QUETTA: Unknown gunmen on Monday morning gunned down three persons including a public relations officer and two policemen, Geo News reported. According to initial reports, Deputy Director of Public Relations Department Khadim Hussain was on his way t...
CHAGHI: FC personnel arrested 17 foreigners, under foreign act, in district Chaghi, Balochistan, media reported. According to FC sources, Frontier Core personnel on a tip-off conducted raid at Chaghi bus stop and arrested 17 Uzbek nationals, travelin...
BAGHDAD: Attacks in Iraq including a string of bombings and a car bomb at a Kurdish political office killed at least 12 people and wounded at least 75 on Sunday, officials said. Two car bombs and seven roadside bombs targeted two places of worship in...
QUETTA: Four people sustained wounds in a hand-grenade attack on a hotel here at Kuwari road, media reported Sunday. According to police, people were having tea at a road side hotel when unidentified outlaws hurled a hand grenade, injuring Muhammad A...
PESHAWAR: Authorities have collected the samples from the bodies of the terrorists who attacked the Peshwar airport which will be sent to Lahore for DNA tests tomorrow (Monday). According to police, the body parts of all the militants who attacked th...
KOTRI: Unknown assailants opened fire at the residence of PML-N’s local leader, killing his wife, media reported on Sunday. Police said that two armed riders attacked the house of Nisar Ahmed Chandio Advocate, District President of Pakistan Muslim Le...
KARACHI: Inspector General (IG) Sindh, Fayyaz Leghari said Sunday the attacks on the police were the result of the ongoing war against terrorists in the city. Speaking to the media after attending the funeral prayer of two CID policemen killed after ...
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that the courts had not accepted Indian evidence against Hafiz Saeed and action would only be taken once credible evidence was provided. Malik who arrived in Pakistan on Sunday following his three day vi...
KARACHI: Three accused were arrested and three Kalashnikovs recovered from them at Mahmoodabad on Sunday here, media reported. Police said that three accused involved in yesterday’s forced closure of the shops by firing have been arrested and three K...
RAWALPINDI: According to the ISPR, the five terrorists killed during the Pawakai operation in Peshawar were foreign nationals. In a statement, the ISPR said the operation which was conducted by the army and police had been completed. Five terrorists ...
ISLAMABAD: Peshawar airport, air force base and adjacent areas have been cleared after search operation, media reported. Spokesman of Pakistan Air Force (PAF), Group Captain Tariq Mehmood said security forces have full control of the airport and rout...
PESHAWAR: Five terrorists and a policeman were killed during fierce gun battle between law enforcement agencies and a group of terrorists holed up in Pawakai area of the city, media reported on Sunday. The operation conducted by the army and police t...
PESHAWAR: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) late on Saturday claimed responsibility for attack on Peshawar airport, media reported. ‘We carried out this attack. Our 10 associates took part in this and target was air force base in the Peshawar airport’...
PESHAWAR: A policeman and a militant were killed during exchange of fire between law enforcement agencies and a group of militants who were holed up in the residence of a former a provincial minister located at Pawa Kai area of the city, media report...
ISLAMABAD: Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt, Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force (PAF) telephoned Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and apprised him about the Peshawar airbase attack, media reported. The air chief informed prime minister t...
PESHAWAR: A suicide and rocket attack targeting jet fighters and gunship helicopters at the Air Force Base located within the compound of the airport here killed five terrorists, four civilians and wounded forty more. The assault late Saturday claime...
ISLAMABAD: Peshawar airport, air force base and adjacent areas have been cleared after search operation, media reported. Spokesman of Pakistan Air Force (PAF), Group Captain Tariq Mehmood said security forces have full control of the airport and rout...
ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Naveed Qamar has said that the terrorists used full backup in the attack on Peshawar Airbase, however, army and air force personnel thwarted this organized assault, media reported. Talking to ‘Geo News’ by telephone, Navee...
KARACHI: Dr Khalil Chishti has reached his home in North Nazimabad on Saturday after the Indian Supreme Court (SC) orders to release him, media reported. On his arrival, Dr Chishti was warmly welcomed by family and relatives. Khalil Chishti, 80, was ...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Sunday will visit Newtown, Connecticut, where a shooter gunned down 20 small children and six adults at an elementary school, the White House said. Obama will also speak at an interfaith vigil for families of the...
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