BEIJING: Beijing on Tuesday dismissed an annual Pentagon report that accused it of widespread cyberspying on the US government, rejecting it as an "irresponsible" attempt to drum up fear of China as a military threat. The paper came as concerns in Wa...
DHAKA: Bangladeshi opposition parties have called a two-day nationwide shutdown from Wednesday to protest what they describe as the "mass killing" in a crackdown by security forces. The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its allie...
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's counsel, Ahmad Raza Kasuri Tuesday resuming his argument in the Supreme Court (SC) hearing petitions seeking trial of Musharraf for treason, said that some 4/5 hundred persons would fall in the ...
KARACHI: Ten thousand army personnel have been deployed in Karachi to ensure security during the upcoming general elections. In a press briefing after a meeting under the chair of Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani, DG ISPR Major General Asim S...
LAHORE: Indian demonstrators protested in front of the Pakistan bound friendship bus in Amritsar on Tuesday. According to reports, the protest was against the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh who died after being attacked by fellow inmates at ...
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) in a letter sent to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) apprised them of its reservations over not being provided equal opportunity for its election campaign, media reported. Bringing its predicaments on rec...
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has increased the number of security personnel who will be deployed at polling stations. 9-10 security personnel will be deployed at polling stations which have been declared sensitive, while 5 sec...
RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi police have set up two central control rooms in City Police Officer's office and Police Line while all the security arrangements to ensure smooth and peaceful holding of general elections have also been finalized by police. The...
HANGU: At least twelve people were killed and several injured when a blast occurred in the main market of Hangu where a corner meeting of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) was about to take place, media reported Tuesday. According to police, a blast occur...
WASHINGTON: North Korea has moved two missiles from launch sites on the country's eastern coast, after weeks of concern that Pyongyang had been poised for a test-launch. A US defence official said on Monday that Washington did not believe the Musudan...
MINNEAPOLIS: FBI officials said Monday that they foiled a terrorism attack that was being planned in a small western Minnesota town, but they offered no details about the exact targets of the attack — or the motive of the man accused of having a cach...
WASHINGTON: China has engaged in widespread cyber espionage in a bid to extract information about the US government's foreign policy and military plans, said a Pentagon report issued Monday. China kept up a steady campaign of hacking in 2012 that inc...
CHICAGO: Three men have been arrested in the case of three young women who were kidnapped several years ago and found alive on Monday, police in the Midwestern city of Cleveland said. "The Cleveland Division of Police confirms that there are now thre...
ISLAMABAD: The intelligence agencies have instructed the law enforcement agencies to beef up the security during and soon after the May 11 general elections, media reported Tuesday. According to intelligence reports, it is feared that the election ra...
SADDA/HANGU: The death toll of a blast at the election rally of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) candidates in the central Kurram Agency on Monday has risen to 24, media reported said. The political agent initially stated that 15 people were killed ...
ISLAMABAD: Reacting sharply to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's statement that Kabul will never recognise Durand Line - the 2,640 kilometers long porous border between the two countries, Pakistan on Monday declared that Durand Line was a settled issue...
JHAL MAGSI: Five persons were killed when two groups exchanged fire in District Jhal Magsi of Balochistan Tuesday, media reported. According to Naib Tehsildar Arbab Magsi, two armed and allegedly rival groups exchanged fire over a petty issue in Bari...
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) Tuesday during the hearing of Pervez Musharraf escape case enquired why FIRs were not registered against all those responsible for the escape of Pervez Musharraf, media reported. Interior Secretary, Javed Iqbal p...
WASHINGTON: The United States said Monday it was "highly skeptical" of an assertion that Syrian rebels had used chemical weapons, after a UN human rights investigator suggested the opposition had deployed sarin gas. Washington also reiterated that Is...
TRIPOLI: Gunmen on Monday demanded the Libyan government's resignation as they besieged ministries despite the adoption of a law to purge officials from the regime of dead dictator Moamer Kadhafi from their posts. "We are determined to continue our m...
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