WASHINGTON: The United States seeks to boost its relationship with Pakistan, though it is committed to winding up its combat operations in Afghanistan by the end of next year, says a top Pentagon commander. Gen Lloyd J. Austin, nominee for commander...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s pick for CIA director, John Brennan, promised senators who will vote on his nomination more openness about US counter-terrorism programmes, saying the closely guarded number of civilian casualties from drone strik...
BAGHDAD: A series of car bombs exploded within minutes of each other in and around Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 28 people and wounding dozens in overwhelmingly Shia populated areas. The attacks come amid rising sectarian discord in Iraq. ...
PESHAWAR: Bombardment by Pakistan’s military jets destroyed three suspected militant hideouts and killed six militants in Orakzai tribal region’s Mamozai area, media reported. The military has conducted several airstrikes since the beginning of this...
QUETTA: A suicide-bomb targeting Shia Hazaras in a busy market in Pakistan’s restive southwest killed 84 people including women and children and wounded 200 others, officials said Sunday. A shutter down strike was being observed in the provincial ca...
KABUL: The commander of US-led forces in Afghanistan said Sunday he would comply with President Hamid Karzai's order banning Afghan security forces from seeking NATO air support. Karzai Saturday said he would issue a decree ordering an end to local s...
BAGHDAD: A series of car bombs exploded in mainly Shia neighbourhoods across the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens, police and hospital sources said. The bombs detonated in Sadr City, Habibiya, Qahira, an...
BAGHDAD: A series of car bombs targeted Shia-majority areas of the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least six people and wounding more than 40, security and medical officials said. The blasts, the latest incidents in a spike in violence, come as t...
PESHAWAR: The police have arrested an accused involved in car snatching on gunpoint on Sunday here, media reported. Pushtkhera police station SHO, Sabz Ali Kahan told media that the accused Rashid and his two accomplices used to snatch cars on gunpoi...
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered that all interrogation facilities should be equipped with video cameras in a bid to prevent torture, after a recent UN report said detainees were abused. The decree follows a government investigation i...
TOKYO: Japanese troops removed two unexploded wartime bombs in central and western Japan on Sunday, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate their homes and disrupting bullet train services. Removal work began Sunday morning at a factory in Hamamat...
KABUL: Afghan security forces will be banned from calling for NATO air strikes in residential areas to help in their operations, President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday, three days after 10 civilians died in such a strike in the country's east. NATO ...
QUETTA: Announcing compensation for the bereaved families of Quetta blast victims, Governor Balochistan, Zulfikar Magsi, Saturday night pinned the rampant terrorism on the intelligence agencies' failure to do their job, media reported. “Seemingly, th...
QUETTA: A day of mourning is being observed in Sindh and Balochistan over the killing of 80 people in Quetta on Saturday, media reported. Mourning day is being observed in both the provinces on government level. The national flag will remain half-mas...
QUETTA: The death toll of Kerani Road bombing has reached 80, bringing the number of injured down to 173 as more of the critical victims succumbed to their wounds, media reported. DIG Wazir Khan Nasir was reported by a foreign news agency as saying t...
HYDERABAD: A police constable was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a girl, 10 in Latifabad area after registering an FIR against him on Sunday here, media reported. The parents of the girl child told that the constable, Nasir Hussain had ta...
KARACHI: At least seven persons died in violence incidents in different parts of the mega-metropolis city here, media reported Sunday morning. Police said that a teen girl’s body was found floating in the sea near Neti Jetty. While one body each was ...
QUETTA: Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) has given 48-hour ultimatum to the authorities concerned for the arrest of miscreants involved in Kerani Road carnage, media reported. Addressing a hurriedly called press conference here on Sunday, vice chairman ...
KARACHI: Two people were killed in incidents of violence in Karachi, media on Saturday. A body was found near Safoora chowk within the jurisdiction of Karachi’s Sachal police station, whereas another body was found in Malir Town’s Memon Goth. Furth...
KABUL: Afghan ground forces will be barred from calling in Nato air strikes after an attack killed a number of children this week, President Hamid Karzai said Saturday. “I issue a decree, from tomorrow none of the Afghan forces are allowed to ask fo...
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