Court grants bail to Umar Akmal
LAHORE: A local sessions court on Sunday granted bail to Pakistan cricket team's middle-order batsman Umar Akmal and released him against a surety bond of Rs100,000 over his run-in with a traffic...
View ArticleTense Thai elections go ahead despite protests
BANGKOK: Protesters trying to derail Thailand's national elections forced the closure of hundreds of polling stations in a highly contentious vote that has become the latest flashpoint in the country's...
View ArticleSecurity forces detain two; attack foiled in Mardan
PESHAWAR: Security forces in Mardan claimed that two terrorists were captured in a raid on Sunday during which suicide jackets and explosives were also recovered. The officials said the raid was...
View ArticleFive killed as roof of mosque collapses in Mian Channu
KHANEWAL: Five people were killed and over 50 others sustained serious injuries when a roof of a mosque caved in at Rehmat Colony, Mian Channu on Sunday.According to Rescue 1122 sources, Qul Khawani of...
View ArticleMQM leaders deplore ‘character assassination’ of Altaf Hussain
KARACHI: Leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Sunday vowed to unearth ‘conspiracies’ being hatched for what they call character assassination of their chief Altaf Hussain, DawnNews...
View ArticleNisar hails TTP’s initiative of announcing negotiating team
ISLAMABAD: Hailing Pakistani Taliban militants for formally announcing its negotiating team to hold talks with the government, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Sunday termed the...
View ArticleUS actor Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead in New York
NEW YORK: Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York apartment, a law enforcement official said Sunday.He died of an apparent drug overdose, a New York city police source...
View ArticleBlasts at Peshawar cinema house leave at least three dead
PESHAWAR: At least three people were killed and more than 30 others injured on Sunday night in two explosions at a cinema house in the capital of troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan...
View ArticleThousands of Bugtis waiting to return home
QUETTA: Thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs), women and children among them, who had migrated to Sindh and Punjab because of a military operation in Dera Bugti nine years ago, are waiting...
View ArticleSyrian forces step up deadly attacks on Aleppo
DAMASCUS: Syrian forces bombarded Aleppo with barrel bombs and air raids for a second day Sunday, with scores of people killed in 48 hours, a monitor said, after peace talks ended inconclusively.At...
View ArticleJUI-F stresses importance of Jirga mechanism
FAISALABAD: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has expressed reservations over the nomination of a committee by the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for holding talks...
View ArticleSenate takes up today issue of dual nationality of judges
ISLAMABAD: The Senate will take up the issue of judges’ dual nationality on Monday as all efforts of the government to obtain details about them from the superior judiciary have failed.Law Minister...
View ArticleTTP offers security to negotiators
PESHAWAR: The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has offered to provide security and protection to members of the negotiating committees in areas under its control.In a statement issued to the...
View ArticleFour men set ablaze in India for cattle rustling: police
KOLKATA: Four men were burnt to death in eastern India as suspected punishment for stealing cattle from a rival criminal gang, a senior police officer said on Monday.The four charred bodies were found...
View ArticleIndia court tells govt to speed up Italian case
NEW DELHI: India's Supreme Court on Monday ordered the government to decide within a week whether it will invoke a severe anti-piracy law against two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian...
View ArticleLight aircraft crash kills three at South African airport
JOHANNESBURG: Three people were killed after a twin propeller airplane crashed trying to land at South Africa's Lanseria airport on Monday morning, the airport chief executive said.The plane, a Beech...
View ArticleAl Qaeda breaks ties with group in Syria
CAIRO: Al Qaeda broke off ties with one of its purported branches in Syria and distanced itself from the rebel infighting in that country's civil war, according to a statement Monday. The announcement...
View ArticleThousands of India's disabled protest to demand equal rights
NEW DELHI: Thousands of disabled people protested in the Indian capital on Monday, demanding parliament pass long-awaited legislation that gives them equal rights including to education and...
View ArticleGas supply to Uch plant halted after damage to pipelines
DERA MURAD JAMALI: At least 550 megawatts of power supply was halted Monday, following damage to three gas pipelines supplying gas to the Uch power plant in Balochistan's Dera Murad Jamali area,...
View ArticleBaghdad attacks kill 16 as Iraq presses Anbar assault
BAGHDAD: A series of attacks in and around Baghdad, including a spate of car bombs, killed 16 people Monday as Iraqi forces pressed an assault against militant-held areas of Anbar province.The latest...
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