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Suicide attackers continue battering Pakistan, Indians love the Internet, and more.

Amina Elahi

Indian Parliament building. Credit: js42/Creative Commons

Life moves fast. News moves faster. Four children and their bus driver were killed Tuesday when a gunman opened fire on their bus in Peshawar, Pakistan. The first weapon, a rocket-fired grenade, missed its target but subsequent use of AK-47 assault rifles killed five and sent another 18, including 15 children, to the hospital. Pakistan’s Taliban militants carried out the attack, perhaps in response to Osama bin Laden’s killing earlier this year.

Read more: More Suicide Attacks in Pakistan, India Internet Use to Triple by 2014 | September 11 – 16 | Divanee – South Asian news and entertainment.

Someone thinks Pakistan may have been sheltering bin Laden after all? Shocker.

Amina Elahi

Lockheed M-21 Blackbird and D-21 Drone. Credit: Bill Abbott/Creative Commons

Life moves fast. News moves faster. American security analyst Raelynn Hillhouse believes that Pakistan sheltered Osama bin Laden in Abbotabad in exchange for Saudi Arabian funds. She put forth her theory in her blog where she claimed that an ISI spokesman tried to claim the reward for bin Laden’s head and said the Pakistanis were harboring him at the Saudis’ expense. For the first time in the country’s history, evidence of war crimes will be presented to a court in Bangladesh. About 3 million people were killed in the nine month war that led to the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. If the men in question are convicted, they will likely be executed.

Read more: Saudis May Have Paid Pakistan to Shelter OBL, CIA Says Drones Didn’t Kill Civilians | August 8-12, 2011 | Divanee – South Asian news and entertainment.