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‘Drones will push people towards terrorism’ – Imran Khan
Imran Khan tells Channel 4 News drone attacks in Pakistan are “fomenting radicalisation” and calls on the US to name victims to prove they are killing terrorists, not civilians.
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Imran Khan calls on US to ‘reveal names’ of drone victims
Imran Khan moves his anti-drone march in Pakistan to 7 October and, speaking to Channel 4 News, calls on the US to “reveal the identities of drone victims”.
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Filmmaker’s $100,000 bounty call ’emotional outburst’
A $100,000 reward offer for the murder of the maker of a film insulting the Prophet Mohammed was ‘an emotional outburst’, according to the Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK.
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Deadly protests in Pakistan over anti-Islam film
At least 17 people are killed and dozens injured when protests by tens of thousands of Pakistanis, infuriated by an anti-Islam film, descend into deadly violence.
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Prophet film protests: where are the moderate voices?
As protests continue over a film which mocks the prophet Mohammed, Channel 4 News asks why there have been few if any moderate voices speaking out against the demonstrations.
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Demonstrators target US embassy in Pakistan
Protesters angry over a controversial film which mocks the prophet Mohammed are attempting to break into the US embassy in Islamabad.
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Hundreds dead in Pakistan factory fires
Devastating factory fires in two of Pakistan’s biggest cities have killed 314 people. Many lost their lives because they could not escape the blazes in buildings without basic safety features.
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Pakistan ‘blasphemy girl’ is released on bail
A Christian girl accused of defaming the Koran in Pakistan is released on bail, plucked from a prison yard by a military helicopter and flown to a secret location.
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Pakistan ‘blasphemy girl’ granted bail
The Pakistani Christian girl arrested for defaming the Koran is to be released on bail, after a Muslim cleric was accused of framing her.
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Muslim cleric accused of framing Christian girl
Pakistani authorities arrest a Muslim cleric on allegations of framing a Christian girl who was arrested under the country’s controversial anti-blasphemy law, according to police officials.
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Christian girl held for blasphemy in Pakistan
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari calls for a report into the arrest and imprisonment of a Christian girl accused of desecrating pages of the Koran.
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Al-Qaeda number two ‘killed in drone strike’
Militant Libyan cleric Abu Yahya al-Libi, described as al-Qaeda’s second in command, has been killed by a US drone strike in Pakistan, officials confirm.
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Drone strike hits Pakistan mosque say locals
A US drone attack in north west Pakistan, reported to have killed at least 10 people, hit a small village mosque sources reports Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben de Pear.
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Murdered aid worker’s family ‘not officially told of death’
The sister-in-law of a British aid worker killed in Pakistan says his relatives would have raised the ransom themselves if they had known it was not going to be paid.
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Aid worker killed ‘because of unpaid ransom’
A note attached to the body of British aid worker Khalil Dale, found on a roadside in Pakistan after being kidnapped in January, says he was killed because his kidnappers received no ransom money.