カテゴリー: Pakistan
The rape and murder of the seven-year-old shocked the nation in 2018, spurring new legislation Pakistan’s parliament passed a new law against child abuse, two years after the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl that shocked the country.The nation’…
The 76-year-old music virtuoso released his first record last year. He’s the last surviving practitioner of a 13th century tradition at risk of dying with himUstad Saami is a slightly built man with long graceful hands that sweep skywards and then down…
The devotional singer is known to move audiences to a higher plane. Meeting her in Melbourne, Ben Eltham writes, time went ‘all bendy and loose’Sufi superstar Abida Parveen – a giant of world music – is an arresting presence. Dressed in flowing robes a…
Countries around world scramble to halt spread of virus that has so far killed almost 3,000 peopleCoronavirus – latest updatesSaudi Arabia has taken the unprecedented step of banning foreign pilgrims from entering the country five months before the ann…
Beijing academic rejects local news report that 100,000 ducks would be sent to fight plagueChina will not be sending ducks to Pakistan to chomp through a plague of locusts after all, an expert from Beijing’s troubleshooting team has said.A report in th…
26 February 1985: Voters ignore calls by opposition groups to boycott the country’s first parliamentary election since the army seized power President Zia ul-Haq has outflanked the opposition. Voters in Pakistan’s first parliamentary election since th…
The group have been confined to a hostel for three weeks and want their government to help them fly back home Coronavirus latest updates Hundreds of Pakistani students trapped in the Chinese city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak have said they…
Court finds Hafiz Saeed guilty of ‘being part of a banned terrorist outfit’ and sentences him to six yearsThe alleged mastermind of the 2008 attacks in Mumbai has been jailed in Pakistan for nearly six years on terror financing charges.Hafiz Saeed is w…
Creators of Meray Paas Tum Ho could be facing legal suit amid accusations the hugely popular show was ‘misogynistic’A court in Pakistan has summoned the creators of a wildly popular television series after a petition was filed demanding they apologise …
Bibi, freed last year and now in Canada, will release her autobiography on WednesdayAsia Bibi, the Christian woman who spent eight years on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy, has released two photographs taken in exile, as she prepares for the launch…
Pashtun leader had accused military of human rights abuses and links with the TalibanA high-profile civil rights activist has been arrested in Pakistan on charges of sedition in the latest incident in a mounting crackdown on critics of the army.Manzoor…
Ahvin Kumar, director of No Fathers in Kashmir, says it shows the plight of families and people in Britain must not ignore their sufferingA controversial film highlighting “disappearances” in Kashmir that premieres in Britain this week has led to fears…
Pakistani Kashmir hardest hit as winter storms sweep through region, with more forecastAvalanches, flooding and harsh winter weather have killed more than 130 people across Pakistan and Afghanistan and left others stranded by heavy snowfall.At least 93…
Menus in sign language and jobs for the hearing impaired are challenging discrimination against those with disabilitiesIt’s not just the bright yellow walls that make the Abey Khao cafe in Islamabad’s Mughal Market stand out. The menu is in sign langua…
Amnesty calls verdict in Junaid Hafeez’s trial a ‘vile and gross miscarriage of justice’A Pakistani university lecturer has been sentenced to death for blasphemy in a case that his family and human rights groups have decried as a gross miscarriage of j…