Pakistan’s Third Sex Seeks A Reformation
Farzana draws all eyes when she dances, with the twist of her hips and hair -- but today she is above all the voice of a Pakistani community with an ambiguous status: the khawajasiras. The...
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Afridi Announces International Retirement
Legendary Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi on Sunday announced his retirement from international cricket, ending an illustrious and sometimes controversial 21-year career. The 36-year-old star had...
Afridi Run Blitz Lifts PSL Gloom
Shahid Afridi lifted the gloom enveloping the Pakistan Super League with a whirlwind half century on Sunday but even his pyrotechnics failed to secure victory for his Peshawar team. Afridi smashed a...
India, Pakistan Target Elusive Women’s World Cup Breakthrough
India downed Pakistan by seven wickets in qualifying for the 2017 Women's World Cup on Sunday but both made it to the finals where they will seek to become the first Asian champions. Pakistan were...
Pakistan T20 Final Must Be In Lahore, Says ICC Task Force Chief
A top international cricket official insisted Sunday that the final of Pakistan's Twenty20 league must be held in Lahore despite a major bomb attack in the country last week. Giles Clarke, head of an...
Pope Calls For Quick Accord To End DR Congo Violence
Pope Francis on Sunday urged leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo to act quickly to resolve its political crisis and curb violence, condemning in particular the use of child soldiers. Violence...
Man Taking Selfie Among Seven Dead In Iran Storms
A man taking a selfie after an Iranian dam burst was among at least seven people killed as floods, avalanches and dust storms gripped the country, state media reported Saturday. The 40-year-old was...
Timeline of Deadliest Insurgent Attacks In Pakistan
At least 70 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in Pakistan Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of devotees at a revered Sufi shrine in southern Sindh province. Here...
Security Crackdown As Pakistan Mourns Sufi Shrine Victims
Pakistan launched a nationwide security crackdown Friday, officials said, after a bomb ripped through a crowded Sufi shrine, killing at least 70 people including 20 children and wounding hundreds....
Islamic State-Claimed Bomb Kills 70 At Pakistan Shrine
At least 70 people were killed and hundreds wounded Thursday when a bomb ripped through a revered Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan, officials said, after a series of attacks which have shaken...
Islamic State-Claimed Bomb Kills 70 At Pakistani Shrine
At least 70 people died Thursday when a bomb ripped through a crowded Sufi shrine in Pakistan, police said, in the deadliest attack to hit the militancy-plagued country so far in 2017. The Islamic...
Deadly IS Attack On Sufi Shrine In Sindh
A suicide attack in a popular shrine in southern Pakistan has killed at least 50 people, reports say. The bomber blew himself up among devotees in the shrine of Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in the...
Pakistan Sufi Shrine Bombing Kills Up To 35
A bomb ripped through a crowded Sufi shrine in Pakistan Thursday, killing up to 35 people and wounding 60, officials said, the deadliest in a series of attacks to strike the insurgency-wracked...
Court Acquits Three Over 2005 Delhi Bomb Blasts
An Indian court Thursday cleared three defendants over a series of bomb blasts in New Delhi in 2005 that killed 62 people, but jailed one of them for his links with a banned group. New Delhi's...
IED Kills Three Pakistani Soldiers
An improvised explosive device hit an army convoy on Thursday in the restive southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, killing three soldiers and wounding two others, the military said. A...
30 Killed In Suicide Attack At Pakistani Shrine
A suicide attack Thursday at Pakistan's Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in the southern city of Shewan in Sindh province killed at least 30 people and injured about 100 others, Sikander Mandhero, the...
Pakistan Vow To Host PSL Final Despite Lahore Blast
Pakistani cricket officials have vowed to stage the final of their Twenty20 league in Lahore next month, despite a powerful Taliban suicide bomb blast which killed 13 people there this week. The...
Gambian President ‘appoints New Chief Justice’
President Adama Barrow has appointed a Gambian lawyer and former UN prosecutor as chief justice of the country's supreme court, ending a series of controversial foreign appointments to the position...
Taliban Suicide Bombers Kill Five In NW Pakistan
Five people were killed Wednesday when two suicide bombers attacked a government compound in Pakistan's restive tribal region, officials said, with the Taliban claiming the assault as the latest in a...
Sub-Saharan Africa Lags In Sustainable Energy Policies
Sub-Saharan Africa, where more than a half billion people live without electricity, trails the world in government policies that promote sustainable energy, according to a new World Bank report...