LAHORE: Police have so far detained 50 members of defunct Lashkar-i-Jhanvi in a crackdown across the province in the last few days.The arrests have been made in the wake of recent Quetta suicide blast and a direction issued by the interior ministry. ...
KABUL: Two Taliban suicide bombers killed three members of Afghan security forces on Sunday, but a third attack in Kabul’s diplomatic enclave was foiled when police shot dead the would-be assailant, officials said. The attacker in Kabul was armed wi...
DHAKA: Bangladesh police fired live rounds on Sunday in clashes with Islamists demanding the execution of bloggers they accuse of blasphemy, killing at least three protesters and injuring dozens. Eighteen of the injured suffered bullet wounds in the...
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flew Sunday to Hyderabad to visit some of the 117 injured in twin bombings last week which also killed 16 people. “The prime minister is going to visit the injured in hospital and then he will be brief...
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded Sunday the withdrawal of US special forces from Wardak and Logar within two weeks, accusing them of fuelling “insecurity and instability” in the volatile provinces neighbouring the capital Kabul. “In tod...
KHANEWAL: Federal Interior Minister, Rehman Malik said that two groups of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) working under Malik Ishaq and Maulana Ludhianvi were operating in Pakistan. Speaking to the media here, Malik added that all provinces need to take ...
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) leader senator Haji Adeel Sunday said that his party for peace was ready to forgive Taliban shedding blood of their martyrs and appealed to Taliban and the army for a ceasefire to hold talks, media reported. Talki...
TEHRAN: Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said Saturday that it had captured a foreign unmanned aircraft during a military exercise in southern Iran.Gen. Hamid Sarkheili, a spokesman for the military exercise, said the Guard's electronic warfare un...
DAMASCUS: Syria's main opposition group said on Saturday that it was pulling out of international talks and demanded world action to stop the slaughter of Syrians, after missiles slammed into the cityof Aleppo killing dozens.The Syrian National Coali...
KABUL: Afghan security forces Sunday shot dead two suspected suicide bombers in a car near a construction site in Kabul's diplomatic enclave, a police official and an AFP photographer said. The men were killed in their car in Wazir Akbar Khan, where ...
KABUL: Two suicide car bombings in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed two intelligence agents and a police officer, officials said. In the first attack, a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a spy agency facility in the eastern town ...
KABUL: A series of early morning attacks hit eastern Afghanistan Sunday, with three separate suicide bombings in outlying provinces and a shootout between security forces and a would-be attacker in the capital city of Kabul. The deadliest attack was ...
PASNI: Some unknown persons opened fire killing six labourers engaged in the construction of a road at Shadikor near the district here in Balochistan on Sunday, media reported. Levies sources said that some armed persons opened fire at Shadikor nearl...
CHAMAN: Frontier Core (FC) has claimed to recover a huge cache of arms and killed two accused in exchange of fire in district Qila Abdullah here on Sunday, media reported. According to sources, FC conducted targeted operation near Gulistan and recove...
HYDERABAD: The traffic was jammed around the Hyderabad bypass for four hours Saturday when it was blocked Sunni Tehreek (ST) protesters against the targeted killings of its workers. Led by provincial leader of Sunni Tehreek (ST) Khalid Hassan Attari,...
NEW DELHI: Angry villagers in western India are threatening to resume a highway blockade unless police show progress in the search for suspects in the rape and killing of three young sisters. The girls’ bodies were found Feb 16 in Maharashtra st...
KHARTOUM: An Arab militia firing heavy machine guns killed more than 50 people in Sudan’s Darfur region on Saturday, residents said, continuing unrest that has caused the largest displacement of people in years. “They came on Land Cruisers, used Dus...
LAHORE: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) has decided to participate in a soon-to-be-held grand tribal moot sponsored by Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) to discuss the FATA situation and search out ways and means for restoring peace. This was announced by ...
QUETTA: At least seven persons were injured Saturday when gunmen opened fire on a rally of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) here at Liaquat Baazar, downtown area of the provincial capital, police said. Deputy Inspector General Police Operations Fay...
QUETTA: The Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) has demanded of the federal government to convene joint session of the parliament to discuss the killings of ethnic Shia Hazaras in Quetta. Addressing a press conference on Saturday, HDP Central Chairman Abd...
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