KARACHI: The metropolis continues to be plagued by violence as 14 people were killed in separate incidents on Thursday. According to reports armed men riding on a motorcycle opened fire on a vehicle on city’s main thoroughfare Sharae Faisal near Nurs...
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that instructions had been issued to authorities concerned to provide security to the Chief Election Commissioner, media reported. Speaking to media after presiding over a special meeting, he said th...
ISLAMABAD: The US ambassador in Pakistan Richard Olson has assured that his country will not repeat mistakes it made in 1989 while withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. Richard was addressing at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad on "the...
KARACHI: Rangers launched an operation in Baldia Town #4, arresting a most wanted suspect here on Wednesday night, media reported. According to the details, the most wanted suspect was abducted by some unidentified armed men. Rangers took action and ...
JERUSALEM: Israel announced on Wednesday it has unfrozen $100 million of the Palestinian Authority's funds, which it blocked last November after it won observer status at the United Nations. "This decision was taken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya...
WASHINGTON: A gunman boarded a school bus in the US state of Alabama, shot dead the driver and kidnapped a six-year-old, whom he is now holding in an underground bunker, local media reported Wednesday. WSFA television said the man boarded the bus at ...
PHOENIX: Police in Arizona's biggest city say three people have been shot at an office complex. Their conditions are unknown and there is no suspect in custody.Officer James Holmes says the victims were taken to hospitals. He didn't know if their inj...
CAIRO: Two more people died in clashes between police and protesters near Cairo's Tahrir Square earlier this week, the health ministry said Thursday, bringing to 56 the number of deaths nationwide in a week of violence. The two -- a 26-year-old male ...
DAMASCUS: An Israeli air strike hit a military research centre near Damascus at dawn on Wednesday, the Syrian army said, denying reports that the raid targeted a weapons convoy near the Lebanese border. Residents who spoke to AFP on condition of anon...
LAHORE: Body of a 16-year old girl was found in Band road area of the city on Thursday, media reported. According to reports, residents of Nijatpura found body of a young girl stuffed in a gunny bag. Police rushed to the scene after receiving informa...
KARACHI: At least three people have been shot dead in Karachi as gory incidents of targeted killings continue to haunt the commercial hub of the country. According to reports armed men riding on a motorcycle opened fire on a vehicle on city’s main th...
PESHAWAR: A bomb exploded in a police van near Bacha Khan Chowk in Peshwar, injuring nine people, media reported. According to sources, miscreants had fixed a timed device in a police van near Bacha Khan Chowk and Jinnah Park that went off when the p...
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has left for London to attend tripartite summit between Pakistan Afghanistan and Britain, media reported. According to sources, the president has reached Dubai from where he would fly to London. The summit would ...
ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has summoned a high-level security meeting in Islamabad today, to deliberate on the terror threats faced across the country, media reported. Speaking to Geo News, Rehman Malik said that police IG's an...
TIRAH: At least 97 extremists have been killed so far in clashes between the Tirah-based banned organisation Ansarul Islam (AI) and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) that erupted seven days ago on Friday, media reported Monday. According to officia...
PESHAWAR: A bomb killed two polio vaccination workers in Kurram Agency, officials said, the latest in a series of such attacks which have now killed 19 in two months. There has been no claim of responsibility for any of the killings. But the umbrella...
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron is to visit Algeria on Wednesday in the wake of the hostage crisis that left some 37 foreigners dead including several Britons, his office confirmed on Tuesday. Cameron is expected to meet with his Algeria...
MUMBAI: Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan has said that he and his family are completely safe and secure in India and denied saying that he had faced any security problems there. Addressing a gathering at an event in Mumbai, the super Khan said that ...
KARACHI: At least five people were killed in separate incidents of firing in different areas of the metropolis, media reported Tuesday. Unknown gunmen opened fire on a vehicle on Shaheed-i-Millat Road, killing two people.The identities of the decease...
BEIRUT: At least 65 people, apparently shot in the head, were found dead with their hands bound in a district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday, activists said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which says it provi...
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