PATNA: Maoist rebels killed six policemen Friday in a landmine attack in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, the second deadly ambush by the insurgents against security forces in recent weeks, police said. "The Maoists targeted a convoy heading out on...
ISLAMABAD: Law Minister Farooq Naek said Friday that governor rule in Balochistan will be revoked and the provincial government will be restored by March 16. Speaking to the media here, the law minister added that all measures to revoke governor rule...
ISLAMABAD: The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday that over 83,000 Afghan refugees were repatriated from Pakistan in 2012, which is its largest return operation in the world. Last year's figures saw a 60 percent increase in the numbers of ...
United Nations Assistance mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) following a report announced US drone strikes in Afghanistan rose sharply last year with 506 weapons were released by drones in 2012, compared with 294 the previous year. The increase was a s...
Pakistani religious leaders have dealt a blow to David Cameron’s Afghan peace initiative by insisting they will not travel to Kabul for talks unless Taliban leaders are invited as well. Islamabad: The clerics were due to travel to Afghanistan next m...
Telecom towers have been damaged or destroyed by insurgent attacks around 300 times in the past decade – an average of more than two attacks a month, the Afghan Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) said Sunday. MCIT minister...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday condemned bomb attacks that killed at least 14 people in the Indian city of Hyderabad, saying "all acts of terrorism are unjustifiable regardless of their motivation". "Terrorism in all its forms and manifestations const...
LOS ANGELES: Three people were killed in a shooting and fiery car crash Thursday on the Las Vegas Strip, police said, warning thatthe suspected shooters remained at large and were "armed and dangerous."The overnight incident started with an altercati...
HYDERABAD: Twin bombings in a busy shopping area in the Indian city of Hyderabad are now known to have killed 14 people and wounded 119, a senior Indian minister said on Friday. "The total dead are 14, total injured is 119. Out of this six are critic...
LONDON: A London jury convicted three young British men of being ringleaders of an al-Qaida-inspired plot to explode knapsack bombs in crowded parts of Birmingham, England's second-largest city. The men had pleaded not guilty, but were recorded discu...
DAMASCUS: A huge car bomb near the headquarters of Syria's ruling party killed nearly 60 people and caused widespread destruction in the deadliest attack to hit Damascus since the civil war erupted. Thursday's bombing, which both the regime and its o...
SAMARRA: Gunmen killed seven Iraqi anti-Qaeda militiamen and wounded one in an attack on the checkpoint they were manning northeast of Baghdad on Friday, a police officer and a doctor said. The attack took place in the village of Halaiwat, near the d...
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) to dispose off Shahzeb murder case in seven days and conduct its hearing on daily basis, media reported. Three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikha...
QUETTA: At least two suspects were killed during a pre-dawn raid by the Frontier Corps in Quetta’s suburbs. According to reports, the FC launched a targeted operation in Nawan Killay area of the city, killing two suspects and arresting four others fo...
KARACHI: Rangers detained 11 suspects and recovered different kind of arms from their custody during targeted operation in different parts of Karachi, media reported. According to details, the paramilitary force conducted operation in Metroville, SIT...
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday resumed Shahzeb murder case hearing and remarked that Karachi has become a bastion of human smuggling, media reported. Three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaud...
WASHINGTON: The United States warned Pakistan against entering ‘deals with Iran that may be sanctionable, a reference to Pak-Iran gas deal. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said during a media briefing that Pakistan had better not sign ag...
WASHINGTON: The United States warned Iran Thursday that the installation of next-generation centrifuges at one of its main nuclearplants, as reported by the UN atomic agency, would be a "provocative step." The installation "would be a further escalat...
BEIRUT: At least 31 people, most of them civilians, were killed in a powerful car bomb targeting the ruling Baath Party headquarters in central Damascus on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "At least 31 people were killed and do...
LAHORE: All doctors' bodies and medical professors including PMA, YDA and medical teachers association on Wednesday rallied against the murder of Prof Dr Ali Haidar and his son Ali Murtaza. The rally started from King Edward Medical University and co...
Afghan Official Challenges U.S. Tax Audit
WASHINGTON: Afghanistan's top finance official is disputing an audit b...
Embassy Row: After Afghanistan for NATO
“In together, out together,” Hungarian Defense Minister Csaba Hende e...
Afghan Star Khaled Hosseini's New Book
As a boy growing up in Afghanistan, Khaled Hosseini heard lots of fab...
Airing Of Dirty Laundry Raises Afghan Hopes That Corruption Will Be Tackled
The very public trading of graft accusations in Afghanistan's parliame...
Violence against women act modification sparks furor in Afghanistan
A number of civil society organizations including independent human r...
Afghan treasures display in Melbourne tells a different Afghanistan story
MELBOURNE: Several hundred priceless antiques from ancient Afghanistan...
Afghan soldiers' incompetence raises concerns about U.S. withdrawal plans
Mansurabad, Afghanistan A suicide bomber drove his car into a U.S....
Afghanistan wants lethal weapons from India; Karzai visit from Monday
New Delhi: Ahead of its President Hamid Karzai’s visit next week, Afg...
