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A Swedish citizen with the same name as a Swede who was arrested in Pakistan in 2001 and held for two years at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp was detained in Pakistan last month on suspicion of links to al-Qaida, police said Friday.
A Pakistani gang-rape victim who shunned custom and rose to global fame by speaking out about her case has defied another local taboo — she just got married.
A crowd protesting power cuts rioted Monday in the home city of Pakistan's new prime minister, ransacking the office of the state electricity company, torching a bank and leaving at least 13 people injured.
Security was tightened Friday outside mosques and government facilities across Pakistan, after Islamic radicals threatened protests over a government assault that left more than 100 dead at a mosque in the capital, officials said.
Outraged in-laws slashed the nose and ears of a Pakistani college student who married a woman without the consent of her higher-caste family, and then fractured his legs with blows from an ax, police and the victim said.
Detained terror suspects told interrogators that al-Qaida's top leaders approved a plot to blow up planes from Britain to the United States, a senior Pakistani intelligence agent said Thursday.
Thousands of women from villages and cities across patriarchal Asia took to the streets Wednesday for International Women's Day to press for freedom, equal rights and an end to discriminatory laws.
A Pakistani cleric announced a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew the Prophet Muhammad as thousands joined street protests after Friday prayers.
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