KARACHI - At least six persons including political activists were killed in various violent incidents in Karachi while a Rangers officer wounded in an exchange of firing also succumbed to his injuries during treatment here on Thursday.An activist of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) was gunned down in ...

ISLAMABAD -  Seven senior journalists have submitted applications to the Supreme Court to become party in the Information Ministry secret funds case.The applicants, in their pleas, took the stand that the report issued about the secret funds was false and based on mala fide intentions. They ...

A strong earthquake measuring magnitude 7.8 on Richter scale jolted Asian and Gulf countries specially Pakistani cities including Karachi, Islamabad, Hyderabad, Lahore and Quetta cityon Tuesday afternoon.The epicenter of the huge quake was 86km (53 miles) from Iranian city of Khash, near Pakistan's ...

Pakistan Muslim League-Q has announced its 7-point manifesto emphasizing on education for all‚ combating extremism‚ eliminating terrorism and uprooting corruption from the country. Senior party leader S. M. Zafar presented the main points of the manifesto.PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat ...

At least seven people‚ including 2 policemen‚ were killed in a rocket attack on Sheikh Muhammadi Grid Station in Badabe‚ Peshawar early Tuesday morning.According to police‚ militants fired 7 rockets on the grid station. 2 people died on the spot‚ while bodies of 5 ...

Gunmen on Saturday hurled a firecracker and opened fire at a primary school in Karachi, killing its principal and wounding eight children, police said.The children were aged between five and ten while the headmaster was a member of the Awami National Party, which consists mainly of ethnic Pashtun ...

ISLAMABAD - Some persons have started establishing a slum on a nullah behind Iqbal Hall in Sector G-7 in the federal capital, while the authorities concerned have turned a blind eye towards the illegal activity.Residents of the area, expressing their concerns over the issue, said that the persons ...

A Yemeni military aircraft ploughed into a building in a residential neighbourhood of Sanaa on Tuesday killing at least seven people, mostly civilians, the emergency services said.The pilot and six civilians were killed in the crash which occurred near Change Square, an epicentre of the revolt that ...

Incidents of target kilings continued as seven people lost their lives in different areas of Karachi on Thursday.A man was killed in the Sherpao Colony area of Lyari while another was shot dead in Saeed Manzil, after unidentified men opened fire, according to media reports.In another incident of ...

At least seven suspected militants were killed and three hide outs of militants were destroyed due to the shelling of security forces here on Saturday. According to military sources, in the hilly area of Mamozai and Kharzai the security forces continued shelling indiscriminately on suspected ...

At least eight security personnel including seven soldiers and a police cop were killed and three others injured when unknown miscreants attacked an army camp here in Gujrat on early Monday morning.According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), unidentified militants at 5:30am stormed an ...

Taliban bombers attacked a heavily fortified guesthouse used by Westerners in Kabul on Wednesday, in defiance of a visit by US President Barack Obama's call that war was ending, made during a visit to Afghanistan on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death.Seven people were killed after attackers ...

At least seven persons including two women were killed and more than 10 others injured when two passenger vehicles collided with each other here in Haripur on early Wednesday morning.According to details, a Mansehra bound passenger bus coming from Lahore and a Rawalpindi bound wagon coming from ...

Seven people were killed and another 22 sustained injuries in an explosion at the Awami National Party (ANP) rally here in Nowshera on Monday, police said.According to police, the blast took place as soon as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti took off in a helicopter after ...

The Supreme Court directed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) to submit a detailed report on the security situation of Balochistan by March 7, expressing concerns over the mounting lawlessness in the province. A three-member bench headed by Justice Shakirullah Jan ...

The U.S. Marine Corps says seven Marines were killed when two helicopters collided during night training near the border of California and Arizona. Authorities say it happened Wednesday evening. Lt. Maureen Dooley with the Miramar Air Base in California says the crash involved Cobra and Huey ...

Funeral prayers of deceased were offered on Sunday as death toll in the Godam Chourangi accident has mounted to seven.These people were killed in a rare kind of accident near Godam Chowrangi in Karachi on Saturday night.Died people included a woman and child.A bus, carrying merrymakers of a wedding ...

Heavy firing followed a two minor blasts as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) concluded its huge public gathering in Swabi on Friday. Media reports said seven people, including four policemen were injured in the attack. Some participants of the rally were also among the injured. Police said that PTI ...

At least 18 extremists were killed and seven security personnel martyred when armed militants attacked a security check post here in Kurram  on Friday. The attackers also kidnapped five troops.According to details, more than 30 militants stormed a security check post located in Shidano Dan ...

At least seven died after reaction of medicine from pharmacy of Punjab Institute of Cardiology, a private TV reported on Saturday.According to the report, at least seven cardiac patients died due to reaction from medicines provided by the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) Lahore. More than 150 ...

Saeed Ajmal took seven wickets as Pakistan bowled out England for 192 on the first day of their first Test in Dubai. Matt Prior was unbeaten on 70 for England, which was 43-5 after Ajmal got Kevin Pietersen leg-before-wicket on 2 runs. Alastair Cook, Ian Bell, Stuart Broad and Chris Tremlett also ...

At least seven people were killed and 17 others injured in multiple collision of vehicles due to dense fog here in Sargodha on Sunday.According to police, due to zero visibility caused by dense fog, three vans and a truck collided at Ajnala Road near Sargodha.As a result of accident five people ...

A fire ripped through a Buddhist temple in Indonesia's North Sumatra province at the weekend, killing seven people and injuring eight, police said on Monday.  The victims were sleeping on the second floor of the ViharaBuddhist Aloviestra temple when the fire broke out before dawn on Sunday, ...