QUETTA - The incidents of terrorism, sectarianism, and ethnic assaults have decreased to a great extent in the otherwise insurgency-hit Balochistan province as the recently concluded parliamentary elections have just turned a new leaf in its history.In 2012, at least 954 people including 690 ...

YANGON : Buddhist monks from across Myanmar will gather on Thursday for talks about the religious violence that has shaken the country, after some of them were implicated in attacks on Muslims.Deadly unrest — mostly targeting Muslims — has laid bare deep divides in the Buddhist-majority ...

When I listened to a journalist from the BBC World reporting about the riots in Stockholm last week, I noticed a slightly malicious tone in his voice. It was as if he wanted to say: “There you see; you clever Scandinavians were not better than the rest of us after all.” And he went on ...

The fresh spate of violence following May 11 general elections, erupted in the metropolis as 11 people were killed in the firing incidents in different areas.Some unidentified miscreants lobbed a cracker at a shop near the residence of Siraj Lala, a local leader of Awami National Party (ANP) in ...

yangon: Two Buddhists have been arrested after Muslim shops were destroyed in northern Kachin State, police said Saturday, in a new outbreak of religious violence. Myanmar is in the grip of acute religious tension after a deadly wave of unrest in March that saw monks and Buddhist mobs attack Muslim ...

YANGON : Police in Myanmar, where mobs this week desecrated mosques and burned homes, said Thursday they would charge a Muslim woman for blasphemy after she apparently collided with a young monk on the street, sparking the unrest. Win Win Sein and another Muslim woman were detained by police in ...

YANGON - Police in central Myanmar fired warning shots to disperse a crowd after a mosque and shops were attacked Tuesday, the president's spokesman said, in the latest religious unrest to hit the country.The fighting was sparked in the small town of Oakkan, around 100km north of Yangon, after a ...

BAGHDAD:  Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki pointed a finger on Saturday at the civil war in neighbouringSyriafor the return of sectarian strife toIraq, as a five-day wave of violence has killed 215 people. And the head of the Sahwa anti-Qaeda militia forces threatened war on militants if ...

beijingTwenty-one people, including police officers and social workers, were killed in violent clashes in China's ethnically divided western region of Xinjiang, officials said on Wednesday.Gun fights broke out in Barchuk county in the west of the province after police went to search the home of ...

Amelie Bottollier-DepoisAung San Suu Kyi's refusal to condemn attacks on Muslims in Myanmar has dimmed the Nobel laureate's lustre among global rights campaigners, but observers say her reticence will do her no harm with voters.Nearly a month after religious riots killed 43 people in central ...

Central Secretary Information Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Senator Mushahidullah Khan on Monday held former military ruler Pervez Musharraf responsible for the prevailing unrest in Balochistan province.Speaking to media persons here in Quetta, the senator said the former military ...

ISLAMABAD – The mistreatment of the female students taking graduation examination, especially those who wear full-face veils, has sparked unrest among them, as they were forced to remove the veils by the examination supervisory staff and the Punjab University inspectors for an identity ...

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has remarked legislating, not obtaining funds is job of elected representatives.CJP gave these remarks while presiding over a 3-member bench of Supreme Court (SC) during the course of hearing of Balochistan unrest case here Wednesday.Aman ...

Didier LaurasTwo years after a repressive junta ceded power, Myanmar is grappling with a surge in religious extremism that experts trace to anti-Muslim "provocateurs" including radical Buddhist monks.At least 43 people have been killed while mosques and Muslim homes have been destroyed over the ...

According to media at least 30 Yemeni soldiers lost their lives in a revenge attack on an army base in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan. Yemeni forces started an offensive against militants in Abyan two years ago, under the cover of US drones. Some twenty five thousand soldiers participated in ...

Certain ethnic groups in Karachi have been on an unchecked spree of various crimes in Karachi. It seems as if these killers have no fear, not from the state, which it controls politically, or from foreign press, as it has its backing and connections. Being a friendly coalition partner it should ...

The 8th February presentations on Balochistan, sponsored by Oversight and Investigation House Committee on Foreign Affairs at the Raymond House, Washington D.C has finally let out what had been cooking up for quite some time in the subterranean world of strategy formulating circles of State ...

LAHORE - Tuhaffuz Namoos-e-Risalat Mahaz has decided to convene Ahle Sunnah All Parties Conference on February 27 to discuss Balochistan and other issues. The decision was taken at a meeting of TNRM held here on Saturday, with Allama Raza-e-Mustafa in the chair. The meeting also decided to organise ...

Supreme Court putt off on Friday the hearing of Balochistan’s target killing case till February 6. The court had to adjourn the hearing due to absence of Balochistan’s Advocate General over medical reasons. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said the court wants to hear this case ...

ANKARA - Turkey on Tuesday slammed as discriminatory and racist a bill passed by the French Senate making denial of the Armenian genocide a crime and vowed to impose unspecified sanctions against Paris on a "step-by-step" basis.French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe appealed to France's "Turkish ...

DAMASCUS- Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has decreed a general amnesty for crimes committed during unrest in the country over the past 10 months, the official SANA news agency said on Sunday.“President Assad issued a decree stipulating a general amnesty for crimes committed during ...

Being an Afghan national in Pakistan is an increasingly risky business these days as, right from the border crossing at Torkham, exploitation is the name of the game.Gaining legal entrance into the ‘Land of the Pure’ via the overland route and Torkham is a nightmarish venture from start ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Chinas security chief has told provincial officials they need to be more prepared for the negative impact of slowing growth, underscoring Beijings concern a slowdown could bring social unrest. Large-scale strikes have hit China in recent weeks, as workers resentful about low ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik while giving briefing to the Parliaments Committee on Balochistan and Karachi law and order said that some neighbouring countries were behind the Balochistan unrest and they have credible evidence in this regard. The committee met here at ...

GENEVA (AFP) - At least 2,600 people have been killed in the unrest in Syria since popular protests first broke out in mid-March, the UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said Monday. With regard to Syria, let me note that, according to reliable sources on the ground, the number of those killed since ...

LONDON (AFP) - England's football friendly against the Netherlands was cancelled here Tuesday after a third day of violent rioting in London, officials confirmed. A one-line statement from the Football Association confirmed the news which followed a meeting between FA officials and police early ...

KARACHI - A stray bullet killed a man during protest against electricity loadshedding and shortage of water at Korangi, as protests against unannounced loadshedding have been under way in different parts of the city for the last one month. According to details, the protests against loadshedding ...

ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - President Asif Ali Zardari while expressing concern over the ongoing political unrest in some Gulf countries has ruled out the possibility of any such situation emerging in Pakistan. I dont think such political unrest can reach Pakistan, as it is a different country that has ...

President Asif Ali Zardari while expressing concern over the ongoing political unrest in some countries of the Gulf region has ruled out the possibility of any such situation emerging in Pakistan. I dont think such political unrest can reach Pakistan, as it is a different country that has a strong ...

KARACHI - Target killings, mafia rule and gangs of extortionists were almost institutionalised following the 2008 elections when the PPP formed government at Center and shared power in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan and Sindh; in the latter province with the support of MQM and ...