LONDON -  British Prime Minister David Cameron called an emergency security meeting on Wednesday after a man was killed near an army barracks in London, and two men were shot and wounded by police.Prime Minister Cameron said there were ‘strong indications that it is a terrorist ...

MOSCOW Russia was Tuesday set to question the sole survivor of a deadly police raid outside Moscow that authorities said had prevented a major attack in the capital.The operation in the Moscow region town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo took place shortly after twin car bombs killed four and injured more than ...

Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has paid rich tribute to the people of the country as they actively took part in elections despite terror threats.Addressing a symposium, Kayani said that the people defeated the misleading minority through their votes.‘The people ...

Glenn Greenwald Last October, senior Obama officials anonymously unveiled to the Washington Post their newly minted "disposition matrix", a complex computer system that will be used to determine how a terrorist suspect will be "disposed of": indefinite detention, prosecution in a real court, ...

    ISLAMABAD   US Ambassador Richard Olson on Friday met JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman and congratulated him as his party has won seats in national and provincial assemblies. The ambassador underscored theUScommitment to a strong bilateral relationship withPakistanbased on respect and ...

Pakistan and the USA share the problem of terrorism, and Pakistan must increase its spending on education if it hopes to end it. This was said by Congressman Burgess during his address to Congress on Saturday. While the Congressman was right in pointing out both that Pakistan had a major problem in ...

ISLAMABADThe Pakistan govt has expressed anguish at the tragic loss of precious lives resulting from the terror attack in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli, killing and injuring many innocent people Saturday last.In separate messages of condolence, addressed to President Abdullah Gul and Prime ...

UNITED NATIONS -  Pakistan has called for addressing the root causes of terrorism that continues to mutate into new and more sinister forms, and to combat the phenomenon with “quick response” strategies.“Counter-terrorism efforts need to adapt to these challenges and develop ...

COLOMBO : - Sri Lanka freed an opposition Muslim political leader from jail without charge after detaining him earlier in the week under a tough anti-terrorism law, his lawyer said Saturday.Azath Sally, 49, the former deputy mayor of Colombo, was arrested on Sunday and detained in police custody in ...

The next prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif has promised to stand together with the West in taking on the forces of terrorism, hours after voting finished in the country’s historic general election. During a close-fought campaign Nawaz Sharif had promised to end drone strikes and review the ...

About the hottest issue of Pakistan’s foreign policy today – the country’s involvement in the war on terror and how to get out of it – has been the subject of two separate interviews to foreign news agencies. PML-N President Mian Nawaz Sharif and PTI leader Imran Khan appear ...

  NAIROBI : A Kenyan court on Monday sentenced two Iranians to life in prison on terror-related charges, including the possession of explosives allegedly to be used in bomb attacks. “I shudder to imagine the amount of damage that could have been seen,” judge Kiarie Waweru Kiarie ...

CHICAGO : The FBI said Monday it has thwarted a terror attack in a small town in Minnesota after discovering home-made bombs and guns in the home of a local man. The agency provided few details, saying the investigation into Buford 'Bucky' Rogers, 24, was "ongoing." "The FBI believes that a terror ...

QUETTA - BARI BALOCH - At least ten people were wounded when militants hurled hand-grenades at the PML-N and National Party offices in Kharan and Machh areas Sunday.According to police, unidentified people hurled a hand-grenade at the election office of Lt-General (retired) Abdul Qadir Baloch, a ...

New Delhi - Former prime minister and PML-N President Nawaz Sharif, who is the strongest contender to become the next prime minister, said dialogue and not armed intervention is the answer to deal with terror.In an interview with CNN-IBN, Nawaz said “This problem has to be solved on priority ...

NEW JERSEY: The aunt of rap icon Tupac Shakur has become the first woman to land on the FBI’s list of most wanted terrorists. Cop killer Joanne Chesimard, 65 - who was also reportedly Tupac’s godmother - was convicted in 1977 of murdering a police officer, Trooper Werner Foerster, in ...

WASHINGTON :The United States does not foresee taking Cuba off its blacklist of countries accused of supporting terrorism, which also includes Syria, Iran and Sudan, an official has said. "There are no changes in our list of state sponsors of terrorism," State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell ...

  SYDNEY: An Australian is being detained on terrorism-related charges in Saudi Arabia, Foreign Minister Bob Carr revealed Thursday, with the man’s brother claiming he has been tortured. Shayden Thorne, 25, has been held in a jail outside Riyadh for almost 18 months, reportedly after a ...

QUETTA/KARACHI/PESHAWAR - The terror spectre got further widened and became more intense as militants attacked the election campaigns of different parties across the country on Wednesday.At least fourteen people were wounded in rocket attacks and bomb blast in different towns of Balochistan. Eight ...

Karachi - The ex-coalition partners,-PPP, MQM and ANP, while joining hands, announced on Monday not to bow down to the religious extremists and Taliban and participate in the elections despite terror attacks and threats from the religious extremists. The leaders of the three parties, addressing a ...

Glenn GreenwaldNews reports purporting to describe what Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told US interrogators should, for several reasons, be taken with a huge grain of salt. The sources for this information are anonymous, they work for the US government, the statements were obtained with no lawyer present and ...

nawabshah - The Shalimar Express survived a terror attack on Sunday as explosives planted near the railway track went off just 15 minutes before arrival of the train.Terrorists had planted a bomb at railway track near Nawaz Dahri Railway Station here and it went off 15 minutes before arrival of the ...

Paksitan Peoples’ Party (PPP), Awami National Party (ANP) and MQM have demanded that elections should be held on stipulated date and they would fully participate in elections.Addressing a news conference in Karachi on Monday‚ PPP leader Taj Haider‚ ANP's Bashir Jan and MQM's Abbas ...

  On Wednesday, April 24, a day after Bangladeshi authorities asked the owners to evacuate their garment factory that employed almost three thousand workers, the building collapsed. The building,RanaPlaza, located in theDhakasuburb of Savar, produced garments for the commodity chain that ...

Karachi - Three blasts and a hand grenade attack targeted within hours secular political forces in different parts of Karachi, killing at least four people and wounding 41 others on Saturday, the four consecutive day of election related violence that has put in further doubt on time holding of ...

As the Election Day nears, the growing boldness of the TTP terrorists in striking at will is becoming the talk of the town. By bombing an MQM election camp in Karachi on Thursday, only two days after they had struck at another office of the same party, they have registered the point that they are ...

beijing - China urged the United States on Thursday, 10 days after the Boston Marathon bombings, to condemn what Beijing has called terrorist attacks in its western Xinjiang region instead of lecturing the country on human rights.Nine residents, six police and six ethnic Uighurs were killed on ...

LONDON  - Three British Muslims including a convert to Islam were jailed on Thursday for planning acts of terror. White Muslim convert Richard Dart, 30, a former security guard for the BBC, was sentenced to six years imprisonment at England’s Old Bailey central criminal court in London. ...

More than four years after Barack Obama pledged to close the US internment camp at Guantanamo, over half of its 166 inmates are on hunger strike — 16 are being violently force fed and soldiers last week used rubber bullets against “noncompliant” prisoners. Guantanamo, along with ...

OTTAWA :Canadahas thwarted a terrorist plot on its homeland with the help of US authorities and arrested several suspects, local media said Monday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is scheduled to hold a press conference at theTorontointernational airport at3:30 p.m.(1930 GMT) to provide ...