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Pakistan Court Upholds Death Penalty in Christian Woman's Blasphemy Case
Asia Bibi's blasphemy conviction is symbolic and highly charged. But there's an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty in Pakistan with only one carried out since 2008. She also has several paths of appeal.
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City at war - where a police officer is killed every day
Pakistan's police are on the front line battling the Taliban. Not just in the remote north of the country, near the border with Afghanistan, but in Karachi, the country's economic and cultural heart.
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Pakistan to have 200 nuclear weapons by 2020
Pakistan has the fastest growing nuclear weapons programme in the world and by 2020 it could have enough fissile material to produce more than 200 nuclear devices, a top American think tank has said.
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Four Polio Vaccinators Shot Dead in Southwest Pakistan
Gunmen killed four members of a polio vaccination team in Pakistan's restive southwest on Wednesday, and one survivor recounted screaming at police and dozens of passers-by for help before it finally arrived.
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Why Pakistan won't hunt down the terrorists within its borders
If there is anything approaching a silver lining in the horrific slaughter of 132 school children in Peshawar, it is the united outrage in Pakistan against Tehreek-e-Taliban (or the Pakistan Taliban) that perpetrated this gruesome attack. Virtually every newspaper in the country — left, right, and center — demanded that the Pakistani establishment declare a "zero tolerance" policy toward all Islamist terrorists, no ifs, ands, or buts.
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Pakistan to execute 500 militants in light of Peshawar massacre
Pakistan plans to execute around 500 militants following the deadliest terror attack in the nation’s history, officials said Monday. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reinstated the death penalty for terrorism-related cases in response to Tuesday’s attack on a school in Peshawar, which left 149 people, including 133 children, dead, the Agence France-Presse reported.
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Pakistani Forces Kill Alleged Organizer of School Massacre
As the country mourns, the government is stepping up its assault on Islamist militant groups.
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A Pakistani extremist wanted me dead, says Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook honcho Mark Zuckerberg triggered off an online avalanche of protests, and a war of words between Pakistani trolls and Indian baiters, after revealing in the midst of the Charlie Hedbo imbroglio that a Pakistani extremist had sought to have him sentenced to death because Facebook refused to ban content about Mohammed that offended him.
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FBI's most wanted cybercriminal arrested in Pakistan
Pakistani officials on Saturday arrested two men wanted for cyber crimes by Interpol and the FBI for defrauding several companies and individuals of over $50 million. Mir Mazhar Jabbar, a senior official with Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency, told AFP his team had arrested Noor Aziz and Farhan Arshad from the northern part Karachi, the country's largest city and commercial hub.
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Pakistanis face a deadline: Surrender fingerprints or give up cellphone
Cellphones didn’t just arrive in Pakistan. But someone could be fooled into thinking otherwise, considering the tens of millions of Pakistanis pouring into mobile phone stores these days. In one of the world’s largest — and fastest — efforts to collect biometric information, Pakistan has ordered cellphone users to verify their identities through fingerprints for a national database being compiled to curb terrorism. If they don’t, their service will be shut off, an unthinkable option...
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Taliban Suicide Bomb Attacks on Pakistan Churches Kill 14
Taliban suicide bombers kill 14 people in attacks on two crowded churches in the Pakistani city of Lahore.
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Malala Yousafzai Gets Her Own Asteroid
Nasa names an asteroid after schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai.
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Husband sets wife on fire in Pakistan 'honour killing'
A Pakistani man and his father have been arrested in the country's latest so-called "honour killing" after they set the son's wife alight for leaving the house without asking his permission, police said Sunday. Muhammad Siddique became enraged on learning that his wife, Shabana Bibi, 25, had visited her sister without first asking him if she could go out, her brother Muhammad Azam said.
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The Killing of Osama bin Laden
It’s been four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The killing was the high point of Obama’s first term, and a major factor in his re-election. The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance.
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Osama bin Laden was a prisoner in Abbottabad, Pakistani intelligence officer leaked his information, report says
A former Pakistani intelligence officer disclosed the hideout of Osama bin Laden to CIA in exchange for $25 million bounty on the head of the al-Qaida chief, who was living as prisoner under ISI protection in the garrison town of Abbottabad, according to a report. "In August 2010 a former senior Pakistani intelligence officer approached Jonathan Bank, then the CIA's station chief at the US embassy in Islamabad.
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Fake Diplomas, Real Cash: Pakistani Company Axact Reaps Millions
Seen from the Internet, it is a vast education empire: hundreds of universities and high schools, with elegant names and smiling professors at sun-dappled American campuses. Their websites, glossy and assured, offer online degrees in dozens of disciplines, like nursing and civil engineering. There are glowing endorsements on the CNN iReport website, enthusiastic video testimonials, and State Department authentication certificates bearing the signature of Secretary of State John Kerry.
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India's economic growth to surpass China's in 2015-16: UN report
India's economic growth is projected to surpass that of China's, with the GDP expected to zoom by 7.7 percent in 2016, according to a UN report which said India will help accelerate economic growth in South Asia.
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Remembering Pakistan’s Biggest and Baddest Fraud Scandal
Before Axact, there was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
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Reports of deal with Pakistani spy agency rile some in Afghanistan
An intelligence-sharing pact with Pakistan has sparked anger and confusion in neighboring Afghanistan and fresh criticism of President Ashraf Ghani’s approach to ending the conflict with Taliban insurgents.
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Pakistan calls for urgent measures as heatwave toll nears 700
Pakistan's prime minister calls for urgent measures as a heatwave in Sindh province claims nearly 700 lives.
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