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Pakistan’s Air Force (PAF) commander has reportedly ordered to take down drones violating the country’s sovereignty, including that of the US. Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman also recalled a historic breach of trust incident over a batch of US-made F-16’s which Pakistan paid for, but never received. The jabs against America, a key ally, came […]
Half a dozen men from Afghanistan and Pakistan who crossed the US-Mexico border illegally to seek refuge were deported after being cleared of ties to ISIS. Their arrests were cited by local and federal officials to call for increased border militarization. The six men were detained by Border Patrol after crossing the US-Mexico border in […]
Published time: 27 Nov, 2017 04:36 Activists supporting the hardline Islamist party, the Tehreek-i-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah, will call off their weeks-long protest after the government agreed to their demands, which included the resignation of Law Minister Zahid Hamid, who stepped down Monday morning. The government yielded to protesters’ demands after intense weekend clashes with […]
Published time: 31 Oct, 2017 15:50 A woman in Pakistan is alleged to have fatally poisoned 15 of her in-laws in a botched effort to kill her husband and escape her arranged marriage. The incident occurred in Daulatpur village in the Muzaffargarh area of the Punjab region on Friday, the Express Tribune reports. Asiya Bibi […]
Published time: 26 Oct, 2017 12:30 A documentary detailing the struggles of squash player Maria Toorpakai, who was forced to disguise herself as a boy to play squash in a volatile area of Pakistan, has scooped a top award. ‘Girl Unbound: The War to be Her’ recently won the Peace and Sport Documentary Prize at […]
discusspakistan.com ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Bomb blasts killed a Pakistani army officer and three soldiers searching for the kidnappers of a freed U.S.-Canadian family in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, Pakistani and U.S. officials said. Pakistan’s army said the attacks in Kurram tribal district on Sunday also wounded three soldiers during the search for those who […]
The Pakistani police have arrested more than a dozen members of a village council in the eastern province of Punjab after they ordered the “honor revenge” rape of a teenage girl as punishment for a rape allegedly committed by her brother. “A jirga [village council] had ordered the rape of a 16-year-old girl as punishment, […]
Published time: 12 Jul, 2017 11:00 A scandal is raging in Pakistan over a report claiming that the PM’s daughter, Maryam, forged documents for an investigation into illegal offshore properties using a Microsoft Word font introduced years after the documents were allegedly created. The papers she submitted were for a team looking into unlawful offshore […]
Mukhtar Mai, a woman at the center of a high-profile case involving a so-called ‘honor revenge’ rape in rural Pakistan, has traveled to the US to watch an opera based on her story. “I was very emotional when I first started watching it and began reliving the incident in my mind,” Mai, 37, told AFP […]
A Shiite Muslim has been sentenced to death for sharing blasphemous content about Sunni religious leaders and the Prophet Mohammed’s wives on Facebook in Pakistan – the country’s first conviction on charges stemming from social media. Judge Shabbir Ahmad Awan announced the verdict on Saturday in Bahawalpur in the eastern Punjab Province, finding Taimoor Raza […]
