Tag: Pakistan
Pakistani MPs Call For Blasphemy Laws Reform
Pakistan’s parliament Tuesday called for a reform of controversial blasphemy laws which prescribe the death penalty for insulting Islam, after…
5 killed in Pakistani suicide attack
An explosion apparently targeting a mosque in the Pakistani city of Parachinar, killed no fewer than five people and wounded…
Pakistan executes hardcore terrorist
Pakistan on Thursday hanged a “hardcore terrorist’’ who was involved in committing heinous offenses. related to terrorism, the Pakistani military…
Woman bags death sentence for burning daughter alive
A woman in Pakistan has been sentenced to death for burning her daughter alive in a so-called “honor killing” incident.…
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39 die after drinking toxic liquor
At least 39 people died after consuming toxic liquor in eastern Pakistan, health officials and police said on Tuesday, as…
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No survivors in Pakistan air crash
The Pakistan Aviation Authority on Wednesday said all the 48 people on board a commercial aircraft that crashed in northern…
8 killed, 19 injured as twin blasts hit passenger train
At least eight people were killed while 19 others injured when two explosions hit a passenger train in Pakistan’s southwest…
16 killed in Pakistani mosque suicide bomb attack
A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people and wounded 35 others as they attended Friday prayers at a mosque…
70 killed in Pakistan hospital bomb attack
A suicide bomb attack has killed at least 70 people at a hospital in Quetta in south-west Pakistan, officials say.…
Dozens dead, several injured in Pakistan hospital blast
No fewer than 42 people were killed in Monday’s attack in a hospital in Pakistan’s Quetta city. The blast took…
Non-kinetic warfare will finish Boko Haram, says Pakistani envoy
Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, Lt.-Gen. Agha Farooq (rtd), has advised Nigeria to adopt non-kinetic warfare strategy in order to…
I’ll resign if Panama revelations reveal wrongdoing – Pakistan PM
Pakistan’s embattled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday announced he would resign if found guilty of having committed any wrongdoing…
Gunmen kill at least 19 in Pakistan university attack
Pakistani medical officials confirmed that the death tolls from the attack at Bacha Khan University in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday…
Two men stopped from boarding US plane after speaking Arabic
Two men were kept from boarding a flight from Chicago to Philadelphia this week because they were speaking Arabic, one…
Pakistani bride murdered over insufficient dowry
A recently married Pakistani woman died after her in-laws forced her to drink acid, for bringing what they considered to…