MARDAN: An Explosion took place at the Mardan Post Graduate College. media reported. According to sources, the explosion took place inside a class room. Luckily the classroom was empty and no one was injured in the explosion....
TOKYO: Scientists in Japan said Tuesday the earth tremor measured in the northeast of the Korean peninsula was "different from a normal earthquake", reports said. "The Japanese meteorological agency detected the wave is different from a normal earthq...
BEIJING: An earthquake measured in North Korea on Tuesday morning was a "suspected explosion", China's Earthquake Administration said. A webpage run by the China Earthquake Network Center, affiliated with China's Earthquake Administration, said a qua...
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is pushing a plan that would keep about 8,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan once the NATO military mission there ends in 2014 but significantly shrink the contingent over the following two years, according to senior U.S. governm...
GUWAHATI: At least 11 people have been killed in clashes between police and tribal groups opposed to ongoing local elections in India's northeastern state of Assam, police said on Tuesday. "The situation is very critical and so far we have reports th...
SEOUL: North Korea informed Beijing and Washington of its plans to undertake a nuclear test, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported. Yonhap, citing an unnamed South Korean official, said the warning had been given on Monday to both capitals....
SEOUL: North Korea confirmed Tuesday it had "successfully" carried out an underground nuclear test, drawing immediate condemnation from rival South Korea. "A third nuclear test has been successfully staged," the state-run Korean Central News agency s...
QUETTA: Frontier Corps (FC) personnel Tuesday morning collared a major illegal arms dealer here in the provincial capital of Balochistan, media reported. Sources say an FC operation launched in Sabzal area yielded not only the gunrunner, but also a f...
DAMASCUS: President Bashar al-Assad vowed on Monday not to bow to mounting pressure and "plots", almost two years into a deadly revolt in Syria, as nine people died when a car exploded just inside theTurkish border.On the warfront, rebels seized cont...
TEHRAN: Iran is expecting a new offer from world powers in talks later this month in Kazakhstan over its controversial nuclear programme, a member of its negotiating team said on Monday. Iran and the P5+1 group of the United States, China, Russia, Br...
PESHAWAR: Information Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mian Iftikhar Hussain Monday said the entire country would benefit from a strategy to be formed during the upcoming All Parties Conference (APC), convened for elimination of terrorism, media reported...
KARACHI: The Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) said its sub-station was attacked within the remits of Defence Police Station on Monday. The SSGC said that the walls of the sub-station were damaged in the attack. Police rushed to the spot and confirmed ...
REYHANLI: Nine people were killed and dozens wounded when a car exploded on Monday near the border between Turkey and Syria, officials said, although the cause was not immediately clear.A Syrian-registered car is believed to have been at the centre o...
KARACHI: British experts have informed authorities in Sindh that only one out of three shooters, who killed two clerics and a student of the city’s prominent seminary in broad day light on Shahrea Faisal could be identified from images captured by a ...
KARACHI: Lawyers on Monday staged a sit-in outside the Chief Minister House against the targeted killing of their colleagues in the metropolis. The Lawyers belonging to the Sindh Bar Association (SBA) also held a condolence reference for Supreme Cour...
KARACHI: Seven people including an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of the police were killed in separate incidents of violence across the city on Monday. Imran Yousuf a trader by profession was gunned down while his guard was injured in Bantwagali of K...
RAWALPINDI: The second inter agency meeting, headed by Lieutenant General Rashad Mahmood, the Chief of General Staff (CGS), was held on Monday at the General Headquarters, after the first round held in January 2012. According to an ISPR press release...
KARACHI: At least six persons including a police officer were killed on Monday in various incidents of violence in Karachi whereas police arrested a man from Shershah area of Karachi who was suspected of involvement in killing of police personnel, me...
SRINAGAR: The fatal shooting of a young boy by security forces heightened anger in Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday as a curfew was ordered after the execution of Mohammed Afzal Guru, convicted in a deadly 2001 attack on the Indian parliament. ...
ISLAMABAD: Senator Haji Adeel of the Awami National Party (ANP) on Monday said all parties would have to get together in order to decide on a strategy for establishing peace and law and order in Pakistan, adding that terrorism was not a problem only ...
World’s largest wave power scheme given go-ahead
THE Scottish Government today gave the green light for the world’s la...
Afghan peace lost in transition worries
KABUL : Amid the scattered but steadily mounting carnage of the Talib...
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Ancient ruins of Mes Aynak threatened by planned Chinese mining projec...
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A cooler century? Wait and see
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Noam Chomsky: Obama Was Willing to Start Nuclear War to Kill bin Laden
"Raw Story" - MIT Professor Noam Chomsky criticized the killing of al...
