LAHORE: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has urged all political parties to take joint stand on holding talks with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, which made a conditional offer for dialogue last week. “All political parties should make joint decision on h...
LANDI KOTAL: About 25 containers carrying goods belonging to NATO troops in Afghanistan crossed the Torkham border checkpost into Pakistan over the past three days, according to official sources. They said the supply of goods from Afghanistan to Pak...
KARACHI: Five people including a police official and a trader were killed in various incidents of violence and firing in just one hour here on Monday, media reported. According to police, some unidentified assailants riding motorbike gunned down the ...
SRINAGAR: A boy who was wounded after security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir opened fire at a protest over the execution of a separatist died of his injuries Monday, a hospital said. Ubaid Mushtaq, who doctors say was 12 or 13 years old, died...
KARACHI: The medical report pertaining to age verification of key accused in Shahzeb murder case, Shahrukh Jatoi, will be presented in the court today (Monday), media reported. Seven-member medical board, constituted to ascertain Shahrukh Jatoi’s age...
SHEIKHUPURA: Police killed three accused, involved in kidnapping for ransom, in alleged encounter near Sharkpur Sharif, media reported. Police said they were moving accused Faryad, involved in kidnapping and killing of 16-year-old Tauseef one-and-a-h...
KARACHI: Angry protesters set ablaze a motorcycle and ransacked a police post in North Karachi after unknown gunmen injured three people including a woman in Sector 5-A area on Sunday. Heavy contingent of police and Rangers were called in to bring th...
QUETTA: Eight people were injured in three rocket attacks in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan on Sunday night, police said. Deputy Inspector General Police Operations, Wazir Khan Nasar said three rockets fired by militants from an undis...
QUETTA: Two people sustained injuries following as many rockets fired from an unknown direction landed with loud blasts in different parts of the city on Sunday. The first rocket hit a spot on Abul Khair road while the second one landed in Mominabad ...
QUETTA: Two back-to-back blasts have been heard in the city after rockets were reported to have been fired from an unknown direction on Sunday. The location of the incident is been confirmed, sources said. ...
FAISALABAD: A man committed suicide after killing his wife and four children here on Sunday, media reported. The shocking incident took place in Yasinabad locality of the city. According to reports, Amir visited his in-laws to bring his disgruntled w...
PESHAWAR: A blast targeting police van in Peshawar left three law enforcers injured on Sunday, Geo News reported. According to Geo's correspondent, the blast took place along the Grand Trunk (GT) road near Nishtarabad bridge. Rescue sources said, the...
TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said the United States must change its attitude if it wants to hold direct nuclear talks with Iran, as he hit out at Washington for imposing sanctions on Tehran. His comments, in a speech marking the 3...
ISLAMABAD: Azad Kashmir Prime Minster Chaudhry Abdul Majeed on Sunday attended funeral prayer of Afzal Guru held outside the National Press Club in absentia. Kashmir Liberation Front Leader Yasin Malik also attended the funeral prayers for the Kashmi...
WASN’T it? Yesterday I mean. Spring announced itself in Delhi. The sun was out, and the law took its course. Just before breakfast, Afzal Guru, prime accused in the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, was secretly hanged, and his body was interred ...
ISLAMABAD: A local court on Saturday issued non-bailable warrants for Maulana Abdul Aziz, Khateeb of Lal Masjid, and four witnesses, including a police officer. The orders were passed after the court found the above mentioned individuals absent duri...
RAWALPINDI: Legal complications have delayed a Pakistani team’s visit to India, scheduled for the second half of the current month, for recording statements of four Indian witnesses to the 2008 Mumbai attacks after the defence counsel sought written ...
WASHINGTON: There’s widespread resentment against drone strikes in Pakistan, says the former commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal. At the launching ceremony of his book, “My Share of the Task”, on Friday evening, th...
UNITED NATIONS: The UN secretary-general and the US government condemned a deadly attack on an Iranian dissident camp in the Iraqi capital early on Saturday and urged Iraqi authorities to carry out a full investigation. “(Ban Ki-moon) strongly conde...
PESHAWAR: Security forces conducted different raids in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday arresting four suspects, including two key commanders, besides seizing uniforms of Pakistani and Afghan National Army along with a huge quantity of arms and ...
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