Maria Toorpakai Wazir grew up in the Waziristan region of Pakistan, a place where girls were not allowed to play sports and were expected to cover up their bodies, writes the BBC. But Maria was determined to break through these [...]
March 25, 2013
Breaking Fresh
The brutal beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl brought the horrors of war startlingly close to home after a vile video of his gruesome murder was posted online… READ ON
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One out of three women on the planet will be beaten or raped in their lifetime—that’s over a billion women who will experience some type of gender-based violence, according to the United Nations. On Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, people in [...]
February 14, 2013
Breaking Fresh
What would you call an amusement park located in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the city where U.S. Special Forces finally tracked down Osama bin Laden? ”Bin Laden-land”? “Jihadi-World”? “al-Qaeda Adventure City”? In reality, it’ll actually be anything but a bin Laden-focused theme [...]
February 5, 2013
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It’s been four months since the Taliban attacked Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl who had spent years advocating for education rights for girls, shooting her in the head as she made her way home from school. Yet the terrorists’ [...]
February 4, 2013
Breaking Fresh
(ISLAMABAD) — Muhammad Shahid Nazir is a testament to the age-old adage that if you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day, but if you teach a man to sing about fish, his song will shoot [...]
By Radar Staff
Winning the female vote and championing women's rights has been a central issue of both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney's campaigns in the run up to the Presidential election — but, it seems that whoever wins on November [...]
Good Friday: The new jobs numbers are out, and the U.S. unemployment rate is back below 8%, which looks pretty good for Barack Obama. Or, maybe, not so good. Or maybe it’s all just a gigantic conspiracy. (TIME.com) And Speaking of [...]
A father of 10 children, Malik Ameer Muhammad Afridi of Peshawar, Pakistan, has paid dearly for his 12-inch-long mustache, both literally and metaphorically. Besides spending roughly 15,000 Pakistani rupees (nearly $160) a month grooming it, Afridi was... [...]
September 14, 2012
Breaking Fresh
By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter
Planning a fall getaway or a pre-holiday season escape?
RadarOnline.com has compiled the list of places NOT to go to as we reveal 2012's most dangerous cities in the world.
A recently released study by Mercer Consulting... [...]