Updated Monday, December 14, 2015 0:10 am TWN
A bomb hidden in a bag ripped through a crowded bazaar in a mainly Shiite area of Pakistan's northwestern tribal region Sunday, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 30, officials said.
Friday, December 4, 2015
Pakistan Wednesday hanged four men linked to the Taliban's massacre of more than 130 schoolchildren, with parents of victims saying they deserved "no forgiveness" as the attack anniversary approached.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Sunday, November 29, 2015
"Are these the people with bullets who took my papa away?" 2-year-old Sabiha Ahmad asked her mother anxiously when AFP visited her family, members of Pakistan's persecuted Ahmadi minority, who are currently living in hiding.
Thursday, November 26, 2015
A haunting peal reminiscent of the Scottish Highlands reverberates across Pakistan's inhospitable Cholistan desert as the nation's first camel-mounted military bagpipe band marches, noses in the air.
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Thursday, November 19, 2015
When a landslide created a huge, turquoise lake that cut them off from the world, the farmers of Gulmit were left destitute and unable to sell their potatoes. Their solution: to drag their Himalayan valley in Pakistan's far north into the Internet age.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Conservative Muslims in Pakistan's northwest are blaming the animist Kalash for a powerful earthquake that flattened entire villages in October, claiming their immoral ways provoked Allah's wrath, in the latest attack on a diminishing tribe fighting to keep its identity alive.
Monday, November 9, 2015
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