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Blast in DI Khan kills two

Wednesday, 22 May 2013 11:00 Zulfiqar Ali

Two security personnel were killed and seven others, including a civilian, were injured on Tuesday when a remote-controlled bomb exploded in the Dargai area of Wana, South Waziristan.

According to an official of the political administration, unidentified men bombed the main electricity pylon supplying power to Wana around 11pm on Monday night. On Tuesday morning, Frontier Constabulary personnel reached the site to investigate the incident and repair the damaged pylon when suspected militants remotely detonated a second bomb, killing two and injuring seven others.

Our gallant martyrs in Tirah Valley

Friday, 17 May 2013 16:02 Sumera Khan

“For me, Mustafa is everywhere, he never left us. Our 7-year-old daughter Rameen is proud of her father’s martyrdom,” says Sadia Mustafa, widow of Major Mustafa Sabir, who embraced martyrdom last week during clashes with militants in the Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency among other 23 military personnel. Rameen talks tirelessly about her father, and misses him badly, especially when she remembers how he would take her for ice cream.

Bomber targets foreign forces in Kabul

Thursday, 16 May 2013 11:14 Brad Hardford

A suicide bomber in a car targeted two vehicles carrying foreign forces in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, police said, but it was not immediately clear if there were casualties.

The Hezb-e-Islami insurgent group, allied with the Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack. A spokesman for the militants told Reuters U.S. military advises were the targets.

The powerful blast took place at around 8 a.m. (0330 GMT) and caused heavy damaged to mud-built houses in the vicinity.

Nazi-war crimes taken notice of in present

Tuesday, 14 May 2013 15:37 Diane Cole

The arrest of an Auschwitz guard is part of Germany's last attempt to bring the aged men to justice.

You can't hide from justice forever—not even for war crimes committed decades in the past, and not even when you're 93.

That message resounded loudly this week as Germany announced the arrest of Hans Lipschis, age 93, for complicity in mass murders that took place at the notorious Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he served as a guard in 1941-1945. Lipschis—who says he worked as a cook at Auschwitz—is the first to be charged from among a list of 50 former Auschwitz guards that the country's Central Office of the Judicial Authorities for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes plans to probe.

We are the bravest democracy

Tuesday, 14 May 2013 12:47 Murtaza Haider

Pakistan may not be the world’s largest democracy, but is certainly the world’s bravest. Over 50 million voters braved heat, violence, and terrorism to cast their votes and wrote a new chapter in the history of democracy.

Six perish in Quetta’s suicide blast

Monday, 13 May 2013 12:34 Ghalib Sultan

QUETTA: The police chief of Balochistan narrowly escaped a suicide attack Sunday that killed at least six people and wounded 46 others, officials said.

Inspector General Mushtaq Sukhera had just entered his residence in Quetta when a suicide bomber in a vehicle laden with explosives blew themselves up outside.

TTP Terror - No room for moderates

Friday, 10 May 2013 14:43 Ali K Chishti

"We have always been MQM voters, but this time we have decided not to go out and vote because of security concerns," said Syed Ayaz, a businessman in Karachi. The situation in the city is tense after more than eight major terrorist attacks by the Taliban, who had threatened to target the MQM, the ANP and the PPP - parties who they say oppose them. The boldest of these attacks was on MQM's headquarters Nine Zero on May 4. Days before that, a PPP office was bombed in Hub, and an ANP candidate was killed along with his young son in Karachi.