PESHAWAR: Federal Railway Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour Thursday said that the Taliban’s offer for negotiation is an attempt to create division among political parties. Talking to Geo news here on Thursday, Bilour said that if their offer was based up...
QUETTA: Two persons were killed and another injured in two separate incident of firing that occurred in Satellite Town and Alamdar road, here on Thursday. Police sources said that unknown armed men opened indiscriminate fire at two persons, leaving t...
CHARSADDA: A bomb exploded near a mosque located here in Haji Abad area of Umerzai, injuring four people on Thursday, media reported. According to the police, the bomb was planted on a road outside the mosque. Hospital sources said four people were w...
KOHAT: Terrorists attacked check post of security forces with rockets in FR Peshawar, killing at least two levies forces personnel and injuring another. According to the sources, the terrorists attacked check posts installed in Jani Khawra, Zarka and...
GARHI KHUDA BUX: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Thursday that Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in his historic address renewed the pledge that the party will continue mission of Shaheed...
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office spokesman Muazzam Khan Thursday said relations with the US were improving and Pakistan was against the arms race in the region. During a weekly news briefing, the spokesman added the Taliban had not requested to open an offi...
ISLAMABAD: The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has made a conditional ceasefire offer to the Pakistan Government which envisages an end to Pakistan’s participation in the Afghan war and the reshaping of the Constitution and foreign policy according t...
KANDAHAR: Four Afghan policemen were killed and two wounded on Thursday in an insurgent attack assisted by an insider loyal to the Taliban, officials said. Attackers stormed the police post at Trin Kot, a remote district in the southern province of U...
KARACHI: Armed dacoits looted a Baraat (wedding procession) including bridegroom, depriving them of mobile phones, cash and other valuables in Federal B area of the city , media reported Thursday. The bridegroom along with his baraatis spent several ...
MASTUNG: Two Levies Force personnel were injured when armed men opened fire on their vehicle on Wali Khan road, media reported Thursday. Sources said unknown armed men opened fire on a Levies vehicle which was patrolling on Wali Khan road and managed...
LAHORE: Malik Noureed, the husband of singer Annie Khalid, termed the allegations levelled against him as baseless. During a news conference, Noureed said his marriage with Annie was not forced and if the singer had differences with him, she should n...
KARACHI: A bomb has exploded outside a mosque located near Al Asif Square here at Sohrab Goth, injuring five people, police said on Wednesday. According to the police, the bomb was planted at a motor bike which was followed by heavy firing in a resid...
DALLAS: The mystery behind Pakistani American prominent leader Mr. Mansoor Shah is still unresolved after the detailed postmortem and criminal investigation reports. After detailed examination of all of the facts doctors could not come to conclusion....
PESHAWAR: More than half a million children were deprived of polio drops due to the suspension of the anti-polio campaign in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa owing to security concerns. According to the Expanded Programme on Immunisation for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa six...
NEW DELHI: India's government ordered a special inquiry Wednesday into the gang-rape of a student which sparked mass protests, as police announced the arrest of 10 men over another multiple sex assault. While a wave of angry protests over the Decembe...
BEIRUT: More than 45,000 people have been killed in Syria since the outbreak in March 2011 of an anti-regime revolt that became a bloody insurgency after a brutal crackdown on dissent, a watchdog said Wednesday. "In all we have documented the deaths ...
KARACHI: Six persons were injured in various firing incidents across the city on Wednesday while tension prevails after Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) called for strike, media reported. According to sources, two men were injured when unknown gunmen op...
KARACHI: Inspector General of Police Sindh Fayyaz Ahmed Laghari has directed the concerned officials of his department to undertake extraordinary security measures across the province on the eve of 5th death anniversary of slain PPP chairperson and f...
KARACHI: The Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) has given a strike call today in Karachi against life attempt on its leader Maulana Aurangzeb Farooqui, media reported. The religious party said a day of mourning would be observed across Sindh while a 'peac...
KABUL: A suicide car bombing hit a US-run base in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing at least three Afghans and wounding seven others, officials said. Afghan interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said the attack was a suicide car bombing and ...
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