ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Prosecutor General expressed his no confidence on the bench hearing the Kamran Faisal case on Monday. The bench comprises of Justice Jawad S Khawaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain. Faisal, who was ...
CAIRO: President Mohamed Morsi Sunday declared a state of emergency in three towns hit by rioting which has left dozens dead, warning that if needed he would take further steps to confront threats to Egypt's security.Enmergency measures, which would ...
CARACAS: Venezuelan Prisons Minister Iris Varela said Sunday that 58 people were killed during a riot at a jail in the country's northwest, lowering an earlier given death toll by three."The toll of unfortunate people who lost their lives, both here ...
KARACHI: Unidentified gunmen killed two persons and injured another on Kashmir Road Monday morning, media reported. According to police, unknown attackers riding a motorcycle targeted three men on Kashmir Road and opened fire. As a result of firing, ...
KARACHI: President Karachi Electronics and Small Traders Association Muhammad Irfan, who was shot and injured on Thursday night, died of his wounds at a local hospital late on Sunday night, media reported. He was attacked by unknown assailants near A...
ISLAMABAD: A division bench of the Supreme Court will resume hearing in Karmran Faisal death case today (Monday). The bench comprising Justice Jawad S Khawaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain during the last hearing had issued notices to National Acco...
PESHAWAR: Fighting between two militant groups has so far left 71 rebels dead in the restive tribal belt along the Afghan border, officials said on Sunday. The violence began in Tirah valley in the Khyber tribal region three days ago after members of...
QUETTA: The Ahl-e-Sunat Waljamat (ASJ) held a protest demonstration against targeted killing of the religious scholars and the party workers here in-front of Press Club on Sunday. A large number of party activists and leaders participated in the demo...
ISLAMABAD: The President of Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) Talal Akbar Bugti has said that Balochistan is in a state of war and killing of people belong to different communities continued under deteriorating law and order situation. He stated this while ...
QUETTA/CHAMAN: Unidentified men on Sunday opened fired at a passenger train in Qila Abdullah, damaging its locomotive. No loss of life was reported. According to police sources, the Quetta-bound passenger train wasstopped on railway track by protesti...
CHAMAN: A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded here on Sunday, however no casualties were reported. According to sources, the explosion took place near a FC convoy next to the NADRA office. Windows of the NADRA office were shattered as a result of t...
ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has handed over Kamran Faisal’s employment record to police investigation team sources said, media reported. NAB has cancelled weekly holidays of its officials in order to prepare report on Kamran Faisa...
Islamabad: A conference of Pakistani and Afghan religious scholars, scheduled to be held in Kabul by the end of January, faces a likely delay that will be a serious setback for the so-called notion of “religious backing” for the peace efforts by the ...
TIRAH: At least 61 persons were killed and scores wounded during the three days of fierce fighting between two-outlawed groups of militants Ansarul Islam and Tahrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) still continuing unabated in the valley of Khyber Agency her...
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers Sindh have arrested 10 suspects in a pre-dawn raid in Mehmudabad area of the city, media reported Sunday. Correspondent says, the paramilitary force entered Chanesar Goth area, in an apparent move against drug dealers in...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has decided to raise the issue of US drone attacks on its territory at the General Council of the United Nations in September this year, media reported Sunday. Sources said that the country has also decided to contact with the Hum...
WASHINGTON: Thousands of people marched in Washington on Saturday to demand stronger gun control legislation, in a solemn rallybacked by the US Education Secretary, the city's mayor and other top officials.The demonstration came six weeks after the m...
BEIRUT: A regime warplane killed 16 people, half of them children, in a strike on the city of Manbij in the northern province of Aleppo on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The strike came as the watchdog reported seven people ki...
WASHINGTON: Hackers sympathetic to the late computer prodigy Aaron Swartz claimed on Saturday to have infiltrated the website of the U.S. Justice Department's Sentencing Commission, and said they planned to release government data. The Sentencing Com...
PORT SAID: Street clashes killed at least 30 people in Egypt's Port Said on Saturday after 21 supporters of a local football club were sentenced to death over a bloody stadium riot in the canal city.The violence comes a day after nine were killed in ...
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