Tag: Pakistan

Report: Ex-Pakistan leader’s emergency act illegal

Munir Ahmed · May 14, 2014 6:33 pm

Pakistani suspects of a gang rape, center, leave a court after outraged citizens pelted the suspects with ink and tomatoes, in Mansehra, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Pakistani police have arrested a seminary teacher and two of his friends on charges of gang raping a college girl in a city in the northwest, a police official said Wednesday. The case is unusual since rape cases are rarely prosecuted in Pakistan and women who complain are often stigmatized. (AP Photo/Aqeel Ahmad)

Pakistan police arrest teacher for gang rape

Aqeel Ahmad · May 14, 2014 1:48 pm

An American national, center, reportedly working for the FBI, leaves a police station in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, May 8, 2014. Pakistan released an FBI agent on bail Thursday after three days in custody, officials said, a move that is likely to prevent the situation from escalating into a diplomatic spat. The American man was detained after airport authorities found him carrying ammunition and three knives Monday as he was about to board a flight for the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.(AP Photo/Mohammad Khalil)

National Security

Pakistan court asks police to charge FBI agent

adil-jawad · May 10, 2014 10:47 am

An American national, center, reportedly working for the FBI, leaves a police station in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, May 8, 2014. Pakistan released an FBI agent on bail Thursday after three days in custody, officials said, a move that is likely to prevent the situation from escalating into a diplomatic spat. The American man was detained after airport authorities found him carrying ammunition and three knives Monday as he was about to board a flight for the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.(AP Photo/Mohammad Khalil)

National Security

Pakistan frees FBI agent on bail

Washington Examiner · May 8, 2014 6:09 pm

A Pakistani police commando stands guard near the scene where NATO trucks were attacked in the Pakistani tribal area of Jamrud near Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, May, 5, 2014. A local Pakistani government official says militants have attacked a NATO supply convoy en route to Afghanistan, killing two drivers. (AP Photo/ Mohammad Sajjad)

Attacks kill 10 Pakistani troops; missile tested

Riaz Khan · May 8, 2014 4:17 pm

Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the April 15, 2014, mass abduction of nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria. (AP Photo/File)

Beltway Confidential

Muslim leaders criticize Boko Haram abduction of Nigerian school girls

Ashe Schow · May 7, 2014 4:00 am

Amnesty urges Pakistan to probe threats to media

Amnesty urges Pakistan to probe threats to media

Asif Shahzad · April 30, 2014 1:44 pm

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Needed: A workable nuclear deterrent strategy

Jed Babbin · April 30, 2014 4:00 am

Bomb kills 4, wounds 25 in southern Pakistan

Bomb kills 4, wounds 25 in southern Pakistan

Washington Examiner · April 25, 2014 10:23 am

Pakistani journalists protest for their colleague Hamid Mir, who was shot and injured by gunmen in Karachi on Saturday, Monday, April 21, 2014 in Karachi, Pakistan. Police in Pakistan said gunmen shot the famous television talk show host amid a wave of attacks on journalists in the country. Police say Hamid Mir, a host on the private television broadcaster Geo, was wounded in the attack Saturday, April 19, 2014, near Karachi's airport. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Pakistan’s army wants TV news channel shut down

Asif Shahzad · April 23, 2014 7:35 pm

Pakistani police officers carry the coffins of their colleagues killed in an ambush on a police patrol, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Two militant attacks in northwestern Pakistan killed many people, including five policemen, on Tuesday, officials said. There was no claim of responsibility for the attacks but provincial police chief Nasir Durrani said the attacks were retaliation for recent arrests of Taliban militants in the region. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Militant attacks in northwestern Pakistan kill 8

Riaz Khan · April 22, 2014 9:58 am

UN: 2 UNICEF staff abducted in Pakistan are free

UN: 2 UNICEF staff abducted in Pakistan are free

Washington Examiner · April 21, 2014 4:52 pm