ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: The widow of Khalid Khawaja, a former official of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), on Thursday rejected allegations that her husband was part of a conspiracy that led to the Lal Masjid operation in 2007. Appearing before the Lal ...
LONDON: British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond made an unannounced visit to southern Afghanistan to visit UK troops, his ministry said. He returned home on Thursday after a two-day visit to the country, where he met with new Afghan Defense Min...
ISLAMABAD: Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said on Thursday there was more to do in the fight against terrorism. “While acknowledging that there is more to do, both leaders were pleased with the progress to date,” a statement by the Internationa...
NEW YORK: Attacks by US military forces in Afghanistan, including air strikes, have reportedly killed hundreds of children over the last four years, according to the UN body monitoring the rights of children. The Geneva-based Committee on the Righ...
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry warned on Thursday that North Korea's expected nuclear tests only increase the risk of conflict and would do nothing to help the country's stricken people. Kerry made the remarks when he dropped in on a gr...
WASHINGTON: Protesters denouncing US drone attacks disrupted a Senate hearing Thursday on the nomination for the next CIA director, forcing police to clear the hall to keep demonstrators out. "Stand up against drones," yelled a protester, as Presiden...
NAWABSHAH: Illegal weapons were recovered and 53 accused were arrested by police in different raids on hideouts of alleged outlaws.Deputy Superintendent of Police (City) Abdul Qadir Samo talking tomedia said that police on secret information raided v...
PESHAWAR: The district police on Thursday foiled two separated bids of arms and narcotics smuggling in the jurisdictions of Hayatabad and Khan Raziq police station and arrested two smugglers.According to police, Hayatabad police during snap checking ...
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Police have arrested five outlaws from various areas of the city and recovered one car, 1.200 kilogram hashish, three pistols from their possession, a police spokesman said on Thursday.The nabbed persons have been identified as S...
PESHAWAR: Unknown gunmen killed a lawyer in Gulbahar area of Peshawar Friday morning, media reported. According to police, the attackers who were riding a motorcycle sprayed bullets on Advocate Malik Jarrar’s car, killing him on the sport. The lawyer...
KARACHI: The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) has announced shutter down strike in Karachi against terrorism, targeted killings and assassination of Ulema, media reported. Religious and political parties, transporters, traders and private school associat...
KARACHI: The media still owe a lot of answers the public regarding an unexplainable blast near PNS Karsaz (a naval facility in Karachi) in which a Pakistan Navy officer and his wife were seriously injured, Geo News reported Thursday. According to ini...
KARACHI: Two vehicles were burnt and sporadic clashes were reported in many areas along with aerial firing incidents as Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) announced a shutter down strike in Karachi against terrorism, targeted killings and assassinatio...
ISLAMABAD: The Awami National Party (ANP) on Thursday announced to hold an all parties conference (APC) on February 14, in an effort to chalk out future course of action in the backdrop of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) offers for peace talks with t...
NEW DELHI: India’s government has failed to curb the rampant sexual abuse of children, especially in schools and state-run child care facilities, a rights group said Thursday. Human Rights Watch cited in its report the recent fatal gang-rape of a yo...
BEIRUT: Rebel belts around Damascus were rocked by fighting and heavy shelling for a second straight day on Thursday as the army pressed a major offensive that a watchdog said killed 64 people in 24 hours. Among those killed were five civilians, thr...
CAIRO: Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) leaders met on Thursday for the second and final day of a summit dominated by the Syrian conflict which has divided the Muslim world along sectarian lines. The closed-door meeting of half of the OIC’s...
DHAKA: Bangladeshi Ahmadis on Thursday shifted the site for their centenary celebrations after thousands of religious rivals torched the original venue. A mob, which witnesses said numbered around 20,000, attacked the venue at Kaliakoir, near Dhaka,...
TEHRAN: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected Thursday a US offer to negotiate one-on-one on Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme so long as Washington continues to impose sanctions on Iran. “You (Americans) want to negotiate when yo...
WASHINGTON: Pakistan extended full cooperation to the CIA in tracing suspected terrorists and provided secret detention and interrogation facilities to the US intelligence agency, says a report. A Washington-based rights advocacy group, Open Society...
Afghan Official Challenges U.S. Tax Audit
WASHINGTON: Afghanistan's top finance official is disputing an audit b...
Embassy Row: After Afghanistan for NATO
“In together, out together,” Hungarian Defense Minister Csaba Hende e...
Afghan Star Khaled Hosseini's New Book
As a boy growing up in Afghanistan, Khaled Hosseini heard lots of fab...
Airing Of Dirty Laundry Raises Afghan Hopes That Corruption Will Be Tackled
The very public trading of graft accusations in Afghanistan's parliame...
Violence against women act modification sparks furor in Afghanistan
A number of civil society organizations including independent human r...
Afghan treasures display in Melbourne tells a different Afghanistan story
MELBOURNE: Several hundred priceless antiques from ancient Afghanistan...
Afghan soldiers' incompetence raises concerns about U.S. withdrawal plans
Mansurabad, Afghanistan A suicide bomber drove his car into a U.S....
Afghanistan wants lethal weapons from India; Karzai visit from Monday
New Delhi: Ahead of its President Hamid Karzai’s visit next week, Afg...
