View from Pakistan: Today's Blast
Pakistani children may be enjoying the break, but most of them know exactly why they can't go to school. I sit stiff as one boy looks up from his video game to tell me the school buses might not be safe right now.
Pakistani children may be enjoying the break, but most of them know exactly why they can't go to school. I sit stiff as one boy looks up from his video game to tell me the school buses might not be safe right now.
The Independent | Independent | Posted 10.15.2009 | Home
Teams of gunmen attacked three security sites today in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore while a suicide bomber hit a northwestern town, killing ...
AP | BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
LAHORE, Pakistan -- "AP"; Teams of gunmen launched coordinated attacks on three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan's second-largest city of Lahore...
Derek Flood | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
People across the region who depend on the Ismaili establishment for employment, sustenance and remittances have suffered enormously from the Taleban's unforgiving insurgency.
Pia Sawhney | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
While the nation's news media has been prohibited from reporting extensively on military exercises in Swat and Buner districts, on Facebook, questions and concerns crop up swiftly.
Olivia Sterns | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
In the long-term, defeating the Taliban will depend not just on resolving the causes they use to recruit, but on uprooting popular denial.
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Militants detonated two bombs in a busy market and attacked two police checkpoints in northern Pakistan on Thursday, killin...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 06.27.2009 | Home
Government officials in Pakistan say a car bomb that killed more than two dozen people and wounded hundreds in the city of Lahore could be retaliation...
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
The insurgents that the Pakistani and U.S. forces are battling are various fronts of poor, largely uneducated men doing what their ancestors have done for centuries: defending the Pashtun way.
AP | BABAR DOGAR | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
LAHORE, Pakistan — Suspected suicide attackers detonated a car bomb Wednesday that destroyed a police building and sheared walls off a nearby of...
Huffington Post Citizen Journalist | Peter Holley | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
By Peter Holley, Huffington Post Contributor The two men on the television screen trotted across a grassy roundabout as they unleashed staccato bur...
Madiha Sattar | Posted 05.24.2009 | World
By Madiha Sattar, HuffingtonPost Contributor "So, it's not okay for women to be touched by male doctors but male executioners can hold hands and slap...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
The militant attack on a Pakistani police academy Monday in Lahore, compounded with militants' attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team earlier this mont...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 04.30.2009 | Home
Lahore, the site of a terrorist attack on Monday, is less than five miles away from a major border crossing point into India. Photo: CIA World ...
AP | BABAR DOGAR and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
LAHORE, Pakistan — Black-clad Pakistani commandos overpowered a group of militants who had seized a police academy, took cadets hostage and kill...
GroundReport | Posted 04.23.2009 | World
Published by GroundReport.com, a global citizen news platform with over 4,000 international reporters. By Imran Schah Lahore-- Journalists across th...
AFP | Posted 04.10.2009 | World
The eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday banned protests and rallies ahead of a planned "long march" by lawyers towards the capital Islamabad, ...
The Asian Age | Posted 04.09.2009 | World
A little-known militant Mohammed Aqil has been identified by Pakistani security agencies as the mastermind of the audacious attack on Sri Lankan crick...
The Independent | Omar Waraich in Lahore | Posted 04.06.2009 | World
Pakistani government officials said they had identified the suspects involved in Tuesday's attack on the Sri Lankan national cricket team and were ste...
Roger I. Abrams | Posted 04.05.2009 | Entertainment
Sport can bring out the best, but also the worst in mankind.
Huffington Post | Omar Waraich in Lahore | Posted 04.05.2009 | World
Dramatic footage showing the alleged perpetrators of Tuesday's audacious attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team making their getaway was released by a ...
AP | RIZWAN ALI and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 04.05.2009 | World
LAHORE, Pakistan — The Sri Lankan cricket team ambush shows the security system has collapsed in Pakistan since the pro-Western government took ...
AP | RIZWAN ALI and CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 04.04.2009 | World
LAHORE, Pakistan — A day after the ambush of the Sri Lankan cricket team, Pakistanis asked Wednesday how terrorists managed to attack such a hig...
Tom Gerety | Posted 04.04.2009 | World
It may seem sad that it takes an attack on a sports team to turn Pakistani nationalist opinion against terror. Yet there's real cause for hope in the sad news from Lahore.
The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 04.03.2009 | World
The Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked by gunfire earlier today in Lahore, Pakistan. The team was on its way to Qaddafi Stadium for its third day of...
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.02.2009 | World