The Pakistani capital of Islamabad has been “under siege” by hundreds of Muslim extremists demanding strict adherence to the country’s anti-blasphemy laws and the resignation of the federal law minister accused of breaking them.
Pakistani Muslims in Birmingham have told ITV News their community is not to blame for the child sex grooming epidemic, saying the crimes are caused by conditions in British society.
Married Pakistani doctor Imran Rauf Qureshi, 44, faces being struck off after sexually assaulting a student nurse he saw as “sexually available”, blaming different “culture norms” for his behaviour.
The United States is expected to spend nearly $6 trillion through 2018 on government-wide costs related to the wars waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria since 2001, reveals a study by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
Islamabad has doubled down on enforcing Pakistan’s strict and controversial anti-Islamic blasphemy law, forming a regulatory body to monitor and block blasphemous content in cyberspace.
An unhappily married Pakistani woman claims the 17 people she murdered were unintended victims of a botched plan to poison her husband and end her arranged marriage so that she could be with her boyfriend.
Contents: India begins shipping wheat to Afghanistan through Iran’s Chabahar port; In retaliation, Afghanistan bans entry of Pakistan trucks; Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) – conduit of smuggling
The Dutch government has admitted that technology from the Netherlands may have been used to develop weapons of mass destruction in Iran, Pakistan or Syria.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, in New Delhi, Wednesday. The two stood united in calling for India’s arch-rival Pakistan to take a tougher line on terror.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived outside Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday for an unannounced visit.
Pakistan’s ongoing plan to build a fence to prevent cross-border jihadi attacks along most of the porous international boundary it shares with Afghanistan continues to dismay U.S-backed Kabul, which claims the barrier would break up families and friends.
China has denounced Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s surprisingly stern criticism during an appearance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, claiming that, contrary to Tillerson’s allegations of predatory economic practices in developing nations, Beijing “steadfastly upholds the international order.”
Pakistani authorities have detained six police officers on murder charges linked to the killing of a Christian boy who beat up a fellow Muslim classmate who allegedly “bullied” him “regularly,” reports the British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA), which tracks cases of Christian persecution in the Muslim-majority country.
Police in Pakistan have arrested Mufti Mohammad Qawi for his alleged role in the honor killing of social media star Qandeel Baloch. Baloch’s brother strangled the 26-year-old, who had become famous for posting seductive photos on Facebook, after she called Qawi a “hypocrite” on social media and accused him of violating the Ramadan fast.
America’s Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian husband, and her children were released by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network this week, according to a Fox News report.
The UK government has published one of the world’s most extensive audits of racial disparity, picking out various differences to imply the nation is institutionally racist.
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Pakistan will discontinue its discussions with the United States this month if U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration insists on pressuring Islamabad to stop harboring terrorists who are fighting and killing American troops in Afghanistan, the Express-Tribune learned from an anonymous “well-placed source.”
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, in an exclusive interview Sunday with Breitbart News, discussed the administration’s foreign policy, from the war in Afghanistan to Iran.
The British government is set to publish a ‘disparity audit’ which reveals that Pakistani women in Britain are “shockingly badly integrated” and “living in an entirely different society”.
Contents: Bangladesh builds huge refugee camp for 800,000 displaced Rohingyas from Burma (Myanmar); Rohingya crisis expands into Kashmir, creating a mega-crisis
Beijing has ordered 500 soldiers to accompany construction workers as they once again try to extend a road on the Doklam Plateau region that sits along China’s border with its regional rival India after New Delhi thwarted the communist country’s first attempt to expand the lane.
The Daily Caller’s Luke Rosiak suggests indicted Democratic IT aide Imran Awan sent cash to a relative in Pakistani law enforcement and once bragged he could have people taken in and beaten at his request.
The United States and Beijing share a common goal of combating terrorist groups that operate in China’s neighbor Afghanistan, the highest-ranking military officer in the American armed forces indicated Tuesday.
A U.S.-born “al-Qaeda terrorist” is facing up to life behind bars after a federal jury in New York found him guilty of conspiring with others to use a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) to attack an American base in Afghanistan, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Authorities in Pakistan’s Sindh province have officially charged four Muslims, including two women, with committing blasphemy against Islam during a wedding, an act that carries a potential penalty of life imprisonment or death.
Russia and U.S.-designated state sponsor of terrorism Iran continue to provide weapons and other military aid to Taliban jihadists in Afghanistan, reiterates United States Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, repeating accusations made by the United States armed forces.
The editorial board of Chinese state newspaper Global Times penned a piece blasting “India’s bigotry toward Pakistan,” a staunch Chinese ally, following Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
U.S. Defense Jim Mattis is not planning to visit Pakistan during his ongoing trip to South Asia where he hopes to enhance America’s growing military relationship with India, a decision that is expected to draw the ire of New Delhi’s regional rival Islamabad.
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A Muslim extremist man executed in Pakistan for killing a governor after he urged the country to reform its controversial blasphemy law in support of a Christian woman has reportedly galvanized the head a new Islamist party to adopt the rallying cry of “death to blasphemers.”
Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has threatened to use short-range nuclear weapons to counter the “Cold Start” military doctrine adopted by India’s military to retaliate immediately if its Muslim-majority rival decides to attack.
Over 500 migrants have been evacuated by French police from a migrant camp in a suburb of the northern French city of Dunkirk.
Court cases involving the controversial anti-blasphemy law primarily used against Christian minority group members accused of insulting Islam seldom result in a fair trial in predominantly Muslim Pakistan, often leading to a harsh verdict of life in prison or death, reports Voice of America (VOA).
Contents: Burma’s (Myanmar’s) ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas leading to humanitarian catastrophe; at press conference, Boris Johnson and Rex Tillerson make delusional statements; Rohingya genocide forces India to choose between Burma and Bangladesh; North Korea fires another ballistic missile over Japan
Pakistan is open to engaging in joint border patrols with Afghan forces, the Pakistani prime minister (PM) told reporters this week, amid U.S. pressure on Islamabad for harboring terrorists who are fighting and killing American troops and their allies in neighboring Afghanistan.
Former al-Qaeda fighters have launched a new group in terrorist safe haven Pakistan for jihadists who have severed ties with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in the region.
Contents: Students at Pakistan’s prestigious Karachi University implicated in terrorism; Pakistan says that there is ‘no terrorist wing at Karachi University’
A teenager from a Christian family has been beaten to death by Muslim classmates at the MC Model Boys Government High School in Pakistan, allegedly for drinking from the same water cooler as them.
China has come out in defense of its ally and nighbor Pakistan after U.S. President Donald Trump accused the Muslim-majority country of harboring Islamic terrorists, something that Beijing itself has acknowledged.
