PAKISTAN

Yousafzai

Malala Reported Improving, Moving Limbs

Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban for advocating women's education, is improving in a British hospital and has begun moving her limbs, a Pakistani official said Wednesday.
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Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani Teen Malala Flown To UK For Treatment

The wounded Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting education for girls has been shifted to the United Kingdom for further treatment, a military spokesman said Monday.
Yousufzai

Taliban Shoot Pakistani Schoolgirl For Promoting Girls’ Education

Malala Yousufzai, a 14-year-old Pakistani girl who rose to fame for speaking up against the Taliban and for advocating girls’ education which the extremists oppose, was critically injured Tuesday by a gunman in the Swat Valley, northwest of Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad.
Khar And Lavrov

Russia Slams US Drone Policy In Pakistan

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Thursday criticized the U.S. drone policy in Pakistan while extending full support to Islamabad’s stance on the attacks.
China landslide

China Landslide Kills 18 Students

A landslide in quake-hit Yunnan province of southwest China Thursday left 18 primary school students dead, news agencies reported citing Chinese officials.
Pakistan Blasphemy

The Problem Of Pakistan

The troubling travails of Rimsha Masih, a Christian teenager who lives near Islamabad and is facing blasphemy charges for allegedly burning pages of the Koran to cook, reflects the growing intolerance toward religious minorities that amounts to what one expert calls a “gradual genocide” in Pakistan.

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