Terrorism

  Miscreants open fire near PTI leader house, torch his vehicle

Hyderabad: Panic gripped the city after unknown armed men torched three vehicles and resorted to firing in various areas of Hyderabad, media reported.   Incidents of firing were reported in Latifabad, Shahi Bazar, Faqir Ka Pir, Tower market and ...

  Zuhra Shahid’s murder case couldn’t be registered yet

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader, Zuhra Shahid’s murder case could not be registered yet, media reported Sunday morning.   Postmortem report said that two bullets fired from a close distance had hit the deceased.   Sources said she...

  PTI leader Zuhra Shahid’s funeral prayer after Asar

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Zuhra Shahid’s burial prayer will be offered at Sultan Masjid after Asar prayers and she will be laid to rest at the graveyard in Defence Phase IV on Sunday here, media reported.   Following the bur...

  Assad insists he will not quit, car bomb hits Damascus

DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad insisted he will not resign before the end of his mandate in 2014 as a car bomb exploded in the capital Damascus on Saturday killing at least three people.   "To resign would be to flee," Assad said in a...

  Election Commission concerned over Zahra Shahid murder

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has expressed concern over the killing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Zahra Shahid in Karachi on the eve of re-polling at 43 polling stations of NA-250. The ECP directed the government to make ...

  A wicked man levelled allegations against me: Altaf Hussain

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has criticized the Coordination Committee of his party for its failure to react when he was being blamed by what he said a wicked man.   Mr Hussain was addressing party workers who had gathere...

  MQM rebuts Imran Khan’s allegations against Altaf Hussain

KARACHI: Expressing strong reaction over Imran's Khan allegations against Altaf Hussain for the killing of his party leader Zahra Shahid Hussain, MQM has termed Khan's remarks a petty move.   Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, MQM seni...

  Altaf Hussain condemns Zahra Shahid’s killing

LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has strongly condemned killing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader, Zahra Shahid Hussain, in Karachi, media reported.   PTI (Sindh) Senior Vice President, Zahra Shahid Hussain, was gunned ...

  Imran holds Altaf ‘directly responsible’ for Zarah’s killing

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf Chief Imran Khan Sunday strongly condemning the killing of PTI Sindh Vice President Zarah Shahid Hussain in Karachi said that he is “shocked” and “deeply saddened”.   On his tweeter account, Imran Khan wrote “I am...

  PTI leader Zahra Shahid Hussain gunned down in Karachi

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Sindh senior vice president, Zahra Shahid Hussain was gunned down here on Saturday night, media reported.   According to initial reports, unidentified gunmen shot her outside her residence in Defence Housing Auth...

  PTI Sindh vice president gunned down in Karachi

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Sindh senior vice president, Zahra Shahid Hussain was gunned down here on Saturday night, media reported. According to initial reports, unidentified gun shot her dead outside her residence in Defence Housing Au...

  North Korea fires three short-range missiles

SEOUL: North Korea on Saturday launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, apparently as part of a military drill, South Korea's defence ministry said.   US and South Korean forces had been on heightened alert for a medium-range b...

  Chinese held in AJK over holy book's alleged sacrilege

MUZAFFARABAD: A Chinese man working on an energy project in Pakistan-administered Kashmir was being held Saturday after hundreds of protesters attacked his company offices over the alleged desecration of Quran, officials said. Lee Ping, admini...

  Sunjay Dutt held in 'terrorist' jail cell: report

NEW DELHI: Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, who is in jail for arms possession, is being held in a cell built for militants where he cannot see daylight and wants to be transferred, a report said on Saturday.   Dutt, 53, surrendered on Thursday t...

  Iraq violence kills eight

BAGHDAD: Violence in Iraq killed eight people, including a police officer, his wife and two children, on Saturday, while gunmen kidnapped 10 security force personnel, officials said. Gunmen broke into the home of the administrator for the Rashi...

  Argentina 'Dirty War' dictator Videla dies

BUENOS AIRES: General Jorge Videla, Argentina's dictator at the height of its "Dirty War" against leftist activists, died Friday in prison while serving time for crimes against humanity. He was 87.   Videla launched a ferocious crackdown on lefti...

  Clashes at Cairo demo calling on Morsi to resign

CAIRO: Demonstrators calling for Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi to resign and demanding early elections clashed with riot police in Cairo late Friday.   Hundreds of people had marched on Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday for the protest, called by...

  Afghan Police chief shot dead outside home

KABUL, Afghanistan: An official says motorcycle-riding gunmen have shot dead a police chief who led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan in front of his house. Abdul Ghani was leaving his driveway in his car when the two raced up and...

  20 killed in twin blasts in Malakand mosques

MALAKAND: At least 20 people were killed and dozens other injured when two blasts hit as many mosques in Malakand before the Friday prayers, media reported. According to Levies sources, twin blasts hit mosques in Bazdara Bala area of Malakand ...

  IJT demands arrest of Aqeel's killers

LAHORE: Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) Punjab University chapter Nazim Nauman Zafar has demanded the Punjab government to arrest the killers of Awais Aqeel, an IJT worker murdered last year. Nauman Zafar was addressing a seminar in the memory of Aw...


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Feature / Analysis

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