
A legal petition has been filed in a Pakistan court demanding the ‘return’ of the Koh-i-Noor (pictured above set in a crown worn by the Queen Mother), one of the world’s largest known diamonds and now one of the British Monarch’s
by Sarkis Zeronian4 Dec 2015, 5:49 PM PST0

Tashfeen Malik, the 27-year-old wife and accomplice of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook, 28, was in America on a K-1 (fiancée) visa and held a Pakistani passport.
by Adelle Nazarian3 Dec 2015, 12:21 PM PST0

A Muslim family in Pakistan beat an eight-year-old Christian girl and left her naked on the street in order to punish her uncle for courting a Muslim girl, according to reports. The Muslim family allegedly abducted the Christian girl, named
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.3 Dec 2015, 1:31 AM PST0

An angry brother shot his elder sister dead because she voted in Pakistani local elections after he tried to forbid her from doing so, police said Wednesday. The murder occurred in the town of Taxila 25 kilometres (15 miles) west
by AFP2 Dec 2015, 5:18 AM PST0

Europe will return tens of thousands of illegal Pakistani migrants, according to Dimitris Avramopoulos, the European commissioner for Migration, Home affairs and Citizenship, who made the announcement in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.
by William Bigelow26 Nov 2015, 1:25 PM PST0

Very early Wednesday morning, a group of masked men set fire to the headquarters of Gawahi TV, a Christian television station in Karachi, Pakistan.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.26 Nov 2015, 9:38 AM PST0

Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Flying Officer Marium Mukhtiar, the nation’s first female fighter pilot, died in a training crash in Kundian, which is located 109 miles southwest of Islamabad.
by Mary Chastain25 Nov 2015, 8:07 PM PST0

A Pakistani man was sentenced by a U.S. judge to 40 years in prison on Tuesday for plotting to bomb a shopping center in England, as part of an al Qaeda plan to carry out attacks in Europe and the United States.
by Reuters24 Nov 2015, 1:28 PM PST0

Contents: Migrants blocked at Macedonian border sew their mouths shut; Ukraine suspends all commercial trade with occupied Crimea; Ukraine and Russia in tit-for-tat escalating sanctions; Steel and other commodity prices continue to plummet
by John J. Xenakis24 Nov 2015, 6:21 AM PST0

Pakistani school officials in Faisalabad are coming under fire for prohibiting Christian pupils from using lavatories reserved for Muslim students and specifically for a severe punishment administered to a young girl for using a Muslim lavatory. In recent days, a Christian
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.13 Nov 2015, 12:30 AM PST0

A Pakistani author has penned a new book titled I Am not Malala, supposedly providing a counternarrative to Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai’s book, I Am Malala.
by Jordan Schachtel12 Nov 2015, 11:04 AM PST0

A Pakistani woman passed away after her ex-boyfriend set her on fire when she turned down his marriage proposal.
by Mary Chastain4 Nov 2015, 9:34 AM PST0

Pakistani authorities issued a directive prohibiting broadcasters from covering the activities of dozens of terrorist groups, including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), an organization that has been linked to the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India.
by Edwin Mora3 Nov 2015, 10:18 AM PST0

Contents: Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) continues plan to exterminate Shias; Pakistan’s LeJ anti-Shia terror group may have links to ISIS; History of sectarian violence in Pakistan since Partition
by John J. Xenakis3 Nov 2015, 6:18 AM PST0

At least 16 people died in election-related violence in Pakistan on Saturday. The major clashes took place in districts in Sindh and Punjab provinces.
by Mary Chastain2 Nov 2015, 7:32 AM PST0

Among the most recent transferred detainees from Guantanamo Bay was 45-year-old Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz, sent home to Mauritania after 13 years in U.S. custody.
by John Hayward30 Oct 2015, 9:51 AM PST0

Pervez Musharraf, a retired four-star general and former president of Pakistan, said that terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, current al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri, jihadist group founder Jalaluddin Haqqani, and the Taliban were once heroes for Pakistan.
by Edwin Mora29 Oct 2015, 12:42 PM PST0

Contents: Iran’s Rafsanjani admits to nuclear development since 1980s; Khamenei’s nuclear fatwa and the Iraq war; Rafsanjani and Khamenei publicly disagree on the nuclear deal
by John J. Xenakis29 Oct 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

The House Foreign Affairs Committee is investigating what it calls a “global crisis” of religious freedom, and the resulting challenge to U.S. Foreign Policy.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.27 Oct 2015, 12:17 PM PST0

The woman reportedly screamed for mercy while being raped, but no one came to her assistance. Relatives of the woman have retained the services of Christian lawyer Sardar Mushtaq Gill, who runs an advocacy group offering free legal assistance to Pakistani Christians and other minorities who are victims of abuse and religious persecution.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.26 Oct 2015, 5:17 AM PST0

Contents: In major strategic escalation, Pakistan will use tactical nuclear weapons against India; India threatens use of its ‘Cold Start’ conventional tactics; Implications of Pakistan’s nuclear strategy for Iran and Saudi Arabia
by John J. Xenakis22 Oct 2015, 6:12 AM PST0

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is answering the recently released State Department report on the status of religious liberty worldwide.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.21 Oct 2015, 12:39 PM PST0

In its newly released International Religious Freedom Report for 2014, the U.S. State Department has once again failed to place Pakistan on the list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC), despite its status as one of the worst violators of religious freedom in the world.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.17 Oct 2015, 7:46 AM PST0

More than 1,400 cases of blasphemy were registered in Pakistan in 2014, marking a new record for the prosecution of religious crimes in the country amidst growing protests of abuse and arbitrary arrests of Christians and other religious minorities.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.15 Oct 2015, 2:04 PM PST0

Contents: India Muslims attacked and lynched by Hindus over cow slaughter; Cow slaughter cases surging in India’s state of Uttar Pradesh; Garry Kasparov’s analysis of Vladimir Putin’s strategy in Syria
by John J. Xenakis12 Oct 2015, 7:12 AM PST0