Rebels kill Indian army officer in Kashmir
Source: The Jakarta Post
Islamabad :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-18 01:20:16 -0700 | disasters-news
Ankur Vashist, an army spokesman, says one soldier also was injured in an exchange of gunfire early Saturday in Machil sector close to the cease-fire line dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Vashist says nearly half a dozen rebels fled...
Civil Society Under Attack Around the World
Source: Inter Press Service
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-17 10:36:39 -0700 | disasters-news
World Alliance for Citizen Participation, writes that civil society organisations around the globe face grave threats to their efficacy and existence. In violation of international commitments to foster increased participation of the NGO sector, governments everywhere continue to crack down...
Lahore court initiates judicial inquiry into Sarabjit Singh's murder case
Source: NewKerala
Multān :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-17 03:23:22 -0700 | disasters-news
According to a report in The Express Tribune, Justice Naqvi is expected to start his inquiry from Friday. Punjab caretaker chief minister Najam Sethi had earlier sent a letter to LHC chief justice Umar Ata Bandial with a request to...
Renowned priest protests award for SBY
Source: The Jakarta Post
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-16 17:49:46 -0700 | disasters-news
Y The Jakarta Post, Jakarta National Fri, May 17 2013, 6:14 AM Rev. Franz Magnis Suseno, a philosopher and renowned Jesuit priest, has sent a letter to the Appeal of Conscience Foundation (ACF), objecting to its plans to bestow the...
Brian Stewart: A measure of hope for troubled Pakistan?
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-16 02:41:17 -0700 | disasters-news
Nawaz Sharif's commanding election win in Pakistan brings some certainty to South Asia's most difficult neighbourhood, Brian Stewart writes. But can the 'Lion of the Punjab' tame the twin demons of Taliban extremism and Pakistan's overweening military. more » Alexandra...
Three killed in Peshawar encounter
Source: DAWN
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-14 20:44:38 -0700 | disasters-news
Three people, including two alleged miscreants and a woman passerby, were killed during exchange of fire between police and miscreants here in Badhber area on Tuesday. The two alleged miscreants were later identified as Saqib Ibrar and Umar Sheharyar, both...
PTI candidates continue protests across KP
Source: DAWN
Mānsehra :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-15 07:49:53 -0700 | disasters-news
Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) losing candidates and workers on Tuesday continued their protests in several National Assembly constituencies in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa against alleged rigging in May 11 general elections, urging the Election Commission of Pakistan to take immediate notice of the...
Balochistan parties reject results: Protests against ‘rigging' continue
Source: DAWN
Quetta :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-14 19:23:14 -0700 | disasters-news
Protests against rigging' continue Activists of Hazara Democratic Party chant slogans during a protest demonstration in favor of their demands outside QPC. Protests against alleged rigging in May 11 elections continued on Tuesday in different parts of Balochistan as some...
Benazir murder case: ATC extends Musharraf's judicial remand to May 28
Source: DAWN
Rāwalpindi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-14 00:23:58 -0700 | disasters-news
In the Benazir Bhutto's murder case, the special anti-terrorism court (ATC) of Rawalpindi on Tuesday extended the judicial remand of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to May 28, DawnNews reported. Judge of ATC's special court Chaudhry Habibur Rehman heard the...
Higher voter turnout seen in Peshawar
Source: DAWN
Peshawar :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-13 20:57:50 -0700 | disasters-news
A sharp increase in the voters' turnout was registered in the four National Assembly constituencies of the provincial capital during the May 11 elections. Of the total registered voters, 44.08 per cent exercised their franchise on last Saturday compared with...
Now White Widow is connected to British-born Al Qaeda bomb maker
Source: Mail Online UK
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-13 15:55:10 -0700 | disasters-news
She seems to have spent two years building up a network that spans the UK, South Africa, Pakistan and Somalia.' More... Lewthwaite, 29, a soldier's daughter from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, has been on the run in East Africa after police foiled...
Lord Ahmed quits UK Labour party
Source: The Courier-Mail
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-13 21:59:20 -0700 | disasters-news
Labour Party days before he was due to face a hearing over allegations that he made anti-Semitic comments in a TV interview. Lord Ahmed was due to appear before Labour's ruling National Executive Committee on Wednesday to answer accusations that...
Blast in passenger coach kills 16
Source: Pak Tribune
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-13 03:34:11 -0700 | disasters-news
At least 16 people were killed on Sunday in a blast that ripped through a passenger coach in a remote area of North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan. The nature of the blast could not be ascertained immediately. However, reports said the...
Blast kills 11 on Pakistan election day
Source: CNN
Islamabad :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-11 03:53:49 -0700 | disasters-news
Pakistani voters have many choices Pakistan's election: What's at stake? Violence plagues Pakistani election Pakistani hope for election In March, the democratically-elected government finished serving a full five-year term, paving the way for the elections.
Pakistanis go to the polls in the country's 'most deadly election' as twin bomb attack kills 11, ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-11 02:35:03 -0700 | disasters-news
That picture of women queuing is now an everyday scene in Tower Hamlets...They assimilated and, just one generation on, their children are indistinguishable from their indigenous neighbours. Soraya , London, 11/5/2013 09:19 Hope imran wins !!! - bea akhtar ,...
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