PAKISTAN

Veena Malik Confesses Going ‘Topless’ for FHM Cover Shoot: ‘The One in Bikini is Mine’ [VIDEO, PHOTOS]

Zardari’s recent hospitalization in Dubai have led some to believe he will resign, yet Zardari says he will return to Pakistan within the next few days.

As people continue to migrate away from rural areas and into cities, cities that are growing to devour the land around it, the numbers of people living in slums, shanty towns and informal settlements are skyrocketing.

The family of a retired FBI agent named Robert Levinson who has been missing since 2007 and thought to have been kidnapped in Iran has released a hostage video of an alive, but not well, Levinson begging for help.

A senior Pakistani military officer said a NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani troops on the border with Afghanistan last month was pre-planned, newspapers reported Friday, comments likely to fuel tension with the United States.

Pakistani actress and model, Veena Malik, had everyone's attention when rumors about her nude photoshoot for the cover of FHM India's December issue did the rounds of the Internet. There was an interesting comment made by Hafsa Ahmad, a blogger, which was carried by the Express Tribune, a Pakistani newspaper. Ahmad questioned the fuss over the issue and if Veena was actually worth it. She has been called a feminist and the voice of women's rights in her home country. The question Ahmad ...

Nothing has been talked about the content inside the magazine. According to a blogger, Joy of Junior, Veena spoke about burqas in Pakistan.

A petitioner Wednesday moved Islamabad High Court (IHC) against Zahida alias Veena Malik contending that she should be tried under article 294 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) for obscene acts, article 124-A for sedition, article 140 for wearing garb or carrying token used by soldier, sailor or airman and article 500 for defamation.

The killings have prompted fears that sectarian violence between Shias and Sunni Muslims could erupt in Afghanistan.

Government officials deny that Zardari is considering stepping down.

Forgotten in all the fuss about the alleged nude photographs of Pakistani actress and model, Veena Malik, on the cover of FHM India’s December issue, is one rather important mark - the tattoo on her body - the one that reads ISI; ISI is the acronym for Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's intelligence agency.

The unmanned U.S. drone Iran said Sunday it had captured was programmed to automatically return to base even if its data link was lost, one key reason that U.S. officials tell Reuters the drone likely malfunctioned and was not downed by Iranian electronic warfare.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari flew abruptly from Islamabad to Dubai Tuesday evening, apparently after suffering a minor heart attack, and may resign citing ill health, an American magazine reports.

Twin blasts in Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif aimed at Afghanistan's minority Shiite Muslims killed nearly 60 people on Tuesday as they celebrated Ashura, one of their sect's holiest days, signaling, perhaps, a new sectarian turn in what was one of the war's deadliest attacks.

A suicide attack killed dozens of Shi'ite Muslims at a crowded Kabul shrine on Tuesday, and four others died in a smaller blast in a key northern city, in the worst sectarian violence Afghanistan has seen since the fall of the Taliban.

Veena Malik's FHM India cover has sparked outrage, with Pakistanis saying it is a shame for all Muslims and her fathering claiming he has disowned her.

This incident has occurred at a time when Iran is trying to contain foreign outrage over the storming of the British embassy, last week.

In protest of local government corruption in Uttar Pradesh, India, a snake charmer released 40 poisonous snakes inside a tax office.

The editor for the FHM India Edition has threatened to release a series of photographs from the photoshoot with model and actress Veena Malik.

He also suggested Kabul would need financial and other types of support for at least a decade beyond the withdrawal of foreign troops.

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