Fazl moves to tone down expectations before talks
ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman appears to be pessimistic about the success of a dialogue process which the government wants to initiate with the banned...
View ArticleRoadside bomb kills four policemen in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR: Afghan officials say a roadside bomb hit a police vehicle in southern Afghanistan, killing four policemen.Zia Durrani, police spokesman for Kandahar Province, said Saturday that one policeman...
View ArticleIndian diplomat not immune from NY charges
NEW YORK: Federal prosecutors say an Indian diplomat who was strip-searched when arrested on charges she fraudulently obtained a work visa for her housekeeper and lied about the housekeeper's pay isn't...
View ArticleFour killed, 50 rounded up in Swabi raid
PESHAWAR: Four suspected militants were killed and 50 others were rounded up in a targeted raid in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swabi district. The operation, being carried out by police and security...
View ArticleEgypt air strike killed seven Sinai militants: army
CAIRO: The Egyptian army said it killed seven militants in an air strike in the Sinai Peninsula less than a week after militants downed a military helicopter in the restive region.The army said the...
View ArticleThree killed, four injured in Karachi violence
KARACHI: At least three people were killed and four others were injured, including two policemen, in separate incidents of violence in Karachi on Friday, DawnNews reported. Two policemen were injured...
View ArticleOscar-winning actor Maximilian Schell dies at 83
VIENNA: Austrian-born actor Maximilian Schell, a fugitive from Adolf Hitler who became a Hollywood favourite and won an Oscar for his role as a defence attorney in ''Judgment at Nuremberg,'' has died....
View ArticleSchool children among 11 killed by Indonesia volcano eruption
KARO: Eleven people, including four schoolchildren, were killed Saturday after they were engulfed by scorching ash clouds spat out by Indonesia's Mount Sinabung in its biggest eruption in recent days,...
View ArticleSyria toll rises to 136,000 after bloody month: NGO
BEIRUT: More than 136,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in March 2011, with January one of the bloodiest months on record, an NGO said Saturday.The Syrian...
View ArticleCJ takes suo motu notice of panchayat's gang-rape order
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Tassadduq Hussain Jillani took notice Friday of an incident in which a panchayat ordered the gang-rape of a woman in Ihsanpur’s Basti Radiwala, DawnNews reported. Chief Justice...
View ArticleSindh cultural festival kicks off at Moenjodaro
MOHENJODARO: An inaugural festival, aimed at commemorating the cultural heritage of Sindh, has started at the ancient city of Moenjodaro on Saturday.Earlier on, hundreds of people arrived at the...
View Article100 people return to Dera Bugti after nine years
QUETTA: A convoy of 100 Bugti tribesmen returned to Dera Bugti on Saturday night after being displaced from their homes about nine years ago. Shahzain Bugti led the convoy. His mother and other family...
View ArticleAt least 46 civilians killed in Aleppo barrel bomb raids: NGO
BEIRUT: At least 46 civilians were killed Saturday, 33 in one neighbourhood, when Syrian regime helicopters dropped explosive-packed barrels on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo, a...
View ArticleCJ summons IG Balochistan over Khuzdar mass graves
QUETTA/ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top judge has taken suo motu notice on reports of the discovery of mass graves in Khuzdar district of insurgency-hit Balochistan.At least thirteen bodies were recovered...
View ArticleUmar Akmal arrested after 'scuffle' with police
LAHORE: Pakistan's middle-order batsman Umar Akmal was arrested Saturday for violating traffic rules, interfering in government work and “scuffling” with a traffic official.Police said the 23-year-old...
View ArticleUN voices concern as Lebanon car bombing kills four
BAALBEK: The United Nations urged Lebanon's feuding factions to refrain from getting involved in Syria's crisis after a suicide car bomb left at least four people dead near the border Saturday.The...
View ArticleLand routes to be opened for transit trade
ISLAMABAD: In what appears to be a major policy shift, Pakistan has decided to open its land routes for transit trade under an international agreement. Signed in December in the Indonesian city of Bali...
View ArticleAfghan presidential candidate's aides shot dead
KABUL: Gunmen shot dead two aides of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah on the eve of the official election campaign Saturday, officials said, highlighting the security threat surrounding...
View ArticleImran distances himself from Taliban
ISLAMABAD: Commenting on reports that the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has nominated him for negotiations, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said the militant group...
View ArticleAnti-polio campaign begins in Peshawar, security on high alert
PESHAWAR: Mobile phone services were suspended in Peshawar and a ban on pillion-riding was imposed by the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as part of security arrangements for the anti-polio...
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