ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police on Friday found a body from green belt in sector G-13 while two persons died in various incidents, a police spokesman said. According to details, body of a person seemed to be in his 50s was found from double road in secto...
QUETTA: The police recovered and defused an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Satellite Town in the provincial capital on Friday afternoon. Police sources said that unknown men had planted IED against the wall of a house in Satellite Town. On rece...
KARACHI: Police arrested 10 suspects during targeted operations in different parts of Sohrab Goth, media reported Friday. The late night operation was launched keeping in view increasing crimes in Faqeera Goth and Jamali Goth areas. Police said the s...
KARACHI: Two people were gunned down while one more sustained injuries in various incidents of firing here on Friday, media reported. According to police, a man was shot dead in Koranigi unit 5 area of the metropolis and his body was shifted to hospi...
LAHORE: Cantonment Division Police have smashed a dacoit gang and arrested its five members besides recovering two pistols, three rifles and rounds from their possession here Friday. SP Cantonment Maroof Wahla constituted a special police team under ...
PESHAWAR: District Police claimed on Friday to have arrested 17 proclaimed offenders and 43 outlaws during raids conducted in various areas, while recovering huge quantity of arms and ammunition. Chief Capital City Police on the directives of DPO Pes...
NAWABSHAH: A protest rally was taken out here on Friday against the murderous attack on Pir of Qambar Syed Ghulam Hussain Shah at Jacobabad two days back. The rally commenced from Masjid Road was participated by Anjuman Tulba Islam, Sunni Ittehad Cou...
Rahim Yar Khan: Ahle Sunaat Wal Jamaat (AWSJ) Vice President Malik Ishaq was taken into police custody here on Friday and transferred to the district jail. According to police, the Punjab government had issued directives to take Ishaq into custody, f...
KARACHI: An Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) Friday approved the final chargesheet against the eight accused in Shahzeb Khan’s murder case, media reported. According to chargesheet, the gunshots fired by Shahrukh Jatoi and Siraj Talpur resulted in the deat...
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari said Friday that Pakistan was severely affected by the Afghan war, adding that the three decade long war in Afghanistan could not establish peace. Addressing the concluding session of the National Conference on I...
LONDON: The Government of Pakistan has served summons to former military dictator Pervez Musharraf and Shaukat Aziz, former prime minister, in relation to their alleged role in the Lal Masjid operation. The News has learnt from sources in Pakistan’s ...
PARIS: The red warning zones expand along with the numbers of French men, women and now children who have become the largest group of nationals held hostage by al-Qaida and its loose affiliates. With the kidnapping of a family of seven _ including fo...
PATNA: Maoist rebels killed six policemen Friday in a landmine attack in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, the second deadly ambush by the insurgents against security forces in recent weeks, police said. "The Maoists targeted a convoy heading out on...
ISLAMABAD: Law Minister Farooq Naek said Friday that governor rule in Balochistan will be revoked and the provincial government will be restored by March 16. Speaking to the media here, the law minister added that all measures to revoke governor rule...
ISLAMABAD: The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday that over 83,000 Afghan refugees were repatriated from Pakistan in 2012, which is its largest return operation in the world. Last year's figures saw a 60 percent increase in the numbers of ...
United Nations Assistance mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) following a report announced US drone strikes in Afghanistan rose sharply last year with 506 weapons were released by drones in 2012, compared with 294 the previous year. The increase was a s...
Pakistani religious leaders have dealt a blow to David Cameron’s Afghan peace initiative by insisting they will not travel to Kabul for talks unless Taliban leaders are invited as well. Islamabad: The clerics were due to travel to Afghanistan next m...
Telecom towers have been damaged or destroyed by insurgent attacks around 300 times in the past decade – an average of more than two attacks a month, the Afghan Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) said Sunday. MCIT minister...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday condemned bomb attacks that killed at least 14 people in the Indian city of Hyderabad, saying "all acts of terrorism are unjustifiable regardless of their motivation". "Terrorism in all its forms and manifestations const...
LOS ANGELES: Three people were killed in a shooting and fiery car crash Thursday on the Las Vegas Strip, police said, warning thatthe suspected shooters remained at large and were "armed and dangerous."The overnight incident started with an altercati...
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