a family business involved…
Thailand’s new constitution could soon recognize third gender
“People should have [that] freedom to change sex and they should be equally protected by the Constitution and the law and treated fairly.” Third gender means that an individual does…