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Malala to make UN speech in July

Agence France-PresseApril 18, 2013 20:16
Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, will make her first public speech on her 16th birthday in New York, the office of Britain's former prime minister Gordon Brown announced on Friday. She will speak at the United Nations on July 12, said Brown, speaking in his capacity as the UN Special Envoy for Global Education. Malala was shot at point-blank range by a Taliban gunman as her school bus travelled through Pakistan's Swat Valley on October 9 last year,

Pakistan pace bowler Gul to miss Champions Trophy

April 18, 2013 13:15
KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan pace bowler Umar Gul has been ruled out of the Champions Trophy one-day tournament scheduled for England in June due to a knee injury. A Pakistan Cricket Board spokesman said Gul had injured his right knee on the tour of South Africa last month and would travel to Melbourne for surgery in May. Gul, 29, has taken 161 test and 163 one-day wickets for his country. (Editing by John Mehaffey)

Pakistani girl makes Time's 'most influential' list

Agence France-PresseApril 18, 2013 12:47
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani school girl and advocate for girls' education who survived a would-be assassin's bullet, is among the 100 most influential people in the world, Time magazine said Thursday. Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, is one of seven honorees to also appear on one of the various covers that the magazine has devoted to the list.

Taliban in Qatar see no early peace talks with U.S. - sources

April 18, 2013 06:31
By Amena Bakr and Hamid Shalizi DOHA/KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban leaders living in Qatar have held no Afghanistan peace talks with U.S. officials in the Gulf state for more than a year and see no prospect of any soon, Taliban sources say. A team of envoys from the Islamist insurgent group flew to Qatar in early 2012 to open talks with the U.S. government, which has laid a greater emphasis on negotiations before a handover of security to Afghan forces in 2014.

12 Dead in attack on political candidate in Pakistan

April 16, 2013 17:16
Islamabad, Apr 16 (EFE).- At least 12 people died Tuesday and 40 were injured in a suicide attack in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar against a politician running for office in next month's general elections, police told Efe. The attack came early in the evening near Yakatut, capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, and targeted a rally for Gulam Ahmed Bilour, a leader of the Awami National Party. Among the dead are four police officers, while three more officers and Bilour himself were wounded.

Bomb kills eight at Pakistan campaign rally

April 16, 2013 12:46
A bomb killed eight people and wounded dozens more at a Pakistan election campaign rally on Tuesday being attended by a senior politician, officials said. Senior Awami National Party leader Ghulam Ahmed Bilour escaped with only minor bruises. He was shown on television footage with blood splatters on his shirt after the attack in the northwestern city of Peshawar. str-mmg/jm/pj

Afghan leader expresses grief over Boston blasts

April 16, 2013 04:46
Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed grief Tuesday over the Boston marathon bombings, which killed three people and injured more than 100 in the US city. Karzai in a statement denounced what he described as terrorist attacks in the "strongest possible terms". "Having suffered from terrorist attacks and civilian casualties for years, our people feel better the pain and suffering arising from such incidents," he said.

Pakistani Taliban deny role in Boston Marathon blasts

April 16, 2013 04:30
The Pakistani Taliban, which claimed the 2010 Times Square bomb plot, on Tuesday denied anything to do with explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 100 in Boston. "We believe in attacking US and its allies but we are not involved in this attack," Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP. "We have no connection to this bombing but we will continue to target them wherever possible," Ehsan added.

Pakistani Taliban deny Boston Marathon blasts

April 16, 2013 02:31
The Pakistani Taliban, which claimed the 2010 Times Square bomb plot, on Tuesday denied anything to do with explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 100 in Boston. "We believe in attacking US and its allies but we are not involved in this attack," Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP. "We have no connection to this bombing but we will continue to target them wherever possible," Ehsan added.

QWP unveils 12-point election manifesto

April 15, 2013 15:26
The Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) on Sunday unveiled its 12-point election manifesto envisaging the restoration of comprehensive and sustainable peace by building national consensus and introducing a policy framework to identify the root causes of terrorism and militancy. It underscored the need for enabling pro-active and civilian-led initiatives to address the problems of violence, intolerance and militancy. The party’s manifesto said that Pakistan was a federal state under the 1973 Constitution and the party would strive for the creation of new federating units on the basis of pub
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