KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is observing day of mourning in Sindh today (Sunday), as bomb attacks at MQM office in Orangi Town and PPP corner meeting in Lyari left six people dead and over 65 others hurt o...
KOHAT: At least five persons were killed and 15 wounded in an explosion at the election office of a candidate at Kacha Pucca in Orakzai Agency on Sunday morning, media reported. Police said that the explosion occurred at the office of an election can...
KARACHI: Law enforcement agencies (LEAs) seem to have failed in thwarting targeted bombings also like their utter failure in controlling targeted killings in the city here, media reported. Sources said that LEAs have remained totally clueless and und...
BAGHDAD: Gunmen killed five army intelligence soldiers west of Baghdad and five Sahwa anti-Qaeda militiamen in north of the Iraqi capital on Saturday, police and doctors said. The attacks come amid a wave of violence in which more than 200 people hav...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama issued a new warning to Syria Friday that using chemical weapons would be a "game changer" as he faced rising pressure at home and abroad to intervene in the civil war. But a day after US officials said they susp...
KABUL: Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan on Saturday announced the start of their annual "spring offensive" against the US-backed government, vowing a nationwide series of attacks as foreign troops withdraw. The extremists said that multiple suicide ...
KANDAHAR: Gunmen have released nine mine clearers held hostage for four days in Afghanistan's restive southern province of Kandahar, officials said Saturday. The men, all Afghans, were being driven back from a minefield on Monday when they were seize...
KARACHI: A bomb blast near Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) corner meeting in Lyari Saturday night left scores of injured within a few hours of twin blasts that ripped through Orangi Town's Qasba Colony area, media reported. The PPP's election gathering ...
KARACHI: At least two persons were killed while 25 others sustained injuries when two successive blasts struck near Muttahuida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Unit 132 office in Orangi Town's Qasba Colony area here on Saturday night, media reported. Reportedly,...
A United Nations envoy says there has been a “troubling” rise in civilian casualties in Afghanistan in the first three months of 2013, Press TV reports. During a NATO ministerial briefing in Brussels on Tuesday, UN special representative for Afghan...
The Human Rights’ Watch (HRW) expressing concerns towards sexual harassment of female police officers, urged the government of Afghanistan to take immediate action to ensure that the country’s female police officers have access to separate, safe, and...
According to reports, a 25-year-old woman was killed during a public execution carried out by religious clerics and local council in western Badghis province of Afghanistan. Local authorities in Badghis province said the woman was executed for esca...
Following withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, Washington and London will keep their drones to support Afghan security forces continue fighting against insurgency, NATO's air force General Jake Polumbo said Wednesda...
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement Coordination Committee on Saturday categorically stated that MQM would not boycott elections despite conspiracies, media reported. In a telephonic conversation with MQM Chief Altaf Hussain, Rabitta committee members ...
ISLAMABAD: The four-member team of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) interrogated former president of Pakistan General (retd) Pervez Musharraf for two hours in Benazir Bhutto murder case, media reported. The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) had granted 4-...
KARACHI: Awami National Party (ANP) Sindh’s President Shahi Syed Saturday said that ANP had filed a formal request for lodging a case against Election Commission of Pakistan and caretaker Chief Minister (CM) Sindh in the wake of Friday’s bombings at ...
LAHORE: Pakistani authorities have issued visa to the family of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian spy who was attacked in prison by fellow inmates on Friday, media reported Saturday. Sources said, Sarabjit’s family will arrive in Pakistan within a day or two...
KARACHI: Allama Syed Baqir Zaidi, a prominent Shia leader survived a bid on life as his bodyguard took most of the hits to die later during what could be said to be yet another heinous act of targeted sectarian shooting, media reported. He came under...
NAWABSHAH: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain Saturday said blood of innocent people was being shed, because the Taliban want to keep the participants away from the public rallies held under the banner of Awami National Party (ANP), P...
KABUL: An official says a bus in southern Afghanistan has collided with the burning wreckage of a truck that was attacked by Taliban insurgents, killing 30 bus passengers. Omar Zawak, the governor’s spokesman in Helmand province, said the truck was ...
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India To Train and Equip Afghan National Security Forces
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Coalition Plays Down Afghan Reports of Major Battle in Helmand
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Taliban Raid Tests Coalition's Afghan Gains
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