U.S. airstrike against Taliban leader crossed a Pakistani ‘red line’ Tim Craig and Greg Miller, The Washington Post  23 May 2016 Image: Pakistani civil society activists shout slogans during a demonstration in Multan on Monday against a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan. (Ss Mirza/AFP/Getty Images) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For years, Afghanistan’s military and political leaders have been urging the Obama

Executions Highest in 25 Years, Amnesty International Says Rick Gladstone, The New York Times 06 April 2016 Image: Officials in Iran preparing a noose for an execution in 2014. Amnesty International said in its annual report that almost 90 percent of the executions that it recorded last year were carried out in Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. CreditArash Khamooshi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Despite a growing repudiation of the death

Pakistan in Mourning as Toll From Lahore Suicide Bombing Rises Daniyal Hassan and Salman Masood, The New York Times 28 March 2016 Family members mourned on Monday in Lahore, Pakistan, after a suicide bombing in a park a day earlier killed dozens. CreditArif Ali/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images LAHORE, Pakistan — Shock and grief enveloped Pakistan on Monday as the official death toll from a suicide attack in Lahore a day earlier rose to

Taliban Attack Kills 30 at Pakistan Air Force Base Ismail Khan, New York Times 18 September 2015   Image: Copright AFP PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Taliban militants shot and killed at least 30 people, including 16 people in a mosque, at an air force base near this city in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, military officials said, in the first major assault on a Pakistani military installation this year. At least 13 attackers dressed in paramilitary uniforms

Susan Rice, Obama’s Security Adviser, Urges Pakistan to Do More Against Militants Salman Masood, New York Times 30 August 2015 Image: Susan E. Rice met with leaders in Pakistan on Sunday.Credit Mandel Ngan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Obama’s national security adviser, Susan E. Rice, urged Pakistani civilian and military leaders on Sunday to do more to stop militants from using Pakistani territory

Pakistan’s UN Representative condemns the international community’s shameful silence at the plight of Rohingya children in Myanmar Myanmar’s savagery toward desperate Rohingya exposed by Pakistani report. 13 Aug 2015   Image: The spokesman said Pakistan strongly believes that peaceful coexistence of all communities in Myanmar is essential to peace. - AFP/File (Dawn.com)   Pakistan has taken a leading role in criticizing the oppression

Parliament unanimously passed resolution against muslim killings in Burma The News Tribe 9 June 2015   ISLAMABAD – The upper house of Parliament, Senate, has unanimously passed resolution against the muslim genocide in Burma. The resolution is put forward by Senator Syed Mushahid Hussain, who is head of Senate committee for defense affairs.The context of resolution stated that government should raise voice in gavour of Burma Muslims at global

The South Asia Daily: News brief from the South Asia Channel Foreign Policy 08 June 2015   India and Bangladesh Sign Agreement to Swap Border Enclves; Taliban Overrun District in Northeastern Afghanistan; 19 Militants, 7 Pakistani Military Members Killed in Clash   India Bonus: "Bangladesh and India finally give people a nation," Syed Tashfeen Chowdhury (Al-Jazeera) India and Bangladesh sign agreement to swap border enclaves India and Bangladesh

Afghan Taliban Feels Pressure from ISIS; Malala Suspects Secretly Acquitted in Pakistan; Protests Intensify in JammuEmily Schneider and Shuja Malik, Edited by Peter Bergen, Foreign Policy05 June 2015 Afghanistan Afghan Taliban fighting ISIS for territory, recruits Militants who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State or ISIS in Afghanistan are becoming more than a nuisance to the country’s larger militant group, the Afghan Taliban, by claiming

Gunmen Kill Prominent Female Activist in Pakistan Adil Jawad, TIME Magazine 25 April 2015   Image: Sabeen Mahmud was shot in what friends are calling an assassination. (KARACHI, Pakistan)—Gunmen on a motorcycle killed a prominent women’s rights activist in Pakistan just hours after she held a forum on the country’s restive Baluchistan region, home to a long-running insurgency, police said Saturday. While investigators declined to speculate