Tag: PostPakistans

In an interview with Axios earlier this week, Imran Khan was asked about whether there was a “rape epidemic” in Pakistan, where advocates believe that a large number of assaults go unreported. “If a woman is wearing very few clothes, it will have an impact on the man unless ...

Pakistan’s foreign minister has welcomed mediation efforts by the United Arab Emirates between his country and India but told United Arab Emirates newspaper Khaleej Times that he was not planning to meet his Indian counterpart in the country.Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar ...

Hundreds of Pakistani Hazara women are learning how to deliver side kicks and elbow blows as martial arts booms within the marginalised community.Hazaras, who are mainly Shia Muslims, have faced decades of sectarian violence in the southwestern city of Quetta, living in two separate enclaves cordoned off by checkpoints ...

Minutes after the news broke of Khan testing positive, debate about the vaccine’s effectiveness heated up on social media in Pakistan and Sinopharm began trending here on Twitter.The Health Ministry quickly responded that the prime minister was not fully vaccinated when he contracted the virus.“He only got the first ...

When women in Pakistan ride a motorbike, form a cycling group or drink tea at a roadside stall, they make it to the news: it’s rare to see them doing ordinary things in public spaces. But this changes once a year, on International Women’s Day, when women mass together ...

Pakistan’s offer to Sri Lanka to join its multibillion-dollar trade and infrastructure scheme with China under Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative has raised concerns in Indian policy circles, as New Delhi seeks to secure its influence in a region where China’s presence is growing. On a two-day visit to ...

A hotly disputed election in Gilgit-Baltistan, part of the wider Kashmir region administered by Pakistan that borders China, has not delivered the mandate for annexation that Prime Minister Imran Khan was hoping for, amid swirling allegations of federal interference in the electoral process. For the first time since Gilgit-Baltistan’s ...

Maulana Yousaf Shah cracks a wide smile as he rattles off a list of former students turned Taliban leaders, revelling in their victories over superpowers on Afghanistan’s battlefields after graduating from Pakistan’s “university of jihad”.The Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary has churned out a who’s who of Taliban top brass ...

Pakistan faced pressure from another country to establish diplomatic ties with Israel, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said in a local television interview over the weekend."I have no second thoughts about recognizing Israel, unless there is a just settlement that satisfies Palestinians," Khan said.Citing Pakistan founder Quaid-e-Azad Muhammad Ali ...

A handwritten letter by Sheikh told of his involvement in Pearl’s horrific death in the southern port city of Karachi, Faisal Siddiqi, lawyer for Pearl’s family, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview late Sunday.Pearl, 38, was kidnapped and killed while investigating the link between Pakistani militants and ...