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Hospital Siege, Blasts New Pakistan Government's First Security Test.
Credit: Reuters

Hospital siege, blasts new Pakistan government’s first security test

Militants in a volatile region of western Pakistan bombed a bus carrying women students on Saturday and then seized part of the hospital where survivors were taken, in the first major security test for the new prime minister, Nawaz Sharif.

Posted in International
Tagged attack, bus, explosion, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Quetta | Reply
A firefighter stands near a burning bus after a bomb attack in Quetta.
Credit: Reuters

Pakistan militants blast bus, attack hospital; at least 12 dead

Militants in western Pakistan bombed a bus carrying women university students on Saturday and then seized part of the hospital where survivors of the attack were taken, killing at least 12 people, officials said.

Posted in International
Tagged bombing, militants, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Quetta | Reply
A PIA jet was dkverted after a 'terror threat'

UPDATE: Bomb disposal team arrives at diverted Pakistan jet ‘after men tried to storm cockpit’

A bomb disposal team has just pulled up alongside a Pakistan Airways jet diverted to London’s Stansted airport today after [...]

Posted in International, News
Tagged behead, jet divert, London, Pakistan, terrorism
A woman cooks over a wood-burning fire under a battery-run emergency light during a power outage in a slum in Islamabad April 29, 2013. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

Pakistan outlaws socks as energy crisis bites

Pakistan has ordered civil servants not to wear socks as the country turns off air conditioners amid a chronic power [...]

Posted in News
Tagged air conditioner, blackouts, civil servants, Heat, Lahore, Pakistan, power outage, sock ban, socks
Pakistan's former President and head of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) political party Pervez Musharraf salutes at his residence in Islamabad in this April 15, 2013 file photograph. REUTERS/

Pakistan military angered by treatment of Musharraf: reports

Pakistan’s powerful army chief has suggested the military is unhappy with how authorities have treated former army chief and president [...]

Posted in International, News
Tagged angered, Ashfaq Kavani, ban, military, Musharraf, Pakistan
Pakistan's former President and head of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) political party Pervez Musharraf speaks as he unveils his party manifesto for the forthcoming general election at his

Pakistan’s Musharraf flees court as judge orders his arrest

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was forced to flee a courtroom this morning moments after judges ordered his arrest, dealing [...]

Posted in International, News
Tagged arrest, flees, Musharraf, Pakistan
Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf speaks in Dubai March 23

Musharraf faces Pakistan treason charge

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered former President Pervez Musharraf to respond to an accusation of treason, a move that could [...]

Posted in International, News
Tagged benazir bhutto, Pakistan, pervez musharraf, treason | Reply
General Pervez Musharraf has been warned that if he returns to Pakistan, he will face arrest.
Credit: Getty Images

Metro exclusive interview: General Pervez Musharraf

General Pervez Musharraf, a staunch American ally after 9/11, spent more than four years in voluntary exile from his Pakistan homeland.

Posted in International, National, News
Tagged General Pervez Musharraf, International, national, Pakistan | Reply
Pakistani Shiite Muslim women.
Credit: Getty Images

Violence against women: Fresh start for acid attack heroines

Violence against women: Fresh start for acid attack heroines

Posted in International
Tagged acid attacks, Pakistan, victims, violence against women | Reply
A Northbridge man pleaded guilty to enticing minors for sex.
Credit: Getty Images.

Brooklyn father who forced daughter’s marriage suspected in murders

  A Brooklyn cabdriver who forced his daughter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan may be responsible for ordering the [...]

Posted in Local, News
Tagged amina ajmal, arranged marriage, Brooklyn, brooklyn federal court, crime, mohammad ajmal choudhry, murder, Pakistan, visa fraud | Reply
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