STRASBOURG, France : Police on Friday deployed across high schools in the eastern French region of Strasbourg following Internet threats by a young man to stage mass killings and shoot himself, a day after a gruesome suicide at a Paris primary school. The police also released photographs of the ...

A security plan has been devised for re-polling in 43 polling stations in Karachi’s National Assembly constituency NA-250.The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that army would be deployed at the 43 polling stations.As per the security plan, 3500 security personnel will discharge ...

ISLAMABAD - In the wake of terrorist attacks in different parts of the country, Pakistan Army would be deployed in the federal capital as a backup force during general election 2013, sources within ICT administration revealed to TheNation.According to security plan for general elections, there ...

ISLAMABAD - A group of 46 European Union (EU) short-term observers (STOs) from EU member states including Canada, Norway and Switzerland, was deployed in Islamabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh on Tuesday to observe the May 11 general elections.A statement issued by EU Election Observation ...

Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani on Tuesday chaired a meeting here to review security arrangements, especially in Sindh, on the Election Day.According to Media Reports, Gen. Kayani ordered to fully implement security plan while he also said that helicopters will also be ready in ...

Caretaker Information Minister Arif Nizami said Saturday that neither any personnel from the army or any other law enforcement agency (LEA) will be stationed inside polling stations.Speaking to media after the federal cabinet meeting, Nizami added that army deployment in Sindh, Punjab, Khyber ...

SINGAPORE AFP A US warship designed to fight in coastal areas arrived Thursday in Singapore for its Southeast Asian deployment, underlining President Barack Obama's new strategic focus on Asia.The deployment of the USS Freedom comes at a time of heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula and as ...

Afghan Taliban armed with guns and rockets stormed a heavily fortified air field in Afghanistan, killing two US Marines and damaging aircraft in a major security breach at the camp where Prince Harry is deployed.The attack on Camp Bastion in southern Helmand province, one of the toughest ...

SANAA (AFP) - Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh said Monday the majority of the people were behind him, even as his autocratic regime lost the support of top army generals and tribal leaders. Tanks were deployed in the capital as top generals pledged allegiance to the revolution and the countrys ...

LAHORE - Taking precautionary measures to ensure the security of the Chief Justice Lahore High Court Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif, the security agencies have deployed commandoes inside as well as outside the court to avoid any untoward happening. The police have stepped up security of the LCH ...

ISLAMABAD - Contradicting the reports appearing in a section of media regarding deployment of thousands of US Marines at the US Embassy in Islamabad, US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W Patterson, Thursday, said only 15-20 US Marines would be deployed in the embassy after its expansion. Briefing a ...

GUJRANWALA - Armed forces fixed anti-aircraft guns at roofs of various buildings of strategic importance on Sunday morning and choppers patrolled the cantt and its surrounding areas. Hundreds of people witnessed this patrolling and came out while raising slogans of Allah-o-Akbar. Reportedly, Armed ...

DERA GHAZI KHAN - Bunkers have been constructed and officials of Frontier Constabulary have been deployed at Dhodak plant to avert any sabotage, it was learnt here on Sunday. The Oil and Gas Development Company Limited sources told The Nation that solid measures were being taken to ensure the ...

BEIRUT (AFP) - The army deployed across much of Lebanon on Sunday after Hezbollah ceded control of west Beirut but clashes raged on in the north and in the Druze mountains as Arab foreign ministers held crisis talks. Heavy machine-gun fire and loud explosions echoed through a number of villages ...