Another woman alleges gang-rape in troubled UP state
LUCKNOW: A 38-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped on the weekend in a northern Indian state whose government is under fire over a string of sexual attacks, police said Monday.The woman had gone out...
View ArticleMilitants capture northern Iraqi town
BAGHDAD: Militants captured the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar early on Monday, its mayor and residents said, the latest blow to the nation's Shia-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of...
View ArticleLyari gang war's Ghaffar Niazi killed in Karachi police encounter
KARACHI: Ghaffar Niazi, a gangster associated with the gang war in Lyari, was killed on Monday in a police encounter in Karachi’s Moosa Lane located in the city's Lyari Town.He was considered a key...
View ArticleSchumacher out of coma, has left hospital: spokeswoman
LYON: Formula One champion Michael Schumacher is out of a coma and has left the French hospital treating him since a devastating ski accident in December, his spokeswoman said Monday.“Michael has left...
View ArticlePolio virus detected in Quetta linked to Sukkur
QUETTA: Polio virus detected in a sewerage line in Quetta on Monday was traced to Sukkur, an official said.An official of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef), who...
View ArticleCJ Tassaduq Jilani's relative kidnapped from Multan
MULTAN: A close relative of Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jilani, Umer Jilani, who was also identified as a security official, was kidnapped on Monday by unidentified persons from...
View ArticleRoadside bomb planted by Afghan Taliban kills five
KABUL: Afghanistan's Interior Ministry says a roadside bomb planted by the Taliban has killed five civilians from the same family in the southern Kandahar province.In a statement, it condemned the...
View ArticleBritain bans forced marriage
LONDON: British legislation banning forced marriage came into effect on Monday, with those found guilty of the largely hidden practice facing up to seven years in prison.The law applies not only within...
View ArticleGovt presses for early hearing, fears Musharraf may leave country
ISLAMABAD. The government on Monday filed two separate petitions in the Supreme Court against removing the name of former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf from the Exit Control List (ECL) and...
View ArticlePTI endorses Zarb-e-Azb operation
ISLAMABAD. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday endorsed the military operation underway in North Waziristan, the party's deputy secretary general and media advisor to PTI...
View ArticleOpposition supports govt on NWA operation
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties in the National Assembly showed their impartial support to the government on full-flagged military operation in North Waziristan Agency.Leader of the opposition in NA,...
View ArticleNWA operation: Seven more militants killed; toll rises to 187
PESHAWAR: Seven more militants were killed in exchange of fire when trying to flee from cordoned off area in North Waziristan on Monday evening, taking the total toll to 187 since Saturday night when...
View ArticleNW operation to continue until terrorism eliminated: Nawaz
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, during a speech delivered in the National Assembly on Monday, justified the government's decision to initiate a full-scale operation in North Waziristan tribal...
View ArticleHow does Blair continue to get away with his lies?
How do they get away with these lies? Now Tony Blair, the former British premier, argues that Western “inaction” in Syria has produced the Iraq crisis. But since bombing Syria would have brought to...
View ArticleUS backs efforts to enforce sovereignty
WASHINGTON: The US State Department said on Monday that it backed Pakistan’s efforts to extend its sovereignty and stability over the entire country.Also on Monday, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff...
View ArticlePM forms committee to oversee Zarb-i-Azb
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday constituted a `National Cabinet Coordination Committee’ to oversee Operation Zarb-i-Azb being conducted in North Waziristan.The committee, according to...
View ArticleTaliban control 25pc of Karachi, claims MQM leader
ISLAMABAD: The Muttahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader, Farooq Sattar, on Monday claimed that Taliban control 25 per cent of Karachi and warned that, if immediate steps are not taken, the commercial hub...
View ArticleTaliban cut off voters’ index fingers
UNITED NATIONS: The top United Nations official in Afghanistan has strongly condemned the punishment doled out by the Taliban to nearly a dozen people who had their index fingers cut off after voting...
View ArticleJail break in Karachi's Malir prison, two escape
KARACHI: At least three convicts staged a prison break from Karachi's Malir jail on Tuesday following which one of the fugitives was re-arrested while the other two managed to make their escape,...
View ArticleUS army begins probe into Bergdahl’s disappearance
WASHINGTON: The US army has begun an investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding the disappearance and capture of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan on June 30, 2009.In a written...
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