LONDON: Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar vowed in an interview published Wednesday to kill as many Western soldiers as possible before NATO combat forces withdraw from the country in 2014. Hekmatyar, a former prime minister who leads Afghanistan's ...
BEIRUT: An air raid on a town partly held by rebels on the outskirts of Damascus on Wednesday killed at least 12 members of the samefamily, most of them children, a watchdog said. Regime warplanes bombed the town of Moadamiyet al-Sham, southwest of t...
GENEVA: More than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime broke out in March 2011, a top UN official said Wednesday. Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that an ex...
NEW DELHI: Lawyers at an Indian court hearing the case of a fatal gang-rape which has shocked the nation said Wednesday they would refuse to defend the men accused of taking part in the assault and murder. Hearings are expected to begin on Thursday a...
NEW YORK: Students at the elementary school where a gunman massacred 26 children and teachers last month were returning to class for the first time Thursday in a new building adapted to look exactly like their old one. Sandy Hook Elementary School in...
BEIRUT: Dozens of people were killed or wounded in an air strike on a service station southeast of Damascus on Wednesday, many of them horribly burned, a watchdog and activists said.The attack took place near the town of Maliha in the partly rebel-he...
NEW DELHI: A gang of rapists who assaulted and murdered a woman on a bus in New Delhi last month tried to run her over with the vehicle after the attack, reports said Wednesday, citing a grisly police account of the incident. Her boyfriend, who was b...
KARACHI: According to the initial report of the bomb disposal squad, RDX, ball bearings and nut bolts were used in the Aisha Manzil blast. Approximately two kilograms of explosives were used in the blast which claimed four lives and injured over fort...
KARACHI: Funeral prayers of the four persons, who died in the blast that occurred at Ayesha Manzil on Tuesday night, will be offered today while MQM has announced to observe a mourning day Wednesday, media reported. Markets, businesses, transport and...
KHYBER AGENCY: People who travel to Afghanistan for work via Torkham border will not be able to cross the border without having essential travel documents, the Pakistani security forces told Wednesday. According to security forces, the workers will n...
LAHORE: Pillion riding would be banned from 12 a.m. on Thursday in the city for security purposes on the occasion of Chehlum of Imam Hussain (R.A), media reported on Wednesday. The decision was taken in a meeting presided over by Chief Minister Punja...
ISLAMABAD: Indian troops, in their unabated acts of state-terrorism, martyred 17 Kashmiris, including children, during the month of December last , 2012. According to the data compiled by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, 41 persons were...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) has taken the suo moto of Shahzeb Khan's murder after reviewing the news reports in various newspapers Tuesday, media reported. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took the suo moto notice of the cold-blodded mu...
SWABI: Six persons were killed when unknown miscreants opened fire on a van carrying NGO employees at Link Road in Swabi on Tuesday, media reported. According to DPO Swabi, six persons including five female workers of an NGO were killed and one was i...
KARACHI: Two people lost their lives while at least 40 others sustained wounds following a powerful blast in Federal B Area Karachi, minutes after conclusion of a massive rally held nearby under the banner of MQM and Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran, media r...
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council has slapped sanctions on M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and their alleged Rwandan allies the FDLR, diplomats said Monday. The move freezes the assets of entities or individuals linked to the...
MOPTI: Northern Mali is now the biggest territory held by Al Qaeda and its allies. And as the world hesitates, delaying a military intervention, the extremists who seized control of the area earlier this year are preparing for a war they boast will b...
DHAKA: Bangladesh has refused to tour Pakistan in January due to security concerns. Earlier this month the Bangladesh Cricket Board had announced that the national team would tour Pakistan for a short two match series. "Bangladesh will not visit Paki...
MEXICO CITY: Noe Hernandez, a Mexican who won the silver medal in race walking at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, lost his left eye and was in serious condition Monday after being shot in the head in a bar, reports said. Carlos Castillo Rangel, the surgeon...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has imposed ban on the selling and buying of Tyno cough syrup on Tuesday, media reported. The LHC heard the petition seeking ban on the allegedly killer syrup today that has caused several deaths in the Punjab prov...
Afghan Official Challenges U.S. Tax Audit
WASHINGTON: Afghanistan's top finance official is disputing an audit b...
Embassy Row: After Afghanistan for NATO
“In together, out together,” Hungarian Defense Minister Csaba Hende e...
Afghan Star Khaled Hosseini's New Book
As a boy growing up in Afghanistan, Khaled Hosseini heard lots of fab...
Airing Of Dirty Laundry Raises Afghan Hopes That Corruption Will Be Tackled
The very public trading of graft accusations in Afghanistan's parliame...
Violence against women act modification sparks furor in Afghanistan
A number of civil society organizations including independent human r...
Afghan treasures display in Melbourne tells a different Afghanistan story
MELBOURNE: Several hundred priceless antiques from ancient Afghanistan...
Afghan soldiers' incompetence raises concerns about U.S. withdrawal plans
Mansurabad, Afghanistan A suicide bomber drove his car into a U.S....
Afghanistan wants lethal weapons from India; Karzai visit from Monday
New Delhi: Ahead of its President Hamid Karzai’s visit next week, Afg...
