Conor Moore | Staff Writer Two months following the arrest of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, the country is still reeling from the political fallout. Protests, riots and wide-scale violence have been sweeping the country since. In response, FIU’s Jaffer Center for Muslim World Studies hosted a webinar discussing the ramification of Khan’s sudden […]
Anwarullah Khan and Sebastian Abbot/AP Staff A 40-year-old Pakistani housewife has made history by becoming the first woman to run for parliament from the country’s deeply conservative tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Badam Zari is pushing back against patriarchal traditions and braving potential attack by Islamist militants in the hope of forcing the government to focus […]
Rasool Dawar and Riaz Khan/ AP Staff The Pakistani Taliban on Monday withdrew their offer of holding peace talks with the government, saying that the authorities were not serious about following through with negotiations. The Taliban statement came as a pair of suicide bombers attacked a court complex in the northwestern city of Peshawar. One […]
Sebastian Abbot/AP Writer China took over operational control of a strategic deep-water Pakistani seaport Monday that could serve as a vital economic hub for Beijing and perhaps a key military outpost. Control of Gwadar port on Pakistan’s southwestern coast was transferred to a state-owned Chinese company, China Overseas Ports Holding Company Ltd., in a signing […]
