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Militants who control parts of Somalia’s capital city are beating women in broad daylight for violating their radical brand of Islamic law, according to local officials and witnesses in Mogadishu.
“Just today, Al-Shabaab dispatched men with whips to...
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An alarming news post published in today’s newspapers tells of an intelligence report that warns against the possibility of terrorists poisoning Karachi’s drinking...
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Indian intelligence agencies launched a comprehensive media and psychological warfare against Pakistan prior to their Prime Minister Visit to USA. In this connection,...
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At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of...
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India today is trying blindly to follow the policies of its military Guru Chankiya, where she is frantically driving for fulfillment of her eventual trance of Greater...
made popular Nov 24 2009
Indian intelligence agencies launched a comprehensive media and psychological warfare against Pakistan prior to their Prime Minister Visit to USA. In this connection,...
made popular Nov 24 2009
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has been asked by the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry to lower interest rates, bringing them under 10 percent in the next...
made popular Nov 24 2009
Armed operation against militants in Orakzai agency has frightened civilians in Hangu city since last morning, as told by locals of Hangu. The operation has reportedly...
made popular Nov 23 2009
The first ever official list of corrupt persons who benefited from the contentious National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) has been released and it has 8041 names of...
made popular Nov 23 2009
In a surprisingly misinformed instance, several news sources of the country published the news of Pakistan having a better literacy rate than India. Besides newspapers,...
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Hangu police on Friday morning acted efficiently to dispose a bomb placed outside a high school and college building in the Muslim Abad neighborhood of the town. The...
made popular Nov 21 2009
In form of its young to old ratio, Pakistan has plenty of demographic resource for increasing productivity but the country is doing nothing to use this opportunity, as...
made popular Nov 21 2009
American newspaper The Washington Times has claimed that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar has been hiding in Pakistan and has recently been moved to Sindh’s capital...
made popular Nov 21 2009
Fast blower and controversial cricketer Shoaib Akhtar has once again stirred some buzz by undergoing liposuction to reduce weight and get better fit for playing...
made popular Nov 21 2009
In all the worry and flurry about terrorism and ongoing political turmoil, the country’s leadership seems to have ignored the basic necessities and living conditions...
made popular Nov 21 2009
Faced with an escalating insurgency, Pakistan increasingly views U.S. efforts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan as critical to its own security — but is worried...
made popular Nov 20 2009
A suicide bomber struck a court in Peshawar Thursday killing 26 people, the sixth attack on the northwestern city in 11 days as Pakistani troops press a major...
made popular Nov 19 2009
The UNFPA report shows that literacy ratio in Pakistan’s male population of age group above 15 years stands at 32% as against India’s 23% while for the female...
made popular Nov 19 2009
According to a recent report of the Transparency International (TI), Pakistan has become the 42nd most corrupt country in 2009. Against the 47th rank in the list of...
made popular Nov 19 2009
Since the last news about Swat’s Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah of being trapped by the security forces, he has been out of news. Now, the leader has been reported...
made popular Nov 19 2009
This windswept, sand-colored town in the badlands of western Pakistan is empty now, cleared of the militants who once claimed it as their capital. But its main brick...
made popular Nov 18 2009
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Malaysia has always prided itself as a moderate Islamic state to the world. Recent debate on drinking laws in the country has challenged such an image and questioned...
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A Sudanese woman journalist was preparing to be flogged 40 times in Khartoum on Wednesday for wearing “indecent” clothes, with 10 women already whipped for...
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The Pakistani government, desperate to restore peace to a Taliban-infested valley once known as the “Switzerland of Pakistan,” agreed yesterday to enforce...
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At length, the war-torn valley of Swat has witnessed the first successful peace deal as Nizam-e-Adl, a form of the Islamic law called Shariat, has been implemented in...
made popular Feb 20 2009
A new fatwa or Islamic edict has been issued in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which states that smoking in public is forbidden under Islam as it causes harm to...
made popular Jun 27 2008
Saudi women’s rights activists have posted on the web a video of a woman at the wheel of her car, in protest at the ban on female drivers in the kingdom.
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