Over 36 people have died in the past four weeks from taking oral drugs in Punjab province, Pakistan. The medicines were provided for free to cardiovascular patients at the government-owned Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore city. Thousands of prescriptions of these drugs were given to the patients during last month, said hospital officials. “More than 100 patients brought to various h…
de guidance to the Pakistan-based operation. Analysts have said that he was in charge of day-to-day operations in Pakistan’s tribal areas. He was reported killed in a drone strike in Pakistan in 2009, but it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. Pakistan’s frontier tribal region is considered a hub of activity by al-Qaeda and Taliban militants and it is very difficult to verify…
…r told reporters. Police have now sealed off all entry and exit point in Multan, and a massive search operation is under way, local media report. Yousuf Raza Gilani served as prime minister until June 2012, when he was forced out of office by the Supreme Court over his refusal to pursue a corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari. But it is still a powerful political family, with Yousuf R…
…ication today!” YouTube has been blocked to users in Pakistan since September when excerpts from an anti-Islamic film were posted, sparking protests across the world. Pakistan blocked YouTube in 2008 and 2010 because of sacrilegious content. It reimposed a ban on the site on 17 September following days of protests around the world after a translated version of an amateur film attacking the P…
ls said the borders would remain closed for the next three days. Queues started forming before polling stations opened at 08:00 on Saturday. At one polling station in the capital, Islamabad, more than 200 people waited patiently to vote. Abdul Sattar, 74, said: “We want change, we are really fed up with old faces coming back to power every time and doing nothing for the nation.” EU obs…
Western sentiment has been stoked further by caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published this week in the satirical French magazine, Charlie Hebdo. France shut embassies and other missions in around 20 countries across the Muslim world on Friday. Protests were banned in France itself and in Tunisia, where France is the former colonial power, but there were widespread demonstrations elsewhere: •…
…d is one risk of going anonymous. Policeman Richard Horton found his email had been hacked when the Times exposed him as the author of the blog Nightjack. The News International newspaper named him in 2009 after the High Court refused to grant him anonymity. Horton was issued a warning by his employers Lancashire Constabulary after his award-winning blog exposed the realities of modern-day policin…
…er showed that he was sentenced for alleged links to a banned militant group. His family have called the treason allegations “rubbish” and his lawyers said they would appeal. Over the last 18 months foreign staff of other aid agencies in Pakistan have reported increased restrictions on the way they work. Despite that, huge numbers of Pakistanis have been reliant on their help, particul…
h Osama Bin Laden to Pakistani interrogators. In their report, recently leaked to the media, Amal Abdal Fattah is quoted as saying that she married the al-Qaeda chief in the Afghan city of Kandahar in 2000, and lived there with his two other wives until the 9/11 attacks. At that point, the family split and she went to Karachi, where she stayed with her baby daughter until the middle of 2002, when…
At least 21 suspected militants have been killed in two separate attacks of an unmanned US drone aircraft in north-west Pakistan, according to Pakistani security officials. The missiles struck targets in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border. Pakistan has previously complained that such attacks violate its sovereignty. Last month, President Barack Obama defended the use of dro…
Afghanistan has blocked the entry of all newspapers from Pakistan, saying they serve Taliban militants. In its order, the interior ministry said the newspapers “are a propaganda resource of the Taliban spokesmen” and has ordered police forces in east Afghanistan to confiscate all copies. The latest move comes amid increasing tension between the two countries. Afghanistan has blocked…
16 NATO supply tankers transporting fuel for US-led forces in Afghanistan were set ablaze in a bomb attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. 28 trucks were parked at a terminal on the outskirts of the provincial capital Peshawar when an explosion triggered a fire that engulfed 16 of the vehicles, AFP reported. 16 NATO supply trucks set ablaze by Talibans in Pakistan Pakistan police official, Khur…
steps foot in Pakistan. Pervez Musharraf tweeted a photo of himself aboard the plane, writing: “Settled in my seat on the plane to begin my journey home. Pakistan First!” A group of about 200 supporters and journalists are travelling with the former military ruler – including party members from the UK, Canada, Switzerland and the US. Before take-off chants of “Long live Pe…
tside the office of the local “peace committee” – a group of militants who used to fight with the Taliban but switched sides and now support local elders and the government. At least 20 nearby shops were also badly damaged in the explosion, Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reported. It was not immediately clear how many of the victims were members of the peace committee and how ma…
…ps were to be administered. There has been opposition to such immunization drives in parts of Pakistan, particularly after a fake CIA hepatitis vaccination campaign helped to locate Osama Bin Laden in 2011. Militants have kidnapped and killed foreign NGO workers in the past in an attempt to halt the immunization drives, which they say are part of efforts to spy on them. Afghanistan and Nigeria are…
…Wana area. Reports say he was also seen as an enemy of militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), and praised by Pakistan for expelling Uzbek and other foreign fighters from Pakistan in 2007. His death could be a contentious issue between Washington and Islamabad, they add, because the Pakistani military views commanders like him as key to keeping the peace internally. For years, he…
school in Mingora in the Swat Valley in north-west Pakistan on October 9th. The gunman who boarded the van in which she was travelling asked for her by name before firing three shots at her. In early 2009 she wrote an anonymous diary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban, who had banned all girls in her area from attending school. …
Julia Roberts glows and looks youthful in the latest Lancôme fragrance advert for La Vie Est Belle. Directed by Mirror Mirror director Tarsem Singh, Julia Roberts, 44, glides through a crowded party as a bottle of Lancôme’s latest fragrance, La Vie Est Belle, glimmers under the chandelier lights. Julia Roberts has been an ambassador for Lancôme since 2010 but this is her first fragrance cam…
More than 100 Pakistani soldiers have been buried by an avalanche in the disputed Kashmir region, officials say. Local TV stations say that the incident happened near the Siachen glacier in the eastern Karakoram mountain range. 130 troops were buried when a battalion headquarters in the Gayari district was engulfed, says the AP news agency, quoting a security official. The area is in the northern…
More than 200 people are now known to have died in a fire at a garment factory in Karachi, Pakistani police have said. Many others were injured in the blaze. It began on Tuesday night, hours after a factory fire killed 23 in Lahore. Correspondents say that the Karachi blaze is one of the worst industrial accidents in the country’s history. Some 40 firefighting vehicles were needed to tackle…
…It is about 60km (35 miles) north-west of Islamabad. No group has said it carried out the attack but Islamist militants linked to the Pakistani Taliban have previously targeted military bases. In May 2011, militants attacked the Mehran naval air base in Karachi, killing 10 soldiers. It took security forces about 17 hours to secure the base on that occasion. In 2009 a suicide bomber killed six peo…
Former military leader Pervez Musharraf has been barred from standing in Pakistan general elections in May. An election tribunal disqualified Pervez Musharraf from running in Chitral in the north-west. Earlier, he failed in an attempt to stand in three other seats. Pervez Musharraf’s lawyer says he plans to file an appeal with the Supreme Court. Former military leader Pervez Musharraf has…
at the stove, cooking a korma with flesh from her husband’s arm and leg Police discovered Zainab Bibi’s plot after neighbors complained about a bad smell coming from her home. Zaheer Ahmed, her 22-year-old nephew, has also been arrested in connection with dismembering Ahmad Abbas’s body. Pakistan’s ARY News spoke to Zainab Bibi from her cell at the Shah Faisal police station, wh…
…lly well. Saif had just got a visa to go to the U.S., so they were on the brink of a new life together when this happened. “I found out from Saif’s brother when the killings happened on November 1 and couldn’t believe it – I was shocked, angry and devastated because we were very close. Saif had been in Glasgow for six years and met Uzma at a friend’s wedding four or five years ago.” De…
en's three widows with illegally entering the country It is not clear if these three women are Osama Bin Laden’s only widows – it has been reported that he had up to six wives. In June 2011, a Pakistani commission was charged with investigating how the al-Qaeda leader had managed to stay in Pakistan undetected. The commission said his wives should not be allowed to leave the countr…
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