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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Pentagon Chief Readies Afghanistan Proposals For Trump
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday said he is compiling an assessment for President Donald Trump to weigh on Afghanistan, which remains mired in a brutal and seemingly intractable conflict....
Pentagon Chief Says Military Running Smoothly Amid Turbulent…
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday said America's vast military continues to run smoothly, even though President Donald Trump's first month has been marked by consecutive crises. "Welcome to...
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...
Red Cross Urges Release of Two Staff Abducted In Afghanistan
The Red Cross on Saturday called for the unconditional release of two staff members who were abducted when their convoy was ambushed in northern Afghanistan last week, leaving six other workers dead....
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...
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...
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...
UAE Envoy To Kabul Dies of Wounds From January Bombing
The United Arab Emirates' ambassador to Afghanistan has died of wounds sustained in a January 10 bombing in Kandahar that also killed five other UAE officials, state media said Thursday. Ambassador...
UAE Ambassador Juma Mohammed Abdullah Al-Kaabi Dies After Afghan Blast
Juma Mohammed Abdullah al-Kaabi, centre, has died of wounds sustained in the Kandahar attack The ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Afghanistan died on Wednesday of wounds sustained in a bomb...
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...
Pro-Russia and Fixated On Islamic Extremism
President Donald Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn, who resigned late Monday over his controversial contacts with Russia, is a former military intelligence chief who saw militant Islam...
Pakistan Mourns Lahore Victims of Taliban Attack
Pakistanis Tuesday mourned the victims of a Taliban-claimed suicide bomb in Lahore, as the death toll rose to 15 and the city's residents railed at the government for failing to protect them. The...
Deadly Bomb Blast Rips Through Lahore Rally
A powerful bomb blast on Monday ripped through a protest in the Pakistani city of Lahore, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens, according to officials. The explosion went off in Lahore's...
Blast Kills At Least 11, Injures 60 In Pakistan’s Lahore
At least 11 people have been killed and 60 were wounded after a Taliban off-shoot attacked a demonstration in Lahore, Pakistan. The suicide bomber approached the pharmacists on a motorbike and...