US, EU threaten 'very serious' response over Crimea
KIEV: Washington warned Russia on Thursday it was preparing a “very serious” response together with Europe to a breakaway vote in Ukraine's Crimea that has sparked the most explosive East-West standoff...
View ArticleTTP negotiators in North Waziristan to meet Taliban shura
ISLAMABAD: Members from the negotiating committee representing the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in talks with the federal government on Thursday reached North Waziristan via special helicopter to...
View ArticleFour election workers kidnapped in Afghanistan, says official
KABUL: An Afghan election commission official says four election coordinators were kidnapped in Afghanistan's restive Nangarhar province, which borders neighboring Pakistan.Sareer Ahmed Barmal, a...
View ArticleIndian court upholds death sentence for Delhi gang-rapists
NEW DELHI: An Indian court upheld Thursday the death penalty handed to four men convicted of the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi, an attack that triggered protests over violence against...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia loaned Pakistan $1.5bn to shore up economy
ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia loaned $1.5 billion to Pakistan last month to help Islamabad shore up its foreign exchange reserves, meet debt-service obligations and undertake large energy and infrastructure...
View ArticleActing CEC refuses to see Imran after missed appointment
ISLAMABAD: Acting Chief Election Commissioner Justice Nasirul Mulk refused to see Imran Khan, the chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, on Thursday, a day after the latter had not turned up for a...
View ArticleEx-Libyan PM denounces no-confidence vote as falsified: TV
TRIPOLI: Former Libyan prime minister Ali Zeidan on Thursday denounced a no-confidence vote by his country's parliament that led to his dismissal as a “falsification”, in a statement on rolling news...
View ArticleCJ says nation’s morale linked to good governance
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani has said that misgovernment rather than foreign invasion usually leads to collapse of nations.“The heavy responsibility of defending the country is...
View ArticleThree dead in China knife attack, terror ruled out: official
BEIJING: Attackers armed with knives killed at least three people in central China on Friday, an official said, ruling out a terrorist incident two weeks after a mass stabbing which left 29 people dead...
View ArticleNew US lead thrusts Malaysia jet search into Indian Ocean
KUALA LUMPUR: The needle-in-a-haystack hunt for a missing Malaysian airliner spread to the vast Indian Ocean on Friday after the White House cited "new information" that it might have flown for hours...
View ArticleMore focus on Haqqani militants: US commander
WASHINGTON: Allied and Afghan forces are putting a greater focus on going after the Haqqani militant network, which has threatened to disrupt the Afghan presidential elections in April, the top US...
View ArticleBomb in southern Afghanistan kills six: official
KANDAHAR: A senior Afghan government official says a roadside bomb in the southern Helmand province has killed six civilians, including two women and two children.Mohammed Sharif, district chief of...
View ArticleIndian court convicts three over gangrape of Catholic nun
NEW DELHI: A court convicted three men Friday over the gangrape of a nun during a bout of anti-Christian violence in 2008 in eastern India that killed at least 35 people, reports said.The Catholic nun...
View ArticleTribunal disqualifies PML-N's Aijaz Chaudhry over fake degree
ISLAMABAD: An election tribunal on Friday disqualified Aijaz Chaudhry, an MNA from the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N), for possessing a bogus academic degree, DawnNews reported.Chaudhry was...
View ArticleRape victim who set herself ablaze dies
MUZAFFARGARH: A girl, who set herself ablaze in in Bet Mir Hazar area in protest against a police report which helped her alleged rapist obtain bail, succumbed to her injuries today, DawnNews...
View ArticleSeven dead in Baghdad area attacks
BAGHDAD: Bombings in and around Baghdad on Friday, including blasts near two markets, killed seven people, the latest in a year-long surge in violence that authorities have failed to quell.The...
View ArticleIslamabad court seeks list of policemen deployed for court security
ISLAMABAD: A district court in the federal capital while hearing a petition against the non-filing of an FIR against the IG police Islamabad, Bani Amin Khan and SSP Zafar Iqbal Awan, over the attack on...
View ArticleMumbai building collapse kills two, injures three
MUMBAI: An old, seven-story residential building collapsed Friday in a Mumbai suburb, killing at least two people and possibly trapping more under the debris, Indian officials said.The building had...
View ArticleTreason case: Court issues arrest warrant for Musharraf
ISLAMABAD: The special court constituted to try former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf for high treason on Friday issued an arrest warrant for the former president, DawnNews reported.The...
View ArticleKashmiri boy killed by Indian forces: police
SRINAGAR: Police say Indian government forces shot and killed a teenage Kashmiri boy and wounded two others as hundreds of rock-throwing protesters threatened to attack their armoured vehicle in the...
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