KARACHI, Pakistan—In April, a Pakistani mother of two blew herself up outside the gate of Karachi University’s Chinese language and culture institute, incinerating a minibus and killing three Chinese teachers and a Pakistani driver.The attack—one of a growing number targeting Chinese nationals working abroad in Asia and Africa—was a ...
The government and the army have denied any involvement in the attack on the ousted prime minister, which has highlighted divisions in Pakistan. Source link
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Police in the southern city of Karachi are investigating if the attacker who opened fire at a well-known dental clinic, killing one person and injuring two others, was targeting members of the city’s Chinese community.Pakistan has seen a series of attacks on Chinese nationals in recent years as their presence grew ...
It’s one thing to invade a country. Even decapitating a government can be relatively easy, although Vladimir Putin has so far failed in Ukraine. But it’s something else entirely to pacify a country and occupy it over time toward a favorable conclusion. The Soviet Union found that out in ...
Among responses to Russia’s assault on Ukraine this week, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s stood out: He pressed on with a visit to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow amid Western efforts to isolate him. “What a time to come, so much excitement,” a microphone caught Mr. Khan saying ...
On Sunday night, in their third attack in as many weeks, Houthi radicals in Yemen unleashed a new barrage of ballistic and cruise missiles and weaponized drones against civilian sites across the United Arab Emirates. U.A.E. and U.S. air defenses knocked most from the sky. Some got through earlier ...
The Pentagon announced on Monday that it was placing 8,500 U.S. troops on heightened alert, including troops that could deploy as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Response Force. Largely led and manned by Europeans, this force was built for the kind of crisis that Russia is fomenting ...
The U.S. lost its 20-year campaign to transform Afghanistan. Many contractors won big.Those who benefited from the outpouring of government money range from major weapons manufacturers to entrepreneurs. A California businessman running a bar in Kyrgyzstan started a fuel business that brought in billions in revenue. A young Afghan ...