BAMAKO: Al-Qaeda's top commander in Mali has been killed, Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno said, signalling a significant blow to the rebels in the seven-week French-led intervention against Islamist insurgents. Several newspapers in Abou Zeid's na...
KARACHI: The Rangers has recovered a large cache of explosives, bombs, submachine guns, and bombmaking paraphernalia during a raid in Orangi Town here on Friday night, media reported. According to Rangers personnel, the paramilitary troops conducted ...
PESHAWAR: The grand tribal jirga and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor have agreed to kick off negotiations with all stakeholders as part of the steps for restoring durable peace. The jirga headed by Maulana Fazlur Rehman met KP Governor Engineer Shaukat A...
KARACHI: Nine persons lost their lives in the ongoing spate of violence that has engulfed the metropolis while two others were injured Saturday, media reported. According to police, unknown gunmen killed a seminary teacher in Shah Faisal Colony. Thre...
KARACHI: A bunch of unknown armed bandits Friday evening commandeered the car of a high-ranking sensitive institution officer and sped away, media reported. The incident was reported from near Karachi University. According to sources the snatched car...
KALAT: Unidentified gunmen Friday shot dead a local journalist in the Kalat, officials said. Mahmood Afridi, 38, was killed in Kalat district, 160 kilometres (100miles) south of the provincial capital Quetta, local administration chief Akbar Harifal ...
KARACHI: The police have arrested four accused allegedly involved in target killings of more than 30 people in the city.Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Deputy Inspector General Police (West) Javed Alam Odho said that the accused were id...
DHAKA: The number of people killed in clashes in Bangladesh over the conviction of Islamist leaders for war crimes rose to 53 on Friday as fresh violence erupted in the Muslim-majority nation. Two people were killed when hundreds of pro-government su...
ANKARA: US Secretary of State John Kerry was due to discuss the Syria crisis with Turkey's leaders on Friday in talks likely to be strained by controversial comments by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan branding Zionism a "crime against humanity." ...
DAMASCUS: Syria and ally Russia denounced on Friday a US pledge to provide direct aid, but no arms, to rebel fighters, saying it will fuel more violence in the nearly two-year war that has killed at least 70,000 people. The opposition, meanwhile, acc...
SYDNEY: The head of the World Health Organization's Polio drive says it is crucial to push on with the fight to eradicate the disease despite a rising death toll among vaccination workers. A Pakistani policeman was shot dead earlier this week while p...
KARACHI: The Sindh government has replaced public prosecutor Abdul Mahroof for raising objection over the inclusion of anti-terror sections in the charge-sheet in Shahzeb Khan murder case. Shahid Arian will now serve as the special public prosecutor ...
SRI NAGAR: A complete shutter down strike was observed in Jammu and Kashmir against the hanging of Afzal Guru on Friday, media reported. Educational institutions, banks and shops remained closed while traffic off the roads in the occupied valley. Hea...
ISLAMABAD: The dialogue process with Taliban, as per the decisions of All Parties Conference (APC), is being initiated today (Friday), said JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, media reported. Talking to media outside the Parliament House here, Fazlur ...
LAHORE: Chairman Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Yaseen Malik called on President of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawz (PML-N) Mian Muhamaad Nawaz Sharif here on Friday, media reported. According to details, Yaseem Malik informed Nawaz Sharif about ...
LAHORE: Chairman Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Yaseen Malik called on President of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawz (PML-N) Mian Muhamaad Nawaz Sharif here on Friday, media reported. According to details, Yaseem Malik informed Nawaz Sharif about ...
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) leader Pir Pagara said Friday that there may be bloodshed during the upcoming general elections. Addressing a news conference after meeting former advisor to the prime minister Chaudhry Zaheer Ahmed, ...
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has claimed that banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) is involved in 80 percent terrorist activities in Pakistan, media reported. Speaking to media before leaving for London here Friday, the minister said al...
ROME: The United States has announced it will provide direct aid to Syrian rebels, but not the arms they had hoped for, as well as $60 million in extra assistance to the political opposition. After talks with European and Arab partners and the opposi...
DHAKA: At least 34 people were killed in Bangladesh in a wave of violence on Thursday as protestors reacted furiously to a ruling that one of their leaders must hang for war crimes. At least 23 of them were shot in clashes between police and proteste...
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