LAHORE - Gunmen killed a 26 year-old lawyer in the Defense Housing Authority (DHA) in a drive-by shooting and escaped instantly, police said on Wednesday. The deceased, identified as Zain Ghaffar, left his house on Wednesday morning when seven armed men intercepted his car in the Phase-IV ...

OSWIECIM : Muslim leaders from across the globe knelt in prayer for the Holocaust dead at the Auschwitz's notorious Wall of Death on Wednesday, in an emotional visit to the Nazi German death camp in southern Poland.Imams from Bosnia, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and 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 ...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF : A suicide bomber struck outside government buildings in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 14 people including a local politician in the latest attack to target provincial officials.Emergency services rushed to the scene and took the wounded to hospital after the bomber, who ...

A cab driver was shot dead by unknown assailant at Thalla on Chakbeli Khan Road, informed police here on Monday.According to Sub Inspector (SI) Shamim Shehzad of Police Station (PS) Chontra, who is investigating the case, one Muhammad Nazir, son of Fazal Dad, aged 60, was a private cab (LXJ 2910) ...

RAIPUR, India : Indian police reported Monday that eight villagers, including three children, died in crossfire between security forces and Maoist rebels, but opposition politicians said the victims were "massacred".A policeman also died in the incident on Saturday in the Edasmeta area of Bijapur ...

LAHORE -A 45 year old factory owner was found dead in his unit in Khalid Park Shafiqabad on Sunday.The deceased identified as Mohammad Asif hailed from Baddomalhi.The police said that the locals noticed stench emitting from the factory and informed the police. The police recovered the decomposed ...

                   KHAIRPUR - Pakistan Muslim League Functional (PML-F) leader Ghulam Sarwar succumbed to injuries after he was targeted in a firing incident here.According to police, some unidentified gunmen opened fire on ...

KANO  Nigeria’s military on Friday attacked Boko Haram Islamist strongholds across the northeast, launching air strikes on insurgent camps, with dozens of militants killed in the fighting, the military said. Several thousand soldiers have spread across three northeastern states where ...

CHITTAGONG - A cyclone slammed into the Bangladesh coast on Thursday, forcing the evacuation of a million people, but fears of devastating damage eased when the storm weakened as it moved over land.Authorities breathed a sigh of relief after Cyclone Mahasen, which was packing winds of 100 ...

MOSCOW - Russian police said Thursday they have detained a woman suspected of killing her newborn twins and hiding their bodies for five years in the walk-in freezer of a food store where she worked.Police in the Sverdlovsk region said they had detained a 30-year-old woman after finding the bodies ...

KHYBER AGENCY - A driver was killed when unidentified militants opened fire at a NATO supply tanker in Gariza area of Jamrud tehsil, sub-division of Khyber tribal region, on Thursday, official sources said.  According to an administration official, the trailer returned from Afghanistan and was ...

WASHINGTON - A powerful storm that may have spawned tornados ripped through northern Texas, killing six people and hurting more than 100, media reports said.The fatalities Wednesday night came in the town of Granbury in Hood County as the storm destroyed nearly 120 homes in one neighborhood, CNN ...

GWERU: Mourners attending a funeral in central Zimbabwe were shocked when the man they had come to bury “returned from the dead.”Family and friends were filing past a coffin with the remains of Brighton Dama Zanthe, 34, when one of them noticed the dead man’s legs twitching.One of ...

LAHORE -Punjab Rangers on Saturday killed two smugglers and seized 11Kg heroin and heavy weapons from them, said Rangers spokesman. He said the Rangers received information that some people would smuggle heroin from India into Pakistani side. On which Rangers Jawans intensified their patrolling and ...

WALES DS - A cinema in Wales is handing out free life insurance to those scared of watching horror movie Evil Dead.The remake of the cult classic comes with the tagline, “the most terrifying film you will ever experience”. Jamie Hughes, deputy manager of the Gwyn Hall cinema in Neath, ...

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 ...

SARGODHA/HAFIZABAD According to details, in Sargodha a couple was strangled to death by unknown accused here in the remit of Factory Area Police on Thursday. Both the dead bodies were found separately. Reportedly, police recovered dead body of a youth identified as 26-year-old Shaukat from a carry ...

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 ...

KABULAt least 12 people died Wednesday in an armed clash between police and a group of protesters in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, authorities said."Eight Taliban and four civilians died in a protest against Pakistan in the Maiwand district," a source with the Kandahar provincial police ...

GENOA, Italy :At least eight people were feared dead after a container ship smashed into a control tower in Italy's busiest port in Genoa, where local media reported rescuers plucked a badly injured survivor from the ruins on Wednesday. The 50-metre  high glass-topped tower was destroyed when ...

Once again Sindh mourned the death of her two brave sons. Unfortunately, this is not the first time we have been gifted with these gruesome bodies. Last year, scores of Sindhi nationalists were kidnapped; they were returned, but not alive. They were the victims of unspeakable violence their corpses ...

At least five persons were killed and two others injured while several others trapped when a fire erupted at LDA plaza in Lahore on Thursday, rescue sources said.Fire erupted at the seventh floor of 13-storey LDA building around noon and rapidly engulfed three other floors.Three men, in an attempt ...

MANILA: Four foreign tourists and their Filipino tour guide were crushed to death when one of thePhilippines’ most active volcanoes spewed a giant ash cloud and a hail of rocks on Tuesday, authorities said. Twenty-seven people, including at least nine foreigners, were climbing ...

Two people were killed and 23 others wounded Wednesday when a suicide bomber crashed his explosives-packed car into a barrier outside a police station in troubled northwest Pakistan, police said.The attack came in early in the morning in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which is rife ...

RAWALPINDI - Police found a mutilated dead body here in the area of Jatli on Monday.According to details, police on information provided by passersby recovered a dead body in Jatli and sent it to the mortuary. "The condition of the dead body is bad and it is difficult to ascertain whether its a ...

DHAKA - Bangladeshi police broke up a protest by tens of thousands of religious hardliners and shut down an Islamist television station on Monday after 37 people died in some of the fiercest street violence for decades.Hundreds more people were reported injured in running battles as riot police ...

SHEIKHUPURA/HAFIZABAD/ARIFWALA At least 20 persons including eight women and two minors were killed and 12 others sustained multiple injuries in separate incidents of violence, honouring killing and road mishaps over past 48 hours. According to detail, in Sheikhupura, two close relatives were shot ...

MOGADISHUAround 11 people were killed in Somalia's capital Sunday when a suicide attacker from the Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents rammed a car laden with explosives into a convoy carrying officials from Qatar, police said."Several people have been killed, the blast was big ... the number of ...

islamabadThe status/condition of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah, who was critically injured by his jail mates in Jammu prison, has been unchanged since his arrival in the trauma ICU Saturday evening, says a press release received here on Sunday from New Delhi.It said that the doctors said they will ...