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Pakistani Donor Gives $30M to Quake Aid

A Pakistani businessman from the US walked into the Turkish Embassy in Washington on Saturday and arranged to donate $30 million to victims of the earthquake that devastated the country only a few days before. NATO officials have describe the quake as “the deadliest natural disaster on alliance territory since the foundation of NATO.” “Deeply […]

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Pakistan Bans Media Coverage of Terrorist Linked Charity

As of November 3rd, Islamist charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and 59 other organizations cannot be covered by Pakistani media. The groups in question are known to have ties to terrorist groups such as al-Qaida. Jamaat-ud-Dawa in particular is suspected of planning the three day terrorist siege of Mumbai, India’s financial capital, in 2008 which killed at […]

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Malala Fund Receives First Donation

Malala Yousafzai is fifteen years old. Last year, the Taliban, who sought to silence her from speaking up for Pakistani women’s education rights, shot her in the head. They shot to kill, but Malala was stronger than they had reckoned—and she survived. “Here’s what they accomplished,” said Angelina Jolie, who spoke at the recent Women […]