ISLAMABAD - The obviously hidden hands are hatching evil conspiracies to get former President Pervez Musharraf out of Pakistan or by putting him to harm through launching a life attempt on him only to create chaos and destabilise election process in the country.Advocate Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf ...

LAHOREA father-of-seven ended his life by setting himself on fire in the Defense-A police limits on Friday. His family told the police that Koray villager Ramazan had been facing financial constraints for the last several months. Police investigators said clashes between the deceased and his wife ...

GUWAHATI (AFP) - Fresh rains hampered a military air operation to help flood victims in northeastern India, where more than two million people have been forced from their homes, officials said Wednesday. Disaster management chiefs overseeing the aid effort in Assam state also said the number of ...

Five prisoners managed to escape from the district prison here in Chilas on Wednesday after breaking lock of the barrack.According to police sources, the prisoners were involved in the murder and robberies cases. They broke the lock and escaped, the police said. The jail administration knew it ...

BEIRUT  - The bodies of 47 women and children, some of them with their throats slit, have been found in the restive Syrian city of Homs, the opposition said on Monday, blaming the killings on the regime.Syrian state media acknowledged that residents of the central city had been murdered but ...

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi interior ministry on Sunday asked Kurdish authorities to arrest Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi saying he was planning to flee the country. Hashemi, a member of the secular Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc, has been accused by Baghdad of running a death squad. He fled to the autonomous ...

MOGADISHU - Hundreds of Somalis fled their homes Thursday fearing clashes after African Union troops attacked holdout Islamist Shebab militia positions on the outskirts of the war-wracked capital Mogadishu. Columns of loaded vehicles headed into the city from Elashabi-yaha and KM13 districts ...

GENEVA (AFP) - Some 40,000 famine-hit people have fled to the Somali capital Mogadishu over the past month in search of food and water, the UN refugees agency said Tuesday. "Over the past month, UNHCR figures show that nearly 40,000 Somalis displaced by drought and famine have converged on ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Senior PPP leader Dr Babar Awan on Wednesday predicted that the two squads formed by Molvi Mian Nawaz Sharif for political browbeating through 'use of abuse and bullet would again leave the country at difficult times. Talking to mediamen at the Supreme Court building here, Dr ...

KHYBER AGENCY - Four people, including a Lashkar-i-Islam commander, were killed in fresh clashes between LI and Zakha Khel Lashkar in the Zakha Khel area of Tehsil Landi Kotal in Tirah Valley on Sunday. According to sources, in the fresh clashes of the fighting, which has been continuing for the ...

RAWALPINDI - Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench dismissed bail pleas of Adiala Jail former superintendent Saeed Ullah Gondal and former deputy superintendent Khalid Bashir in 11 missing prisoners case on Wednesday. Police arrested both the former officials from the court premises but they ...

SANTA BARBARA, California (AFP) - Firefighters were on Thursday picking over the smoldering rubble of a ferocious California wildfire that forced thousands to flee and destroyed at least 20 homes. The blaze in the upmarket coastal town of Santa Barbara, northwest of Los Angeles, exploded into life ...

RAWALPINDI-Police on Saturday succeeded in hunting down the accused Sajjad Hussain Shah who had cut off his 22-year old daughters nose, slashed her hands and legs and inflicted a similar fate on his son-in-law Sagheer as the couple had committed love-marriage. He had escaped after the brutal act ...

GENEVA (AFP) - Forty-five thousand people have fled a refugee camp in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in chaotic scenes as rebel forces advance on the city of Goma, the UN refugee agency said Wednesday. "The whole camp was packing up and leaving" after refugees saw Congolese government ...

KATHMANDU (AFP) - Some 50,000 people have been forced to flee after monsoon rains washed away a dam in southern Nepal and were taking refuge in makeshift shelters, schools and temples, an official said Wednesday. The dam on the Saptakoshi river burst Monday following heavy downpours, government ...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Thousands of foreigners sought refuge at crowded community centres and police stations in Johannesburg on Monday amid new attacks in a wave of xenophobic violence that has killed 22 people. Mobs roaming through poor townships around South Africa's economic capital have ...