Clashes in Kashmir over killing of suspected militants
SRINAGAR: Hundreds of angry villagers clashed with police in Indian-held Kashmir on Tuesday following suspicions that security forces shot dead seven civilians they mistook for rebels, a police officer...
View ArticleWar has begun from both sides, says Ibrahim
PESHAWAR: Member of the Taliban mediating committee, Professor Ibrahim Khan, said on Tuesday that talks were still favourable despite the war that had erupted from the government and Taliban's side,...
View ArticleAt least six killed in Karachi violence
KARACHI: At least six people were killed in separate incidents of violence in Karachi, DawnNews reported on Tuesday. A body of a 22-year-old male bearing torture marks was discovered from Alam pride...
View ArticleThai building collapses killing 10 workers, injuring 17: police
BANGKOK: At least 10 workers died and 17 others were injured when a large concrete beam collapsed Tuesday at a construction site just outside Bangkok, police said.Television footage showed rescue...
View ArticlePrison break threat in Peshawar triggers red alert
PESHAWAR: Officials sources on Tuesday disclosed that a major attack on Central Jail Peshawar was planned to free key Taliban prisoners kept there. Sources have confirmed that a group of five suicide...
View ArticleAfghanistan sacks officers after Taliban kill 21 soldiers
KABUL: Afghanistan on Tuesday sacked nine army officers for negligence after Taliban militants killed 21 soldiers and kidnapped several others in a raid on a border post near Pakistan.A brigade...
View ArticleEx-Guantanamo detainee arrested on Syria 'terror' grounds
BIRMINGHAM: Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg was among four people arrested in Britain on Tuesday on suspicion of terror offences relating to Syria, police said.Begg, 45, who is now a human...
View ArticleObama tells Pentagon to plan for Afghan pullout
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has ordered the Pentagon to plan for a full American withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year should the Afghan government refuse to sign a security...
View ArticlePHC declares PTI protests blocking KP's Nato supply route illegal
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday declared illegal Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) protests during which party activists blocked the Nato supply route in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and...
View ArticleJets pound militant hideouts in Waziristan; 30 killed
PESHAWAR: The Army targeted militant hideouts in the border area of South and North Waziristan tribal regions Tuesday in the fourth wave of recent airstrikes that killed at least 30 people.“The...
View ArticleSartaj dispels impression of ‘Syria policy shift’
ISLAMABAD: Advisor to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz on Tuesday dispelled the impression of a change in government’s policy on Syria, saying restoration of...
View ArticleIran committed to gas pipeline but decision after Pakistan response
ISLAMABAD: Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh on Tuesday said that his country was committed to go ahead with the controversial Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project but a final decision in this regard...
View ArticlePM says govt writ to be affirmed as cabinet okays security policy
ISLAMABAD: After the cabinet endorsed the country’s internal national security policy on Tuesday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addressing the session said that in order to ensure the safety and security...
View Article11 regional parties seal alliance for elections in India
NEW DELHI: India regional parties met on Tuesday to declare a political alternative to the two main national parties, the ruling Congress and the main opposition Bharatiya Janata (BJP), ahead of...
View ArticleBJP chief says ready to apologise to Muslims
NEW DELHI: Reaching out to Muslims ahead of Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday asked the community to not go by the ‘propaganda’ spread by Congress and promised to stand...
View ArticleMotion submitted against minister’s statement on Taliban
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Tuesday submitted an adjournment motion in the National Assembly Secretariat against the statement of the interior minister and a calling attention...
View ArticleHizbul Mujahideen says Mast Gul no more its member
MUZAFFARABAD: Upset by media reports linking a ‘militant commander’ from a tribal area with it, the largest fighter group in India-held Kashmir, Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), on Tuesday deplored what it...
View ArticleProduction of seven missing persons in court ordered
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ordered the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Tuesday to produce before the court on March 4 seven of 35 missing persons in the same manner in which an equal number of...
View ArticleIndian navy accident injures seven sailors: official
MUMBAI: Seven Indian sailors were injured in an accident on a submarine off Mumbai on Wednesday, the navy said, with reports of another two missing in the latest incident to hit the force.The seven...
View ArticleExplosion in Rawalpindi injures one
RAWALPINDI: A person was injured as a result of a bomb device exploding near a school in Rawalpindi’s Ratta Amral area on Wednesday, DawnNews reported. According to DawnNews sources, the bomb device...
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