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Pakistan court to issue bail decision for girl accused of blasphemy
By the CNN Wire Staff ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) – A Pakistani court is scheduled to decide Saturday whether to grant bail to a Christian girl accused of burning pages of the Quran in a case that has...
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Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy released on bail
From Reza Sayah and Nasir Habib, CNN ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) – Pakistani authorities on Saturday released a teenage Christian girl detained over accusations of blasphemy in a case that has stoked...
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Girl who spoke out against Taliban shot, wounded in Pakistan
By Shaan Khan, CNN ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) – A 14-year-old girl who was awarded Pakistan’s first National Peace Prize for her online diary reporting on the Taliban’s ban on education was shot and...
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Pakistanis to show support for schoolgirl activist shot by Taliban
Shaan Khan and Ashley Fantz ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) – The recovery of a 14-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot in the neck and now breathes on a ventilator hinges on what happens over the next two...
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Doctors pleased with Pakistani teen’s progress
(WTVR) — Doctors in the United Kingdom treating a Pakistani teenager injured in a Taliban assassination attempt, are “very pleased” with her progress, according to reports on CBS and CNN. Malala...
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Attack on Pakistani schoolgirl galvanizes anti-Taliban feeling
By Reza Sayah and Jethro Mullen, CNN SWAT VALLEY, Pakistan (CNN) – A week ago today, a Pakistani schoolgirl who dared to speak out against the Taliban took a bullet to the head for her act of defiance....
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Suspects questioned and detained in connection with shooting of Pakistani teen
From Nasir Habib and Saima Mohsin SWAT VALLEY, Pakistan (CNN) — Three men have been questioned and detained in connection with the shooting of Malala Yousufzai, the teenage activist who spoke out...
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21 missing Pakistani policemen found shot dead by Taliban
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Militants in Pakistan killed two security forces and abducted 21 others in an assault on two military camps Thursday, a government official told CNN. Days later, the...
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Pakistani leader meets protesting families of bombing victims
By Shaan Khan, CNN ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan’s Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Sunday met with Shiites in Quetta who are protesting the bombing deaths of 97 people last week, Pakistani...
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Suicide bomber kills 83 in busy marketplace
By Nasir Habib and Holly Yan, CNN ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistani police have revised the cause of a blast that killed 83 people on Saturday, saying a suicide bomber was behind the attack that...
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Pakistani teen at school for first time since shot by Taliban
By Saskya Vandoorne and Jason Hanna (CNN) — Pakistani teen Malala Yousafzai went to school Tuesday for the first time since she was shot in the head by the Taliban in October for campaigning for...
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Quake kills 6 in Pakistan, injures dozens there and in Iran, officials say
(CNN) — A powerful earthquake centered in Iran killed six people in Pakistan on Tuesday and injured dozens more in both countries, officials said. Akbar Hussain Durrani, home minister of Pakistan’s...
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WATCH: Island appears after deadly quake in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — An earthquake in Pakistan, powerful enough to prompt the appearance of a small island off the coast, has killed at least 330 people, Pakistani officials said. The...
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Hero teen dies tackling suicide bomber at school in Pakistan
A 14-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero in Pakistan for tackling a suicide bomber. KHYBER PROVINCE, Pakistan — A 14-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero in Pakistan for tackling a suicide bomber...
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Pakistan police arrest 9-month-old in alleged assassination plot
LAHORE (GEO TV) — Police authorities suspended an officer for lodging an FIR against a nine-month old but only after a judge allowed the boy to be released on bail. The accused appeared in the court...
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Pregnant Pakistani woman stoned to death by her family members
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — A pregnant woman is beaten to death by her relatives outside a court building. Her crime? To elope with the man she loved rather than marry the groom chosen by her family....
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Militants attack Karachi airport; 10 killed in clashes
KARACHI, Pakistan — Militants attacked Pakistan’s largest and busiest airport on Sunday, killing four military commandos and leaving some passengers stuck in sealed-off areas as violence erupted, a...
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At least 126 children, adults killed as Taliban storms school
Watch Video SLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — “‘God is great,'” the Taliban militants exclaimed, as they roared through the hallways of a school in Peshawar, Pakistan. Then, 14-year-old student Ahmed Faraz...
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Family of 10 killed after dad refuses to let daughter marry
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A man killed his uncle, aunt and their eight children after the uncle refused to let him marry his daughter, Pakistani police said. Gul Ahmed Said is accused of shooting and...
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Reports: Militants convicted for activist Malala Yousafzai’s attempted murder...
Watch Video A Pakistani court has sentenced two people to life in prison and acquitted eight others for the 2012 attack on future Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai, police disclosed...
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