Tag result for article published on Wed February 08 2012 7:39 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: biggest fish species, Karachi, Karachi Harbor, Pakistan, whale shark
A 36-foot-long whale shark was brought to the Karachi Harbor on Tuesday morning by local fishermen who claimed to have found it dead in the open sea though some experts believed that the shark might have been killed after it got entangled in a net. The whale shark is a fish — a slow-moving filter [...]
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Posted in Outdoors
Tag result for article published on Mon May 02 2011 4:10 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Abbottabad, live blogging, Navy Seals, Pakistan, twitter
Sohaib Athar, an IT consultant, was tweeting about some unusual helicopters over his neighborhood near Abbottabad’s Jalal Baba auditorium. He was joking about using his giant helicopter swatter to stop them. He even linked to a news site that proves his helicopter swatter works. The news reported a helicopter crashed near the Pakistan military academy [...]
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Posted in Terrorism
Tag result for article published on Sun May 01 2011 10:24 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Terrorism
Osama bin Laden, accused of leading the worst-ever terrorist attack on U.S. soil on September 11, 2001, has been reported killed. The United States has possession of the body. President Barack Obama began speaking about the news from the White House at 11:36 p.m. CDT. A unnamed source had leaked that Osama bin Laden (also [...]
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Tag result for article published on Tue January 18 2011 2:38 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: earthquake, Karachi, Lahore, Pakistan
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocked a remote area of southwestern Pakistan early on Wednesday. Tremors were caught on a news network’s security cameras, and the shaking could be felt as far away as India and the United Arab Emirates. A magnitude 7.3 earthquake has been reported in Pakistan — affecting the cities of Lahore and [...]
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Posted in Disaster Report
Tag result for article published on Wed November 10 2010 12:19 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: blasphemy, Chrisitan persecution, Christian, martyr, Muslim, Nankana, Pakistan, Sheikhupura
NOV 08 2010 — Asia Bibi was sentenced to death by a judge in a local court in the town of Sheikhupura, near Lahore, Pakistan after she was found guilty of blasphemy for speaking freely about Christianity to Muslim women working with her at a farm. The judge also fined Asia $1,190 (U.S.) and advised [...]
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Posted in Crimes Notebook
Tag result for article published on Thu June 24 2010 10:06 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: American Muslim, American Muslims, arrest, Pakistan, terror, Terrorism, U.S. Muslim, U.S. Muslims
Five American men were convicted on Thursday on “terror” charges by a Pakistani court and sentenced to 10 years in prison in a case that has heightened concerns about Westerners traveling to Pakistan to contact Islamist extremist groups. Five US citizens were sentenced to ten years in prison in Pakistan for contacting militant groups and [...]
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Posted in Terrorism