Tag Archives: Pakistan

Pakistan Carries Out Strike Inside Iranian Territory

Reuters reports: Pakistan used killer drones and rockets to strike separatist Baloch militants inside Iran on Thursday, Pakistani authorities said, two days after Tehran said it had attacked the bases of another group within Pakistani territory. Iranian media said several missiles hit a village in the Sistan-Baluchestan province that borders Pakistan, killing at least nine people. Earlier reports said three …

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Hundreds Dead In 6.1 Mag Afghanistan Earthquake

Reuters reports: An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 killed 920 people in Afghanistan early on Wednesday, disaster management officials said, with more than 600 injured and the toll expected to grow as information trickles in from remote mountain villages. Photographs on Afghan media showed houses reduced to rubble, with bodies swathed in blankets lying on the ground. Helicopters were deployed in …

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Pakistan PM Goes Full Trump On Coming Ouster Vote

Reuters reports: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan suggested on Saturday that he might not accept a vote to oust him, a move he alleged was being orchestrated by the United States. Opposition parties say Khan has failed to revive an economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic or fulfil promises to make his government more transparent and accountable, and have put …

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Former Pakistan President Sentenced To Be Executed

The BBC reports: General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former military leader, has been sentenced to death at a special court hearing in Islamabad. The three-member court sentenced him over a high treason charge that has been pending since 2013. Gen Musharraf seized power in a military coup in 1999 and served as the country’s president from 2001 to 2008. He is …

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Democrats Apologize To India For Trump’s Lies [VIDEO]

Roll Call reports: Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee spoke with India’s ambassador to the U.S., Harsh Shringla, on Monday to apologize for President Donald Trump’s claim that he was asked by the Indian prime minister to mediate the Kashmir territorial conflict between his country and Pakistan. “Everyone who knows anything about foreign policy in South Asia knows that …

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Trump Accuses Pakistan Of “Lies And Deceit”

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump threatened to end U.S. foreign aid for Pakistan Monday in his first tweet of 2018 — a move that comes amid strained ties over America’s decade-long war in Afghanistan. In an early-morning post, he accused Islamabad of harboring terrorists. The U.S. has repeatedly called on Pakistan to crack down on extremists in its border …

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LIVE VIDEO: Trump Speaks With Indian Prime Minister

CNN International reports: President Donald Trump looked to show unity with Narendra Modi when the Indian prime minister visited the White House on Monday, heralding the military cooperation between the United States and India in a move that thrusts the new President into the delicate world of India-Pakistan relations. The meeting between the off-the-cuff President and the prime minister who …

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AFGHANISTAN: 7.5 Magnitude Quake Kills Dozens

USA Today reports: Scores of people have died after a magnitude 7.5. earthquake struck Afghanistan on Monday, causing deaths in neighboring Pakistan and tremors in northern India. The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter of the quake was in the far northern Afghan province of Badakhshan, which borders Tajikistan and China. “Significant casualties are likely and the disaster is potentially …

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Pakistani Teen Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Via CNN: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai for their struggles against the suppression of children and for young people’s rights, including the right to education. Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said, “Children must go to school, not be financially exploited.” Yousafzai came to global attention after she …

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Inside Gay Pakistan

The BBC reports on gay life in Pakistan: Pakistan is not the kind of place that most people would associate with gay liberation. But some say the country is a great place to be gay – even describing the port city of Karachi as “a gay man’s paradise”. Underground parties, group sex at shrines and “marriages of convenience” to members …

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Religion Vs Science

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Pakistan Sees Huge Anti-US Protests

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PAKISTAN: Phone Companies To Block Texts Containing “Gay” & “Homosexual”

Pakistan’s blogosphere is having a field day over a new government directive ordering phone companies to block more than 1700 words from text messages. Among the banned words are gay, lesbian, and homosexual. Also: Jesus Christ. Operators have been directed to start blocking text messages containing these words from November 21. The move has been greeted with ridicule and derision, …

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Pakistan: Don’t Try That Again

The Pakistan government said yesterday that if the United States carries out any more “unauthorized” raids within its borders, it will have to review the relationship with Washington. Earlier Thursday, Pakistan’s Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir warned America Thursday of “disastrous consequences” if it carries out any more raids and hit back at international allegations it may have been harboring …

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Pakistanis Protest Bin Laden Raid

As anti-America protests go, this one doesn’t seem that bad. But it’s still very early.

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“Great Hideout, Would Use Again”

Google Maps users are having some fun reviewing Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistan compound.

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Nightline: How They Got Bin Laden

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PAKISTAN: Moderate Governor Killed Over Views On Religious Blasphemy

Salmaan Taseer, the governor of Pakistan’s wealthiest and most populous province was assassinated today by his own bodyguard, who pumped 26 bullets into his boss for opposing a law that imposes the death penalty for “insulting Islam.” Taseer vented his opposition publicly – even using Twitter – to hard-line blasphemy laws that effectively order death for anyone convicted of insulting …

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Bjork – The Comet Chase Song

Released today on iTunes, all proceeds to Pakistan.

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Pakistan Arrests Man And Trans Woman, Charges Pair With Staging A Gay Marriage

Pakistani police have raided the purported wedding party of a man and a transgender woman, arresting the couple and many guests. The couple faces ten years in prison. (Via – Dan Savage)

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