An army official says suspected members of a radical Muslim sect have killed two civilians in a police station blast in Nigeria's restive northeast. Col. Hassan Mohammed blamed the group known as Boko Haram for bombing a police station Wednesday night in the town of Mainok, about 35 miles (60 ...

NIAMEY (AFP) - Muammar Gaddafis son Saif al-Islam and his former intelligence chief, the two most wanted fugitives from the slain despots ousted regime, were poised Tuesday to cross the border into Niger, a Tuareg official said. The pair, wanted by the International Criminal Court, had been ...

LAYYAH (INP) - At least 11 members of a family drowned in the Indus River near the district Thursday. According to sources in the family, 11 members of a family, out to enjoy boating in the River Indus, met a tragic fate as they died after drowning near the Layyah district. The sources added that ...

The stocks fell more than 3.2 percent and ended at an almost nine-month low, taking a cue from world markets. Dealers said healthy corporate results were unable to spark any investor interest, either. The Karachi Stock Exchange's benchmark 100-share index closed 3.24 percent, or 369.25 points, ...

Two passenger trains collided near Jamirghata in West Bengal's Malda district, television channels quoted a Railways official as saying on Sunday. One person is reported to have been killed in the accident. A local passenger train collided head on with the Guwahati-Bengaluru Express at Jamirghata ...

QUETTA - At least 15 people including a woman were killed and 18 others sustained serious injuries in a road incident on Makran Coastal Highway, some 55 km away from Ormara town of Balochistan in the wee hours of Sunday. Levies officials said that the passenger bus was heading towards Mand from ...

The city police on Monday recovered bullet riddled bodies of two unknown persons near New Sabzi Mandi. According to police the two bodies lying in an empty plot in Maula Ali Colony located at Super Highway near Sabzi Mandi were spotted by locals. The police getting the information reached the scene ...

A moderate earthquake hit the areas adjacent to the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Kashmir on Thursday morning but no causality was reported. According to the reports, the quake of lower intensity was felt in the border areas of Chanari, Chakthi, Bagh and Neelam Valley at 7:18am on ...

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Friday ordered the suspension of operations at an ageing nuclear power plant southwest of Tokyo because it is located close to a dangerous tectonic faultline. It comes eight weeks after a massive quake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi ...

KAMAISHI, Japan, (AFP) - Workers were close to restoring power to a nuclear plants overheating reactors Sunday as the toll of dead or missing from Japans worst natural disaster in nearly a century neared 21,000. Amid the devastation on the northeast coast left by a March 11 quake and tsunami, ...

Two explosions at rail track on Tuesday morning at Udero Lal railway station near Matiari damaged two feet portion of the track suspending railway traffic. After the blasts Karachi bound Allama Iqbal Express was stopped at Tando Adam railway station, while Bahauddin Zakria Express halted at Kotri. ...

At least 32 people have lost their lives and nine sustained injuries when a passenger bus collided with an oil tanker, police said on Sunday. According to District Police Officer (DPO) Jamshoro Doctor Farooq, the passenger bus was going to Sukkur from Karachi. Police said that the head-on collision ...

The renowned barrister and leader of PPP, Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan has rejected the notion of any near future political change, but has expressed his apprehensions over government facing a stormy weekend during the budget session. Talking to journalists he said that minor disputes and controversies ...

A village house located near police lines of Kohat exploded due to gas leakage, injuring a woman. The explosion took place in the house of one Waseem Ahmad, after it was filled with gas, which injured one sleeping woman, Yasmeen and her 7-year old daughter Saania and another 12-year daughter ...

At least five people have been killed in an explosion near Nigeria's central city of Jos, officials say. The cause of the blast, which also injured a number of people, was not immediately known. Some reports say there were several explosions.The blast happened in an area that has seen up to 1,000 ...

Security forces have detained a top commander of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network as he was returning from Saudi Arabia to the networks headquarters, US media reports said. Nasiruddin Haqqani, the son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the patriarch of the Haqqani Network, was detained along with a Haqqani ...

A major 7.4-magnitude quake struck southern Japan on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, with experts warning of the possibility of a local tsunami.The quake hit at 3:19 am local time (1719 GMT Tuesday), 153 kilometres (95 miles) east of Chichi-shima in Japan's remote Bonin island region and ...

Three bogies of Shorkot-bound train derailed near Shaikhupura, according to media reports. However, no loss of life or injury has been reported in the incident. Railway officials said that derailment was result of track plates theft the other night. The work to repair the track has been initiated ...

At least two persons died and three sustained injuries including a Major of law and enforcement agency in accident at Motorway. As per details, a Major and five personals of law and enforcement agency were going to Lahore from Islamabad on a vehicle. Driver of the vehicle lost the control of ...

Two persons have been killed and 18 injured in a road accident between a truck and a trailer on M2 Motorway near Lilla interchange. As per motorway police a truck no C-2692 coming from Swat on route to Raiwind upon breaking its shaft collided with a trailer no TLN-827, truck driver Wazir Ali Sakin ...

LAHORE - WAPDA is focus-sed on optimum utilization of water and hydropower resourc-es, as water and electricity are the most impo-rtant factors for economic develo-pment and social uplift of the country. WAPDA Member (Water) Syed Raghib Abbas Shah expressed these views on Tuesday while addressing a ...

KARACHI (Reuters) - The stocks, led by the energy sector, closed near a 29-month high on Tuesday despite an increase in the key policy rate the previous day, which dealers said had been factored in by the market. The State Bank of Pakistan on Monday announced an increase in its key policy rate to ...

The bomb that went off at a railway station near Russia's Olympic city of Sochi damaged rail and halted train communication for a while in the area but there were no casualties in the incident, local police reported on Sunday. The bomb went off late on Saturday at the Matsesta railway station, the ...

LAHORE - Panic gripped Mughalpura area on Thursday night when some tipsy youth resorted to aerial firing in Gunj Bazaar few hundreds metres away from the worship place of Ahmadis in the City. Heavy police contingents including senior officers rushed to the scene soon after the administration of ...

LAHORE (APP) There was a cracker blast near Sattu Katla Police post in Nawab Town on Raiwind Road on Sunday at around 8:00pm. SP Saddar Zeshan Asghar and Rescue 1122 sources confirmed to media that it was a low-intensity cracker blast, which caused no loss to life or property. The rescuer, bomb ...

LAHORE - The ground-breaking of WAPDA offices and colonies to be constructed near Diamer-Basha Dam is expected the next month. The Federal government has already released an initial sum of Rs 700 million to WAPDA for acquisition of land for the construction of the project in Gilgit-Baltistan. ...

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook Costa Rica early on Saturday, but no damages or injures have been reported so far, the U.S. Geological Survey said. According to the USGS, the epicenter of the quake was located 41 kilometers (26 miles) northwest of the capital, San Jose, at the depth of 98 km (61 ...

Four persons have died and 16 were injured in traffic accident here. According to private TV channel a passenger bus was departing from Rawalpindi to Gujranwala when it hit a oil tanker near Wazirabad on Thursday. Accident occurred due to oil tanker driver negligence as he took a wrong turn and hit ...

At least four person were killed and four injured in a severe collision between two cargo trailers on National Highway Excise check post near Nawabshsh here on Wednesday. According to the police a trailer was being checked on Sakrand excise check post when suddenly another trailer hit it, resulting ...

In a security scare ahead of the much-awaited Commonwealth Games in Delhi, two unidentified persons on a bike fired indiscriminately at a tourist bus near Jama Masjid on Sunday. According to Indian Media reports, two foreign tourists - both Taiwanese nationals - were injured in the incident which ...