Ghazi murder case: Musharraf granted exemption from appearance
ISLAMABAD: An additional sessions court on Saturday in Abdul Rasheed Ghazi murder case granted exemption for today to former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf and summoned him in its next...
View ArticleUN readies help for displaced N. Waziristan people
UNITED NATIONS: About 20,000 people, mostly women and children, have been displaced during the army operation against the TTP in North Waziristan and the United Nations is ready to help them.UN...
View ArticleCourt sentences two to death for reporter Wali Babar’s murder
SHIKARPUR: An anti-terrorism court in Shikapur on Saturday convicted six men of murdering young television reporter Wali Babar, handing out death sentences to two and life imprisonment to four others....
View ArticleBomb attack kills three FC soldiers in Balochistan
QUETTA: At least thirteen people including three security personnel were killed Saturday in two separate incidents in Balochistan's Kalat and Dera Bugti districts, an official said.Spokesman for the...
View ArticleChina rail station attack leaves 27 dead
BEIJING: Attacks by “knife-wielding men” at a Chinese train station late Saturday left 27 people dead and 109 injured, the state news agency Xinhua reported.Police shot dead a number of the attackers...
View ArticleNA summons Jamshed Dasti on Monday
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Secretariat has served notice to Member of National Assembly (MNA) Jamshed Dasti to present evidence regarding allegations he has leveled against Parliamentarians of...
View ArticleBlasts targeting polio team kill 11 in Khyber agency
PESHAWAR: At least 11 people were killed and 10 wounded Saturday in bomb attacks targetting security personnel guarding a polio vaccination team in Khyber tribal agency.The blasts in Lashoro area of...
View ArticleRussia approves use of military in Ukraine
KIEV: Russia executed a de facto military takeover of a strategic region in Ukraine as the parliament in Moscow gave President Vladimir Putin a green light Saturday to proceed to protect Russian...
View ArticlePakistani Taliban announce month-long ceasefire
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan militant organisation on Saturday announced a month-long ceasefire, a development likely to break a deadlock in peace talks with the...
View ArticleXinjiang separatists kill 29 in China rail attack: Xinhua
BEIJING: Knife-wielding assailants left 29 people people dead and more than 130 wounded in an unprecedented attack at a Chinese train station, state media reported Sunday, blaming separatists from...
View ArticleCivil aviation billing scam unearthed
ISLAMABAD: A scam has been unearthed in the billing system of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), causing huge monetary loss to the organisation.Informed sources told Dawn that under a clandestine deal...
View ArticleSuspects held in Islamabad belong to militant group: police
ISLAMABAD: Seven suspects arrested in a locality of the capital late on Friday night after an encounter are members of a splinter group of Harkatul Mujahideen and involved in targeted killings,...
View ArticleBin Laden son-in-law on trial in New York
NEW YORK: A son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and former Al Qaeda spokesman goes on trial in New York Monday, accused of conspiracy to kill Americans and supporting terrorists.Suleiman Abu Ghaith, who...
View ArticleIranian drug smugglers held, foreign hostages freed
QUETTA: The Frontier Corps recovered three foreigners kidnapped by a gang of drug traffickers and arrested eight Iranians who were holding them, after a raid on a house in Turbat on Saturday. “Two...
View ArticleTerrorists cornered in NWA: official
WASHINGTON: Maj Gen Asim Bajwa, who heads the Inter-Services Public Relations, told the NBC News that security forces had already cornered terrorist elements in North Waziristan and were now ready to...
View ArticleThailand begins re-runs of troubled elections
PHETCHABURI: Polls opened peacefully in five Thai provinces on Sunday for re-runs of a widely disrupted general election, authorities said, in the first move to complete a troubled vote that could...
View ArticleRawalpindi operation: 20 suspects arrested
RAWALPINDI: Police in Rawalpindi conducted a search operation Sunday and arrested 20 suspects, DawnNews reported. The operation, headed by SP Rawal Town, Malik Karamat, was carried out within the remit...
View ArticleBlast in eastern Afghanistan kills 13
KABUL: Officials say a car packed with explosives blew up and killed 13 people including nine insurgents in eastern Afghanistan. Dind Mohammad Darwesh, spokesman for the governor of Logar Province,...
View ArticleSix members of security forces killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD: Attacks in predominantly Sunni Arab areas north and west of Baghdad on Sunday killed six people, all members of the security forces, the latest in a year-long surge in bloodshed.Less than two...
View ArticleSeven killed in bus-car collision in Chaman
CHAMAN: Seven people were killed Sunday in a bus-car collision near Hameed Cross Bridge in Chaman, DawnNews reported. According to Levies’ personnel, the incident occurred on the Quetta-Chaman Highway...
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