18 March 2011

Pakistan on Friday pulled out of upcoming talks with the U.S. on the war in Afghanistan, a move meant to convey Islamabad's anger over an American drone missile strike that it says killed a gathering of civilians along the Afghan border. The U.S. and Pakistan disagree on who was killed in the strike Thursday in North Waziristan, a volatile tribal region that serves as a stronghold for an array of militant groups, including Al Qaeda, the Pakistani...

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18 March 2011

This report documents the results of a study, not about the Pashtun people, but about beliefs about the Pashtun people. The purpose of this study was to identify the range of perceptions or misperceptions of Pashtun communities among policymakers, experts, and other opinion leaders, including some who have a degree of influence over policy and strategy decisions in the Pashtun belt of Afghanistan and Pakistan. In a sense, it was an effort to catalog...

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18 March 2011

A detailed annual report issued by the Jamaat Ahmadiyya here on Thursday, said the killings of Ahmadis on the basis of religion was increasing and since 1984 the number of killings has reached to 202. The report said that during the previous year, 67 cases were lodged targeting the community. It added that because of discriminatory laws in Pakistan, 234 Ahmadis were attacked, but they fortunately survived. Meanwhile, some worship places of the community...

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18 March 2011

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government seriously wants the anti-terrorism law to be amended to empower district and session judges, and the additional session judges, to hear terrorism-related cases but needs federal government`s support to make it a reality for ensuring speedy justice, according to the Provincial Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Barrister Arshad Abdullah. [...] After the amendments, the statement made by an accused in the presence...

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