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Pakistani child activist sent to Britain for treatment
A Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban because she campaigned for the right to education was on Monday sent to Britain for medical treatment, the military said. “Pakistan has arranged with the UAE for a specially equipped air ambulance to transfer Malala to the UK”, it said…
Pakistan launches anti-pneumonia drive
Pakistan on Tuesday launched a drive to vaccinate 5.5 million children against pneumococcal disease to fight pneumonia, which kills tens of thousands of youngsters in the country every year. Pakistan is the first country in South Asia to launch a campaign against the disease, according to UN children’s agency UNICEF,…
‘Brain-eating’ amoeba kills 10 in Pakistan
Authorities in Pakistan’s largest city have launched an urgent investigation after a rare water-borne “brain-eating” amoeba killed 10 people in four months, officials said Tuesday. The water company and health officials monitoring water in Karachi, home to 18 million people, have been ordered to trace the source of the Naegleria…
American women plan anti-drone hunger strike in Pakistan
Not content with a planned march into one of Pakistan’s most dangerous regions, a group of middle-aged American women are considering mounting a hunger strike outside the US embassy in Islamabad as part a campaign against CIA drone attacks in the country. Thirty-five activists from Code Pink, a US anti-war…
Anti-Islam film protests bring boom for Pakistan flag makers
Weeks of protests in Pakistan over the crudely made “Innocence of Muslims” have killed more than 20 people and caused serious damage to major cities, but for Haider business is booming. When the mobilisation against the US film began, “I knew the tills would start ringing”, said the manager at Panaflex…
Law professors: Drones have turned Pakistan into ‘war zone’
Two law professors told Democracy Now on Wednesday that the use of targeted drone strikes in rural Pakistan had terrorized the local population. Stanford professor James Cavallaro and New York University professor Sarah Knuckey travelled to Pakistan to study the effects the drone strikes had on civilians. “What we found,…
Fifteen wounded at Pakistan ‘Innocence of Muslims’ protest
Peshawar: At least 15 people, including three police officers, were wounded on Friday in clashes at a Pakistani protest against an anti-Islam film made in the United States, a hospital official said. A driver working for private TV station ARY was seriously wounded and hooked up to a ventilator, said…
Pakistan blocks YouTube over anti-Islam film
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan blocked access to YouTube on Monday after the video sharing website failed to take down an anti-Islam film that has sparked furious protests across the Muslim world. Attempts to access YouTube met with a message saying the website had been classed as containing “indecent material” and was…
One killed in attack on U.S. consulate in Pakistan
One person was killed and dozens more injured after protesters stormed a U.S. outpost in Karachi, Pakistan on Sunday. The New York Times reported that this sudden spurt of violence follows days of peaceful protests in Pakistan over an anti-Islam YouTube video that has sparked protests around the world —…
Poll: Distrust of Americans spreads beyond Middle East
American influence on the world stage is being sapped by widespread distrust of US intentions, not just in the Middle East and south Asia but also among traditional European allies, according to a survey of global opinions. Suspicion of America outweighed faith in its good intentions by large margins in…
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