News from South Asia, Thursday 14th February 2013
Pakistan: Miami Herald: A roadside bomb has killed seven members of an anti-Taliban militia in Orakzai Agency. “…the men were on their way to a meeting to discuss strategy to counter the Pakistani...
View ArticleNews from South Asia, Monday 18th February 2013
Pakistan: CNN: An explosive device on Saturday has killed eighty-three people near Quetta, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has claimed responsiblity. “The explosion targeted Shiite Muslims in Hazara, on the...
View ArticleNews from South Asia, Tuesday 19th February 2013
Pakistan: The Guardian: Pakistani intelligence is under fire for not preventing the recent deadly bombing in Quetta, aimed at the Shia Hazara minority. “A senior politician and the country’s...
View ArticleNews from South Asia, Thursday 21st February 2013
Pakistan: Al Jazeera: One person has been killed with twelve injured in a bombing in a Peshawar shopping mall. “Senior police officer Gohar Khan said the attack on Thursday targeted shops selling...
View ArticleNews from South Asia, Monday 25th February 2013
Pakistan: Dawn: At least four people have been killed in separate incidents of violence in Karachi. “A woman died in a gunfiring incident in Machar colony near the Docks area of Karachi. The body of a...
View ArticleNews from South Asia, Tuesday 26th February 2013
Pakistan: Radio Free Europe: An explosion at a Sufi shrine in Sindh has killed two and wounded at least ten. “The bomb went off on February 25 at Shah Lakhi Ghulam shrine in the city of Shikarpur,...
View ArticleNews from South Asia, Wednesday 27th February 2013
Pakistan: CNN: A police officer guarding polio workers in northern Pakistan has been killed. “Two women administering the shots entered a house on the outskirts of Mardan when two assailants on a...
View ArticleNews from South Asia, Friday 1st March 2013
Pakistan: The News International: Banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi are involved in 80% of terror acts in Pakistan, according to Home Minister Rehman Malik. “Speaking to media before leaving for London...
View ArticleNews from South Asia, Thursday 7th March 2013
Pakistan: News Tribe: A Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan leader has vowed to attack Kashmir after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. “In a statement released on different jihadist forums on February 24 and...
View ArticleNews from South Asia, Thursday 11th April 2013
Pakistan: Zee News: A Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader who was to run in the upcoming polls, has been shot dead in Sindh. “The gunmen escaped after the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the...
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