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No Hopes For Minority Ahmadis In Pakistan

Malik Siraj Akbar | Posted 05.14.2013 | Religion
Malik Siraj Akbar

By excluding the Ahmadis from the elections, Pakistan's democracy is indeed missing something very important on the election day.

Pakistan's Unfair Elections

Malik Siraj Akbar | Posted 05.06.2013 | World
Malik Siraj Akbar

Mere elections will not put Pakistan on the path to democracy and the rule of law. Elections that do not provide equal space to all parties to contest will have no legitimacy and credibility.

Explosion At Pakistani Campaign Rally Kills At Least 16

AP | HUSSAIN AFZAL and REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.07.2013 | World

PARACHINAR, Pakistan — A bomb blast tore through a political rally held by an Islamist party in northwest Pakistan Monday, in an attack claimed ...

Suicide Bombing Kills 6 In Northwest Pakistan

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 04.30.2013 | World

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber targeting police killed at least 10 people in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, including the son and nephe...

Pakistani Election Candidate Shot Dead

Agence France Presse | | Posted 04.11.2013 | World

A Pakistani grocer standing in next month's historic polls was shot dead Thursday in a drive-by killing in the southern city of Hyderabad, the first c...

3 Key Issues In Pakistan's Elections

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 03.16.2013 | World

The Pakistan People's Party, which led the government for the past five years, faces a difficult challenge in the upcoming national election expected ...

CONVICTED

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 05.04.2013 | Miami

MIAMI -- An elderly Muslim cleric was convicted Monday of funneling thousands of dollars to support the Pakistani Taliban terror organization, which i...

The Jury's Out!

AP | Posted 04.29.2013 | Miami

MIAMI — A federal jury in Miami is returning for a second day of deliberations in the trial of a Muslim cleric accused of sending money to the P...

Miami Imam: 'We Hate' Pakistani Taliban

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 04.21.2013 | Miami

MIAMI — An elderly Muslim cleric on trial for allegedly funneling tens of thousands of dollars to the Pakistani Taliban terrorist organization v...

Mysterious Outage Stops Florida Terrorism Trial

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 02.13.2013 | Miami

MIAMI -- A mysterious outage in transmission of live testimony from Pakistan has temporarily halted the South Florida trial of an elderly Muslim cleri...

From Islamabad With Oaths

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 04.13.2013 | Miami

MIAMI — Testifying via video from Pakistan, a man accused by the U.S. of conspiring with an elderly Miami-based Muslim cleric to funnel thousand...

Miami Imam: 'I Have.. Pakistani Rupees For The Taliban'

Reuters | Posted 03.10.2013 | Miami

By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI, Jan 8 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are laying out their case in court against two South Florida imams accus...

Terror Trial Begins For Two SoFla Imams

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 03.04.2013 | Miami

MIAMI -- Jury selection began Wednesday for the trial of an elderly Muslim cleric and his son on charges they funneled tens of thousands of dollars to...

Terror Trial Begins For Two SoFla Imams

Sun Sentinel | Paula Mcmahon | Posted 03.03.2013 | Miami

When the high-profile trial of two South Florida religious leaders accused of sending cash to help the Pakistani Taliban begins Wednesday, their defen...

How the Taliban Turned Against Pakistan's Right-Wing Journalists

Malik Siraj Akbar | Posted 02.03.2013 | World
Malik Siraj Akbar

Pakistan has announced a reward of 50 million rupees (approximately $520,000) for anyone with information about people involved in a failed plot to assassinate a renowned television journalist last week in Islamabad, the nation's capital.

The Naivety of Taliban

Malik Siraj Akbar | Posted 12.19.2012 | World
Malik Siraj Akbar

Condemning the Taliban for their human rights abuses will not democratize Pakistan or Afghanistan. There is an urgent need to understand where the Taliban mindset emanates from and who else is responsible for mushrooming this scary world of intolerance and violence.

Pakistan's Other Taliban

Malik Siraj Akbar | Posted 11.25.2012 | World
Malik Siraj Akbar

There are scores of reasons why we should fear the rapid rise of the LeJ and Pakistani government's inaction against it.

Militants Attack Pakistan Army Post, Killing 9

AP | MUNIR AHMED | Posted 10.28.2012 | World

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Taliban militants ambushed a Pakistani army post near the Afghan border before dawn Wednesday, killing eight soldiers, in a reminde...

Accused Terror Imam To Undergo Exam

AP | Posted 08.07.2012 | Miami

MIAMI -- A mental competency examination has been ordered in the case of a Muslim imam in South Florida accused of raising money for the Pakistani Tal...

New 'Bona Fide Doubt' In Terror Case Against Cleric

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 08.02.2012 | Miami

MIAMI -- A once high-profile federal prosecution of an elderly Muslim cleric and one of his sons on terrorism finance charges has become bogged down i...

Truck Bomb Kills 11 In Pakistani Market

AP | ANWARULLAH KHAN | Posted 07.26.2012 | World

KHAR, Pakistan -- A truck packed with explosives blew up in a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing 11 people, as security conc...

Gunmen Kill 9 Police Cadets In Pakistan

Reuters | Posted 09.10.2012 | World

LAHORE, Pakistan, July 12 (Reuters) - Masked gunmen stormed a house and killed nine police cadets in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Thursday, ...

Terrorism Support Charges Dropped Against Florida Man

AP | Posted 06.13.2012 | Miami

MIAMI -- Charges have been dropped against a South Florida man accused of raising tens of thousands of dollars with his father and brother for the Pak...

Bomb Targeting Security Forces Kills 20 In Pakistan

AP | RASOOL DAWAR | Posted 07.03.2012 | World

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — An American drone fired a volley of missiles into a house close to the Afghan border on Saturday, killing eight suspected m...

Dragons of Freedom: In the Most Dangerous Place for Journalists

Kiran Nazish | Posted 07.03.2012 | Media
Kiran Nazish

2011 was one of the worst years for journalists everywhere, and Pakistan was called the most dangerous place. Growing militancy, political and military instability, a deteriorating economy -- journalism is the first to suffer directly from these ailments.