MOGADISHU: A suicide raid on Mogadishu's court complex left 14 dead Sunday, including nine attackers, while an almost simultaneous car bomb blast killed five in one of the Somali capital's worst days of violence in months, police and witnesses said. ...
SWAT: A leader of Awami National Party (ANP) has been killed in a roadside bomb in Swat, media reported. Police said ANP leader Mukarram Shah was on his way when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Banjot area of Manglor. He died on the spot and the v...
CHARSADDA: A bomb exploded near a convoy of Awam National Party (ANP) in Shabqadar, injuring the party’s candidate from PK-21 Syed Masoom Shah among four people on Sunday. According to the police, the incident took place when the convoy was passing t...
PESHAWAR: Prime Minister Hazar Khan Khoso and Federal Interior Minister Malk Habib Khan have condemned the killing of ANP leader Mukarram Shah in a bomb explosion. While condemning the incident, the prime minister has sought report from the relevant ...
HYDERABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Sharjeel Memon Sunday alleged that Pakistan Muslim League-N president Nawaz Sharif stood behind the threats being issued by the Taliban to attack political rallies. Addressing a press conference here, S...
MIRANSHAH: At least four people have been killed while several more were injured by a US drone strike on Sunday in North Waziristan, security officials said. The attack took place in Datta Khel town, 35 kilometres (22 miles) west of Miranshah, the ma...
BEIJING: The United States said on Saturday that China had agreed to help rid North Korea of its nuclear capability by peaceful means, but Beijing made no specific commitment in public to pressure its long-time ally to change its ways. U.S. Secretary...
WASHINGTON: Guards at the Guantanamo Bay prison fired non-lethal shots to quell prisoner unrest Saturday as they relocated inmates into individual cells, US military officials said. Officials at the US-run prison met with resistance from some inmates...
WASHINGTON: Weeks of mounting tensions between the military and detainees at the wartime prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, escalated into violence on Saturday during a raid in which guards forced prisoners living in communal housing to move to individu...
KARACHI: There has been no let up in targeted killings in the provincial capital, as eight more people including a father and son lost their lives in separate incidents of targeted violence on Saturday. According to details, armed motorcyclists opene...
KARACHI: At the end of a heavy gunfight with suspected Taliban militants in Surjani Town here on Saturday night the Crime Investigation Department (CID)of police seized a car-load of explosives thwarting a major bombing bid, media reported. Reportedl...
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Dr. Ishratul Ebad Khan has announced Rs2 million cash reward for the CID personnel over successful police action in Surjani town, media reported. Speaking to Geo News, the Governor said “action against terrorists and criminal ...
BOLAN: Three persons were shot dead over an enmity in the district of Balochistan here, media reported. Levies sources told that the incident occurred at Goth Shadi Khan in Balanari area. Among the dead included a retired district officer local gover...
BANNU: Police timely reaching the scene foiled an act of terrorism by defusing two motorbike-bombs weighing 20 kilograms on Sunday here, media reported. Bombs were planted into two motorbikes near public transport station in semi-tribal area called H...
PARIS: One of France's most dangerous gangsters, known for brazen attacks on cash-in-transit vehicles, on Saturday blasted his way out of jail after briefly taking several wardens hostage, officials said. Redoine Faid, who risked a heavy sentence ove...
BEIRUT: Activists say a Syrian government airstrike on a town in the country's northwest has killed at least 12 civilians. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group says the air raid struck the town of Saraqeb in Idlib prov...
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court of Pakistan has returned the former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf’s reply in the treason case by raising technical objections and for using inappropriate content. Earlier, the reply submitted on behalf of the...
LILLE: A well-known robber with links to organised crime on Saturday blasted his way out of jail with explosives and took five staff hostage in northern France, officials said. Police and helicopters were trying to track the man, who was armed, after...
CAIRO: Judge Mostafa Hassan Abdallah on Saturday recused himself from presiding over the new trial of former president Hosni Mubarak in a hearing that lasted just seconds. Abdallah sent the case to the Court of Appeal, which will then refer the case ...
KARACHI: A man was killed and five persons were injured in different incidents in the city on Saturday, rescue sources said. They said a worker Khursheed, 40, son of Aziz, fell from an under-construction building on road and died on the spot on Tariq...
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