Afghan and Egyptian religious scholars who met in Kabul Thursday have declared suicide attacks forbidden or 'haram' under Islam emphasising that this was in keeping with most Islamic teaching around the world. The Afghanistan Islamic Research and A...
NEW DELHI: The Indian police arrested a man on Saturday on allegations of rape and torture of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, according to a spokesman, after the incident triggered protests and revived memories of a brutal December assault on a wo...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Saturday turned down a request filed by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for the formation of a larger bench to hear the treason case against him and instead constituted a three member bench to hear the petitions...
ISLAMABAD: The anti-terrorist court in Islamabad on Saturday sent former military strongman Pervez Musharraf on a 14-day-long judicial remand in the judges’ detention case. Judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi of the anti-terrorist court issued the order which m...
LYON: US authorities have asked Interpol to provide any information its members around the world might have on bombs similar to the ones used in the Boston Marathon attack, the international police organisation said Saturday. "Interpol has issued an ...
KARACHI: Unknown culprits set on fire an office said to belong to a political party in Nazimabad area Saturday afternoon, media reported....
ISLAMABAD: A three-member bench of the Supreme Court has been constituted for the hearing of General (retired) Pervez Musharraf treason case on Saturday here, media reported. Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja will be heading the bench comprising of Justice K...
WATERTOWN, Massachusetts: Police cordoned off part of the Boston suburb of Watertown after gunfire was heard late Friday, and CNN television said police may have surrounded a teenaged marathon bombing suspect. The alert was raised after a burst of gu...
WATERTOWN: A round of blasts has been heard in a Massachusetts town amid the search for the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. Emergency and military vehicles sped through town after an earlier burst of gunfire. State police spokesman...
WATERTOWN, Massachusetts: Police said Friday they had detained a teenaged suspect in the Boston marathon bombings after a showdown at a house in the suburbs. "Suspect in custody. Officers sweeping the area. Stand by for further info," Boston police s...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama vowed to find out what turned two young US residents accused of the Boston bombings to violence, after the second suspect was captured alive, ending a week of horror. Obama said in a late-night on-camera statement t...
WATERTOWN: An ethnic Chechen teenager suspected of conducting the Boston marathon bombings is in a serious condition and being treated in hospital after his dramatic capture, police said Friday. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was found hiding in a boat in th...
SANAA: Suspected Al-Qaeda militants shot dead a Yemeni intelligence officer overnight in Mukalla, capital of the southeastern Hadramawt province, a security official told on Saturday. "Al-Qaeda gunmen on a motorbike opened fire on the officer Ibrahim...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former army chief and president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf has reached the anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad after spending his fist night in the police custody at the Islamabad Police Lines Headquarters, media report...
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers Sindh arrested three suspects allegedly affiliated with gang war group and recovered weapons from their possession, media reported. Sources in the paramilitary force said that the accused were arrested during the operati...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former army chief who ruled the country eight years spent his fist night in the police custody at the Islamabad Police Lines Headquarters. Though, Musharraf faces several cases, he has been arrested in judges’ detention case. He...
KARACHI: Despite search and targeted operations in various areas of Karachi, two persons lost their lives in different firing incidents, media reported Saturday. According to sources, two persons lost their lives in the ongoing violence in the wee ho...
ISLAMABAD: All Pakistan Muslim League (APML)’s spokesman Dr. Amjad Saturday said that the ex-president Pervez Musharraf didn’t keep the judges in habeas corpus, as it is being blamed. He expressed the hope that Pervez Mushrraf residence could be decl...
ISLAMABAD: The anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday sent the former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf on judicial remand till May 4 and ordered police to present him in the next hearing, media reported. He was presented in the in-charge jud...
The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan following a statement vowed to take revenge on US troops in Afghanistan after guards at Guantanamo prison fired non-lethal rounds at inmates to quell unrest. According to US military officials, guards at t...
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...
Afghan archaeology site faces rocky future
Ancient ruins of Mes Aynak threatened by planned Chinese mining projec...
Applying Early Lessons to Build Afghan Security
Kabul, Afghanistan: As a young Army Green Beret major in December 2001...
A cooler century? Wait and see
New research suggesting that the Earth may be warming a little more s...
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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...
