カテゴリー: Pakistan
Ali Sadpara of Pakistan, John Snorri of Iceland, and Juan Pablo Mohr of Chile lost contact with base campAn aerial search was under way on Sunday to find three experienced climbers who lost contact with base camp during a winter ascent of K2, the world…
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh will be held under guard after being moved off death rowPakistan’s supreme court has ordered that the Pakistani-British man acquitted of the 2002 beheading of the American journalist Daniel Pearl be moved off death row and to a …
Government petition comes after supreme court orders release of four men convicted of killing journalistPakistan’s government has appealed to the supreme court to review its decision to free a British-born Islamist and three others convicted of beheadi…
Majority ruling upholds earlier decision to commute sentence of Ahmed Omar Saeed SheikhPakistan’s supreme court has ordered the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born Islamist militant who had been sentenced to death for the murder of the…
Letter by Islamist militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh tells of involvement in US journalist’s 2002 deathAfter 18 years of denial the British-born militant who was convicted and later acquitted of the beheading of the American journalist Daniel Pearl has …
Family of women’s rights advocate, found dead in Canadian lake, call for police to reopen investigationIt was the homecoming they never wanted. Five years ago, Karima Baloch fled Pakistan after her work as a prominent human rights activist put her life…
Sarmad Khoosat was the darling of Pakistan’s entertainment industry until his new film, the haunting and elegiac Zindagi Tamasha, fell foul of fundamentalists – who called for him to be beheadedSarmad Khoosat was having an early morning cigarette in Bu…
Mountaineer was climbing near K2 in northern PakistanAuthorities are now working to bring body down mountainA Russian-American climber who went missing last week while trying to scale a mountain amid harsh winter weather in northern Pakistan has been f…
Team of Sherpas reaches top of Pakistan peak – becoming first to summit world’s second highest mountain in winterA team of Sherpas has accomplished one of the most coveted achievements in mountaineering: the first winter ascent of K2, the world’s secon…
Second major incident in less than three years caused by engineering fault, says PMPower is gradually being restored to major cities across Pakistan after it was hit by a massive electricity blackout.The electricity distribution system in the nation of…
Judge said the ‘humiliating’ practice was used to cast suspicion on the victim, and deflected focus from the act of sexual violenceA Pakistani court has outlawed the practice of subjecting female rape survivors to a virginity test in an unprecedented r…
A popular actor was accused of harassment – now those who spoke against him are being charged under law meant to protect womenIt takes a lot to rattle Leena Ghani. As an artist turned activist helping to raise the voices of Pakistan’s women, she has of…
Crowds reportedly led by Islamic clerics attempt to destroy ancient shrine in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regionA violent religious mob has set fire to a Hindu temple in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region and attempted to tear it to the ground.Crowds of thous…
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a suspect in US journalist’s 2002 killing, had conviction overturned this yearA court in Pakistan has ordered that a British-born Islamist militant charged with the 2002 kidnapping and murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter…
Ofcom imposes £20,000 penalty on Republic TV for ‘highly pejorative’ comments on talk showA rightwing Indian news channel known for its strong pro-government stance and firebrand host has been fined by the UK regulator Ofcom for broadcasting hate speec…