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DAWN
| 8 months ago
The Pakistani Taliban say they are granting an amnesty to a Cabinet minister who is offering a $100,000 reward to anyone who kills the American maker of an anti-Islam film sparking deadly riots in the Muslim world. Pakistani Taliban spokesman...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
The Pakistani Cabinet minister who put a $100,000 bounty on an anti-Islam filmmaker's head has impressed the country's Taliban militants so much that they announced Wednesday they are taking him off their hit list. Separately, a breakaway faction of...
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Pak Tribune
| 8 months ago
The minister has gone a step further by inviting none other than the Taliban and al Qaeda 'brothers' to become partners in this 'noble deed'. I have a couple of questions to ask our Federal Minister for Railways: From whose pocket is he going to pay $...
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Canadian Free Press
| 8 months ago
A part of me trusted the human nature of the staff at the hotel the Warwick, to be specific that would receive him to say no and the decency of the United States Government, from President Obama down to the police officers on the street, to step in...
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
Railways minister Bilour sparked international criticism when he offered the blood money, also urging Taliban and al Qaeda militants to carry out what he called the noble deed...Bilour said a businessman from Lahore has offered to put up a further $...
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday as the two nation's inch towards repairing vital ties severely damaged by a series of crises. I would certainly say that they are moving upwards, in a positive...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
A cabinet minister who put a $100,000 bounty on the head of a U.S. filmmaker has not been reprimanded, and some Pakistanis say the call for assassination is fueling a controversy they would like to see go away. Pakistan's Foreign Office said Monday...
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Gawker
| 8 months ago
Pakistani Cabinet Minister Puts $100,000 Bounty On Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker's Head Pakistani Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour has offered $100,000 to anyone who kills the man who made the low-budget anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims ,...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
The Pakistani government on Monday distanced itself from an offer by one of its Cabinet ministers to pay $100,000 for anyone who kills the maker of an anti-Islam film, saying the offer does not represent official government policy. The offer by...
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India Abroad
| 8 months ago
The Pakistan government on Monday made it clear that one of its minister's offer of a bounty of $100,000 for the maker of an anti-Islam film did not represent official policy but did not say whether any action would be taken against him. Foreign...
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News 24
| 8 months ago
The US condemned a Pakistani government minister's offer of a bounty to kill the maker of an anti-Islam film that has triggered violent protests around the Muslim world...The State Department weighed in on Sunday, with an official recalling that US...
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Pak Tribune
| 8 months ago
The government distanced itself on Sunday from a $100,000 bounty offered by Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour for the death of the maker of the anti-Islam film that has sparked protests across the Muslim world. Bilour invited members of the...
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Inquirer.net
| 8 months ago
Pakistani Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour offered today, September 22, 2012, a $100,000 bounty for the death of the maker of the anti-Islam film produced in the US that sparked violent protests across the Muslim world. The United States on...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
But he also called for a 'human atmosphere' to tamp down the violence. Protests against the film continued to rip across the globe over the weekend. Sunday, September 23, 2012, 8:03 PM Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is New York to speak at the...
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The Independent
| 8 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs There we were, lapping up the September sun and enjoying an alfresco lunch in the country when Matil... As Radio 1 premieres its rejigged morning line-up, Callum Jones sympathises with the challenges of b... Callum...
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Daily Nation
| 8 months ago
Pakistan distanced itself Sunday from a cabinet minister's bounty for killing the maker of anti-Islam film " Innocence of Muslims ", as protests against the movie continued from Turkey to Hong Kong. A spokesman for Pakistani Prime Minister Raja...
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The Hindu
| 8 months ago
September 23, 2012 PTI Railway Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour's announcement of a $100,000 bounty for anyone who kills the man behind the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims has put more egg on the federal government's face as it battles with the...
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Time of India
| 8 months ago
The Pakistan government has condemned a minister's announcement of a $100,000 reward for killing the filmmaker of an anti-Islam US film , Dawn reported on Sunday. The movie's 14-minute trailer posted on YouTube has evoked protests in various parts of...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
15 Bangladeshi Islamic political party supporters acknowledge a rally leader during a nationwide strike in Dhaka on September 23, 2012 (AFP Photo / Munir uz Zaman) Opposition parties enforced a nationwide shutdown on Sunday to protest against the...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 8 months ago
The Pakistan government distanced itself Sunday from a US$100,000 bounty offered by a cabinet minister for the death of the maker of an anti-Islam film that has sparked protests across the Muslim world. Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour invited...
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Indian Express
| 8 months ago
The office of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf too distanced itself from the minister's action, saying the government had nothing to do with Bilour's statement. A spokesman for the premier's office said Bilour is a leader of the Awami National Party...
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Pak Tribune
| 8 months ago
Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour on Saturday announced a $100,000 reward for the person who kills the maker of anti-Islam film. Talking to reporters, the minister said that there was no other way to lodge a protest and infuse fear among the...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
A spokesman for Pakistan's prime minister says the government has disassociated itself from the comments of railways minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour. Mr Bilour offered the bounty to anyone who killed the filmmaker, and also urged the "Taliban and Al...
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
Pakistan's government on Saturday disassociated itself from the statement issued by its Federal Minister of Railways, Ghulam Ahmad Bilour over the bounty offered for the anti-Islam filmmaker, DawnNews reported. The official spokesperson for the...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Amid protests that killed more than 20 people throughout Pakistan on Friday, the country's Cabinet minister offered a $100,000 reward for the murder of the US filmmaker that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told the...
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Wellington Dominion
| 8 months ago
A Pakistani minister offered US$100,000 (NZ$120,641) on Saturday to anyone who kills the maker of an online video which insults Islam, as sporadic protests rumbled on across parts of the Muslim world. "I announce today that this blasphemer, this...
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Daily Nation
| 8 months ago
Rating A file photo taken on May 19,2011 shows Pakistani Federal Railways Minister Haji Ghulam Ahmed Bilour addressing the media as he arrives in Amritsar. Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour offered on September 22, 2012, a $100,000 bounty for the death of...
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Israel National News
| 8 months ago
The announcement by the federal railways minister, Ahmed Ghulam Bilour, comes a day after violent outbursts led to the death of 23 people in Pakistan and left more than 200 injured. The minister said the reward would come out of his own pocket and,...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 8 months ago
Sunday Sep 23, 2012 A Pakistani official on Saturday placed a US$100,000 bounty on the head of the maker of an anti-Islam film that has sparked a wave of violence and anger, as Muslims mounted fresh protests worldwide. Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed...
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GMA News
| 8 months ago
A Pakistani minister offered $100,000 on Saturday to anyone who kills the maker of an online video which insults Islam, as sporadic protests rumbled on across parts of the Muslim world. "I announce today that this blasphemer, this sinner who has...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
He made the statement at a news conference as people applauded. A spokesman for Pakistan's prime minister said the government is not connected with the minister's statement. People involved in the film have said it was made by a 55-year-old...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
A day after violent protests paralyzed Pakistan's largest cities, leaving 23 people dead and more than 200 injured, the federal railways minister, Ahmed Ghulam Bilour, said he would personally finance a bounty aimed at the maker of the crude, low-...
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Al Jazeera English
| 8 months ago
12 Ghulam Ahmed Bilour also invited members of the Taliban and al-Qaeda to take part in the 'noble deed' [AFP] As protests continue in Pakistan, a government minister has offered a $100,000 bounty for the death of the maker of the anti-Islam film...
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News 24
| 8 months ago
A Pakistani government minister on Saturday offered a $100 000 bounty for the death of the maker of the anti-Islam film produced in the US that sparked violent protests across the Muslim world. "I announce today that this blasphemer who has abused...
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Chicago Tribune
| 8 months ago
34pm IST A federal minister in Pakistan has announced a bounty of $100,000 for the head of the maker of an obnoxious anti-Islam film, according to media reports from Peshawar. Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, minister for railways admitted at a press conference...
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BBC South Asia
| 8 months ago
A Pakistani government minister has offered a $100,000 reward for the death of the maker of an anti-Islam film produced in the US. Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told the Associated Press (AP) that he would pay the reward for the "sacred duty"...
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
Speaking here at a press conference on Saturday, the Federal Minister for Railways Ghulam Ahmed Bilour said that he was aware that it was a crime to instigate the people for murder, but he was ready to commit the crime. He added that there was no way...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Bangladesh (AP) Scores of people were injured Saturday in a clash in Bangladesh's capital between police and hundreds of demonstrators, as protests continued in the Muslim world against a film produced in the United States that denigrates Islam's...
