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As in most civilized countries, the legal age a young girl can marry in India is 18. Any younger and the child is just not mature enough. Personally I think there would be far fewer divorces if the age limit were higher, but 18 is common everywhere....
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Pakistan’s top court struck down an amnesty Wednesday that had protected U.S.-allied President Asif Ali Zardari from corruption charges, setting the stage for...
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A Pashtun jirga may be the last option for settling issues and precipitating peace in Pashtun inabitated areas of Pakistan.
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A key plank of President Obama’s strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan was in danger of giving way last night after a refusal by Pakistan to take on a top Taleban...
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David Headley case is getting murkier day by day, confirming the worst fears. Perhaps like Pakistan, USA is also paying for its sins which go back to cold war era. As...
made popular Dec 16 2009
Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) has blocked Voice of America’s (VOA) 4-hour Pashto language programme on the latter’s alleged deviation from agreement.
made popular Dec 16 2009
A car bombing outside a politician’s home in central Pakistan has killed 22 people and wounded 70 others.
Tuesday’s attack in Dera Ghazi Khan town in...
made popular Dec 15 2009
Anas bin Saleem, a 12-year-old American, spends seven hours a day sitting cross-legged on the floor memorizing the Quran.
He is one of thousands of foreigners who have...
made popular Dec 15 2009
One is often asked whether or not Pakistan will survive the current crisis. You tell them that, yes, Pakistan will survive. After all, territories don’t grow feet to...
made popular Dec 14 2009
Provincial capital Peshawar will finally have its first zoo in near future as the Wildlife Department has been ordered to carry out a feasibility study for the project....
made popular Dec 14 2009
They are a little like the deprogrammers who try to coax young — and not so young — impressionable people out of cults. But if anything, their work is more...
made popular Dec 12 2009
Let us have an overview on Pakistan’s present situation. The Supreme Court of Pakistan is engaged in deliberating petitions against the National Reconciliation...
made popular Dec 12 2009
In what is being regarded as a historic instance of national consensus in the country over the Seventh National Financial Commission (NFC) Award, the federal divisible...
made popular Dec 12 2009
Packaged milk is widely used throughout the country, including a large number of children, each day. Selling contaminated milk has apparently been going on for a long...
made popular Dec 12 2009
The officials told NBC News that the attack using Hellfire missiles had taken place in the last few days.
They said the target was not the network’s Saudi leader...
made popular Dec 11 2009
The alleged criminal of the biggest scam in Pakistan’s banking history, Hamesh Khan, has reportedly been arrested by the US authorities. Hamesh, who was the president...
made popular Dec 11 2009
Packaged milk in the markets is adulterated with different health-threatening substances, melamine and detergents. This was learnt from Standards and Quality Control...
made popular Dec 11 2009
As the United Nations’ Climate Summit starts in Copenhagen, Denmark, today, the Asian Development Bank is considering channeling $700 million to help developing...
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The Supreme Court of Pakistan, which is hearing the controversial NRO ordinance case on a daily basis, has asked the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to submit a...
made popular Dec 10 2009
Five young Muslim American men from the Washington suburbs who disappeared late last month were detained in Pakistan on Wednesday in a police raid on a house linked to...
made popular Dec 10 2009
The war on terror continues to slither across the country and the most recent surge in armed conflict between security forces and militants has been in the Orakzai...
made popular Dec 10 2009
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Mr Abdul-Jawad appeared on a Lebanese chat show, Bold Red Line, in July. In the programme, which could be seen by TV viewers in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia, he...
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Aceh, Indonesia’s northernmost province, has this month been compared to Somalia, Nigeria and even Iraq. So it goes when lawmakers decide that death by stoning is an...
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Iran is set to allow what is believed to be its first transsexual marriage after the would-be bride asked a court to override her father’s opposition to the...
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Some where the feeling of guilt and a sense of wrongdoing has gone deep into the mind of Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarnor, the 32 year old Malaysian model who was caught...
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Shiite Muslim Afghan women have been thrown to the dogs for political gain by President Hamid Karzai who surreptitiously enacted a marriage law that states, in essence,...
made popular Aug 18 2009
Are women sex slaves? I am shattered & shocked to read the new law in Afghanistan where by a husband can deny wife food if sex is denied by her at least once in...
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According to the media reports and credible sources, Pakistan Security Forces has killed more than 1000 militants, hundred of insurgents suffered serious injuries and...
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Since the fighting in Swat gained intensity after the Prime Minister’s address to the nation on Thursday, more than a million people have fled their homes in the...
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Another surprising event took place after nizam-e-adl regulation. It seems like Pakistan government has started changing its policies regarding terrorism and militancy...
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If you’re wondering what the West is doing in Afghanistan, you are not alone!
Oh yea, I know all about the poverty, the corrupt government, the religion, the...
made popular Apr 17 2009
When Gujerat Chief Minister Modi taunted Congress as a Bhudiya (old hags) party, there was this immediate response from Mrs. Priyanka Gandhi Vadhera that does her face...
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Being in love can get you killed, if your parents don’t approve and you happen to live somewhere in the wild west, backward, Taliban-controlled regions of...
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The Sharia peace deal, aka Nizam-e-Adl, is becoming a bone of contention between the federal government and the local population of the Malakand agency. Due to its...
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Looks like the Taliban have been emboldened by the so-called ‘peace treaty’, or what I like to think of as ‘appeasement agreement’, in the Swat...
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With green meadows, high mountains and clear lakes, Swat is a favourite tourist destination, often called ‘the Switzerland of Pakistan’. Like the rest of the...
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Sufi Mohammed, the leader of the pro-Taliban group behind the peace agreement between the government and the Taliban, has advocated Islamic rule throughout the world.
made popular Feb 20 2009
Divorce is painful for everyone involved, especially for the person being asked for a divorce. No-one likes personal confrontation, but with all the new technology we...
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