How technology helped Pakistan to its 'fairest' elections ever
Agence France-Presse | Wednesday May 15, 2013
It was targeted by the Taliban, women and minorities were vastly under-represented, and videos of irregularities went viral online - yet Pakistan's 2013 election may still have been its fairest ever.
Why minorities in Pakistan have no faith in democracy
Associated Press | Tuesday May 7, 2013
In majority Muslim Pakistan, religious minorities say democracy is killing them. Intolerance has been on the rise for the past five years under Pakistan's democratically elected government because of the growing violence of Islamic radicals, who are...
Pakistani man given two death sentences for rape and murder of minor
Press Trust of India | Friday March 15, 2013
A Pakistani court has awarded two death sentences to a man who raped and killed an eight-year-old girl in the central Punjab province.
Roadside bomb kills three Pakistan troops: officials
Agence France-Presse | Monday March 11, 2013
A roadside bomb attack on Monday in northwest Pakistan's restive tribal region killed three soldiers and wounded two others, officials said.
50 arrested over raid on Christian colony in Pakistan
Press Trust of India | Sunday March 10, 2013
About 50 people have been arrested in eastern Pakistani city after a mob torched over 150 homes of the minority Christian community in search of an alleged blasphemer.
Karachi: At least 48 killed as blasts target Shia-dominated area
Press Trust of India | Monday March 4, 2013
At least 48 people, including women and children, were killed and 140 injured when two powerful blasts ripped through a Shia-dominated area of the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, the latest in a string of attacks targeting the minority sect.
Sleepy Kyle Abbott almost missed dream debut
Agence France Presse | Sunday February 24, 2013
At that stage he was designated as a back-up player and he was happy just to be welcomed by the national players, "seeing how the number one team in the world prepares for Test matches and how they go about their business". On Thursday, the day be...
Pakistan sacks provincial government after attack
Associated Press | Monday January 14, 2013
Pakistani leaders dismissed the government of southwest Baluchistan province early on Monday in response to the demands of protesters angry about an attack on minority Shiite Muslims there that killed 86 people.
Pakistani Hindu girl admitted to hospital ten days after being raped
Press Trust of India | Friday December 14, 2012
A six-year-old Hindu girl who was allegedly raped in Pakistan's southern Sindh province has been admitted to a hospital in Karachi about 10 days after she was molested, according to media reports on Friday.
White Britons now a minority in London
Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday December 11, 2012
For the first time ever, white British people are now in a minority in London as migrants from India, Pakistan, Ireland, Germany and Poland added up to over three million people over the past decade, a government report said on Tuesday.
Seven die in blast near Pakistan Shiite procession
Agence France-Presse | Saturday November 24, 2012
A bomb exploded near a Shiite religious procession in northwest Pakistan on Saturday killing three children and wounding more than a dozen people, police said. The roadside device was planted on the route of a religious procession of the minority Sh...
Bus carrying Indian fishermen meets with accident in Pakistan
Press Trust of India | Monday November 12, 2012
A bus transporting 15 Indian fishermen released from a Pakistani jail met with an accident in Punjab province on Monday, causing minor injuries to four of them, officials said.
Pakistan army asks Christians to vacate their homes in its camp
Press Trust of India | Monday October 15, 2012
Leaders of the minority Christian community in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan have alleged that some 30 families were directed to leave their homes inside an army camp where they have lived for decades.
In twist for Pakistan, Muslims accused of blasphemy after temple is ransacked
Associated Press | Monday October 1, 2012
Pakistan's blasphemy laws may be used to punish Muslims suspected of ransacking a Hindu temple, an intriguing twist for a country where harsh laws governing religious insults are primarily used against supposed offenses to Islam, not minority faiths....
Pakistan: In twist, Muslims accused of blasphemy
Associated Press | Monday October 1, 2012
A group of Muslims suspected of ransacking a Hindu temple in southern Pakistan may be charged with blasphemy, police said Sunday. The case is a rare twist on the use of the country's harsh blasphemy laws, which are more often invoked against supposed...
