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  • 'Murders happen when emotions are high': Minister says govt shouldn't be blamed for Sialkot lynching

    Defence Minister Pervez Khattak has suggested that the ghastly lynching of a Sri Lankan man at the hands of a mob in Sialkot should not be linked to the government's decision to lift the ban on the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), saying even "murders take place" when young people get emotional...

    Khattak said he too could do something wrong in a state of heightened emotions, and added that such incidents did not mean "Pakistan is...

  • New York cab driver jailed over Pakistan murders

    NEW YORK: A New York cab driver was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for ordering a double murder in Pakistan after his daughter fled a loveless, arranged marriage...

    US prosecutors say Choudhry's American daughter, Amina Ajmal, was sent to Pakistan and held against her will for more than three years on her father's orders and forced into an arranged marriage...

  • Pakistani man wanted for 70 murders arrested in Hungary

    A Pakistani man wanted by Interpol for “70 contract murders” has been arrested in Hungary among a group of migrants caught trying to reach Austria, police said on Wednesday...

    “Pakistan has issued an international arrest warrant for murder for (the man) who was then arrested,” said the statement, without providing further details...

  • Musharraf accuses Zardari of Benazir, Murtaza’s murders

    Reacting promptly, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) questioned the “former dictator’s 10-year silence” on such an important matter and called for his trial in the Benazir Bhutto murder case after the issuance of red warrants...

    In the nearly 12-minute video, Gen Musharraf claimed that there was no doubt that Benazir Bhutto had been assassinated by former Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud and his people...

  • Karachi: mass murders

    IT is very strange that while we are made by the media to remember the sad incidents of May 12, the Tahir Plaza burning, the Baldia factory fire, etc...

    , we never hear about ghastly incidents of the Pakka Qila bloodbath in Hyderabad, the Aligarh Colony carnage, the Shershah Market pogrom and, three days of loot, arson, plunder, mayhem and killings in Karachi in reaction to Benazir Bhutto’s assassination
  • Time of healing for Sikhs after six murders

    But for Pakistani Sikhs, who mainly live in the country’s restive northwest, this year’s celebrations are also a time of healing after six murders during August and September that have left their community in fear...

    Most Sikhs left Pakistan for India after both countries gained independence from Britain in 1947...

  • Indian police allege Laskhar-i-Taiba behind Hindu pilgrim murders in IHK

    An investigation into the killing of eight Hindu pilgrims in India-held Kashmir last month has revealed the alleged involvement of terrorists belonging to the banned Lashkar-i-Taiba (LT), Indian police said on Sunday...

    Police said that the investigation had concluded that LT and Kashmiri accomplices were behind the July 10 attack in which terrorists opened fire on a bus carrying Hindus on the annual Amarnath pilgrimage
  • Bangladesh murders

    THE series of killings in Bangladesh are reason to feel nothing less than outright alarm, both for the country and the region...

    The brutal murder in Dhaka on Saturday of Faysal Arefin is the latest in a series of grievous attacks on people committed to putting into the public domain secular and liberal ideas
  • Bangladesh arrests militant chief over blogger murders

    DHAKA: Bangladesh's elite security force on Thursday arrested the head of a banned hardline Islamist group over the murders of two atheist bloggers that has sparked an international outcry...

    “All three are the suspects in the murders of bloggers Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das,” Khan said, referring to the writers who were killed earlier this year...

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