Tag: Killings

The silver lining

Inching towards understanding After the hard talk during Karzai’s Islamabad visit last week, PM Gilani’s statement comes as nothing short of a game changer in...

Ending the stalemate

Why the procrastination? After advising Marc Grossman last month to put off his visit, Islamabad has now asked Centcom Chief Gen James Mattis also to...

Tip of the iceberg

Many still missing Seven prisoners in the custody of ISI and MI were finally produced in the Supreme Court. Picked up more than a year...

‘‘Third force’ responsible for Karachi killings’

Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters on Thursday that eight suicide bombers had entered the federal capital and Rawalpindi, and rejected the impression that...

Countrywide lawyers protest against Karachi killings

The lawyer community on Thursday protested the targeted murder of their three colleagues who were killed in what police and government authorities described as...

Killing the witness

The death of justice too Whenever asked why the government has failed to stop the unending killing spree in Balochistan, prompt comes the oft-repeated reply...

Imran’s pie in the sky

But a solid agenda is still missing That Imran could manage to hold what is being described as the largest public meeting in Karachi’s history...

Syrians go to polls amid strikes, killings

Syrians were voting Monday in municipal elections held amid a general strike called by the opposition and as security forces killed another seven people...

Toll from Afghan Ashura killings rises to 84

The death toll from unprecedented bomb attacks targeting Shiite Muslims on their holiest day of Ashura in Afghanistan has risen to 84, the interior...

Who played a double game?

Recently, a crispy article ‘Calling Pakistan’s boycott bluff’ by Jennifer Rowland appeared in the Foreign Policy magazine, a piece holding intruded perceptions. To Jennifer...

NA demands probe into Hindu doctors’ killings

Parliamentarians on Tuesday vociferously protested the killings of Hindu doctors in Sindh and demanded a judicial commission or a parliamentary committee to probe the...

Fight for the white stripe

The growing acts of intolerance against the minorities in Pakistan should be cause for great concern for everybody in the country. We keep harping on...

‘Killings conspiracy to force Hindus to leave Sindh’

Despite special orders issued by President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wasan, and other federal and...

Time to act for government

It would be the repeat if I start enumerating the incidents of violence, terror and target killings Balochistan is witnessing day in and day...

Killings return to haunt Karachi

After an interval of peace, Karachi has started bleeding again as at least four people were kidnapped and later on killed in the metropolis,...

Police launch crackdown over Shia killings

Pakistani police on Wednesday said they had launched a crackdown on Sunni militants, detaining scores of suspects after being criticised for inaction over increased...

Crackdown over sectarian killing

Police said Wednesday they had launched a crackdown on Sunni militants, detaining scores of suspects after being criticised for inaction over increased sectarian killings. "We...