News

These Are All The US Drone Bases In Pakistan

Using information from the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, the people at Public Intelligence have created a Google Map showing all the United States drone bases in Pakistan, some of which are vital for the support of US military forces in the area.


January 12, 2012
News

Pakistan To Demolish Bin Laden’s Compound

Osama Bin Laden may have gone out with a whimper but his secret lair in Islamabad will soon be going out with a bang. A rocket-propelled bang, that is.


November 22, 2011
Mobile

Here’s Every Single Word You’re Not Allowed To Text In Pakistan

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority doesn’t want Pakistanis to be able to text the following words to each other, in fear that they will become rapists and murderers, or something. So it banned them. Here are those words.


November 19, 2011
Mobile

You Want To Stop Me Swearing In Text Messages? F**k That

Some of us like a good cuss every now and then. Others like to send dirty messages to our, err, loved ones. But in Pakistan, that’s soon to stop, as the country is banning rude text messages.


November 9, 2011
News

Mankind Has Created 128,000 Nukes, But 2% Are A Mystery

A new report on nuclear proliferation is — surprise! — kind of terrifying, revealing some disconcerting facts about nuclear warheads, who has them, and what we don’t know. The bottom line: holy hell, we’ve built a lot of these things.


November 1, 2011
Geek Out

Last Surviving Sikh Ninja Master Is Looking For A Disciple

Nidar Singh is the last known master of shastar vidya, a form of Sikh martial arts that involves lots of spinning blades flying around at the same time. It’s seriously impressive — and seriously endangered, unless Singh gets help.


September 7, 2011
Science

What Is This?

Is it a still from Transformers 4: Megan Fox Returns? Maybe an artist’s interpretation of the world splitting apart? Or HOLY CRAP is the world really splitting apart?! Sort of but not quite.


August 30, 2011
Science

Nobody Knows What The Hell This Mysterious Crashed Drone Is

An (allegedly) American drone just crashed in Pakistan. That’s not altogether surprising — we fly drones over them all the time to hunt militants. But this one’s different. It’s tiny. And, uh, it’s shaped like a bird. What is it?


June 25, 2011
News

Seized Phone Links Pakistani Intelligence To Osama Bin Laden

The mobile phone that was seized from Osama bin Laden’s courier has been revealed to contain contacts to a militant group that’s been long connected to Pakistan’s intelligence agency. This could mean that Pakistan was protecting bin Laden the whole time.


May 18, 2011
News

Massive Leak Reveals Intricate Details Of Bin Laden Raid

Details of what happened on the night we killed Bin Laden have been dripping slowly from the White House, but anonymous government sources have just handed the AP the entire story. Every single detail. The SEAL dog’s name was Cairo.