‘Malala Moment’ May Have Passed in Pakistan, as Rage Over a Shooting Ebbs RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — The smartly dressed Internet entrepreneur basked in the sun outside a McDonald’s, down the road from Pakistan’s military headquarters, considering the furor over Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who had taken on the Taliban only to be shot in the head. “We have mixed feelings about Malala,” said the ma
Young people in Katmandu, Nepal, held a candlelight vigil on Monday for Malala Yousafzai.Credit...Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — When the time came to choose medical treatment for Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl who defied the Taliban and then was gunned down by them, her family and doctors faced a world of possibilities after a global outpouring of advice an
The BBC's Aleem Macqbool says Imran Khan's supporters have got round government roadblocks A thousands-strong motorcade rally against US drone strikes in Pakistan led by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has been stopped from entering restive tribal regions. After negotiations near the frontier, Mr Khan turned back and decided to hold a rally in the nearby town of Tank. But he said he still i
Perversity characterizes Pakistan. Only the worst African hellholes, Afghanistan, Haiti, Yemen, and Iraq rank higher on this year’s Failed States Index. The country is run by a military obsessed with — and, for decades, invested in — the conflict with India, and by a civilian elite that steals all it can and pays almost no taxes. But despite an overbearing military, tribes “defined by a near-unive
Almost 400 prisoners have escaped from a prison in Pakistan after it was attacked by Islamist militants. At least 100 militants launched the assault on the jail in north-west Pakistan at 01:00 (20:00 GMT Saturday). Officials said some of the freed men were "dangerous" insurgents, including an inmate on death row for trying to kill ex-President Pervez Musharraf.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani government and opposition on Thursday united in criticism of a newly announced $10 million American bounty for Hafiz Saeed, a militant leader accused of orchestrating the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India, during a heated session of Parliament in which lawmakers demanded that Washington provide proof of Mr. Saeed’s terrorist credentials. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza G
As the hub of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar's insurgency against the NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, the Pakistani city of Quetta has become synonymous in the Western media with terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism. And indeed, those of us who left in the 1980s, when the city bore the burden of refugees fleeing the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, find Quetta drastically changed -- mo
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