Pakistan : People's Resistance Against Taliban

 By Zia Ur Rehman   The fact “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty” proved itself true in a remote area of Dir District of North West Pakistan where the locals attacked on a stronghold of Taliban militants near Pak-Afghan bordering...

Pakistan says 751 militants, 29 troops killed in troubled region

Pakistani military, which is battling militants in the troubled Malakand region, on Tuesday said that 751 militants and 29 troops had so far been killed in the military operations in three restive districts of Buner, Dir and Swat.Maj. On the other hand, the military spokesman...

889 killed in 61 suicide bombings in Pakistan this year

At least 889 persons were killed and 2,072 others injured in 61 suicide attacks in Pakistan so far this year, as the total number of suicide bombings in the country since 2002 rose to 140.The suicide bombings in 2008 surpassed the last year's figures of 56, including the one...

USAID official, driver kidnapped in Pakistan

As the Pakistani authorities have yet to recover the kidnapped Afghan ambassador-designate, an Iranian commercial attaché and a Chinese telecom engineer, suspected militants have kidnapped an official of the United States Agency for International Development along with his...

Hard lesson: Young Pakistani fan of Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan vows to exce...

A Pakistani youth, who deserted school in the mountainous Dir region and entered India without having valid documents, has realised his mistake and has vowed to excel in education by working hard. The boy had...

Chinese telecom engineer kidnapped in Pakistan three months ago still languis...

A telecom engineer of Chinese origin, who was kidnapped by militants in Pakistan's mountainous Dir Lower district bordering the restive tribal region on August 29 along with another Chinese colleague, a guard and...

Pakisani security forces rescue Chinese engineer who fled captivity of militants

As the Pakistan government failed to recover two Chinese engineers of a cellular company from the militants in the restive Dir region of the country, they made a desperate attempt to flee and one of them was recaptured by the militants while other has been rescued by the...

300 abducted children rescued from militants

Update: Latest news says that all the children have been rescued."The local residents rescued on Thursday more than 300 school children who were earlier abducted by the militants.According to sources, militants kidnapped more than 300 children at a government school in...

At least 25 killed in grenade attack on mosque in Pakistan

At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 others injured Wednesday when some unidentified persons threw hand grenades in a mosque during evening prayers at Banai in Maskeni area of Dir Lower district in Pakistan’s troubled North West Frontier Province (NWFP)....

Pakistani militants claim kidnapping of Chinese engineers

The Swat chapter of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers of Zong cellular company and their Pakistani driver and guard and warned of...

Vast Nazi archive opens to public

I guess Ahmadinejad has some studying to do. "AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - After more than 60 years, Nazi documents stored in a vast warehouse in Germany were unsealed Wednesday, opening a rich resource for Holocaust historians and for survivors to delve into their own...

American press get-together discusses press repression

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) devoted the entire day to its semi-annual "country-by-country reports" in which publishers and editors from around the hemisphere describe the most recent advances -- or setbacks -- of press freedom in their nations. It wasn't a...

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