At least 89 people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack in the Patika province of Afghanistan this morning. No group has yet taken responsibility for the attack, but Reuters notes that members of the Pakistani Taliban have been retreating to this area of Afghanistan to avoid military attacks in Pakistan.
Pakistani police say that five relatives of a pregnant woman stoned to death for marrying against the family's wishes have been indicted in the case in Lahore. All five men have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and torture.
Pakistani army troops ride in military vehicles after fighter jets attacked Taliban strongholds in North Waziristan, killing at least 27 militants. Several hours later, the insurgents fought back with a roadside bomb that killed at least six soldiers, according to the Pakistani army. [Photo via AP/Shakil Adil]
In retaliation for the last week's attack on Jinnah airport in Karachi, Pakistan, U.S. drones fired missiles at Taliban encampments in the country, killing at least 13 militants.
Following their promise earlier this week to engage in a "full-out war with the Pakistani state, starting on June 10," the Pakistani Taliban attacked the Airport Security Forces camp near Jinnah Airport in Karachi on Tuesday, the second attack in the area in two days.
The Pakistani Taliban took credit on Monday for an attack on Pakistan's busiest airport, according to The New York Times. On Sunday night, 10 gunmen — some of them dressed as police — entered the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan and led a five-hour assault in the VIP terminal, killing 19 people. The…
Between four and 10 gunmen attacked a terminal at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan late Sunday night, killing at least people.
Now that polio is out of control in Pakistan, the White House has finally decided to let it be known that the CIA is very sorry about using public-health efforts as cover in its secret war—thereby encouraging anti-vaccination violence—and we won't do it anymore. (Unless we're lying about that, as more misdirection.)
Over 42 people have died in a bus accident in the Sindh province of Pakistan in what officials are describing as one of the worst traffic accidents in the country in recent memory. A bus, overloaded with 75 people, crashed head on with a tractor trailer. The driver and several others were killed immediately.
A 9-month-old Pakistani baby accused of raiding a state-run gas company and plotting to murder police has gone into hiding following his first court appearance last week.
A Department of Defense study released earlier this year found that drone operators experience the same levels of stress as combat pilots in manned aircraft. Although they're separated by thousands of miles from the casualties they cause, the job of a drone pilot still requires whatever internal reckoning it takes to…
Muhammad Mosa Khan, also known as "Musa," appeared in a Pakistani court this week, one of 30 people accused of trying to steal gas and murder police by stoning them to death. Musa is 9 months old.
International editions of the New York Times appeared in Pakistan Saturday with a huge gaping white space where a story on Pakistan's alleged ties to Osama Bin Laden should have been, according to multiple reports from journalists and observers in the region.
As if life weren't miserable enough, even monkeys are working themselves to the bone. Associated Press photographer Muhammed Muheisen has shared a series of photos captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan of worker monkeys whose purpose is to entertain humans by dancing, shaking hands, and performing other tricks for money.
Twelve years ago yesterday, reporter Daniel Pearl was abducted in Pakistan, looking for 9/11 leads. He was ultimately beheaded on video by the jihadist lunatic he sought. Read Asra Nomani's touching tribute to Pearl—and her ultimate proof of his murderer's identity.
A brave teen is being credited with saving the lives of many this week when he threw himself on the a suicide bomber who was about to detonate inside his school.
Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani woman who was shot in the head by the Taliban for believing that women have a right to education, met with President Obama on Friday, thanking him for his support of education and asking him to stop drone strikes in Pakistan.
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake killed more than 270 people in western Pakistan on Wednesday. The powerful quake also created a small island off of Pakistan's southwest coast.
Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari finished his five-year term today, making him the first democratically elected leader in the country to complete a full term.
"If you want sex too, it's a gay man's paradise. If you want a relationship, that may be more difficult," says a citizen not of Hell's Kitchen, but Pakistan in this surprising BBC report on the country's gay scene.
