DAMASCUS: Al-Qaeda in Iraq confirmed on Tuesday long-held suspicions that it is behind jihadists fighting in Syria, as Washington said it was mulling new ways to drive President Bashar al-Assad from power. The mainstream rebel Free Syrian Army kept i...
BELGRADE: A Serbian war veteran on Tuesday went from house to house in his village near Belgrade, shooting dead 13 relatives and neighbours -- including his son, his mother and a two-year-old child, police said. It was the worst such incident in two ...
Tel Aviv: The US State Department recently filed a motion to dismiss the claims of a group of Americans who allege US aid money to the Palestinian Authority (PA) funds terrorism. The lawsuit, filed by 24 Americans living in Israel last November in th...
KARACHI: Four policemen including an SHO were tortured by the guards of an influential leader’s relatives in Defence area Tuesday, Geo News reported. According to sources, a police team was attacked and tortured when it arrived in Gizri after getting...
QUETTA: Two people including a woman were killed in Naseerabad district on Tuesday, police said. Armed men opened fire on Ali Hasan in the Asadullah Goth of Dera Murad Jamali, killing him on the spot and fled, police said old feud led to the murder. ...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has rejected the plea seeking the arrest of former President General (retd) Pervez Musharraf. During proceedings of the treason case against the former president, the apex court stated that no stay order regar...
PESHAWAR: A policeman was injured as two blasts with minutes of interval ripped through Charsadda Road here on Sunday, media reported. According to sources, the first blast occurred when a power generator of a private bank blew up. As the police pers...
DERA MURAD JAMALI: An 18-inch natural gas pipeline was blown up on Sunday morning in Goth Mir Muhammad Bugti area of Nasirabad district. SHO Zulfiqar Pandrani told APP that unknown men had attached explosive materials with gas pipeline supplying natu...
QUETTA: A man was injured by armed bandits when he resisted bid of his snatching vehicle in Shahbaz town area of provincial capital. Police sources said on Sunday that the victim Tanveer was on way home in his personal vehicle when unidentified armed...
LAHORE: Mujahid Squad arrested 156 accused and registered 78 cases against them during a crackdown against proclaimed offenders, robbers and criminals in last month. A spokesman of the force said Sunday that in a drive against illegal weapons holders...
QUETTA: Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and his guard were killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire on them in the Goli Maar Chowk area of the provincial capital on Monday evening, police sources said. According to initial reports, armed men...
QUETTA: Unknown gunmen on Monday shot dead a senior police officer in Esa Nagri area of the city, media reported. According to reports the assailants opened fire on a vehicle carrying DSP Ameer Muhammad Dashti, killing the officer on the spot and inj...
KARACHI: A security guard along with his aides robbed Rs 1.4 million from a government bank in Tariq Road area and fled successfully Tuesday, media reported. According to police, the security guard of Sindh Bank in Tariq Road area took the bank staff...
Afghan foreign ministry officials on Sunday called the strategic pact between Kabul and Islamabad meaningless unless Pakistan does not take practical steps to fight terrorism and assist Afghanistan in peace process with the militant groups. The off...
Istanbul: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Turkey on Sunday for key talks on Syria and the Middle East on a visit overshadowed by the killing of a young woman diplomat in an Afghan bombing. The US foreign service employee, who Kerry met la...
President Hamid Karzai spoke out against the Taliban attack in Farah province saying on Friday that while his administration is endeavoring to release imprisoned members of the Taliban, the group responds with suicide attacks. "We went another step...
BAGHDAD: Police officials say bombs in three Iraqi cities have killed two soldiers, a policeman and a pro-government Sunni fighter. Police say a roadside bomb targeting an army vehicle in the Baghdad neighborhood of Abu Ghraib on Monday killed two so...
SEOUL: North Korea said Tuesday the Korean peninsula was headed for "thermo-nuclear" war and advised foreigners in South Korea to consider evacuation, in the latest in a series of apocalyptic threats. The warning followed a similar evacuation advisor...
WASHINGTON: The White House on Monday welcomed efforts by Russia and China to ease the crisis with North Korea, after pushing both nations to use their influence to change the isolated state’s behavior. “We welcome efforts by Beijing and Moscow to en...
ELGRADE: A man shot dead 13 people, including a baby, as he went on a rampage in a village outside the Serbian capital Belgrade, television and officials said on Tuesday. A 60-something man shot six men, six women and a baby in the village of Velika ...
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Afghan Taliban Fighters Turn on Pakistan
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