LAHORE: Thirteen suspects said to be involved in the Joseph Colony attack have been sent to jail for fourteen days on judicial remand. Fourteen suspects who had earlier been sent to jail for four days on police remand were presented before and Anti-T...
KABUL: The US commander in Afghanistan has warned his troops face an increased threat of attack from militants and rogue Afghan forces after a series of inflammatory anti-US comments from President Hamid Karzai. NATO's International Security Assistan...
KARACHI: Five Pakistani citizens, trapped in Mozambique for two months, arrived in Karachi here on Friday, media reported. The crew members of cargo ship M.V MEEM, stranded in the private jail of African country Mozambique, were released by the autho...
LONDON: The leader of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain has condemned the bomb blast in Landhi's Old Muzaffarabad Colony area, which resulted in the deaths of three people here on late Thursday night, media reported In a statement issued h...
KARACHI: At least three people including a policeman were killed in a blast outside a cable operator's office here in Old Muzaffarabad Colony, Landhi, media reported. Earlier it was reported that a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) ha...
Thailand and one of several rebel groups in the country’s Muslim south will open peace negotiations in Malaysia on March 28 in an effort to end a bloody insurgency, a Thai official said Thursday. Thailand and the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) rebe...
HELD AL QUDS: It will take Iran "over a year or so" to develop a nuclear weapon, US President Barack Obama told Israel's Channel 2 television a week before he pays a historic visit to the Jewish state. "We think that it would take over a year or so f...
KARACHI: Police on Thursday launched a large-scale operation in collaboration with intelligence agencies, arresting five terrorists including Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Karachi commander Sher Alam Mehsud. Police carried out raids in different parts o...
BARA: Clashes between two militant groups left five militants dead and several others injured in Teerah Valley in Khyber tribal region on Thursday, media reported. Sources said that clashes between banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and proscribed Ans...
KARACHI: An alleged Taliban militant Qari Bilal has been killed in a police crackdown, police said on Thursday. Speaking to media at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, DIG West Javed Odho said that police launched a crackdown following the assassination of...
HELD AL QUDS: Israel's military intelligence chief on Thursday said the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has contingency plans to use chemical weapons as it battles insurgents. Speaking at Israel's annual Herzliya Conference on security and...
BAGHDAD: A coordinated string of bombings followed by an assault on the justice ministry in central Baghdad killed at least 18 people on Thursday, security and medical officials said. Three explosions hit Allawi neighbourhood at about 1:30 pm (1030 G...
KABUL: President Hamid Karzai on Thursday said he wanted to "correct" rather than damage US-Afghan relations, after a storm of protest over his recent anti-US remarks. Karzai, who on Sunday suggested that the United States was working in concert with...
KARACHI: Police on Thursday arrested Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Karachi chapter chief Alam Sher Mehsud. Police said the TTP leader and his accomplice were arrested during a raid conducted in Khuda Ki Basti area of the metropolis. They said the raid w...
KARACHI: An eyewitness of retired army officer murder case Shahid Liaquat did not appear before the court on Thursday, following threats issued to him by the members of a Lyari gang, media reported. According to details, the gangsters told the eyewit...
SRINAGAR: Indian occupied Kashmir's (IoK) main city was under curfew Thursday after the killing of five paramilitary police and the death of two civilians cranked up tensions in the disputed region. Kashmir's inspector general of police Abdul Gani Mi...
BAGHDAD: A coordinated string of bombings followed by an assault on the justice ministry in central Baghdad killed at least nine people on Thursday, security and medical officials said. Three explosions hit Allawi neighbourhood at about 1:30 pm (1030...
ISLAMABAD: Senate has unanimously adopted Anti-Terrorism (second amendment) Bill 2013 here on Thursday. Law Minister Senator Farooq H Naek on Thursday tabled the bill in upper house of the parliament. Earlier, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar answe...
KARACHI: The funeral prayer of Parveen Rehman the late director of the Orangi Pilot Project was held at her residence in Gulistan-e-Jauhar. Her funeral was attended by individuals belonging to all walks of life. She was laid to rest at the Mohammad S...
DUBAI: Bahraini police clashed with youths protesting Thursday against the deployment into a third year of a Gulf military force that backed Manama's bid to crush a sectarian uprising, witnesses said. Police fired tear gas and sound bombs to disperse...
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