KARACHI: The Rangers launched targeted operation in Frontier Colony area of the metropolis in the wee hours of Thursday. According to Rangers sources, the operation is currently underway in which 1,000 personnel including trained commandos and women ...
KABUL: The UN envoy to Afghanistan called on the Taliban Wednesday to join peace efforts as the bulk of NATO combat troops prepare to leave the country by the end of next year.“My message to the insurgency is basically a sort of long-term message: yo...
BANGKOK: Thailand and a key rebel group operating in the insurgency-wracked south are set to begin landmark peace talks Thursday aimed at curbing violence that has killed more than 5,500 people in nine years. The run-up to talks between Thai official...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Afghan and NATO forces killed more than 20 insurgents in a joint operation in the eastern Logar province, military officials said Wednesday. The two-day operation that ended Tuesday night in the province's Baraki Barak district al...
YANGON: A rampaging mob set fire to a mosque and homes in a central Myanmar town, a police official said Wednesday, the latest outbreak of violence in communal unrest that has left at least 40 people dead. A week after Buddhist-Muslim clashes erupted...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi officials say two attacks in different parts of the country have killed five people and wounded 25. A police officer says a parked car bomb ripped through a residential area on Wednesday in the town of Musayyib, killing three civilians...
BAGHDAD: A series of attacks near Baghdad and north of the capital killed four people on Wednesday, the latest in an apparent spike in violence just weeks ahead of Iraq's first elections in three years. Separate bombings south of Baghdad -- one insid...
LAGOS: Sectarian clashes in volatile central Nigeria have left 23 people dead in the last week, in a region where bitter ethnic disputes have killed thousands in recent years, the military told AFP Wednesday. Details of the March 20 and 21 attacks we...
PESHAWAR: Two people sustained wounds after a blast near a family park in Hasht Nagri area here Wednesday night, media reported. According to sources, the blast occurred outside a shop that deals in firearms. Two people were injured after they were h...
KARACHI: Rangers have detained several persons during a targeted operation in different areas of Lyari after getting a tip off regarding the presence of criminals, media reported Wednesday. According to sources, Rangers are continuing operation in Ly...
ISLAMABAD: An important meeting would be held here today (Wednesday) to finalize a plan regarding security arrangements in the forthcoming general elections. According to the details, the officials from Interior Ministry, Foreign Ministry, Federal In...
CHARSADDA: A bomb exploded outside the house of former provincial assembly member Babar Ali Khan Mohmand located in Shabqadar tehsil of Charsadda, however no casualty was reported. ...
ISLAMABAD: The commission formed to probe the missing persons case has submitted its report in the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) Wednesday, media reported. According to the statistics in the report, 24 cases were completed in Sindh while 100 are sti...
MARDAN: Maulana Fazl-ur-Rahman says Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) in spite of having a meager representation in the Parliament played a key role in the glorification of Islam in Pakistan, media reported. “JUI-F will replace the sense of deprivat...
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Tuesday carried out raids in different parts of Karachi, arresting 30 accused, media reported. The raids were conducted in Sabzi Mandi, Jumma Goth, Malir, Hazara Colony, Khadda Market. Usmanabad, Kharadar and Ol...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) patron in-chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has reached United Kingdom keeping in view security concerns, media reported here on Tuesday. Sources in the PPP said that there were no difference between Bilawal and Pr...
PESHAWAR: A girls school teacher was killed in a drive-by shooting on Tuesday in the Pakistan's volatile tribal belt on the Afghan border, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but militants are particularly o...
ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry has decided to cancel permits to use tinted glasses in vehicles by March 31, media reported Tuesday. The decision was taken at a high level meeting held here in the federal capital. The meeting also decided to cancel ...
ROME: Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi said Tuesday he was resigning from his post in protest over the return of two Italian marines to India to face murder charges. "I resign in contention with the decision to send the marines back to Italy. Th...
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani on Tuesday called on caretaker Prime Minister Justice (retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, media reported. In the meeting held here at PM House, COAS and the caretaker premier discussed overall secu...
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