larkana A man was killed and five others including two women were injured in a road mishap near Halani on Sunday. According to details, the accident occurred when a tractor collided head-on with a Van at Khairpur-Larkana bridge near Halani. Resultantly the van driver identified as Noor Ahmed ...

KATHMANDU  - Twenty-one people were hurt, including eight Japanese tourists, when a small plane skidded off a Nepal airport runway on Thursday and plunged into a river, police said.All 21 people aboard the Nepal Airlines Twin Otter aircraft were injured, five seriously, police spokesman Keshav ...

WASHINGTON  - Unknown gunmen opened fire at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans Sunday, wounding 19 people in an incident the FBI attributed to “street violence.”Those wounded when gunfire erupted in the early afternoon attack included 17 adults and two 10-year-olds, the ...

Five people sustained injuries when a bomb exploded outside an election office of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Quetta on Friday.According to initial reports, the blast occurred near the Western Bypass.Many vehicles were reportedly damaged in the attack.Police and rescue officials reached the ...

At least 12 people were killed and several others wounded in a suicide blast near a JUI-F’s election gathering here on Tuesday.According to police, the blast took place at the main market in Doaba area of Hangu district.JUI-F candidate in PK-43 Mufti Saeed Janan is also among the injured.It ...

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, ...

multan - At least three robbers were killed and another injured in a shootout with police here on Sunday.According to details, the police signalled a suspected vehicle near Pul Shaheedi Lal during snap-checking. But instead the bandits onboard the vehicle started firing on the police personnel and ...

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN  - A man was killed and three others wounded when a rocket struck an election rally of an independent candidate in NA-41, South Waziristan on Friday. Reportedly four rockets were fired from the nearby Wacha Khwara Mountains, one of which landed in the area where the rally was ...

TEHRANAFPA huge earthquake that struck Iran's rural southeast region killed one woman and injured more than two dozen other people, media reports Wednesday cited officials as saying."A woman was killed by a mountain landslide following the quake," Alireza Shahraki, governor of Khash city, was ...

BANGALORE  - A top Indian official said a blast in the city of Bangalore that wounded 16 people Wednesday, including 11 policemen, was “an act of terror” designed to disrupt upcoming state elections.The explosion, which triggered panic among locals, appeared to have been planted on ...

Some 60 to 70 people were killed and hundreds were injured by an explosion at a fertilizer plant outside Waco, Texas, local media reported, citing the local emergency manager.The explosion comes as the United States was on edge as it pieces through deadly explosions that hit the Boston marathon on ...

KARAK - The enraged residents of Mithawal, Tehsil Karak, blocked the Indus Highway near Jail Chowk after a clash between the Pesco personnel and the local people, which also left three persons injured. Eyewitnesses informed here on Wednesday that the Pesco Karak personnel along with police party ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) doesn't bother to appoint any referee for the Senior National Women Squash Championship played at Jansher Khan Squash Complex Abbottabad which concluded on April 9. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Squash Association (KPKSA) was the host of the event in which only ...

ISLAMABAD - Chairman Capital Development Authority (CDA), Syed Tahir Shahbaz, has instructed to carry out operation against encroachers in H-9.In a first phase, at least five officials of Enforcement Directorate, CDA, were seriously injured during an operation carried out against the illegal ...

PESHAWAR - A person was killed and three others injured when militants fired three rockets on the FC Headquarters in Hayatabad area of Peshawar on Friday. Police said that the rockets were fired from the Shalobar area of Khyber Agency and its target was FC Headquarters. All the three rockets ...

ISLAMABAD - Over 18 passengers were injured when a mini-bus turned turtle at Expressway in jurisdiction of Shahzad Town police station Islamabad on Friday.The mini-bus bearing registration no LHC-3353 collided with a car (AZR-646) first and then turned turtle, an eyewitness said. Police endorsed ...

KURRAM AGENCY - At least two soldiers injured and five militants killed when a group of Afghan assailants stormed forces check post in a pre-dawn attack in Kurram Agency on Thursday.The militants carried out the attack at around 5:30am and reportedly lasted until 7am. A group of militants, armed ...

Gunmen on Saturday hurled a firecracker and opened fire at a primary school in Karachi, killing its principal and wounding eight children, police said.The children were aged between five and ten while the headmaster was a member of the Awami National Party, which consists mainly of ethnic Pashtun ...

KARACHI – Eight people were wounded in a low intensity blast at a petrol pump in Defence area within the remits of Gizri police station. According to details, a blast occurred outside a petrol pump situated at Khayaban-e-Ittehat, Defence in which eight people were injured, including ...

KARACHI – Eight people were wounded in a low intensity blast at a petrol pump in Defence area within the remits of Gizri police station. According to details, a blast occurred outside a petrol pump situated at Khayaban-e-Ittehat, Defence in which eight people were injured, including ...

LAHORE - PML-N spokesman Senator Pervaiz Rashid has said that the PPP as ‘tool of the conspirators’ stands exposed now. He said the Supreme Court in its verdict has named three persons who all have been close associates of PPP leaders and were main characters in the political ...

RAWALPINDI/PESHAWAR (SIKANDER SHAHEEN AND NADER BUNERI) - The wounded warrior in the cause of girls’ education, Malala Yousafzai was still battling for life on Thursday after she was airlifted from Peshawar to Rawalpindi for best possible treatment as millions of people in and around the ...

HAFIZABAD - Three labourers were injured when the lintel of an under construction mosque stove in here in Cheenay village the other day.According to details, the labourers were working at the newly laid lintel in the mosque when all of a sudden it caved in, burying the labourers under the debris. ...

quetta : A man was wounded in a cracker blast in the provincial capital on Friday. According to police, a cracker planted at the Sadiq Shaheed ground, exploded, wounding a passerby. Police and bomb disposal squad rushed to the site after the blast and cordoned off the area. The injured was moved to ...

RAWALPINDI - Three people sustained minor injuries when the roof of a house caved in here at New Abadi Number 2, Girja Road, on Tuesday.The injured people were shifted to District Headquarter Hospital (DHQ) by the Rescue 1122 for medical treatment. Soon after the incident, police and Rescue 1122 ...

LONDON  - In turning one of its best-known hackers into an informant and breaking open the highest profile elements of the “Anonymous” movement, authorities have dealt a serious blow to a group they found a growing irritant. But as the broader “Anonymous” label — ...

KARACHI - An activist of the MQM was shot dead and a cleric was injured in Taiser Town in the limits of Surjani Town Police. The victim, 38-year-old Abdul Hafeez, son of Abdul Majeed, was the resident of Surjani Town sector 50. He was standing among his friends in Main Bazaar situated at sector ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - A minor sustained critical injures when robbers looted a lawyer between Takht Mahal and Saddr police stations, here the other day.As per detail, dacoits made off with a motorbike, cellphone and cash from a local lawyer namely Jaffar, near Chak Nadir Shah. On resistance, the dacoits ...

ISLAMABAD  - Payment problems are making Pakistani traders increasingly reluctant to do business with Iran as Western sanctions pile pressure, a government official and the rice exporters association said on Wednesday.While earlier restrictions have made it difficult to trade with Iran, fresh ...

SIALKOT -A labourer was killed and his four other colleagues were injured seriously in collapse of the building of a marriage hall while digging up its basement here Naikapura locality in the city on Thursday.According to the Rescue 112, as many as five labourers were busy in digging the basement ...