News Source: United Press International
| about 1 month ago
Officials closed all educational facilities in Pakistan Wednesday, fearing an attack on an Islamic university a day earlier would be followed by more terrorism. Dawn reported all government and private schools, colleges and universities will be...
News Source: Dawn
| about 1 month ago
Pakistani stocks ended more than three per cent lower on Wednesday at one-month lows on fears of more militant attacks in retaliation for an army offensive against Pakistani Taliban militants, dealers said. The Karachi Stock Exchange’s benchmark...
News Source: United Press International
| about 1 month ago
The death toll has risen to six in what authorities said was the first bomb attack against a prestigious Islamic educational institution in Islamabad, Pakistan. The deadly twin bombings at the International Islamic University were also the first such...
News Source: Sify News
| about 1 month ago
Pakistani schools and colleges have closed because of fears about militant attacks after twin suicide bombings at a university campus on Tuesday, officials said. In the southern Sindh province, which is home to Pakistan's financial capital Karachi,...
News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| about 1 month ago
Two explosions, apparently triggered by suicide bombers, ripped through student areas of an Islamic university in Islamabad on Tuesday, killing at least four people, including a woman in the school's gender-segregated cafeteria, police officials said.
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 month ago
All army-run schools, including those in Lahore, Muzaffarabad and Rawalpindi, were closed for a week. Schools and colleges run by the federal government in Quetta and Rawalpindi too were closed for a week. "The decision has been taken by authorities...