Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Karachi police operation, 30 suspects held

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KARACHI: Police in a search operation in Orangi Town on Wednesday hauled up 30 suspected persons, Geo News reported. SP Orangi Town, S...

At least 13 suspected militants killed in fresh North Waziristan airstrikes

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PESHAWAR: At least 13 suspected militants were killed and their hideouts were destroyed Wednesday in air strikes carried out by fighter ...

Blast in Assam Kills One, Injures Three Others

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Goalpara:  One person was killed and three others injured in a blast in front of a police station in Assam's Goalpara district today...

Shiv Sena MPs Accused of Forcing Muslim Staff to Eat In Maharashtra Sadan Row

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Parliamentarians of the Shiv Sena allegedly forced a Muslim catering supervisor, who was fasting for Ramzan, to eat a chapati during a r...

Close Shave for Rajdhani Train After Maoists Blow up Track in Bihar

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Gaya:  A major disaster was averted after a pilot engine detected a damaged railway track near Gaya in Bihar just hours before a Rajdhan...

Israel strikes kill dozens as Gaza death toll soars

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GAZA CITY: Israeli strikes killed at least 13 women and children in Gaza on Tuesday, medics said, as the army announced the deaths of tw...

Gaza bloodbath: Five children die; toll 572

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GAZA CITY: The death toll in Gaza rose to 572 on Monday. And the Israeli army said another seven soldiers had been killed in fighting in...

Six top Al Qaeda leaders killed in US Drone strikes

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BANNU: At least six Al Qaeda commanders were killed during the recent US drone attack in Dattakhel area of North Waziristan tribal regio...

JD-U inching closer to forging alliance with Lalu's RJD: Vashisht Narayan Singh

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The chief of the Bihar unit of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) party, Vashisht Narayan Singh, on Tuesday, said that his party is inching cl...

Three foreign advisers killed in suicide bombing near Kabul airport

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KABUL: A Taliban suicide bomber detonated himself on Tuesday outside Kabul International airport, killing three foreign advisers and an ...

Five Kuwait politicians' citizenship revoked

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Kuwait has stripped five well-known opposition figures of their citizenship, including the owner of a newspaper and television station. ...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Ninety pc of slain Muslims killed by 'brothers': Turkey's religious head

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ISTANBUL: One thousand Muslims are being killed each day and 90 percent of the killers are also Muslims, head of Turkey's Directorate ...

Diplomatic drive intensifies as Gaza death toll reaches to 350

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GAZA: Fresh Israeli bombardments killed five people in Gaza Sunday, hiking the death toll from the assault to over 350.Israel pressed its ...

Unending campaign: Drone strike kills 11 suspected militants in North Waziristan

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MIRAMSHAH: A US drone strike targeting a compound early on Saturday morning killed eleven suspected militants in Madakhel Tehsil in Data K...

Fatemi to leave for US today on official visit

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ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi is scheduled to travel to the United States on...

Kuwait tells Hamas it backs Egypt's ceasefire proposal

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Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah on Sunday told a visiting Hamas delegation that his country supports an Egyptian ...

Turkey, US in row over Erdogan’s remarks on Israel

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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s strong-worded criticism against Israel and the United States over the former’s military operations i...

Netanyahu slams Erdogan’s words on Israel’s Gaza offensive as ‘anti-Semitic’

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned as “anti-Semitic” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s criticism of the l...

Afghanistan clashes leave 30 dead

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At least 30 Taliban fighters have been killed, and 15 others wounded in various regions of Afghanistan, the country's Defense Ministry...

Twelve killed, over 20 injured as bus falls into ravine in AJK

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MUZAFFARABAD: At least 12 people were killed and over 20 others were injured Monday when a speeding bus fell into a ravine in Azad Kashmir’...

UN Security Council opens urgent talks on Gaza

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UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council opened urgent talks on the escalating violence in Gaza to consider ways of stepping up ceasefire e...

Missile brought from Russia downed Malaysian airliner, alleges US

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HRABOVE: US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday that the evidence indicates that a Russian missile was used to down Malaysia Airl...

Battle for Libya airport leaves at least 47 dead

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Islamist-led militiamen have stepped up their assault on Libya's main airport, controlled by rival fighters, which the health ministry...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Seven suspected militants, one elite force man killed in Lahore clash

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LAHORE: An armed clash between security forces and suspected militants during a search operation early Thursday in a compound situated i...

Islamic State's Saudi ‘mufti’ slain in Iraq

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A Saudi mufti with the Islamic State (IS or Daesh) has been killed in Iraq by the country’s armed forces, says an Iraqi news site, quoti...

Pakistan asks Afghan authorities to ensure border security

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan here on Thursday called on Afghan authorities to ensure their border security so that attacks emanating from their s...

Army vows to 'completely eliminate' terrorist sanctuaries in N Waziristan

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ISLAMABAD: Chief military spokesman Major General Asim Bajwa said on Tuesday that the Pakistan army will "completely eliminate...

Five killed during operation in Karachi's Landhi area

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KARACHI: Five suspected militants were killed during an operation in Gulshan-i-Buner area of Karachi's Landhi area. Security source...

Afghanistan car bomb leaves at least 38 civilians dead

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A suicide car bomber has killed at least 38 people in the east of Afghanistan. Mohammad Reza Kharoti, an administration chief in the U...

Egypt proposes ceasefire in -IsraeliPalestinian conflict

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Egypt has proposed a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza that would start on Tuesday, ending a week of cross-bord...

Jihadists execute four Syrian ‘spies’ in Iraq

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Jihadist militants publicly executed four Syrian men in a western Iraqi town for allegedly spying for President Bashar al-Assad’s regime...

Iraq forces advance into militant-held Tikrit: officials

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KIRKUK: Iraqi security forces advanced into militant-held Tikrit on Tuesday in an assault aimed at revitalising flagging efforts to reta...

At least 18 suspected militants killed in North Waziristan drone attack

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PESHAWAR: At least 18 suspected militants were killed Wednesday in a US drone attack in North Waziristan tribal region's Dattakhel a...

Typhoon Rammasun kills 10, shuts down Philippines capital

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A typhoon killed at least 10 people as it churned across the Philippines and hit the capital, prompting the evacuation of almost more th...

KSA calls for stronger UN action to halt Gaza killings

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Saudi Arabia has denounced the brutal Israeli aggression on the Palestinians in Gaza and has urged the UN Security Council and the Human...

Eight killed as taxi plunges into Chenab river in Jammu

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JAMMU: Eight people were killed after their vehicle plunged into the Chenab river in Kishtwar district of Jammu region on Wednesday, pol...

Pakistan restrict Mohammed Irfan to ODIs and T20s

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Karachi: Pakistan team management have decided to restrict tall paceman Mohammed Irfan to only ODIs and T20s, keeping in mind team's...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Germany humiliate Brazil 7-1 to reach World Cup final

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BELO HORIZONTE: Brazil's World Cup dream was smashed into oblivion as majestic Germany ran riot to win an extraordinary semi-final 7-1...

Syrian troops advance in key city of Aleppo

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Syrian troops have advanced inside and near northern Aleppo in what appears to be an attempt to lay siege to rebel-held parts of the count...

Israel's Largest Offensive in Gaza Strip in 2 Years Kills 25

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JERUSALEM - Israel on Tuesday launched its largest offensive in the Gaza Strip in nearly two years, carrying out a blistering aerial assau...

Afghan suicide attack kills 16, including 4 NATO soldiers

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A Taliban suicide bomber killed 16 people, including 10 civilians and four NATO soldiers, in an attack in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday, off...

Rockets from Gaza follow Israeli air strikes

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Jerusalem - Israeli officials say the army will carry out more air raids on the Gaza Strip overnight and call up 1,500 military reservists...

Bahrain declares US assistant Secretary of State PERSONA non grata

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MANAMA :US Assistant Secretary of State for Democratic Affairs, Human Rights and Labour Tomasz P. Malinowski is persona non grata, Bahrain...

Rocket landings at Saudi-Iraq border under probe

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Three Hawn rockets fell on Monday in a desert area near the northern border area of Jadida Arar, but caused no injuries or damages, a spok...

Bomb blast leaves police official injured in Peshawar

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PESHAWAR: A police official was injured on Tuesday in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast on a police van near Pishtakhara police s...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Snooping Row: 'Unacceptable', Says India As It Summons Top US Diplomats

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India today summoned senior US diplomats in Delhi to lodge a strong protest over a report that America's National Security Agency wa...

SC upset by lack of food subsidies in Balochistan

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ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court bench was flabbergasted on Tuesday when it was told that no subsidy on food items has ever been extended to t...

Pakistan reiterates NWA offensive will hit Haqqani network

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday reiterated that the ongoing Zarb-i-Azb military offensive, launched to eliminate insurgent hideouts in th...

Justice Nasirul Mulk to take oath as new CJ of Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD: Justice Nasirul Mulk was approved on Tuesday as the new Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), DawnNews reported. The appointment...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Militant ambush in NWA kills two security personnel

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PESHAWAR: Two security personnel were killed and another injured in a militant attack on a security forces' vehicle in Mirali tehsil o...

Judicial magistrate kidnapped? in Balochistan

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QUETTA: Armed militants kidnapped Judicial Magistrate Ziarat Jam Saka Dashti from Pishin district of Balochistan on Monday, police said.A ...

Two police officers killed in Egypt bomb

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Two Egyptian police officers have been killed and several others wounded in a small explosion near the presidential palace in Cairo's ...