List of Pakistan articles
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Iranians work on a section of a pipeline (on with are sticked Iranian and Pakistanese national flags) after the project was launched during a ceremony with presidents of Iran and Pakistan on March 11, 2013 in the Iranian border city of Chah Bahar. The two leaders jointly unveiled a plaque before shaking hands and offering prayers for the successful conclusion of the project, which involves the laying of a 780 kilometre (485 mile) section of the pipeline on the Pakistani side, expected to cost some $1.5 billion. AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images) The Janus State
Pakistan has employed Janus-faced diplomacy with rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia to navigate a minefield of regional obstacles.
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A supporter of Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party carries a party flag as he passes an armored police vehicle in Hyderabad, some 160 kms east of the southern port city of Karachi on June 3, 2014 following the arrest of Altaf Hussain, the head of Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party in London. The leader of Pakistan's MQM party, Altaf Hussain has been arrested in London on suspicion of money-laundering, reports said on June 3 as panic spread through his home city of Karachi and protesters torched vehicles. AFP PHOTO/YOUSUF NAGORI (Photo credit should read YOUSUF NAGORI/AFP/Getty Images) MQM Adrift: Karachi’s Brewing Political War
The MQM is losing political clout, but what will come next for Karachi?
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Pakistani police officials inspect a local court building after a gun and suicide attack in Islamabad on March 3, 2014. At least 11 people were killed and 24 wounded in a gun and suicide attack at a court complex in the heavily-secured Pakistani capital Islamabad, police said. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images) Pakistan’s Legal Quagmire
Pakistan changed its constitution to fight terrorism, but is it ignoring the real challenges of policing?
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To go with PAKISTAN-UNREST-AFGHANISTAN by Emmanuel DUPARCQ with Usman Sharifi in Kabul In this photograph taken on October 16, 2014 shows Pakistani motorists driving past an empty police check post with graffiti which reads as ISIS along a street on the outskirts of Karachi. The Islamic State organisation is starting to attract the attention of radicals in Pakistan and Afghanistan, long a cradle for Islamist militancy, unnerving authorities who fear a potential violent contagion. AFP PHOTO/ Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images) The Islamic State Casts a Shadow in Pakistan
Whether or not the Islamic State is actually emerging in Pakistan, smaller, weaker groups are using its umbrella as a renaissance.
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Pakistani Christians protest against the suicide bombing in All Saints church in the northwestern city of Peshawar on September 23, 2013. The death toll from a double suicide bombing on a church in Pakistan rose to 81, as Christians protested across the country to demand better protection for their community. AFP PHOTO/ A MAJEED (Photo credit should read A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images) Persecution Without Prosecution: The Fate of Minorities in Pakistan
With religious persecution in Pakistan going unchecked, it is time for the United States to designate Pakistan a Country of Particular Concern.
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To go with story 'Pakistan-religion-education, FEATURE' by Gohar Abbas In this photograph taken on September 4, 2013 Pakistani students attend a class at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad. At Quaid-i-Azam University, rated the best public university in Pakistan and the best Pakistani university in Asia, students are granted a 15-minute break for prayers but any student is allowed to get up as soon he hears the call to prayer in what critics call a chaotic interruption of academic life. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images) Pakistan’s New Breed of Militants
Accused terrorist Saad Aziz doesn't fit Pakistan's terrorist profile; he's well-educated and from a privileged background. And he might be an indicator of the terrorists to come.
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An activist of Pakistan Muslim League-Q holds oil lamps during a vigil for the victims of an attack by gunmen on a Shiite Ismaili minority bus, in Karachi on May 15, 2015. The United States offered to help Pakistan investigate a deadly Karachi bus attack which left 44 Shiite Ismailis dead, in the first assault in the country claimed by the Islamic State group. AFP PHOTO/ Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images) Violence, Pakistan’s New Normal
Pakistan is adapting to its high level of violence. Security is tighter and free thinkers and diversity are dwindling but life is still going on.
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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 1: US Senator John Kerry (D-Mass) addresses reporters 01 October 1992 at the US Capitol about the release of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Terrorism's report on the Bank of Credit and Commerce International's (BCCI) illegal financial dealings. BCCI officials were indicted in 1991 amid allegations of fraud, money laundering for drug dealers and support of terrorists. (Photo credit should read ROBERT GIROUX/AFP/Getty Images) Letter To The Editor: The BCCI Scandal Is Not Pakistan’s
The Embassy of Pakistan's press attaché responds to Michael Kugelman's piece on the BCCI scandal.
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Pakistani Shiite Muslims mourn following an attack by gunmen on a bus carrying Shiite devotees outside a hospital in Karachi on May 13, 2015. At least 43 Shiite Muslims were killed and 13 wounded when gunmen opened fire on their bus in Karachi on May 13, 2015, Pakistani police said, in the second deadliest attack on the minority sect this year. AFP PHOTO/ Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images) Enemy Number One for Minorities in Pakistan: Public Opinion
In a hostile world, Pakistani minorities face many threats; each new atrocity brings with it reams of analysis and no shortage of finger-pointing toward the perceived culprits. But general public opinion might be just as much to blame as terrorism.
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An activist of Pakistan Muslim League-Q lights oil lamps during a vigil for the victims of an attack by gunmen on a Shiite Ismaili minority bus, in Karachi on May 15, 2015. The United States offered to help Pakistan investigate a deadly Karachi bus attack which left 44 Shiite Ismailis dead, in the first assault in the country claimed by the Islamic State group. AFP PHOTO/ Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images) Targeted: What’s Behind the Militant Assault on Pakistan’s Minorities
The May 13 attack on Pakistan's Ismaili community is the latest in a broader trend of violence.
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453339730pakistancrop Why Is Pakistan Such a Mess? Blame India.
After a year in office, Modi’s gestures of conciliation toward Islamabad have gone nowhere. That’s because India’s founding fathers set Pakistan up to fail.
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Pakistani media representatives gather around the Axact company building after a raid by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Rawalpindi on May 19, 2015. Pakistani investigators on May 19 carried out raids on a firm accused of running a global fake degree empire, officials said, confiscating computers and holding employees for questioning as the scandal deepened. AFP PHOTO / Farooq NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images) Remembering Pakistan’s Biggest and Baddest Fraud Scandal
Before Axact, there was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
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The bus that was attacked as it was carrying Shiite Muslims is parked at a hospital after the assault by gunmen in Karachi on May 13, 2015. Pistol-wielding gunmen in Pakistan's biggest city Karachi on Wednesday stormed a bus carrying members of the Shiite Ismaili minority, killing at least 43 in the second deadliest militant attack in the country this year. AFP PHOTO/ Rizwan TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images) In Pakistan, Playing the Blame Game
Blaming India and failed domestic policies for insecurity in Pakistan has become a habit. Instead, constructive criticism of current operations against militants needs to bring about true reform.
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AL-FAROUQ BASE, AFGHANISTAN: A video grab dated 19 June 2001 shows Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden in a video tape said to have been prepared and released by bin Laden himself. Copies of the tape, which shows members of bin Laden's organization Al-Qaeda, or "The Base", training at their al-Farouq base in Afghanistan, have been circulated to a limited number of Islamists. (Photo credit should read AFP/Getty Images) Bin Laden’s Odd Religious Library
Osama bin Laden spent the latter years of his life portraying himself as an authority on Islamic law who was qualified to order Muslims around the world to strike Western targets — and then capable of giving them the purported scriptural justifications for their actions.
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151985953 Al Qaeda’s Blueprint For How To Start a Homegrown Terror Franchise
This 15-page document outlines how to form homegrown terror cells.
