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Brother kills sister for voting in Pakistan
An angry brother shot his elder sister dead because she voted in Pakistani local elections after he had forbidden her to do so, police said Wednesday. The murder occurred in the town of Taxila 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of Islamabad on Tuesday, according to officials. Danish Ali, 20, was furious because his sister Asifa Noreen, a 32-year old schoolteacher, had defied his instructions and cast her vote, local police official Naeem Abbas told AFP.
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Why K2 Brings Out the Best and Worst in Those Who Climb It
Mountaineers risk avalanches, storms, conflicts, and a curse when they attempt to summit the peak.
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27th December 2007 - Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto assassinated
Benazir Bhutto, a former Pakistani prime minister and the first democratically elected female leader of a Muslim country, is assassinated at age 54 in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. A polarizing figure at home and abroad, Bhutto had spent three decades struggling to stay afloat in the murky waters of Pakistani politics.
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The Pakistani Dystopia
Each time a Pakistani leader reaches out to make peace with India, his own army thwarts him. By Dexter Filkins.
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Thousands at funeral of Pakistani executed for murdering governor
Huge crowds mourn for Mumtaz Qadri, who was hanged for killing Salmaan Taseer over his opposition to blasphemy laws
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Top Pakistani religious body rules women's protection law 'un-Islamic'
A powerful Pakistani religious body that advises the government on the compatibility of laws with Islam on Thursday declared a new law that criminalizes violence against women to be "un-Islamic."
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Pakistan: Bus bomb explosion kills 15 in Peshawar
At least 15 people travelling on a bus have been killed by a bomb in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say. The vehicle was carrying government employees from nearby areas to the city. An improvised device apparently inside the bus caused the blast, police say. There has been no claim of responsibility, but Peshawar has frequently been targeted by the Pakistani Taliban. Around 30 others were injured, and many were in critical condition...
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Suicide bomber targeting Christians kills 65, mostly women and children, in Pakistan park
Pakistani authorities launched a hunt on Monday for militants behind a suicide bomb that killed at least 65 people in an attack that targeted Christians and was claimed by a Taliban faction that once declared ties with Islamic State. Most of the victims of the bomb attack at a park in the eastern city of Lahore on Sunday evening were women and children enjoying an Easter weekend outing.
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Pakistan Floods Kill at Least 53 After Heavy Rains
At least 53 people have been killed by flash floods caused by several days of torrential rain in northwest Pakistan, officials say.
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Strong earthquake jolts Pakistan
An earthquake of 6.6 magnitude jolted Islamabad, Pakistan along with parts of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday. At least one person was killed and many anothers injured in Pakistan. The casualty was a result of tremors causing a landslide on the Karakar mountain range connecting Swat and Buner. The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) said the earthquake magnitude was 5.9, with its epicentre in the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border region.
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Glaciers with a Flotilla of 'Ice Sails'
Rare and somewhat esoteric. These are the huge pyramids of ice that stand proud of the surface on some glaciers.
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The Taliban think McDonald’s is ‘tasteless and too pricey’
McDonald’s has a new arch-enemy — the Taliban. The fast-food chain opened its first eatery in Pakistan’s western city of Quetta, the reputed home of the fundamentalist group’s ruling co…
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After presiding over bin Laden raid, CIA chief in Pakistan came home suspecting he was poisoned by ISI
Two months after Osama bin Laden was killed, the CIA’s top operative in Pakistan was pulled out of the country in an abrupt move vaguely attributed to health concerns and his strained relationship with Islamabad. In reality, the CIA station chief was so violently ill that he was often doubled over in pain, current and former U.S. officials said. Trips out of the country for treatment proved futile. And the cause of his ailment was so mysterious, the officials said, that both...
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Shopkeeper killed dozens with ‘revenge’ sweets
A Pakistani sweet shop owner has confessed to fatally poisoning at least 30 people by lacing his goods with pesticide in an attempt to take revenge on his older brother, police said Friday. Khalid Mehmood confessed in a court in central Punjab province that he had poisoned the sweets after his elder brother Tariq, who owned the sweet shop with him, “insulted and abused” him in a business dispute.
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Council: Pakistani men can beat wives 'lightly'
The leader of a Pakistani Islamic council has proposed a bill that allows husbands to "lightly beat" their wives as a form of discipline. In the 75-page proposal, Mohammad Khan Sheerani suggests a light beating is acceptable should the need arise to punish a woman. The proposal bans forceful beating, saying only a small stick is necessary to instill fear.
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Rural road in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan
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Amjad Sabri, Famed Sufi Singer, Is Gunned Down in Pakistan
One of the most prominent Pakistani singers of Sufi devotional songs, Amjad Sabri, was killed by gunmen who fired into his car in Karachi on Wednesday, raising a new outcry over sectarian and extremist violence in Pakistan. A faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility, accusing Mr. Sabri of being a blasphemer, but officials said they were investigating the authenticity of the claim. Two attackers riding a motorcycle intercepted Mr. Sabri’s vehicle in the busy Liaquatabad neighborhood of Karachi...
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Seeking paradise: The image and reality of truck art
Raindrops fall from the sky on bare winter trees, their branches spread in the manner of a person wailing with arms spread out. The golden beams of a sun filtering through clouds turn these droplets into prisms that throw up curious combinations of emerald, green and turquoise. Another array of raindrops gleams like small mirrors, suspended to bare boughs running from one end to the other.
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Militant with US bounty on his head walks free in Pakistan
The United States has put a $10 million bounty on his head, labeling him a terrorist. He is one of the most wanted men in India. Yet, Hafiz Saeed walks free in his home country of Pakistan, denouncing Washington and New Delhi in public speeches. Now the man identified by the U.S. as a founding member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group is weighing in on the flare-up of violence in Kashmir, the mountainous region divided between Pakistani and Indian control, where dozens have died in clashes with protesters after Indian security forces killed a top rebel leader.
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Pakistani social media star killed by brother after scandal
Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch, who recently stirred controversy by posting pictures of herself with a prominent Muslim cleric, was strangled to death by her brother, police said Saturday. Her parents told police one of her six brothers strangled her to death as she slept in the family's home in Multan, police spokeswoman Nabila Ghazanfar told The Associated Press. Multan police chief Akram Azhar said police were searching for the brother, identified by the family as Waseem Azeem, who runs a local cellular phone shop.
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