Pakistan sends a message to India. ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan successfully test-fired on Saturday a ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads, as part of efforts to boost defenses in its rivalry with India.
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Pakistan: Blasphemy suspect attacked in police custody
From the Daily Times of Pakistan via the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, with thanks to Ali Dashti: Lahore, May 25: Samuel, a blasphemy suspect, is in critical condition at General Hospital after a police constable hit him on his head with a brick cutter on the morning of May 22. Constable Faryad, who attacked […]
Car Bombs Kill 1, Wound 25 in Pakistan
From AP, with thanks to DC Watson: KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Two car bombs exploded minutes apart by a language school close to the U.S. Consul’s residence in Pakistan’s biggest city Wednesday, killing a police officer and wounding 25 other people. The attack came days after police in Karachi said they smashed an Islamic militant […]
Christian preacher feared kidnapped in Pakistan
Thanks to Nicolei for this piece from Reuters. QUETTA, Pakistan, May 16 (Reuters) – A Pentecostal preacher was feared kidnapped in Pakistan on Sunday, apparently by an unknown Islamic militant group after he disappeared in the southwestern city of Quetta, his friends and family said. Wilson Fazal, a Pakistani Christian cleric at a local city […]
Pakistan: Killing of a young Catholic man covered up by media, ignored by government
Javed Anjum in the hospital after the beating (Compass Direct) Last week I posted a story about a young Pakistani Christian who was tortured and killed after refusing to convert to Islam. This piece from AsiaNews (thanks to Nicolei) shows that this appalling crime has met only with yawns from the Pakistani authorities. An interview […]
Pakistani Christian dies of torture at hands of radical Muslims
This sort of thing happens from time to time in Pakistan, because the perpetrators know that authorities will be reluctant to intevene on behalf of a Christian. From ASSIST News Service: FAISALABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) — A 23 year-old Pakistani Christian has died of injuries as a result of five days of severe torture by Islamic […]
Pakistani jihadist to speak in Holland
Qazi Hussain Ahmed What are the ultimate intentions of European Muslims? One indication comes from a news item in the Netherlands’ Trouw. (Thanks to Martin Bosma, who kindly translated it and sent it to me.) It seems that that Arab European League is hosting a lecture in The Hague by Qazi Hussain Ahmed, who openly […]
Pakistan PM: Hijacking plot foiled
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U.S. General Doubts Pakistani Anti-Terror Effort
Barno From AP, : KABUL, Afghanistan — A top U.S. commander expressed concern Monday about Pakistan’s counterterrorism strategy near the Afghan border and said a “significant” number of foreign militants holed up there must be eliminated. “There are foreign fighters in those tribal areas who will have to be killed or captured,” said Lt. Gen. […]
Car Bomb Attack on Pakistan Bus Kills 3
From AP, : KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A car packed with explosives went off as a bus carried Chinese engineers to a port project in remote southwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing three of them and injuring eleven other people, police and hospital officials said. The attack occurred just after 9 a.m. local time while the […]