JOHANNESBURG: South African police say two robbers stealing a safe shot and killed five Pakistani men and wounded a sixth in a ghetto outside the tourist resort of Cape Town. Spokesman Col. Tembinkosi Kinana said the attack took place in ...
ISLAMABAD, March 20 (APP): Islamabad Police have arrested 21 outlaws including four proclaimed offenders from various areas of the city and recovered snatched valuables, weapons and heroin from their possession, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. ...
HAFIZABAD: A young principal of a private school suffered serious burns on his face, hand and arms when three unidentified bike riders threw acid on him in the vicinity of Mughalpura here on Tuesday. According to police source, Sajjad Hussain Princip...
KARACHI: A gun battle between two groups took place in Hussain Hazara Goth area located on University Road, here on Wednesday, however, no casualty was reported. According to police, two armed groups had exchange of fire in Hussain Hazara Goth area a...
KABUL: Afghanistan’s presidential spokesman on Tuesday described the Nato-led military operation in the war-torn nation as “aimless and unwise”, in the latest broadside by Kabul against the international coalition. Aimal Faizi, spokesman for Preside...
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani on Tuesday constituted a judicial inquiry into the alleged involvement of 11 children in acts of terrorism. “The judge of the BHC will conduct judicial inquiry into the issue of alleged involvem...
ISLAMABAD: The top military brass resolved on Tuesday to continue the fight against terrorism. The meeting, chaired by Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen Khalid Shameem Wynne, was attended by Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani...
PESHAWAR: Two suicide blasts carried out by the Ansarul Islam (AI)and bombardment from military jets on Mar 18 claimed the lives of at least 33 militants, including a key-militants commander of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and injured many oth...
KARACHI: Assistant Professor and the Medical Superintendent (MS) of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH), Dr Asad Usman was laid to rest in Paposh graveyard here on Wednesday, media reported. A large number of people participated in the funeral, held at Sad...
KARACHI: Sindh police has decided to ban motorcycle helmets with face-cover in Karachi, as in many crimes such helmets are being used which help criminals to hide their identity. In a high-level meeting at Central Police Office, Inspector General Pol...
KABUL, Afghanistan : The US military says it has reached an agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on a plan for gradually pulling out American forces from an eastern province where the Afghan government says they have been behind egregious hum...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi officials say a car bomb in eastern Baghdad has killed two civilians and wounded four on the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion, the day after a series of well-coordinated attacks left scores dead. Two police officers say the park...
BAGHDAD: Al-Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate said it was behind a wave of attacks that killed 52 people and wounded more than 220, in a statement posted on jihadist Internet forums on Wednesday. "What you received on Tuesday is... the first stage that, God wi...
KABUL: The Afghan Interior Ministry has registered more than 6,000 insurgent attacks and terrorist activities during the current Afghan calendar year (from March 20, 2012 to March 20, 2013), a spokesman for the ministry said on Monday. "Up to 6,300...
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Marine Corps has extended indefinitely its use of two unmanned K-MAX heavy lift helicopters in Afghanistan, a Navy spokeswoman said, noting the aircraft kept re-supply trucks off the road and reduced the threat of roadside bombs....
Around 18 Taliban members who have shown a desire to negotiate with the Afghan government or join the peace process have recently been killed, President Hamid Karzai's spokesman has told TOLOnews to illustrate the reach of those opposed to a governme...
LONDON: Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai returned to school in England on Tuesday for the first time since she was shot in the head by Pakistani Taliban militants in October for campaigning for girls’ education. The 15-year-old said she had “ac...
SEOUL: South Korean police said Wednesday they were investigating reports from several major broadcasters and banks that their computer networks had come under a concerted cyber attack. "Members of our cyber team are investigating this now," a Nation...
WASHINGTON: Holding that Pakistan is the source of many of the US problems in Afghanistan, an American lawmaker has said that America has now an ally in India and an enemy in Islamabad. "Things have changed in the last 20 years. Pakistan is no longer...
CAIRO: Egyptian police arrested on Tuesday Moamer Kadhafi's cousin Ahmed Qaddaf al-Dam, wanted by Tripoli for his role in the regime of the slain Libyan strongman, Egyptian officials said. Egypt's prosecutor general ordered Qaddaf al-Dam's detention ...
Afghans Say New Bodies Have Been Found Near a Former U.S. Base
Kabul, Afghanistan: Soon after family members found what they believe ...
US: Taliban Inflicting Heavy Losses on Afghan Troops
BRUSSELS: The U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Joseph Dunford, ...
Growing Up An Afghan Warlord's Son
Renee Montagne recently returned from a reporting trip to Afghanistan....
Afghan interpreters' UK resettlement package 'completely inadequate'
Package announced by defense secretary Philip Hammond attacked for exp...
US, Germany, Italy vow key Afghan roles post-2014
BRUSSELS: Germany and Italy will join the United States as "lead nati...
Soldier pleads guilty in massacre of 16 Afghans
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash: The American soldier accused of killin...
Coalition Deliberates Afghan Presence
Brussels: The top commander of the U.S.-led military coalition in Afg...
In Afghanistan, grief for a husband who shouldn't have died
Khosh Gombat, Afghanistan: Whenever Bibi Laila heard the all-too-fami...
