PESHAWAR Awami National Party (ANP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa President Senator Afrasyab Khattak on Tuesday revealed that a total of 62 ANP workers had lost their lives and dozens got injuries in 31 terrorist attacks on his party from March 30 to May 11, 2013."Not only our leaders and workers have been ...

KABUL - Taliban attacks killed at least ten Afghan police on Sunday, officials said, in the latest violence against the force which is due to take more security responsibility from NATO troops before their withdrawal next year.In one of the incidents, Taliban fighters attacked a security check post ...

RAWALPINDI- Five cases of measles were reported at Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) on Saturday. With these new cases, the tally of measles patients has increased to 26 in Rawalpindi. BBH Medical Superintendent (MS) Dr Asif Qadir Mir, while talking to TheNation said that situation was not alarming as ...

LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles has earned the dubious distinction for the second year in a row as the U.S. city with the most dog attacks on mail carriers, the U.S. Postal Service said. California’s biggest city accounted for 69 such attacks in fiscal 2012, which ended in September, compared with ...

KANO, Nigeria : The purported head of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has claimed two recent deadly attacks in the northeast in a video obtained by AFP Monday, which also depicts women and children apparently being held hostage. The video features Abubakar Shekau, declared a global terrorist by ...

Thursday's landmark decision by the Pakistani high court in Peshawar is a remarkable document: Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan examines the US use of drones against Pakistan's tribal areas and reaches several conclusions that, while obvious to most sensible observers, seem to have eluded American ...

BAMAKO: Suicide bombers targeted troops in two towns in war-torn northernMalion Friday, leaving five of the attackers dead and two Malian soldiers wounded, military sources said. The first attack was against soldiers from neighbouringNigerstationed in Menaka, a Saharan desert commune 300 kilometres ...

Karachi/Quetta/Peshawar/Lahore - Violence continued unabated on the eve of landmark general elections, with 17 people killed on Friday in bombings and militant attacks on political workers, election offices and polling stations in Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta and other areas the country.A senior ...

ISLAMABAD - The Taliban have sent suicide bombers to mount election-day attacks on Pakistan's historic polls, a militant commander said on Thursday, following a bloody campaign which has claimed more than 100 lives.Saturday's vote will be a democratic milestone in a country but the Pakistani ...

The Taliban have sent suicide bombers to mount election-day attacks on Pakistan's historic polls, a militant commander said Thursday, following a bloody campaign which has claimed more than 100 lives.Saturday's vote will be a democratic milestone in a country ruled for half its history by the ...

ISLAMABAD - Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan Ishtiak Ahmed Khan has reiterated that the voters' turnout for the general elections would not be affected with the ongoing terrorist attacks in Pakistan, while hoping that the turnout would be more than 60 per cent."We're targeting 80 per cent ...

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 ...

  KANDAHAR   A roadside bomb killed fiveUStroops Saturday inAfghanistanand two other Nato soldiers were shot dead in an "insider attack", a week after the Taliban launched their spring offensive. The bomb killed five soldiers in a vehicle in the southern province of Kandahar, local police ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief Observer of the EU Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to Pakistan and Member of the European Parliament, Michael Gahler, has raised his serious concerns about the increased level of violence against certain political parties during a visit to Peshawar.In a press statement ...

  JARED FERRIE Three Muslim men peered over a bamboo fence built recently to fortify their village in centralMyanmar. They gazed across dry rice paddies towards a nearby Buddhist community, looking for rising dust, a sign of an approaching mob. It was a false alarm. But a day earlier, on ...

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 ...

CHARSADDA/NOWSHERA/KARAK/MARDAN - Militants continued targeting election offices and campaigns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday and killed at least two people and wounded over a dozen in attacks in different parts of the province.One person was killed and 12 wounded in an explosion outside the ...

KASUR - PTI leader Khursheed Mahmood Kasuri has condemned the series of terrorist attacks in Karachi.He was talking to media at his party office here on Sunday. Kasuri termed the terrorist attacks a coward bid to stop the electoral process and urged the whole nation to denounce the terrorism. He ...

LAHORE/HAFIZABAD - PTI Chairman Imran Khan has appealed to the extremist elements not to sabotage the electioneering process and wait instead, as the ‘change is around’.“Let the political parties run their campaigns during the run-up to the elections,” he urged on Sunday, ...

karachi - The Pakistan People’s Party and Muttahida Qaumi Movement observed Sunday as day of mourning against Saturday’s bomb attacks in the city in which at least six people lost their lives while more than 41 sustained injuries. The PPP and MQM had appealed to all segments 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 ...

WASHINGTON : Ten days after the Boston Marathon bombing, more than half of the Americans consider another terror attack as likely in the coming weeks, according to aGalluppoll released. 51 per cent of the respondents believe it is “very likely” or “somewhat likely” that ...

Islamabad - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has stopped political parties and candidates from making personal attacks against one another during campaigning for the upcoming elections.  The ECP states that personal attacks during campaigning violate the code of conduct and action ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has stopped political parties and candidates from making personal attacks against others during the campaigning.The ECP states that personal attacks during campaigning violate the code of conduct and action will be taken against those who violate it.The ...

KABUL : Attacks by Afghanistan’s Taliban and other insurgents soared in the first quarter of 2013, raising the grim prospect of an unusually violent year, a study by an independent group showed Saturday.The violence overwhelmingly targets Afghan troops and police as foreign combat forces step ...

SINGAPORE - A 34-year-old man has been arrested in Singapore over an online threat to bomb several locations in the city-state in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon attack, police said Saturday.The man, whose name and nationality were not disclosed, was arrested on Thursday after posting the ...

BAGHDAD Iraq ramped up security on Friday on the eve of its first polls since US troops left as attacks, including a bombing at a Baghdad billiards cafe, killed 35 people in a spike in unrest before the vote.The deadly violence just before Saturday's provincial election raises further questions ...

BAGHDAD  - Dozens of attacks across Iraq, including a brazen car bombing on the way to Baghdad airport, killed 50 people on Monday, just days before the country's first elections since US troops withdrew.The violence, which mostly struck during morning rush hour amid tightened security ahead ...

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa former Minister for Information and ANP leader Mian Iftikhar Hussain on Sunday termed the constant attacks on ANP workers and candidates as a pre-polls rigging. He said that the caretaker government and Election Commission have so far failed in providing proper ...

Dozens of attacks across Iraq on Monday, including a brazen car bombing en route to Baghdad airport, killed at least 24 people just days before the country's first elections since US troops withdrew.The violence, which struck during morning rush hour amid tightened security ahead of the polls, also ...