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No doubt, the monster of terrorism is engulfing the world day by day but along with this, there is a creeping predicament that too is swallowing up human race but there’s a difference in this case. Here the victims are women, from ‘crimes of passion’ to...
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Predictions that Pervez Musharraf will have to flee Pakistan to escape treason charges have died along with the coalition that drove him from the presidency.
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What do I think of when I think of Pakistan? I see the dusty mosques of Multan, the chaotic illegal markets in Peshawar where you can buy everything from a fake Rolex...
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A Pakistani Senator Israrullah Zahri from Baluchistan province Friday, August 29, 2008 tried to justify the crime of burying women alive by Umrani tribal elders. He...
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AP, Islamabad
Pakistan’s prime minister says the country’s presidential front-runner has moved into a guarded government compound over security concerns.
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AP, Denver
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has told Democratic National Convention delegates that Barack Obama and Joe Biden have the right policy on terrorism _ focus on...
made popular Aug 29 2008
AP, Islamabad
Asif Ali Zardari, the man poised to become Pakistan’s next president, is still known as “Mr. 10 Percent” because of corruption allegations. Now his...
made popular Aug 28 2008
AP, Peshawar
A surge of violence continued unabated in Pakistan’s tribal border region Thursday, with a car bomb blasting a bus filled with Pakistani police and government...
made popular Aug 28 2008
AP, Washington
With violence worsening in Afghanistan and Pakistan, top U.S. military officers conducted a secret strategy session with commanders from Islamabad on an aircraft...
made popular Aug 28 2008
AP, Washington
With violence worsening in Afghanistan and Pakistan, top U.S. military officers secretly met commanders from Islamabad on an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean to...
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AP, Peshawar
A bomb blew a bus carrying Pakistani police and government workers off a high bridge Thursday, killing eight, as fighting between security forces and extremists flared...
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AP, Lahore
Hundreds of lawyers are rallying in major Pakistani cities and disrupting traffic.
made popular Aug 28 2008
AP, Peshawar
Police say a bomb hit a van carrying prisoners in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least eight people.
made popular Aug 28 2008
AP, Islamabad
Pakistani troops drove off a Taliban attack on a fort and pounded another band of militants holed up in a health center, officials said Wednesday as fighting spread to...
made popular Aug 27 2008
AP, Islamabad
Security forces clashed with militants across Pakistan’s wild tribal belt Wednesday, trading fire with insurgents in a health center and repelling a major assault...
made popular Aug 27 2008
AP, Islamabad
Security forces clashed with militants at either end of Pakistan’s wild tribal belt Wednesday, killing 19 enemy fighters and wounding dozens more, officials and...
made popular Aug 27 2008
AP, Islamabad
Pakistani security forces fired on vehicles carrying militants in a volatile region near the Afghan border on Wednesday, killing eight of them, a police official said.
made popular Aug 27 2008
AP, Islamabad
A Pakistani official says security forces have killed eight militants in a restive region near the Afghan border.
made popular Aug 27 2008
There is quite an intermixed reaction in Pakistan about Musharraf resigning. Primarily because one cannot judge a good person by his military uniform. A patriot is a...
made popular Aug 27 2008
AP, Islamabad
Police say an explosion on the outskirts of the Pakistani capital has killed at least seven people and wounded 20.
made popular Aug 26 2008
The inevitable has finally happened: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader Nawaz Sharif announced today that his party is leaving the coalition government, citing...
made popular Aug 26 2008
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A gruesome incident, which led to the death of a teen in north of Iraq created a widespread condemnation. It was able to gather attention of international media because...
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London is experiencing an increase in the honor killings. Thousands of young women in Britain are living in fear of the ‘hidden scourge’ of so-called honour...
made popular May 18 2007
The State shall guarantee coordination between a woman’s duties toward her family and her work in the society, considering her equal to man in the political,...
made popular May 14 2007
Clouds of sectarian violence could be anticipated between Muslims and Yazidis in Kurdistan Region.
The killing of young girl Du’a Khalil Aswad has ignited...
made popular May 7 2007
It seems that the notorious killings in the name of family honor are next to impossible to root out from the social milieu of Muslim countries, worse yet is that they...
made popular Mar 12 2007
A married woman can leave her husband’s house only in a coffin- is a famous epitaph in most of the chauvinistic driven Islamic countries.
Are women a mere...
made popular Feb 14 2007
We’ve heard a lot from these chauvinistic ridden Muslim countries regarding polygamy, honor killings, parents bartering their minor girls to drug lords,...
made popular Feb 1 2007
It is a problem that is spread across the Islamic world like a dreaded disease. And turkey is no stranger to the inhuman concept of honor killings.
The killing of...
made popular Jan 22 2007
Are women in Islamic culture a property than a mere human being?
A married woman can leave her husband only in a coffin- is a famous epitaph in most of the...
made popular Jan 10 2007
Zahoor Ahmed and his wife Naseem were burnt alive in Pakistan.
The incident happened in Chak Saboo village on Tuesday and their children were present at the place....
made popular Jan 9 2007
Perhaps, we would never know what’s buried behind those veils, which have metamorphosed into their graves now!
For years, women in Pakistan have been denied the...
made popular Jan 9 2007
Women in Pakistan live in constant fear. They face death by shooting, burning or killing with axes if they are deemed to have brought shame on the family.
The lives of...
made popular Jan 5 2007
The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has publicized that there has been a noteworthy increase in the number of honor killings of native women in...
made popular Sep 19 2006
Muslim women across the Middle East Nations are suffering from escalating violence. Near about 5,000 honor killings are recorded every year in these countries.
How can...
made popular Aug 21 2006
With the number of Muslim immigrants from the Asian nations flooding Britain in the past few years increasing fast, so is the number of ‘honor killings’. It...
made popular Jul 19 2006
A new fashion fad has suddenly come over the so-called Men-of-Islam. The trend is evident in most part of Turkey where fathers, uncles, and brothers are not killing...
made popular Jul 18 2006
‘Honor killings’, more commonly known as the ‘karo-killings’, is largely prevalent among the tribal communities. Every year thousand of girls...
made popular Jun 2 2006
Life of Pakistani girls is not getting any better: they are being shot in the name of ‘Honor Killing’ and now they are facing dangers when they marry out of...
made popular May 11 2006
Women’s and girls’ in Pakistan not only suffers from religious practices like ‘Honor Killings’ but a recent statement released by the World Bank...
made popular May 8 2006
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