A bomb planted in a rickshaw tore through a vehicle used by security forces in Quetta on Thursday, killing at least 12 people, police said.The remotely detonated bomb containing around 100 kilos (220 pounds) of explosives targeted a truck carrying members of a government paramilitary force on the ...

BEIJING : A blast which ripped through an explosives plant in China has left 13 people dead and another 20 missing, an official said Tuesday, compounding the country’s poor industrial safety record.Another 19 people were injured in the explosion on Monday at a three-storey workshop owned by ...

Peshawar At least eight persons got injuries in a generator blast at a crowded commercial plaza at Peshawar Saddar Bazaar on Monday.The generator exploded on the second floor of a multi-storeyed Falak Seer Plaza at Saddar Bazaar as a result eight persons were wounded. The injured were identified as ...

QUETTA  - A dacoit was killed and four others, including a Levies official, wounded in separate firing and bomb blast incidents, while unidentified terrorists fired two rockets into Mastung district sowing panic in the area. In the first incident, a dacoit was killed near Maizai terminal in ...

          QUETTA Death toll in Sunday's deadly suicide attack near residence of Balochistan Police chief in Quetta has reached eight as one of the 97 wounded succumbed to his injuries at a military hospital here on Monday. Seven people were killed and 97 wounded late Sunday ...

A Taliban bomb attack targeting an election candidate killed at least 11 people and wounded 36 others in Karachi as polls got under way Saturday, a doctor said.The bomb targeted a candidate seeking election to the Sindh provincial assembly for the Awami National Party (ANP), the main secular party ...

A bomb attack targeting female voters in Peshawar wounded eight people as historic elections got underway, according to police."The bomb was planted on a motorcycle. Several people including police have been injured. The motorcycle was parked outside a women's polling station," Shafiullah Khan, a ...

A suicide bomber slammed his motorbike into a rangers’ picket here on Saturday, killing two persons and injuring three others.The attack took place on Mangho Pir Road.The injured personnel were shifted to hospital.

At least 14 people were killed and several others wounded when a blast hit a political rally here on Saturday.The attack took place in Chattar town of Naseerabad. The bomb targeted the supporters of a local election candidate.The dead and the injured are being shifted to hospital.Security forces ...

A motorbike bomb close to party political offices killed four people and wounded 15 in a town in Pakistan's restive tribal northwest Friday, on the eve of the country's general election.The bomb went off in the main bazaar of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan district, a security ...

ISLAMABAD  - Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl) Chief, Maulana Fazlur Rahman, on Tuesday strongly condemned the bomb attack on JUI-F candidate in Hangu and expressed deep sorrow over the loss of precious lives.“I pray for the departed souls and wish early recovery of the injured,” he said ...

ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR/QUETTA - A bomb blast struck a JUI-F public meeting in central Kurram on Monday, killing as many as 20 persons and injuring over 50 others, including two candidates of the religious party.Political Agent Riaz Masood confirmed the incident but there was no confirmation of the ...

Prime Minister Justice (Retd) Mir Hazar Khan has strongly condemned the bomb blast in Hangu (Khyber Pukhtukhwa) targeting JUI-F public meeting in which several precious human lives were lost and injured many. Among others, JUI-F candidate Mufti Said Janan (PK-43) also got injured.The Prime Minister ...

At least six people were killed and many other wounded when a bomb blast ripped through a PPP rally here on Tuesday.The blast took place at Babagam area of Maidan in Lower Dir.According to police officials, the explosion occurred in a corner meeting of an PPP candidate Zameen Khan from PK-96 ...

    ARUSHA : At least 30 people were injured, three seriously, in a suspected bomb attack Sunday at a packed new Catholic church in the northern Tanzanian city ofArusha, police said. Witnesses said at least one person had been trampled to death in the stampede after the ...

A bomb tore through a political rally Monday, killing 14 people and wounding 56 in one of the deadliest attacks on the campaign for Pakistan's historic elections on Saturday.The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility, saying its target had been a lawmaker elected as an independent but allied to ...

orakzai agency - Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) candidate from NA-39, Orakzai Agency, survived an attack when a roadside bomb on Saturday exploded near his vehicle in Hangu district.JI candidate Raj Muhammad, who is trying his luck from NA-39, was on his way to Ferozekhel area of Orakzai Agency from Hangu ...

An early morning blast in Peshawar partially damaged the office of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday.A police mobile was also to pass from the blast site a few moments later.According to the police, militants had planted a 3-kg bomb near a roadside. The blast damaged the wall of PIT ...

In Larkana at least 4 persons were burnt to death and 14 others injured as fire engulfed passenger van after gas cylinder was burst.According to Media Reports, the injured have been shifted to district Headquarter hospital Larkana.

LONDON : Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday that Britain was paying a ‘very high price’ in Afghanistan after three soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb. Six British soldiers have now been killed this year in Afghanistan. Britain has not lost so many soldiers in one incident ...

KANDAHAR - A roadside bomb planted by the Taliban killed a senior member of Afghanistan’s peace council on Wednesday, officials said, the latest setback to efforts to end more than 11 years of war.Shah Wali Khan, the head of the High Peace Council (HPC) in the key southern province of ...

DAMASCUS   (AFP/Reuters) - A bombing in the heart of Damascus killed at least 13 people Tuesday, as Russia banned its civilian planes from Syrian airspace after the crew of one reported coming under threat over the war-hit country.US President Barack Obama, meanwhile, expressed concerns ...

PRAGUE A powerful blast ripped through a multi-storey building in Prague’s historic centre on Monday, leaving about 40 people injured and possibly up to four dead trapped in the rubble, rescuers said.The force of the explosion, which police said was believed to have been caused by a gas leak, ...

swabi - Police have arrested 67 suspects in connection to the Sunday blast in search operation in the Tehsil Razaar villages on Monday.Mian Muhammad Saeed, Superintendent Police, told the media that soon after the blast they decided to take action against the suspected militants. The blast was ...

Two bomb attacks Sunday targeting the offices of election candidates in northwest Pakistan killed at least eight people, officials said, the latest bloodshed ahead of polls next month.Violence has marred the campaign for the landmark May 11 general election, with more than 50 people dead in blasts ...

lahore - The traders, raising the voice against unprecedented power breakdowns in provincial capital, have observed that all power distribution companies in Punjab including Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) is flouting orders of the Lahore High Court.They questioned that 18-hour long ...

Bomb attacks wounded 17 people in Quetta on Wednesday and targeted an election candidate in the run-up to historic general elections in the nuclear-armed country, police said.The first attack wounded 13 people near a mosque and a private hospital in Quetta, police said.The bicycle bomb exploded in ...

A convoy of security forces was ambushed with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Miraali area of North Waziristan Sunday, killing four security personnel and injuring four others.Military officials said the roadside bomb exploded on Bannu-Miranshah road in North Waziristan tribal agency, ...

BUNER Three persons including a woman and her two children were killed in a bomb blast in Buner district here on Friday.According to local police, the blast occurred in the field in the jurisdiction of Nawagai police station. The woman along with her two children was working in her field near her ...

At least five people were killed and several others injured in a suicide blast outside District Headquarters Hospital in Bajaur Agency on Saturday.Assistant Political Agent of the area confirmed that it was a suicide attack."The suicide attacker was a woman who detonated the bomb outside the main ...