KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Dr Farooq Sattar said on Saturday that conspiracies were being hatched to pit people of Karachi against each other. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of Afza Stadium, he said that terrorists wanted t...
ISLAMABAD: Balochistan National Party (BNP) central vice-president, Mir Hasil Bizenjo Saturday said that the caretaker set up in Balochistan should be non-political and non-partisan and cautioned that if political and partisan set up was brought in, ...
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican on Friday rejected claims that Pope Francis had failed to protect two priests who were kidnapped and tortured by Argentina's military junta, and said he had in fact helped save lives. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first pope to...
WASHINGTON: A federal court ruled Friday the CIA can no longer refuse to confirm or deny whether it has records related to drone strikes, in a blow to the government's secrecy over the bombing campaign. The Court of Appeals for Washington DC said the...
BEIRUT: Syria's air force launched new air strikes on Friday on rebel bastions near Damascus, as clashes raged in flashpoints across the country two years after the anti-regime uprising began, a watchdog said. Regime forces resumed an assault on part...
WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced plans on Friday to bolster U.S. missile defenses in response to a growing nuclear threat from North Korea, adding 14 interceptors to a missile defense site in Alaska by 2017 and deploying a radar tr...
LOS ANGELES: The US Central Intelligence Agency is collecting information on radicals in Syria for possible lethal drone strikes against them at a later stage, The Los Angeles Times reported late Friday. Citing unnamed current and former US officials...
KARACHI: Rangers during targeted operation in Taisar Town here hauled up over two dozens of suspects and recovered weapons, explosives and local made hand grenades, media reported. Rangers’ sources said that a search operation was launched in the wee...
KARACHI: Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Saturday stopped the new prosecutor, Muzaffar Solangi from representing in the case during the hearing over here, media reported. Sources said that the plaintiff’s lawyer Faisal Siddiqui strongly objected to the ch...
ISLAMABAD: The head of a U.N. team investigating casualties from U.S. drone strikes has concluded that the attacks violate Pakistan's sovereignty. Ben Emmerson, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, says the Pakistani gov...
LAHORE: Thirteen suspects said to be involved in the Joseph Colony attack have been sent to jail for fourteen days on judicial remand. Fourteen suspects who had earlier been sent to jail for four days on police remand were presented before and Anti-T...
KABUL: The US commander in Afghanistan has warned his troops face an increased threat of attack from militants and rogue Afghan forces after a series of inflammatory anti-US comments from President Hamid Karzai. NATO's International Security Assistan...
KARACHI: Five Pakistani citizens, trapped in Mozambique for two months, arrived in Karachi here on Friday, media reported. The crew members of cargo ship M.V MEEM, stranded in the private jail of African country Mozambique, were released by the autho...
LONDON: The leader of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain has condemned the bomb blast in Landhi's Old Muzaffarabad Colony area, which resulted in the deaths of three people here on late Thursday night, media reported In a statement issued h...
KARACHI: At least three people including a policeman were killed in a blast outside a cable operator's office here in Old Muzaffarabad Colony, Landhi, media reported. Earlier it was reported that a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) ha...
Thailand and one of several rebel groups in the country’s Muslim south will open peace negotiations in Malaysia on March 28 in an effort to end a bloody insurgency, a Thai official said Thursday. Thailand and the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) rebe...
HELD AL QUDS: It will take Iran "over a year or so" to develop a nuclear weapon, US President Barack Obama told Israel's Channel 2 television a week before he pays a historic visit to the Jewish state. "We think that it would take over a year or so f...
KARACHI: Police on Thursday launched a large-scale operation in collaboration with intelligence agencies, arresting five terrorists including Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Karachi commander Sher Alam Mehsud. Police carried out raids in different parts o...
BARA: Clashes between two militant groups left five militants dead and several others injured in Teerah Valley in Khyber tribal region on Thursday, media reported. Sources said that clashes between banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and proscribed Ans...
KARACHI: An alleged Taliban militant Qari Bilal has been killed in a police crackdown, police said on Thursday. Speaking to media at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, DIG West Javed Odho said that police launched a crackdown following the assassination of...
Afghan Official Challenges U.S. Tax Audit
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Embassy Row: After Afghanistan for NATO
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Afghan Star Khaled Hosseini's New Book
As a boy growing up in Afghanistan, Khaled Hosseini heard lots of fab...
Airing Of Dirty Laundry Raises Afghan Hopes That Corruption Will Be Tackled
The very public trading of graft accusations in Afghanistan's parliame...
Violence against women act modification sparks furor in Afghanistan
A number of civil society organizations including independent human r...
Afghan treasures display in Melbourne tells a different Afghanistan story
MELBOURNE: Several hundred priceless antiques from ancient Afghanistan...
Afghan soldiers' incompetence raises concerns about U.S. withdrawal plans
Mansurabad, Afghanistan A suicide bomber drove his car into a U.S....
Afghanistan wants lethal weapons from India; Karzai visit from Monday
New Delhi: Ahead of its President Hamid Karzai’s visit next week, Afg...
