RAWALPINDI – One of officials of Punjab Emergency Service (PES) Rescue 1122 lends money on interest to the poor and destitute segments of the society and later occupies their property and valuables, besides harassing them in different ways, sources told.A Rescue 1122 official Waqas alias ...

SIMON MARTELLILast week’s hostage-taking has rocked the image of Algeria’s powerful security apparatus, raising questions about how gunmen could have overrun the key In Amenas gas field, with alarming implications for the energy sector.As foreign governments continued to count the human ...

WASHINGTON - A man claiming to have a bomb in a canvas bag took at least one person hostage Friday in an office building in the US city of Pittsburgh, authorities said. “There’s a hostage situation at Three Gateway Center,” said Kelly Kochamba, an FBI spokeswoman, naming the ...

US hostage Warren Weinstein has appeared in an Al-Qaeda video for the first time since he was kidnapped in Pakistan in August last year.According to the US monitoring service SITE, the two minute, 40 second video was posted on jihadist forums by Al-Qaeda's media arm as-Sahab on Sunday. There is no ...

NAIROBI - British hostage Judith Tebbutt, kidnapped in Kenya over six months ago by gunmen who killed her husband, said Wednesday she was “happy” after she was released in Somalia to be flown to Nairobi. Tebbutt, 57, was taken on September 11 from a remote Kenyan beach resort near the ...

ISLAMABAD The proceedings of the National Assembly on Tuesday started with an emotional blame game between two rivals, Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat. As the proceedings of the House started, Minister for Water and Power aggressively stood at his ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - If you are a Pakistani with no electricity to run fans or drive water pumps at home, and no job because your factory's on short time, think again. Anger over constant power cuts boiled over in central Punjab province on Tuesday as angry mobs torched vehicles, including three ...