NIAMEY - Suicide bombers struck a barracks and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, officials said, killing 20 people and wounding dozens in attacks that showed armed unrest spreading across West Africa.In Agadez, the largest town in northern Niger, at least 20 soldiers were killed and ...

SEOUL : A seven-year-old South Korean girl was killed instantly after being struck by the body of a man as he plunged from his tenth-floor apartment in an apparent suicide, a report said Thursday. The 40-year-old man jumped from the flat in the southern port of Busan on Wednesday evening and hit ...

HANGU : Security forces killed 20 terrorists who attacked them in Kurram Agency in which four security personnel were killed and 12 got injured. Terrorists attacked security forces with heavy weapons in the area of Bara Chamni and martyred 4 soldiers, besides injuring 12. The security forces ...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said Wednesday US drones killed four Americans in airstrikes in Pakistan and Yemen.The disclosure came in a letter US Attorney General Eric Holder sent to congressional leaders, The New York Times reported.Holder said the administration deliberately targeted ...

At least three persons were killed and several others were injured in suicide attack targeting the vehicle of a religious leader at the entrance of the Jamia Uloom al-Islamia madressah (seminary) in the suburbs of Peshawar after Friday prayers.The Jamatud Dawa (JuD) leader, Haji Hidayatullah, was ...

QUETTA  - Three persons including a woman were killed in various incidents of violence in Quetta and Naseerabad districts on Wednesday.According to police, a person identified as Amanullah allegedly gunned down his father over a domestic issue in Pushtun Bagh area here. Being informed, police ...

LONDON -  British Prime Minister David Cameron called an emergency security meeting on Wednesday after a man was killed near an army barracks in London, and two men were shot and wounded by police.Prime Minister Cameron said there were ‘strong indications that it is a terrorist ...

A bomb planted in a rickshaw tore through a vehicle used by security forces in Quetta on Thursday, killing at least 12 people, police said.The remotely detonated bomb containing around 100 kilos (220 pounds) of explosives targeted a truck carrying members of a government paramilitary force on the ...

CHENABNAGAR/SARGODHAA police DSP embraced martyrdom while a robber was killed in shootout with police commandos which lasted for five hours after the robbers stormed into a local bank branch and took the staff and customers hostage here on Tuesday.Two robbers made good their escape from the ...

  CHENABNAGAR/SARGODHA Our Staff Reporters A police DSP embraced martyrdom while a robber was killed in shootout with police commandos which lasted for five hours after the robbers stormed into a local bank branch and took the staff and customers hostage here on Tuesday. Two robbers made good ...

PESHAWAR Awami National Party (ANP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa President Senator Afrasyab Khattak on Tuesday revealed that a total of 62 ANP workers had lost their lives and dozens got injuries in 31 terrorist attacks on his party from March 30 to May 11, 2013."Not only our leaders and workers have been ...

KABUL : A roadside bomb in western Afghanistan and clashes in the volatile south left eleven police officers dead, officials said Tuesday.The bomb killed six police guards in Herat province on Tuesday as they travelled to a hydroelectric dam that is under protection from insurgent attack.The ...

Simon Usborne Daniel Pearl had been held captive in Pakistan for more than a month when Mariane, his wife, learned he was dead.For weeks a small army of diplomats, police and journalists had gathered at the couple’s house in Karachi, determined to find him alive. Pearl refused to believe it ...

KOT RADHA KISHAN/ SARGODHA/HAFIZABAD At least 15 persons including three women and three minors were killed and four others injured separate incidents of honour killing, enmity and mishaps over the past 24 hours. According to detail, three youths were drowned while taking bath in canal in two ...

In Haveli Lakha, one Shakeel Ahmad killed his mother Parveen Akhter along with her alleged paramour for honour. Reportedly, Shakeel Ahmad, a resident of village 1/SP Wasa-we Wala killed his mother and a relative after observing them in objectionable condition. The police have registered a case. ...

MOSCOW : At least eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured on Monday in twin car blasts outside a court building in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala in the restless region of Dagestan. The local investigative committee said that "within the space of a few minutes, two cars ...

        BAJAUR AGENCY A personal of Bajaur levies force was gunned down when unknown armed persons attacked a polio vaccination team in the border area of Tehsil Mamond in Bajaur tribal region on Monday morning. Locals and officials of the political administration of Bajaur said ...

At least eleven members of a marriage party were killed on Tuesday and 30 others were injured when a truck in which they were travelling collided head-on with a bus in northern India, police said.The marriage party was returning from Mainpuri district when it met with an accident near Katra around ...

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 ...

bahawalnagara trader was killed during a broad daylight robbery for putting up resistance here, his relatives and traders staged a protest demonstration against the police apathy. Muhammad Afzal was present at his shop on Circular Road at about 8:00am. Meanwhile, an armed motorcyclist held him at ...

TOBA TEK SINGH/GUJRANWALAAt least nine persons including four women and two minor girls were killed and nine others injured in separate incidents of violence, enmity and mishaps over the past 24 hours. According to detail, in Toba Tek Singh a youth killed his two real sisters over a domestic ...

JUBA: At least 29 people were killed when cattle raiders from a South Sudanese minority group opened fire on members of another minority in a village inUpper Nilestate, a local official said Sunday. The gunmen crept into Tolleri village in Ulang county in the early hours of Saturday morning and ...

  quetta At least three decomposed bodies among them two real brothers were found dumped in Kech and Khuzdar districts of Balochistan, on Sunday. In the first incident, local people in Murgaab area of Kech district spotted two bodies lying in desolated area and informed the local ...

karachiClash between two rival groups continued on the second day on Sunday in Lyari area of Karachi, claiming three more lives while over a dozen people sustained bullet injuries. Another man was shot dead in North Nazimabad area and police found three dead bodies in Northern Bypass and Khamiso ...

GARISSA : Unknown gunmen shot dead an officer with a paramilitary security unit in northeasternKenyaon Saturday evening, police said. The officer, Mohamed Mohamud, was ambushed in the town ofWajiras he was returning home after watching the evening news in a nearby restaurant, local police chief ...

A security force soldier was gunned down when a polio vaccination team was attacked in Bajaur Agency bordering Afghanistan on Monday.Officials said miscreants in Mamond area opened fire on an anti-polio team.A soldier of Levies Forces, who was escorting the immunization team, was killed in the ...

QUETTA  - A dacoit was killed and four others, including a Levies official, wounded in separate firing and bomb blast incidents, while unidentified terrorists fired two rockets into Mastung district sowing panic in the area. In the first incident, a dacoit was killed near Maizai terminal in ...

KARACHI - Three people were killed and two others arrested during an encounter took place in Defence, Phase-II, when law enforcers raided a house to recover Pakistan-origin US citizen.The alleged encounter when police, along with the Citizens Police Liaison Committee, conducted raid at ...

    malakand At least 20 people were killed and dozens other injured in two bomb blasts at two different mosques in Malakand Agency on Friday. Levies sources said the blasts took place during Friday prayers in Bazdara area of Malakand Agency. Twin blasts rattled Bar Kalley main Jamia ...

PESHAWAR  - Five security personnel were killed and six inured in an attack by militants on Engineer Battalions vehicle near Sara Khawara area in Mattani on the border of the restive Dara Adamkhel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, reported a private TV channel.The militants also attacked a ...