KABUL : Taliban insurgents on Tuesday released the final four Turkish engineers held hostage since their helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan last month. "The remaining four Turkish nationals were released today as a sign of goodwill and as an Islamic and humanitarian gesture of respect," the ...

manila - Syrian rebels Sunday freed four Filipino peacekeepers five days after seizing them at an observation post in the Golan Heights, the Philippine military's chief spokesman said."They have been released. They are now in the custody of the commander of the Philippine battalion in the Golan ...

YAOUNDE :  A French family abducted while holidaying in Cameroon emerged unscathed from their ordeal on Friday after two months in the hands of extremists.Tanguy and Albane Moulin-Fournier, their four children and Tanguy’s brother, Cyril, were kidnapped in Cameroon on February 19 and ...

MULTAN/MUZAFFARGARH - Former MNA Jamshed Dasti was released from Central Jail Multan in compliance of a verdict of Lahore High Court Multan Bench here on Thursday. Mr Dasti was convicted in a fake degree case by a District and Sessions court in Muzaffargarh, but a division bench of LHC Multan Bench ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTCIA operative Raymond Davis’ 2011 killing of two Pakistanis in Lahore not only led to a sharp deterioration in US-Pakistan political and security relations but also sparked off shouting matches between American government official working in different directions to secure ...

KABUL – Two Frenchmen held hostage for more than four months in Afghanistan have been freed in a Taliban-troubled area near Kabul, officials said Monday. Firstly, Pierre Borghi, who was trying to establish himself as a photographer in Kabul, was freed in Wardak province outside the capital on ...

KHARTOUM - The head of Sudan's opposition political alliance, freed after two days in detention, said on Sunday that the government fears rising popular discontent in the crisis-hit nation.Farouk Abu Issa, who represents more than 20 opposition parties, told AFP he was released on Saturday by the ...

A total of 22 prisoners involved in petty criminal cases have been released on the order by District & Session Judge. District & Session Judge Rawalpindi Nazir Ahmed Gujana issued the order during his visit to Adiala Jail Rawalpindi, a handout said on Sunday. According to the Acting ...

TRIPOLI - Two British journalists detained by a Libyan militia a month ago and accused of spying left Tripoli for the United Kingdom on Monday after being cleared of all charges.Nicholas Davies-Jones and Gareth Montgomery-Johnson, who were working for Iran's English-language Press TV, were detained ...

PESHAWAR - A Swiss couple kidnapped by Taliban over eight months ago claimed they have escaped from the captors on Thursday and were shifted from North Waziristan to Peshawar and then onwards to Islamabad.Olivier David Och (31) and Daniela Widmer (29) had turned up at an Army post in Miranshah. ...

Swiss couple who was kidnapped from Balochistan, was recovered from Miran shah, main town in North Waziristan tribal region, the Inter-Services Public Relations, media wing of Pakistan Army said on Thursday.ISPR Director General Major Gen Attahar Abbas said in a statement that Olivier David Och, ...

LAHORE – Additional District and Sessions Judge Arif Hameed Sheikh on Saturday released Major (r) Haroon Rasheed, Muhammad Nawaz Khan and Waheed Rasheed of banned outfit Harkatul Mujahideen-Al-Islami and accused of murdering Shaikh Zayed Hospital former administrator Abdul Saboor Malik. The ...

PESHAWAR – Law-enforcement agencies arrested a US embassy employee carrying illegal arsenal and cartridges at Peshawar Airport on Tuesday. Police sources said the US diplomat, who was identified as William Charles, was going to Islamabad from Peshawar by PK-218 flight when airport security ...

TEHRAN - Eleven Iranian pilgrims recently abducted in restive Syria have been freed, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday without speaking of the fate of more than a dozen other captive Iranians there. "With the aid of friendly countries... 11 pilgrims have been released," foreign ...

TRIPOLI  - Libya has received roughly $20 billion in assets that were held overseas by Muammar Gaddafi's regime and frozen during the conflict that ousted him, the country's foreign minister said on Tuesday. An estimated $150 billion (117 billion euro) of Gaddafi's overseas assets were frozen ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The convicted ringleader of US military guards who abused detainees at Abu Ghraib and took scandalous pictures of their acts was released on parole from military prison Saturday, the US Army said. Charles Graner, 42, was freed from the US Disciplinary Barracks at Fort ...

LAHORE Minister for Livestock and Agriculture Malik Ahmed Ali has directed the officers of Livestock and Dairy Development to step forward for retrieval of livestock farms land from illegal occupants and for this purpose, district government be approached to provide necessary legal support, says a ...

PESHAWAR Unknown abductors released Afghan Consul General to Paki-stan, Dr Abdul Khaliq Farahi, on Saturday night after a period of two years. Dr Abdul Khaliq Farahi was kidnapped by armed persons from Hayatabad area of Peshawar on September 22, 2008, while his driver Khalid was killed when he ...

ISLAMABAD - National Assembly (NA) was informed on Friday that Pakistan has released 562 Indian prisoners since 2009-2010 while only 157 Pakistani prisoners have been released from Indian jails. Minister for State on Foreign affairs Malik Imad Khan, during question-hour, said that according to the ...

KARACHI (PPI) - A female researcher, Farzana Panhwar was allowed on Saturday to live at local shelter home after police recovered her from illegal detention at private psychiatric hospital in Karachi. Farzana, 53, widow of Muhammad Hussain Panwar, was found illegally detained at the hospital on ...

HYDERABAD (Agencies) Police on Monday released Farooq Leghari, former DCO Tando Allahyar and a brother of Chairman Higher Education Commission Javed Leghari, hours after latters meeting with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, reports a private TV channel. Farooq Leghari was detained in Hyderabad ...

ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - A retired army major said Saturday he had been cleared of any wrongdoing after Pakistani intelligence released him from custody in connection with the attempted car bombing in New Yorks Times Square, reports ABC News TV channel. Adnan Ahmad and his brother were among at least ...

KARACHI - The Sindh government has recovered at least 4,300 child labourers during the period of one year, from May 1, 2008 to April 30, 2009, who were forced to work in industries, and handed over to an NGO with the aim to rehabilitate and admit them to educational institutions. According to the ...

PESHAWAR - Security agencies Thursday released former commissioner Malakand division Syed Muhammad Javed who was arrested a few months back for his alleged links with Tehrik-e-Taliban Swat chapter. Sources Thursday said that the former commissioner Malakand was under the custody of security ...

WASHINGTON - A young Afghan Guantanamo Bay prisoner has been released and returned to Afghanistan, the US Justice Department said Monday. Mohammed Jawad was 17 when he was arrested six years ago, US officials say, but his lawyer says he was 14 and family members say he was 12. Jawads conviction ...

PESHAWAR (AFP) - Taliban fighters on Wednesday released 30 kidnapped police and paramilitary personnel on condition that they resign from their jobs, security officials told AFP. "They have given assurances to the Taliban that they would quit their jobs and will take no part in any activity against ...

DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh's army-backed emergency government is preparing to free the country's top two political party leaders former premiers who are being held on corruption charges, reports said Sunday. Bangladeshi newspapers said Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina Wajed, who are being held as ...

Seven security personnel, who were abducted by armed persons on Saturday in Darra Adamkhel, were freed on Sunday, reported BBC quoting officials. The personnel belonged to the tribes of Toor Cheer, Sheraki and Zarghoon. They were kidnapped from their houses. However, it was not disclosed who ...

KABUL (AFP) - Afghanistan has freed a man held in US-run prisons for six years who was a top lieutenant to a militant commander. Ghairat Baheer, a close aide to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar a militant leader wanted by Washington for his links to an ongoing insurgency told a press conference "my time in ...