List of Pakistan articles
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TO GO WITH Pakistan-crime-drugs-society,FEATURE by Hasan Mansoor This picture taken on March 26, 2009 shows Pakistani addicts injecting heroin into each other on the roadside in Karachi. Pakistan has more than four million drug addicts in its population of more than 160 million, according to figures compiled by the Anti-Narotics Force, responsible for arrests, investigations and prosecutions of drug offences. AFP PHOTO/ Rizwan TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images) Heroin and Extremism in Pakistan
Pakistan's drug addiction, which kills 700 people daily, is bankrolling terrorists. This nexus cannot be overlooked.
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GettyImages-681898crop Al Qaeda Boss Zawahiri Pledges Allegiance to New Taliban Leader
The announcement comes on the heels of news of Mullah Omar's death in 2013.
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GettyImages-483645690crop Child Sex Abuse and Blackmail: The Horrible Scandal Rocking a Pakistani Village
Abusers reportedly forced children to participate in sex acts, taped, and sold the subsequent videos, and then blackmailed the children and their families.
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Pakistani member of the United Nations Human Rights Council and former human rights minister of Pakistan, Ansar Burney (L) places a tilak on the forehead of a young girl during the Kanjak Pooja on the last day of Navratri in Amritsar on October 22, 2012. Held at the end of the Navratri festival, Dussehra symbolises the victory of good over evil in Hindu mythology. AFP PHOTO/ NARINDER NANU (Photo credit should read NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images) The (Non)Free Exercise of Religion
As Pakistan marks National Minorities Day, there are a few glimmers of tolerance in a country rife with religious and sectarian violence.
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TO GO WITH Afghanistan-unrest-militias,FOCUS by Anuj Chopra This photograph taken on May 23, 2015, shows Afghan militia forces stand with their weapons in Kunduz. The commander known as Pakhsaparan, or the "wall breaker", barked out commands at his bandolier-draped fighters, part of a patchwork of anti-Taliban militias in northern Afghanistan seeking to augment hard-pressed Afghan forces in a strategy fraught with risk. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) Death Divides the Taliban
The death of Mullah Omar has caused rifts in succession, the peace process, and internal loyalties that signal dangerous times ahead for Afghanistan.
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GettyImages-482497480-cropped[1] Singing Omar’s Praises, Staying Silent on Mansour
Al Qaeda affiliates' silence is a sign that the fight to succeed Mullah Omar as Taliban leader is not yet over.
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GettyImages-481497330 5 Foreign-Policy Interviews That Will Most Make Us Miss Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart is ending a strong run of foreign-policy interviews.
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KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN: TV grabs taken secretly by BBC Newsnight shows Taliban's one-eyed spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar (C) during a rally of his troops in Kandahar before their victorious assault on Kabul in 1996. AFP PHOTO MANDATORY CREDIT BBC NEWS/NEWSNIGHT (Photo credit should read AFP/Getty Images) Dead or Alive, Mullah Omar Is a Relic
The Taliban leader helped shelter bin Laden, but he wasn't as brutal as the thugs ISIS is recruiting inside Afghanistan.
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Special assistant to Prime Minister, Syed Tariq Fatemi, arrives to attend the 10th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) on October 16, 2014 in Milan. The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) was created in 1996 as a forum for dialogue and cooperation between Europe and Asia held every two years alternatively in Asia and Europe. AFP PHOTO / GIUSEPPE CACACE (Photo credit should read GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP/Getty Images) -
UFA, RUSSIA - JULY 10: In this handout image supplied by Host Photo Agency/RIA Novosti, A group photograph of the SCO heads of state, the heads of observer states and governments, and international organisation delegation heads. First row, from left: President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Almazbek Atambaev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov. Second row, from left: UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha, Director of the Executive Committee of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure Zhang Xinfeng, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi, SCO Secretary-General Dmitry Mezentsev, Executive Secretary â Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Sergei Lebedev, Executive Director of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) Gong Jianwei, Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Le Luong Minh. during the BRICS/SCO Summits - Russia 2015 on July 10, 2015 in Ufa, Russia. (Photo by Host Photo Agency/Ria Novosti via Getty Images) Sharif is Taken to Task at Home
A meeting between Sharif and Modi at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit is hailed a victory in India but has been greeted with cautious optimism in Pakistan.
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Screen Shot 2015-07-17 at 11crop Watch From Inside the Cockpit as This F-16 Climbs 15,000 Feet in 45 Seconds
High performance fighter jets: not for the weak of stomach.
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TO GO WITH Lifestyle-Pakistan-unrest-tourism,FEATURE by Sajjad Qayyum In this photograph taken on June 9, 2013, shows a view of tourist huts in the mountainous Neelum valley in Pakistani controlled Kashmir. Success stories can be rare in Pakistan, but business is booming in a new holiday resort in Kashmir as the region rebuilds after a devastating earthquake and shrugs off associations with violence. AFP PHOTO / SAJJAD QAYYUM (Photo credit should read SAJJAD QAYYUM/AFP/Getty Images) The Camp David of Pakistan
Peace talks in Murree, Pakistan between Afghanistan and the Afghan Taliban may be a first tentative step, but they are the only step that can lead towards peace in Afghanistan.
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Indian security personnel run to take position during an attack by militants at Raj Bagh police station in Kathua district, some 60 kms from Jammu on March 20, 2015. Two suspected rebels stormed a police station in Indian Kashmir, killing three officers and a civilian before being shot dead by government forces, police said. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) Pakistan Says It Downed an Indian Drone. But Did It?
Disputes over whether or not Pakistan shot down an Indian drone could increase tensions between the neighboring countries.
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A French military officer, pilots an Israeli Harfang drone, bought by the French army and used in the Operation Barkhane, an anti-terrorist operation in the Sahel, inside the Drone command center, on June 9, 2015 in the French army base in Nianey, Niger. AFP PHOTO/PHILIPPE DESMAZES (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP/Getty Images) Death From Above
Emily Schneider reviews two new books about the U.S. drone program, Sudden Justice and Kill Chain, that, read together, inform our understanding of U.S. drone policy in new ways.
