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Gunmen kill polio worker in Pakistan

Soldiers guard Pakistani vaccination clinic via AFP

Gunmen shot dead a female anti-polio worker in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, police said, the latest in a series of deadly attacks on vaccination teams. The two attackers on a motorbike opened fire on the team as they went to administer polio drops on the edge of the city of…

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Pakistani version of ‘Glee’ smashes TV taboos

Actors and actresses rehearse a scene in the television series 'Taan' in Lahore on May 20, 2013. Image via AFP.

Gay romance, Islamic extremism and a soundtrack of classic love songs make for Pakistan’s taboo-breaking answer to the hugely successful US television series ‘Glee’. Like its smash hit forerunner, ‘Taan’ follows the lives and loves of a group of young people who regularly burst into song. But this time they…

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Two arrested after UK fighter jet scrambles to intercept Pakistani airliner

[image of Pakistan International Airlines jet via Dean Morley's Flickr photostream, Creative Commons licensed]

A U.K. military fighter jet was dispatched to escort a Pakistani passenger jetliner flying from Pakistan to England on Friday. According to the Associated Press, Britain’s Minister of Defense confirmed that a military plane was launched in connection with an incident on a civilian aircraft, but would say nothing more.…

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Pakistan remains opposed to drones after Obama speech

Drone fighter lifts off from carrier via AFP

The Pakistan government Friday repeated its view that US drone strikes in its territory were illegal, after President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for their use. The US president mounted a firm defence of his covert drone war as legal and just in a major speech on counterterrorism policy…

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New York Times bureau chief expelled from Pakistan over ‘undesirable activities’

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The New York Times bureau chief in Pakistan was expelled from the country early Sunday after being ordered to leave for unspecified “undesirable activities”. Declan Walsh, who was hired by the newspaper last year after covering Pakistan for British newspaper The Guardian since 2004, was handed an expulsion order at…

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Pakistan re-elects former PM Sharif amid election violence

Woman casts vote in Pakistan elections

22 killed as violence, intimidaton and vote rigging mar poll many had feared would never be held Fourteen years after he was overthrown and exiled by a military dictator, the former Pakistani prime minister known to his supporters as “the Lion” claimed victory on Saturday night in one of most…

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Counting begins in landmark Pakistan elections

Woman casts vote in Pakistan elections

Counting got underway Saturday in Pakistan’s landmark elections after millions of people defied deadly Taliban attacks to take part in an historic democratic transition in the nuclear-armed state. Polling stations officially closed at 6:00 pm (1300 GMT) after a “huge turnout” in Punjab, the biggest province, capping a dramatic day…

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Pakistan kicks New York Times bureau chief out for ‘undesirable activities’

The New York Times (AFP)

By Amanda Holpuch Veteran Pakistan correspondent Declan Walsh received order to leave country at midnight local time for ‘undesirable activities’ The New York Times’ Pakistan bureau chief has been expelled from the country, on the eve of the national election. The paper said Pakistan’s Interior Ministry had not explained why…

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Transgender candidates stake claim in Pakistan vote

Sanam Faqeer via AFP

Stereotyped as dancers, beggars and prostitutes, Pakistan’s vibrant but shunned transgender community is striking out into politics with individuals contesting elections for the first time. They may only be seven out of 23,000 candidates with little chance of getting elected, but they have livened up an otherwise lacklustre campaign and…

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Creator of drone causalities visualization hopes data will ‘shock’ people

Wesley Grubbs screenshot

Wesley Grubbs of Pitch Interactive told HuffPost Live on Tuesday that he created an interactive graph of the U.S. drone campaign in Pakistan to highlight civilian causalities. “We want to shock people,” he explained. “What we tried to do though with this was not just shock people with the number…

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