Word: offing
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In chilling scenes, television footage captured the moment that the bomber struck. A tightly packed crowd, dressed in black and holding banners aloft, solemnly shuffled down one of Karachi's main roads. Some performed the matam, beating their chests as they mourned the death of Imam Hussain, a grandson of...
The failure to stanch the anti-Shi'ite bloodshed has drained ordinary people's faith in the government. In its place, there is now raw anger. After ambulances rushed the dead and wounded to hospitals, some of the marchers defiantly continued. Less patient ones lashed out at government officials and...
Since the 1980s, Pakistan's Shi'ite community has been subjected to brutal attacks from extremist Wahabi-inspired militant groups that regard them as heretics or apostates. With the emergence of the Pakistani Taliban, that threat has intensified. In recent years, the town of Parachinar in the wild tribal areas...
Monday's bombing comes at a sensitive time for Pakistan, as President Asif Ali Zardari appears to be battling for his political survival. A day earlier, while marking the second anniversary of the slaying of his wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Zardari raised a defiantly worded warning that democracy...
Speaking near his wife's grave on Sunday, Dec. 27, Zardari railed against unnamed forces that were conspiring to derail his shaky and unpopular government and Pakistan's democracy. Writing in the Wall Street Journal the same day, Zardari said that "a litany of ancient charges of corruption - the modus...