Punjab

Pakistan's Colonial State of Mind Keeps Baloch in Chains

Michael Hughes | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Punjab, Human Rights, World, Baloch, Pakistan, Balochistan, British Imperialism, Barack Obama, State Department, World News, Afghanistan, World News

American politicians were quick to condemn monsters like Gaddafi for human rights atrocities but are still reluctant to do the same with Pakistan. There isn't a military solution to this crisis.

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The Forgotten Dessert (PHOTOS)

Khalil Shah | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Punjab, Pakistan, Lahore, Mozang, Pakistani People, Pakistan Photos, Pakistan Images, Pakistani, Portraits of Pakistan. Pakistani People, Exposure, Photos, Candy, World News

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Slain Pakistani Governor's Son Kidnapped

AP | MUNIR AHMED and SHAH NAWAAZ | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Lahore, Punjab, Shaheryar Taseer, Shahbaz Taseer, Pakistan, Shahbaz Taseer Kidnapped, Salman Taseer, Shahbaz Taseer Kidnapping, World News

LAHORE, Pakistan — Gunmen abducted the son of a liberal Pakistani politician who was murdered by an Islamist extremist earlier this year, police...

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Amid Violence, Pakistanis Debate New Provinces

Saad Khan | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Nawaz Sharif, Punjab, Pakistan People's Party, Karachi Violence, Pakistan, Muttahida Qaumi Movement, World News

"The current debate has opened Pandora's Box and is bound to create acrimony in the already tattered national fabric of Pakistan," a senior constitutional lawyer told me.

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U.S. Enables Pakistan's Oppression of Balochistan

Michael Hughes | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Islam, Baluchistan, World, Gaddafi, Terrorism, Pakistan, Balochistan, Mullah Omar, Baluchi, Quetta Shura, Punjab, World News, Nato, Human Rights, Britian, Baloch, Genocide, Afghanistan, Un, World News

The Pakistani state has misused billions in U.S. military aid and has used U.S. military hardware to oppress the Baloch people on a daily basis.

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Pakistani Doctors Go on Strike

Saad Khan | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Pakistan Doctors, Punjab, Pakistan, Pakistan Doctors Strike, Pakistani Doctor Strike, Pakistan Doctor Strike, World News

"I have stomach ulcer and I know it can burst any time but I am unable to get any treatment," said a middle-aged man outside the main public hospital in Rawalpindi.

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Pakistani Minister For Minorities Gunned Down

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamabad, Anti-Blasphemy Laws, Punjab, Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistani Cabinet, Pakistan, Islamabad-Pakistan, Salman Taseer, Pakistan Blasphemy Law, World News

March 2, 2011 6:47:13 AM ISLAMABAD, March 2 (Reuters) - Pakistani Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti, who has been calling for changes in the c...

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Promoting Grassroots Recovery In Pakistan

Joop Koopman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pakistan Floods, Punjab, Concern Worldwide, Pakistan, Impact News

We know that the devastating floods of summer 2010 destroyed more than 1.7 million acres of crops. Punjab is still fertile but the planting and harvest cycles have been violently interrupted.

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Will the Real America Please Stand Up?

Ethan Casey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Review of Books, Islamabad, Berlin Wall, Gabrielle Giffords, Punjab, Salmaan Taseer, Pakistan, Politics News

Pakistan was still reeling from the assassination of a Punjab governor when the news broke about Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson. What does one have to do with the other? All too much.

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Salman Taseer Funeral Draws Thousands Under Tight Security (PHOTOS)

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Salman Taseer Funeral, Salman Taseer Killed, Islamic Extremists, Islamic Militants, President Asif Ali Zardari, Salman Taseer Assassination, Pakistan, Slidepollajax, Salman Taseer Assassinated, Punjab, Salman Taseer, World News

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- Thousands of Pakistani police were on high alert in Lahore on Wednesday ahead of the funeral for an outspoken provincial gove...

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Key Pakistan Governor Killed By Guard Over Blasphemy Laws

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pakistan Blasphemy Laws Violence, Pakistan Blasphemy, Salman Taseer Shot, Punjab, Pakistan, Pakistan Violence, Punjab Governor Shot, Pakistan Blasphemy Laws, Salman Taseer Killed, Salman Taseer Dead, Salman Taseer, World News

ISLAMABAD — The governor of Pakistan's most dominant province was shot and killed Tuesday by a bodyguard who authorities said was angry about hi...

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Unrest in Pakistan: Moving Beyond U.S. National Interest

Kathy Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Administration, Amnesty International, Imf, Value Added Tax, Punjab, Pakistan, Pakistan Drone Attacks, World News

The sheer volume of daily protests shows that many sectors of Pakistani society have pressing needs that do not include enlistment as foot soldiers in a proxy force for the U.S.'s War on Terror.

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India, Pakistan and the Musical Gurus of Peace

Varun Soni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Punjabi Music, Punjab, Punjabiyat, Pakistan, India Pakistan, Gurus of Peace, India Pakistan Relations, Religion News

After more than 60 years of missed public diplomacy opportunities, it's time for India and Pakistan to follow the lead of A.R. Rahman and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and give music a chance.

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Dangerous Repurcussions of Religious Extremism in the Punjab

Saad Khan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pakistan Mosque, Pakistan Ahmadi, Nawaz Sharif, Punjab, Punjab Taliban, Pakistan Violence, World News

One wonders why these attacks are mostly concentrated in the Punjab when all provinces have Muslim majority populations. The answer lies in the blatant Islamization carried out by extremist organizations.

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Married to a Pigeon: Changing Pakistan Today

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pakistan Women's Rights, Pakistan Women, Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, World News

Violence against women is an issue that, in Pakistan's current climate of severe security concerns, often takes a backseat.

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Border Dance: India and Pakistan's Daily Ritual

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Todd Purdum, Pakistan India Border, Pakistan, Pakistan India Relations, India, Hindi, Punjab, Lahore, Hinustani, Wagah, World News

How Pakistan and India's daily ritual reveals more about their similarities than their differences.

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Pakistani Conjoined Twins Examined By Doctors (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conjoined Twins, Punjab Pakistan, Pakistan Conjoined Twins, Punjab, Conjoined Twins Video, Pakistan, Video, World News

A set of Pakistani twins girls have been born joined at the head in the Punjab province of Pakistan. A local doctor took the pair to a hospital in Is...

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Assassinations, Peace and State Violence in India and Pakistan

Abdul Malik Mujahid | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sikh, India, Punjab, Indira Gandhi, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Truth Commission, Akal Takht, Taliban, Forgiveness, Modi, Hindu, Amritsar, Military, Naxalites, Security, Muslim, Justice, Gujarat, Reconciliation, World News

As Indians mark the death anniversary of Indira Gandhi, Sikhs renew their call for justice, and Pakistan bleeds with terrorism, it is important to reflect on justice, reconciliation and forgiveness.

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Pakistan To Seek Terror Charges Against Americans

AP | MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani police said Thursday they plan to ask a court to charge five Americans arrested in early December with terrorism, and will...

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View from Pakistan: Today's Blast

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swat, Pakistan Suicide Bombing, War on Terror, Northwestern Frontier Province, Pakistan, Checkpoints, Proxy War, Fata, Baluchistan, Punjab, British, International Islamic University, Tribal Areas, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Iran, Rawalpindi, South Waziristan, Sindh, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Afghanistan, India, Schools, Hillary Clinton, Nwfp, Universities, World News

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.

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Americans In Pakistan Had Taliban Contact: Police

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saifullah, Punjab, Usman Anwar, Afghanistan, Fbi, Taliban, Americans in Pakistan, World News

ISLAMABAD — Five young American men under investigation in Pakistan for alleged terror links had established contact with a Taliban recruiter an...

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Afghanistan: Collateral Damage From Paris to Punjab

Mira Kamdar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Troops, Punjab, Afghanistan, Kashmir, 9/11, India, Heroin, Collateral Damage, Paris, Afghanistan War, President Obama Afghanistan, Rethink Afghanistan, World News

I have seen what is antiseptically known as collateral damage from this war in two unlikely places: the city of Paris and the countryside of rural Punjab.

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Pakistani Christians Target Of Recent Spasm Of Religious Violence

washingtonpost.com | Joshua Partlow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Punjab, Taliban, Pakistani Christians, Pakistan Violence, Pakistan Christians, Pakistan, World News

GOJRA, Pakistan, Aug. 2 -- They do not want to bury the Christians. They want the nation to see them. By nightfall Sunday, hundreds of residents of t...

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Taliban's Popularity Linked To Perception It Will Lift Pakistanis From Poverty

Huffington Post Contributor | Emi Foulk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swat Valley, Jihad, Punjab, Swat, Pakistan, Jihadism, Hillary Clinton, Fata, Taliban Swat Valley, Parag Khanna, Taliban, Talibanistan, World News

by Emi Foulk The swelling power of the Taliban in Pakistan - or "Talibanistan," as The Nation so pithily put it - has caused much alarm amongst Ameri...

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Taliban's 'Extensive Links' Into Punjab Threaten Pakistan's Stability

nytimes.com | SABRINA TAVERNISE, RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. And ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Punjab, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Taliban Punjab, War in Pakistan, Punjab Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Taliban Pakistan, World News

DERA GHAZI KHAN, Pakistan -- Taliban insurgents are teaming up with local militant groups to make inroads in Punjab, the province that is home to more...

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