Islamist leader held on war crimes charges in Bangladesh
Source: DAWN
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-13 05:02:26 -0700 | travel-news
Bangladeshi security forces arrested on Sunday the leader of the country's biggest Islamist party on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, a senior police official said. AKM Yusuf, the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, was arrested in the capital Dhaka...
Protest over fate of Indian Prisoners of War 'languishing' in Pakistan jails
Source: Indian Express
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-12 05:53:33 -0700 | travel-news
A protest today saw demonstrators here slam the Union government for allegedly failing to take steps to secure the release of Indian Prisoners of War (PoWs) languishing in Pakistani jails. The protesters raised slogans and burnt an effigy of the...
Egypt Arrests 3 in Plot to Attack Cities and an Embassy
Source: Newyork Times
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-11 16:56:13 -0700 | travel-news
Egyptian security forces have arrested three militants with ties to Al Qaeda who were planning terrorist attacks in Egyptian cities and against a foreign embassy, the interior minister said Saturday. A Western official said the Egyptians had privately identified the...
Pakistani election may change US military ties- BREAKING NEWS: 4 killed in Turkey border blast
Source: Fox
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-11 09:49:58 -0700 | travel-news
Published May 11, 2013 FoxNews.com Pakistan's historic election today could have immense consequences for the region and the so-called war on terror. It will be the first time in Pakistan's 65-year history that a civilian government has completed a full...
Egypt 'militant embassy plot' foiled
Source: BBC
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-11 18:28:22 -0700 | travel-news
Egypt 'al-Qaeda linked plot on foreign embassy' foiled Egyptian police have arrested three al-Qaeda militants planning a suicide attack on a Western embassy, the country's interior minister says. Mohammed Ibrahim did not specify which embassy had been targeted, but said...
'India does not retaliate against Pak due to nukes'
Source: The Economic Times
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-11 03:34:17 -0700 | travel-news
India does not retaliate despite Pakistan-backed terrorist attacks against it because of the deterrence of nuclear weapons that the two countries possess, an American defence expert has said. "All the terrorism that Pakistan has supported against India has been carried...
The Bloody Road to the Ballot Box
Source: Inter Press Service
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-11 10:56:45 -0700 | travel-news
The road leading to the office of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) wears a forlorn look. The same deserted air hangs over the Awami National Party (ANP) headquarters here in Karachi, just hours before voting begins on Saturday in Pakistan's...
A Look at the Major Issues Ahead of Pakistani Vote
Source: Epoch Times
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-10 13:43:04 -0700 | travel-news
Pakistan, as the country suffers from faltering economic growth, worsening energy shortages and continued attacks by militants. The economy has grown at less than 4 percent a year under the most recent government, which was led by the Pakistan People's...
Militants attack checkpost in Kurram region
Source: DAWN
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-10 00:38:20 -0700 | travel-news
At least three security personnel were killed in a militant attack on a checkpost in central Kurram tribal region on Friday, DawnNews reported. Moreover, security officials told Dawn.com that nine militants were also killed in retaliatory action by security forces....
Bangladesh to hang Islamist leader to death for 1971 war crimes
Source: Indian Express
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-09 09:59:46 -0700 | travel-news
A special Bangladeshi tribunal today handed down death penalty to fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami stalwart Muhammad Quamaruzzaman for "crimes against humanity" he committed during 1971 liberation war against Pakistan. "He will be hanged by neck until he is dead," chairman of the...
Court condemns Bangladesh Islamist
Source: BBC South Asia
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-09 02:09:48 -0700 | travel-news
The deputy head of Bangladesh's opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party has been sentenced to death by the country's war crimes tribunal. Muhammad Kamaruzzaman was found guilty on five out of seven counts of torture and mass murder committed during the 1971 war...
Terrorist wanted by Pak for 7 years found in AP; deported
Source: The Hindu
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-08 03:49:49 -0700 | travel-news
A terrorist wanted in Pakistan was today deported to Sri Lanka by a flight from here after Andhra Pradesh police found him living in a remote village near Cuddapah for the past seven years without a valid visa, airport sources...
Army won't go inside polling stations: ISPR ...
Source: Pak Tribune
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-08 12:10:49 -0700 | travel-news
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on the security plan for the general election at a high level meeting. Maj Gen Bajwa told the media that the Commander 5 Corps, Sindh Rangers Director General, Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, IG, head of Intelligence...
UN peacekeeper killed in eastern Congo
Source: The Boston Globe
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-08 05:36:16 -0700 | travel-news
The United Nations says a U.N. peacekeeper was killed in an attack on a military convoy in eastern Congo. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said late Tuesday that the convoy was attacked by unidentified assailants in South Kivu...Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said...
Underprivileged class has reached a breaking point
Source: Pak Tribune
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-07 05:54:34 -0700 | travel-news
The people have lost trust in their leaders because they have repeatedly betrayed them in the name of democracy. While democracy was sold as the remedy for all their ailments, democracy made the lives of the lower class of society...
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