The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, has been sacked from office by the country’s Supreme Court after a damning…
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A Pakistani schoolboy who sacrificed his own life to save hundreds of his classmates by tackling a suicide bomber will have his school and a stadium named after him, officials said Monday. Aitzaz Hassan, a 15-year-old from the mainly Shiite Ibrahimzai…
Pakistan on Thursday said it would raise the issue of US drone strikes inside its territory at the United Nations Human Rights Council. “We will go to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva if the drone strikes continue” Tasneem Aslam…
A US drone strike targeting a militant compound killed at least three suspected insurgents in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border late Wednesday, officials said. The attack took place around midnight in Qutab Khel village, five…
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel on Monday that US drone strikes were “counter-productive” as Washington tried to ease tensions with Islamabad. In the first visit by a US defence secretary for nearly four years,…