Tag: Pakistan
Barely fifteen days old, Kinza whines quietly in a hospital in Islamabad, suffering from diarrhea and infection of the blood: water, increasingly rare in Pakistan, reaches dramatic levels of pollution, making tens of thousands of victims. Cloaked in a colorful blanket, Kinza moves in slow motion, like a tiny doll. His mother Sartaj, poorly dressed, […]
At least 13 people died and 82 others were injured on Monday in an attack in Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan. The incident occurred at a time when the road was crowded, notably due to a demonstration by several hundred pharmacists protesting before the Punjab Provincial Assembly against a law regulating the medical sector. […]
At least 13 people were killed and 47 wounded when a bomb exploded Saturday in a market in a predominantly Shia area of the tribal areas in northwestern Pakistan, officials said. The bombing took place in a crowded vegetable market in Parachinar, the main city of the Kurram tribal district near the border with Afghanistan. […]
Monday clashes in Karachi between Pakistani police and principal party activists in the city who ransacked a private television channel, has left at least one dead and seven injured. Television images showed dozens of men and women to break into the office of the chain, tapping on the doors, windows and appliances with bars and […]
The death toll from flash floods triggered by torrential rains in northwestern Pakistan and parts of Kashmir has risen to 53. The victims lost their lives in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and in the Neelam Valley in Pakistan-administered Kashmir after the heavy downpours that began on Saturday night caused landslides and the roofs of dozens of […]
Police in Pakistan are hunting militants behind a suicide bomb attack that has killed at least 69 people and injured at least 300 more. Sunday’s blast, which happened in a park in the eastern city of Lahore, targeted Christian families as they celebrated Easter. A Taliban faction has claimed responsibility, a faction that once declared […]
Morgues have been filling up and hospitals struggling to cope in southern Pakistan which has been struck by an intense heatwave. The authorities said on Tuesday that more than 400 people had been killed in Karachi alone over a three-day period. Amid soaring temperatures of well over 40 degrees Celsius, the electricity grid crashed over […]
A new study shows violence against Shia Muslims has been rising in Pakistan and more than 1,900 Shia Muslims have been killed in recent years, Press TV reports. The study, conducted by the Jinnah Institute, an Islamabad-based think tank, reveals unprecedented targeted killings of Shia Muslims in Pakistan in 2012 and 2015. It says some […]
A Pakistani court has freed eight out of 10 men charged with organizing the shooting of schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai, police said on Friday, a move that will raise further questions about the nation’s heavily criticized justice system. Pakistani Taliban militants claimed responsibility for attacking Malala in 2012 as she traveled home from school in […]
Eight Iranian border guards have been killed in a clash with Takfiri insurgents who had infiltrated from neighboring Pakistan, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday. “Armed terrorists entered Iran from Pakistan and clashed with border guards, killing eight soldiers before fleeing back to Pakistan,” Ali Asghar Mirshekari, deputy governor of Sistan-Baluchistan province, told […]
