YANGON: At least 10 people have been killed in riots in central Myanmar, a local MP said Thursday, in the worst communal violence since Buddhist-Muslim clashes in western Rakhine state last year. Win Htein, a member of the opposition National League ...
NEW DELHI: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has been sentenced to a five year jail term in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case by the Indian Supreme Court. The court on Thursday ordered Dutt to surrender to police within four weeks on the charge of possessing thr...
KARACHI: A larger bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry resumed hearing Karachi law and order case Thursday where a list of political activists involved in criminal activities was presented before t...
NOWSHERA: At least twelve people including women and children have been killed while several others have been injured in a blast that occurred at the Jalozai Camp here on Thursday. The blast took place near the Muhajir Camp and according to police th...
NEW YORK: An alleged veteran of al-Qaeda's fight against US soldiers in Afghanistan who went on to plot a bomb attack on US diplomatic facilities in Nigeria was charged Wednesday in New York. Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun, also known as "Spin Ghu...
JERUSALEM: President Barack Obama Wednesday accepted Israel would not cede its right to confront Iran's nuclear threat to the United States, seeking to assuage anxiety over his commitment to the Jewish state. Obama, on his debut trip to Israel as pre...
JERUSALEM: Seeking a fresh start to a strained relationship, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday demonstrated solidarity on the key issues that have stirred tensions between them. The US president vowed h...
SEOUL: North Korea said it would attack US military bases on Japan and the Pacific island of Guam if provoked, a day after leader Kim Jong-un oversaw a mock drone strike on South Korea. The North also held an air raid drill on Thursday after accusing...
BEIRUT: Syria's government and rebels on Wednesday both demanded an international investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack, as the country's feared arsenal became the latest propaganda tool in the 2-year-old civil war. President Barack O...
KARACHI: At least nine people including an Australian nationality holder Pakistani businessman were killed in separate incidents here on Wednesday. According to police the Pakistani-Australian businessman was targeted while he was on his way to the a...
KARACHI: The security guard along with his aides looted a private bank on Tariq Road in Karachi on Thursday morning, media reported. According to police, the security guard along with his companions fled from the bank on Tariq Road after looting mill...
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers arrested seven suspects in pre-dawns raids in two different areas of the metropolis on Thursday, media reported. Sources said that the paramilitary troops conducted raids on the basis of intelligence information in Azeem...
KARACHI: A larger bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will resume hearing Karachi law and order case today (Thursday). Sindh chief secretary has submitted a report to the Karachi registry of the a...
KARACHI: The police made further headway in Abbas Town blast investigation, media reported. The police said that the vehicle and explosive material for wreaking havoc in the Karachi neighborhood was brought from Hub. Chaudhry Aslam, SSP of CID depart...
JOHANNESBURG: South African police say two robbers stealing a safe shot and killed five Pakistani men and wounded a sixth in a ghetto outside the tourist resort of Cape Town. Spokesman Col. Tembinkosi Kinana said the attack took place in ...
ISLAMABAD, March 20 (APP): Islamabad Police have arrested 21 outlaws including four proclaimed offenders from various areas of the city and recovered snatched valuables, weapons and heroin from their possession, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. ...
HAFIZABAD: A young principal of a private school suffered serious burns on his face, hand and arms when three unidentified bike riders threw acid on him in the vicinity of Mughalpura here on Tuesday. According to police source, Sajjad Hussain Princip...
KARACHI: A gun battle between two groups took place in Hussain Hazara Goth area located on University Road, here on Wednesday, however, no casualty was reported. According to police, two armed groups had exchange of fire in Hussain Hazara Goth area a...
KABUL: Afghanistan’s presidential spokesman on Tuesday described the Nato-led military operation in the war-torn nation as “aimless and unwise”, in the latest broadside by Kabul against the international coalition. Aimal Faizi, spokesman for Preside...
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani on Tuesday constituted a judicial inquiry into the alleged involvement of 11 children in acts of terrorism. “The judge of the BHC will conduct judicial inquiry into the issue of alleged involvem...
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