Senior member of Imran Khans Tehreek-e-Insaf party assassinated as row over Pakistan election vote rigging continues

The Independent - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. She was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in Sindh.No one has claimed responsibility for the killing.Mr Khan's party has claimed it was the victim of vote rigging in several areas of Pakistan, ...

Funeral Held for Slain Pakistani Politician

VOA - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Zahra Shahid Hussain was killed late Saturday after being approached by two unknown gunmen outside her home in Karachi. Pakistani politician and former cricket star Imran Khan, leader of Pakistan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, blamed Saturday's slaying of Zahra Shahid Hussain on the rival Muttahida Qaumi Movement party, or MQM. The party has denied any ...

Color nostalgic scenes make Pakistans trucks rolling works of art

Global Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Pakistan -- Here, trucks rule the road. Whether by blaring their horns at pedestrians or blocking a narrow street with an awkward parking job, Karachi's trucks always get the right of way. But aside from being a nuisance to already harassed drivers, the trucks add a welcome splash of color to a remarkably bleak city. The images they bear, often whimsical, adorn every possible surface of ...

Karachi Holds Repeat Vote Despite Killing

Radio Free Europe - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Voters in Pakistan's port city of Karachi have cast ballots in a partial rerun of the country's general election. The May 19 vote in the constituency known as NA-250 was held amid tight security, after a senior woman politician from Imran Khan's party was killed on the eve of the fresh voting. There was no official estimate of voter turnout. Khan's Pakistan Movement ...

Gunmen Kill Khans Senior Official Ahead of Pakistan Recount

Common Dreams - Sunday 19th May, 2013

was shot dead on Saturday outside the gates of her home in Karachi, Pakistan, hours before several re-elections were scheduled to take place in the country on ...

Nawaz Sharifs party gets majority in Pakistan parliament

Times of India - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Several independent candidates belonging to influential political families of Punjab and Sindh provinces are among those who have joined the PML-N, which emerged the single largest party in the May 11 general election by winning 124 ...

Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio is endemic

API - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Pakistan: Doctors wanted the family to pay a bribe to get into the Intensive Care Unit – corrupt system contribute to unnecessary ...

Pakistan heads back to the polls senior politician killed

Christian Science Monitor - Sunday 19th May, 2013

A bloody campaign season in which about 150 people were killed nationwide ended with the death of Zara Shahid Hussain, a top politician in Pakistan's Tehrik-i-Insaf party. On Sunday, some constituencies accused of vote-rigging voted ...

Pakistan killing overshadows Karachi poll

SBS - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Pakistani voters have cast their ballots in a partial re-run election in Karachi a day after a local political leader was gunned down outside her ...

Senior Pakistani politician shot dead

CBC News - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Gunmen in Pakistan have killed a senior member of Imran Khan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party outside her home in Karachi. Zahra Shahid Hussain, 60, was shot twice in the head, outside her home in Karachi by two men on motorcycle, police said on ...

Sarabjits murder Pakistan judge may visit India

Times of India - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Expressing surprise over S&P's threat to downgrade India's credit rating, India Inc termed the agency's affirming its negative outlook on the country as unfortunate and ...

6 killed 38 injured as suicide blast hits police van in NW Pakistan

SINA - Sunday 19th May, 2013

ISLAMABAD, April 29 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed and 38 others injured when a suicide blast hit a police vehicle in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city on Monday morning, police and hospital sources said. Muhammad Faisal, Superintendent Police of Peshawar, said that a suicide bomber carrying an estimated of five to six kg of explosive materials blew himself up near a police ...

Karachi Residents Re-Do Last Weeks Election

VOA - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Pakistani politician and former cricket star Imran Kahn has blamed the killing of a top member of his political party on a rival party, as voters in Karachi re-vote a parliamentary election originally held last ...

Video Senior female politician killed in Pakistan

The National - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Anguished relatives and friends react to the news that Zahra Shaid Hussain, a politician in the PTI party was gunned down by unknown assailants. Deborah Gembara ...

Pakistani Politician Zara Hussain Is Killed

Sky News - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Former cricket star Imran Khan has blamed a UK-based political rival and the British government after a female party colleague was shot dead. Zara Hussain, 59, was gunned down outside her home in the violence-plagued city of Karachi. She was vice president of the women's wing of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Sindh province. The killing came on the eve of a partial ...

Gunmen kill senior female Pakistani politician

MSNBC - Sunday 19th May, 2013

By By Katharine Houreld, Reuters ISLAMABAD - Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition parties. It was not immediately clear who killed Zohra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. The PTI ...

Pakistan senior female politician in Khans PTI party shot

Euro News - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The senior vice-president of the party led by Pakistani international cricketer Imran Khan has been shot. Zahra Shahid Hussain was killed outside her home in the upmarket area of Defence in the southern city of Karachi. Local reports suggest Hussain, 60, a member of the Pakistan’s Movement for Justice ...

Pakistan throws down gauntlet at the US

Asia Times - Sunday 19th May, 2013

By M K Bhadrakumar The return of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to power in Pakistan after a hiatus of 14 years electrifies the regional politics of South Asia. Signals passing back and forth between New Delhi and Lahore underscore a subtle change having already appeared in the political vibes. Typically, even as the results from the previous day's parliamentary poll were pouring ...

Take gradual initiatives Kayani tells Nawaz on ties with India

Times of India - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The report said Kayani called on Sharif to congratulate him on the PML-N's success in the general election and informally talked "about all national security ...

Pakistan politician shot dead in Karachi

RTE - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party. Zahra Shahid Hussain was shot dead outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. Ms Hussain was the vice president of former cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (Movement for Justice) in Sindh. No one has claimed responsibility for the killing. ...

PTI Leader Gunned Down in Karachi

Bahrain News Agency - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Islamabad, May 19 (BNA) - Just hours before re-elections in some polling stations of NA-250 were due to begin, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf central vice president was shot dead outside her house in Karachi. Zara Shahid Hussain was shot dead outside her house in Defence Phase IV late on Saturday evening, according to Pakistan's (Dunya News). The motive of the attack could not be immediately ...

Leading Pakistani politician killed

Irish Times - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The body of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior female politician from cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, is carried at a hospital in Karachi, in this still image taken from video footage. Photograph: Reuters ...