Tag: Pakistan
Muslim cleric questioned after 6-year-old boy is molested, murdered
Pakistani police questioned an Islamic cleric after the body of a 6-year-old boy was found hanged on a ceiling fan…
Militants burn primary schools in Pakistan
Militants set fire to two primary schools in Pakistan’s troubled northwest on Tuesday as authorities extended winter holidays amid threats…
Pakistan forces kill facilitator of Peshawar school massacre
Pakistani security forces have killed a Taliban commander who allegedly facilitated the Peshawar school massacre, which left 150 people dead…
Ban Ki-Moon condemns terrorist attack on Nigeria, Pakistan
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned recent attacks on civilians by militant groups in Nigeria, Yemen and Pakistan. Ban,…
Seven dead as Pakistan hits militant hideouts
Seven people including a policeman and paramilitary soldier were killed in two separate incidents when Pakistani security forces hit militant…
Jonathan condemns terrorist attack in Pakistan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday in Abuja flayed the deadly terrorist attack on Peshawar in Pakistan that left 140 people,…
Malala “heartbroken” by Pakistan school slayings
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012, said she was “heartbroken”…
UPDATE: Over 130 killed in Taliban attack on Pakistan school
Taliban insurgents killed at least 130 people, most of them children, after storming an army-run school in Pakistan on Tuesday…
Saudi beheads 9th Pakistani for smuggling
Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a Pakistani for heroin smuggling, bringing to nine the number of people from his country…
Bus crash in southern Pakistan kills 56 people
At least 56 people were killed Tuesday when a passenger bus collided head-on with a goods truck in southern Pakistan,…
Pakistani girl, 6, murdered after rape attempt
Police in southwest Pakistan are investigating after a six-year-old girl was strangled and dumped near a garbage heap after apparently…
Saudi beheads Pakistani drug smuggler
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani on Wednesday for trafficking heroin hidden in his stomach into the kingdom, the interior ministry…
Robbers raid top Pakistan charity, steal $400,000
Armed robbers have raided one of Pakistan’s leading charities and stolen $400,000 in cash as well as five kilos of…
Pakistani women hope for change after Malala Nobel win
Saima Bibi was just 13 when she was married off to settle a debt of honour, a common custom in…
Airstrikes, gunfight kill 21 militants in Pakistan
At least 21 militants have been killed in airstrikes and a gunfight in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal areas, officials said…