BREAKING NEWS: Danish Embassy Attack in Pakistan

On Monday, media outlets reported that a car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy in Islamabad. The death count so far varies across news sources - the latest Associated Press newswire reported that at least five people have been killed so far in the blast, while Reuters put the number dead at six. Both the [...]

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Update: Reactions to Attack on Niazi

Yesterday, the beating and “torture” (a widely used term to describe the incident) of former Parliamentary Affairs minister Sher Afgan Niazi by black suited lawyers was widely covered by local and international media outlets, [see yesterday's post]. Today, news sources reported on reactions to the attack. According to the Associated Press, hundreds of people protested [...]

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