WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama's announcement to withdraw half the US force in Afghanistan shows his determination to end the war, but leaves open the question of long-term American support for Kabul. In his State of the Union address on Tuesday,...
KARACHI: SSP Crime Investigation Department (CID), Fayyaz Khan Tuesday said Pakistan Taliban were involved in attacks on gas installations in Karachi and that the gas pipelines at NIPA and Qayumabad were targeted by the terrorists of banned TTP. Talk...
PESHAWAR: Chief Justice of Peshawar High court (PHC) has taken suo motu notice of rising incidents of target killings in the provincial capital and summoned home secretary and capital city police officer (CCPO) on February 14. According to details, t...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will announce in his State of the Union address Tuesday that he will pull 34,000 US troops home from Afghanistan in the next year, a source familiar with his speech said. The move will effectively halve the size ...
KARACHI: The Anti-Terrorism Court has adjourned till February 26 hearing of Geo News reporter Wali Khan Babar's murder case. The hearing of the case was held at the Central Jail here on Tuesday. During the course of today's hearing, the statement of ...
LONDON: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf met his British counterpart David Cameron on Tuesday at 10 Downing Street. During the meeting, the two leaders discussed matters of bilateral interest including the aftermath in Afghanistan following the with...
WASHINGTON: “There was (Osama) Bin Laden standing there. He had his hands on a woman’s shoulders, pushing her ahead, not exactly towards me but by me, in the direction of the hallway commotion,” says the man who killed the Al Qaeda chief. In this fi...
NEW DELHI: The family of Mohammed Afzal Guru who was executed over the weekend has rejected an offer by Indian authorities to pray at his graveside inside a prison, insisting the body be buried in his home state. Home Secretary R.K. Singh made the o...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani clerics threatened Tuesday to boycott a peace conference slated to be held in Kabul after disputes with a visiting Afghan delegation, underlining the persistent distrust that has long marred the relationship between the two count...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Taliban have included a Briton and an American in a slideshow of fighters killed in battle that also eulogises Al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden. According to the US monitoring service SITE, the 12-minute, 56-second video ...
PESHAWAR: At least eight militants belonging to two proscribed oraganisations, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Ansarul Islam (AI), were killed during fresh clashes that erupted in Khyber tribal region’s Drey Stani area of Tirah valley whereas...
KARACHI: Rangers seized huge cache of arms and detained several suspects during search operation in Musharraf colony here on Tuesday, media reported. Rangers sources said on a tip-off the paramilitary personnel sealed entrance and exit points of Mush...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has expressed regret over an underground nuclear test conducted by North Korea on Tuesday. According to a Foreign Office press release, all countries should comply with their respective international obligations. The press release...
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council ordered emergency talks Tuesday on North Korea's nuclear weapon test, which UN leader Ban Ki-moon condemned as a "deeply destabilizing" provocation. The isolated North Korean government ignored a "strong warnin...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that North Korea's "provocative" nuclear test did not make it more secure and called for "swift" and "credible" international action in response. Obama also vowed in a written statement that Washingt...
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...
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...
