…ion. Ghazala Javed and her father were killed when gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on them late on Monday Singers and dancers were particularly targeted by insurgents when they overran the area in 2007. Ghazala Javed at one point was also forced to stop singing because of threats. The singer, who was in her twenties, later married a businessman but they are thought to have divorced. Correspond…
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Five female Pakistani polio vaccination workers have been fatally shot in a string of co-ordinated attacks – four within 20 minutes across Karachi. The fifth woman was shot and wounded in the city of Peshawar in the north-west and later died of her injuries. A UN-backed programme to eradicate polio – which is endemic in Pakistan – has been suspended in Karachi. No group has said…
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…
…ah Rukh Khan was detained at the airport, which serves New York City. Shah Rukh Khan’s detention by US authorities for 90 minutes at White Plains airport near New York has sparked outrage in India In 2009 the actor was detained for two hours at Newark airport and was released after India’s embassy in the US intervened. Shah Rukh Khan said then that he was stopped because he had a Muslim nam…
