Pakistan
U.S. Republican Presidential debates: Candidates focus on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran
November 23, 2011By Charles Recknagel/ RFE/RL/ Washington, DC -- The eight candidates from the Republican Party who hope to defeat U.S. President Barack Obama in November next year all agree on one thing. They all accuse Obama of failing to deal adequately with three...
Top Terrorism Risk list by Maplecroft (198 countries)
August 04, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Maplecroft, a consultancy firm that studies and monitors political, economic, social, and environmental risks, developed the Terrorism Index to allow business to identify and monitor the risks posed...
Last Secrets of Osama bin Laden
July 04, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- World famous "terrorist number 1", Osama bin Laden and his terrorist organization "Al-Qaeda" were on alternative measures to raise funds for their "sacred war" because they...
In Pakistan, female suicide bombers are on a par with male terrorists
June 26, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- As it became known after yesterday's terrorist attack in Pakistan, the militant group 'Tehreek-e Taliban-e Pakistan "(Pakistan Taliban movement) used women as a suicide bomber for the first time for...
Pakistan 'militant' group denies Osama Bin Laden link
June 24, 2011Pakistani militant group Harkut ul-Mujahideen (HuM) has denied US media reports that it had links with Osama Bin Laden and was part of his Pakistan support network. Investigations into a mobile phone used by Bin Laden's courier are said to have divulged...
Pakistan 'arrests CIA informants in Bin Laden raid'
June 15, 2011Pakistan has arrested five alleged informants for the CIA who helped in the US raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in northern Pakistan in May, US media report. Among those held by the intelligence agency, the ISI, was the owner of a safe...
Deadly blasts at market in Pakistani city of Peshawar
June 12, 2011At least 34 people have been killed and 90 wounded after two explosions ripped through a market in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say. The blasts occurred just after midnight in an area of the city that is home to political offices...
Pakistan probes 'unlawful' videoed killing in Karachi
June 09, 2011Pakistan's Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, has ordered an inquiry into the killing - on camera - of a young man by paramilitaries. Video footage shows the man, Sarfaraz Shah, begging for his life before being shot by the paramilitaries in Karachi...
US strike 'kills' key Pakistan militant Ilyas Kashmiri
June 05, 2011One of Pakistan's most senior militants has been killed in a US drone strike, locals and officials say. Officials confirmed reports from locals that Ilyas Kashmiri had died in the overnight strike in the tribal region of South Waziristan. He is believed...
Pakistani journalist found tortured, murdered
June 02, 2011Dark day Pakistani police yesterday found the body of kidnapped journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad in a canal in the Mandi Bahauddir area of Gujarat district southeast of the capital Islamabad, from where Shahzad had been kidnapped on his way to a TV interview...