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    An American Woman In Pakistan

  • Airline refuses to take American woman being deported by Pakistan home

    RAWALPINDI: An American woman, who was found roaming around Commercial Market Satellite Town a few days ago by the police, was offloaded from a Qatar Airways flight at Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Sunday...

    Qatar Airways wants clarification from govt about woman’s deportationLater, she was produced before the court of a special magistrate by the police seeking permission to shift her to Darul Aman...

  • American woman taken into custody in Islamabad

    RAWALPINDI: An American woman was taken into custody by the police in Commercial Market, Satellite Town on Thursday...

    According to her passport, 31-year-old Elizabeth Marie Lancaster who is a resident of West Virgina had come to Pakistan 18 months ago after she married a Pakistani man, Adnan Khan...

  • American woman conquers K2

    GILGIT: Vanessa O’Brien, a 52-year-old British-American moun­tai­neer, has scaled K2, the second highest mountain on the planet...

    According to the Forbes magazine, she is the first American woman to climb the treacherous mountain...

  • UAE woman executed for killing American teacher

    RIYADH: The United Arab Emirates executed a UAE woman early on Monday for the militant-inspired killing of an American kindergarten teacher in December 2014, the state news agency WAM reported...

    Ala'a Badr Abdullah al-Hashemi, 31, was sentenced to death on June 29 for stabbing Romanian-born Ibolya Ryan, a mother of 11-year-old twins, in the toilet of an Abu Dhabi shopping mall and attempting to bomb an American-Egyptian doctor... ...

  • American woman murdered in Nepal

    KATHMANDU: An American woman who went missing in Nepal after arriving to help earthquake victims has been murdered, police said on Sunday...

    “We have not found the body of the woman yet”...

  • American woman marries Facebook love in Daska

    SIALKOT: The 32-year-old Pakistani-American bride flew from the US to marry a Daska-based 35-year-old man she found on Facebook...

    She says she is happy to be with her love of life even though she lacks the American lifestyle in the village...

  • Biden nominates Native American woman for cabinet post

    WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden unveiled his environment team on Thursday, choosing congresswoman Deb Haaland to serve as the first Native American interior secretary and Jennifer Granholm, a former Michigan governor, as energy secretary...

    If confirmed by the Senate, she would become the first Native American to lead a cabinet-level department...

  • US companies keen to invest in Pakistan: American Business Council survey

    KARACHI: A large number of US companies have plans to invest in Pakistan, with almost 95 per cent participants of American Business Council (ABC) ‘perception survey’ optimistic about long-term economic and operating environment in the country...

    Over 40pc of the respondents indicated that the perception of Pakistan improved in 2016-17, compared to 6pc from the year before...

  • Rescued Canadian-American family leaves Pakistan: officials

    Foreign hostages kidnapped five years ago by a terrorist group in Afghanistan and recovered by the Pakistan Army in Kohat left the country by plane from Islamabad on Friday, two security officials said...

    American Caitlan Coleman, 31, and her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle, 33, were abducted while backpacking in Afghanistan in October 2012 on a trip that had earlier taken them to Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan...

  • Pakistan Army describes freeing Canadian-American couple from terrorists

    The Pakistan Army said that the captors of a Canadian-American family held by a Taliban-linked group fled on foot after troops shot at their vehicle's tyres, as it offered a fuller account on Friday of the operation to rescue the hostages...

    American Caitlan Coleman and her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle, who were kidnapped while backpacking in Afghanistan in 2012 and had all three of their children in captivity, have left Pakistan...

  • These Pakistani-American doctors are ushering change in the US and Pakistan

    A bazaar for Pakistan clothes and jewellery, a lassi stand and a rural scene where a lady sits dressed like a villager but texting away on her cellphone, are among the sights at the APPNA convention...

    APPNA, a not-for-profit organisation established in 1977, is one of the largest organised bodies of Pakistani-American medical professionals in the United States (US) and Canada...

  • Pakistan, India do not require American mediator: think tank

    WASHINGTON: The head of an American think tank with close links to the Obama administration urged the United States on Thursday not to get involved in the current India-Pakistan peace process...

    “The right American response is one of quiet support,” Richard Fontaine, president of the Centre for a New American Security, Washington, said in an article he wrote for the Wall Street Journal...

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