AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
A retired Pakistani nuclear scientist has claimed that former Pakistani leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s 1999 military adventurism in the Kargil region of divided Kashmir failed in part because the North Korea-aided, nuclear-capable Ghauri missiles he wanted to deploy then had a faulty guidance system. ...
The bravery of shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai has inspired children around the world to fight for a better education, key figures in a U.N. campaign said Friday. Hosting a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, U.N. special education envoy and former ...
Police in Indian Kashmir have warned residents to build underground bunkers to prepare for a possible nuclear war in the disputed region, which is on edge after a string of deadly border clashes. The warning comes despite a ceasefire that took hold last week ...
The Obama administration is nearing completion of a detailed counterterrorism manual that is designed to establish clear rules for targeted-killing operations but leaves open a major exemption for the CIA’s campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan, U.S. officials said. The carve-out will allow the ...
A ceasefire took hold Thursday in disputed Kashmir after the Indian and Pakistani armies agreed to halt deadly cross-border firing that had threatened to unravel a fragile peace process. The two countries reached an “understanding” Wednesday to “de-escalate” military tensions after the recent flare-up ...
Peshawar Pakistan AFP-JIJI Police in northwestern Pakistan fired tear gas shells early Thursday to disperse coffin-carrying demonstrators who refused to bury 14 people allegedly killed in a raid by security forces, officials said. The predawn operation was launched about 13 hours after around 300 ...
New York AFP-JIJI Pakistan’s foreign minister has called for talks with her Indian counterpart to ease tensions over the recent deadly clashes in Kashmir. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said Wednesday in New York that 10 days of fighting over the unofficial border had ...
Pakistan has accused India of “warmongering” over deadly clashes in divided Kashmir, while calling for talks to end a flare-up that India has warned spells the end of “business as usual.” Diplomats have cautioned against allowing a spate of cross-border killings to wreck a ...
Pakistan’s top judge ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Tuesday over graft allegations, threatening to deepen the country’s political turmoil as thousands of protesters demanded the government step down. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ordered officials to arrest 16 people ...
The CIA has opened the year with a flurry of drone strikes in Pakistan, pounding Taliban targets along the country’s tribal belt at a time when the Obama administration is preparing to disclose its plans for pulling most U.S. forces out of neighboring Afghanistan. ...
Pakistan’s top court Monday declared invalid a lease for one of the world’s richest deposits of gold and copper held by a Canadian-Chilean consortium that includes Vancouver-based giant Barrick Gold. Barrick, the world’s largest gold producer, and Chile’s Antofagasta Minerals, each own a 37.5 ...
Taliban militants have shot dead 21 Pakistani tribal police who they had kidnapped in raids on two camps outside Peshawar in the troubled northwest of the country, officials said Sunday. Around 200 militants, armed with heavy weapons including mortars and rocket launchers, stormed the ...
