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12th July, 2011
Blacklisted group says Pakistan needs peace, prosperity
LAHORE: Over tea in Lahore with the man who some see – wrongly he says – as a spokesman for the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, one…
30th June, 2011
Murders of faith in a land of violence
The Hazaras in Quetta feel cut-off and besieged in the wake of the violent attacks on them since the year 2000.
27th May, 2011
Forced out of Quetta by ethnic violence
KARACHI: Aly Khan fled Quetta city, provincial capital of the southwestern province of Balochistan, after several of his family members were attacked in inter-ethnic violence…
20th March, 2011
Smokers’ Corner: Faith in trade
The urban trader class in Muslim countries — usually comprising middle-class urbanites — is a conservative section of society. In Pakistan too it has been…
4th September, 2010
Toll from Quetta blast rises to 65
QUETTA: The death toll from a suicide attack on a Shia Muslim procession rose from 56 to 65 overnight as critically wounded people died in…