SRINAGAR: Authorities relaxed a curfew in parts of Indian-administered Kashmir on Wednesday, letting people buy rations for the first time in days after protests over the secret execution of Mohammad Afzal Guru, convicted in a deadly 2001 attack on I...
LAHORE: Renowned Indian poet and director Gulzar returned to India via Lahore today, media reported. Sources confirmed that Gulzar cut his trip to Pakistan short after receiving advice from the Indian High Commission, and returned by way of Wagah bor...
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided not to lift a ban on Youtube due to lack of cooperation by the video sharing website. An inter-ministerial committee on Wednesday produced a report to the National Assembly’s standing committee on Information Tec...
PESHAWAR: Newly-appointed Khyber Pakhtunkwa (KP) Governor Shaukatullah Khan on Wednesday said the All Parties Conference on counter-terrorism to take place under the auspices of the Awami National Party (ANP) would also include parliamentarians from ...
A North Korean nuclear test draws international condemnation, modest UN sanctions and expressions of hope in the United States that China will finally rein in its brazen ally. Beijing chides North Korea, but nothing much happens. The world has seen...
PARIS: Sanctions by the West on Iran succeeded in slashing Iran's oil export revenue by $40 billion in 2012, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday, as production last month hit a three-decade low point. The IEA, the oil monitoring and pol...
LAHORE: The Indian High Commission (HC) on Wednesday took renowned Indian poet Gulzar in its protective custody and sent him back to India, media reported. The sources said Gulzar arrived in Pakistan a day ago and went to his hometown Dena in distric...
ASADABAD: A NATO air strike killed 10 civilians, mostly women and children, in a raid on a Taliban hideout in a remote region of eastern Afghanistan, local officials said Wednesday. "Five children, four women and a man were killed in the raid," Kunar...
PARIS: North Korea on Tuesday staged its third and most powerful underground nuclear test yet in defiance of world powers. Pyongyang, which claims the status of nuclear power, is suspected of having several nuclear bombs, and of carrying out tests i...
WASHINGTON: The American commandos who killed Osama bin Laden were prepared to surrender if surrounded by Pakistani troops, says the man who killed the al Qaeda leader. The Obama administration also saw this as a real possibility and was ready to se...
ISLAMABAD: Two federal ministers of former President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday informed the Lal Masjid commission that the military operation on the mosque was launched without approval of the cabinet in July 2007. The revelation came when the one...
WASHINGTON: Recent developments on the Line of Control have set the region back, Ambassador Sherry Rehman said on Tuesday while urging the United States to help resolve the 65-year-old Kashmir dispute. “Because of its strategic proximity to both Pak...
QUETTA: At least 26 long vehicles carrying containers reportedly containing military equipment and other goods belonging to Nato troops in Afghanistan entered into Chaman from Vesh Mandi, an Afghan border town, on Tuesday, official sources said. “So...
KABUL: The Afghan government on Wednesday welcomed President Barack Obama's announcement that the United States will withdraw 34,000 troops from the war-torn country over the next year. "We welcome this," Defence Ministry spokesman Gen Mohammad Zahir...
BANGKOK: Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead. "Some 100 fully armed militants stormed the base, where th...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will announce in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that 34,000 troops - about half the U.S. force in Afghanistan - will withdraw by early 2014, a senior administration official said. The decision brings the ...
WASHINGTON: The United States will help its allies confront the evolving threat posed by Al-Qaeda but without having to deploythousands of US troops abroad, President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday. Al-Qaeda was now a "shadow" of the group that was behin...
LOS ANGELES: A gunman thought to be a fugitive ex-cop who has led Southern California authorities on a six-day manhunt barricaded himself inside a cabin in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles on Tuesday and traded gunfire with sheriff's deputies, ...
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said India had to give its military might a needed boost given the internal security threats facing Pakistan, media reported. “India was doubly concerned over what Pakistan was going through ...
KARACHI: Two persons including a woman were killed, while two others wounded in firing and violence incidents in the city on Wednesday here, media reported. Police said that a woman’s tortured body identified as Salma was recovered from a residential...
Afghans Say New Bodies Have Been Found Near a Former U.S. Base
Kabul, Afghanistan: Soon after family members found what they believe ...
US: Taliban Inflicting Heavy Losses on Afghan Troops
BRUSSELS: The U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Joseph Dunford, ...
Growing Up An Afghan Warlord's Son
Renee Montagne recently returned from a reporting trip to Afghanistan....
Afghan interpreters' UK resettlement package 'completely inadequate'
Package announced by defense secretary Philip Hammond attacked for exp...
US, Germany, Italy vow key Afghan roles post-2014
BRUSSELS: Germany and Italy will join the United States as "lead nati...
Soldier pleads guilty in massacre of 16 Afghans
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash: The American soldier accused of killin...
Coalition Deliberates Afghan Presence
Brussels: The top commander of the U.S.-led military coalition in Afg...
In Afghanistan, grief for a husband who shouldn't have died
Khosh Gombat, Afghanistan: Whenever Bibi Laila heard the all-too-fami...
