HAFIZABADA 25-year-old villager was tortured to death allegedly by the Kaleke Police and following protest by the villagers, the police have registered a case against three policemen and a villager and arrested Muharrir Umar Draaz while the other managed to escape. According to Muhammad Rafique, a ...

PeshawarActivists of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday staged a protest demonstration against the brutal killing of party senior leader Zohra Shahid in Karachi and demanded the government to immediately arrest the culprits.The protest demo led by PTI district President and MPA-elect Yasin ...

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 ...

Pakistan Imran Khan has condemned killing of PTI woman leader in Karachi and announced countrywide protests against this incident.Imran Khan said in his video-linked message from the hospital that he feels extremely sad over killing of Zehra Appa and he would not spare those who are responsible of ...

IDAHO - An Idaho man who admitted to breaking into a Boise zoo last year and killing a monkey was sentenced to seven years in prison, court records show. Michael Watkins, 22, of Weiser, Idaho, in March pleaded guilty to attempted grand theft, a felony, and misdemeanour animal cruelty stemming from ...

STRASBOURG, France : Police on Friday deployed across high schools in the eastern French region of Strasbourg following Internet threats by a young man to stage mass killings and shoot himself, a day after a gruesome suicide at a Paris primary school. The police also released photographs of the ...

MIRPUR (AJK)Renowned Kashmiri nationalist leader and Chairman of All Parties National Alliance (APNA) Sardar Arif Shahid was laid to rest in ancestral village Kooyan in Rawalakot district of Azad Jammu & Kashmir on Tuesday.His party - the Jammu & Kashmir National Liberation Conference has ...

    UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned in “the strongest terms” the killing of a Pakistani peacekeeper serving the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A statement issued late Tuesday by the Secretary-General’s Spokesman Martin ...

DHAKA: Schools and businesses were closed on Wednesday as a nationwide strike called byBangladesh’s opposition over the killings of Islamists in a police crackdown brought large parts of the country to a halt. Security was tight in the capitalDhakawith thousands of policemen on ...

ISLAMABAD - A man committed suicide after killing his wife and two daughters here at sector I-10 on Wednesday. However, 14-year-old teenager, somehow, managed to escape wrath of his father. According to police, Afzal Raza, resident of I-10, shot his two college-going daughters and wife before ...

LAHORE - Seeking a detailed report on preventive steps, the Lahore High Court observed on Monday that children were being died of measles and the Punjab government was busy transferring and posting Patwaris.Hearing a petition seeking judicial inquiry into measles deaths, Justice Muhammad Khalid ...

MOSCOW: Russian police announced Wednesday the capture of a gunman suspected to have killed six people in an attack in a busy town centre, after a massive manhunt lasting more than 24 hours. Convicted criminal Sergei Pomazun, 31, was shown on television pinned down by police who found him trying to ...

SS - ANGELINA Jolie has been warned to slow down - after she collapsed dur­ing a mission to war-torn Africa. Jolie’s partner Brad Pitt told the skinny star that her humanitarian work could kill her. Jolie, 37, was recently investigating the plight of raped and injured women in ...

Measles continues to take a heavy toll on children. With over 50 deaths occurring in the past weeks and months the plague devoured two more children on Sunday, while the number of children catching the disease is in thousands, as confirmed by Punjab Health Minister Salima Hashmi. The situation is ...

SAMIR NAJI al HASAN  MOQBELOne man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago. I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity. I’ve been detained ...

KARACHI - Awami National Party leaders Asfandyar Wali, Shahi Syed and MQM chief Altaf Hussain have condemned killing of ANP leader Mukkaram Shah in Banjot village of Mangalwar area of Sawat.In a statement on Sunday, ANP chief Asfandyar Wali and Shahi Syed said Mukkaram Shah had spent his life for ...

LAHORE – Measles deaths are increasing sharply while more and more patients are reaching at Punjab hospitals as the epidemic has gone out of authorities control because of their poor and belated response.Over 50 children in the province have lost their lives in last couple of months and ...

WASHINGTON - The United States has condemned the killing of Sindh Assembly candidate for next month’s election Fakhrul Islam, a member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.“We do condemn the recent killing of Fakhrul Islam, a provincial assembly candidate from Sindh, and condemn any violence ...

HYDERABAD – Police have filed a case against two unidentified persons over the killing of provincial candidate of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, while two suspects were arrested here on Friday.According to police, the FIR was registered in the Hathri area of the city.The probable member of the ...

RAWALINDI - Police on Friday hardly managed to open the blocked Benazir Bhutto Road (BBH) for traffic by dispersing the agitating students and family members, demanding arrest of two assailants by placing the dead body of the student on the road who was shot dead at Rahmanabad on Thursday ...

KHANEWAL - A man committed suicide after killing his wife over a family dispute here in Dingyan Pullan in the remit of Kuhna Police on Tuesday. According to police, 27-year-old Rab Nawaz, a resident of Dingyan Pullan had a dispute with his wife over some family issues. Due to the dispute his wife ...

BAHAWALPUR - A family has accused the Samasatta City Police SHO of killing a man in a fake shootout following his alleged denial to pay him bribe.The protesters gathered outside the District Police Officer office and chanted slogans against the SHO. The victim’s relatives including Abdul ...

LONDON (AFP) - A British couple were handed lengthy jail terms on Thursday for killing six of their children in a plot to torch their house that went disastrously wrong. Mick Philpott, 56, was jailed for life, while his 32-year-old wife Mairead was jailed for 17 years for the manslaughter of their ...

KARACHI - A manager of a private company was shot dead over sectarian grounds in Malir within the remits of Saudabad police station on Wednesday.Police said that the victim namely Ibne Hassan aka Shabbu Bahi, 58, son of Shah Hussain, was going to drop his grandson to school when some unidentified ...

Pakistan summoned the Indian ambassador to Islamabad on Friday to protest against the death of another Pakistani soldier in what it said was a second cross-border attack from Indian troops in Kashmir. Pakistan said the soldier was killed on Thursday. It was the third deadly incident and fourth ...

Killings of anti polio drive staff in Karachi, is a matter of grave concern as well as a great tragedy that those who dedicated themselves to see that our future generations are polio free, have become victims of such mindless terror. Such incidents were previously confined to relatively remote and ...

Murtaza HussainIsrael’s campaign of targeting Gaza’s journalists is the latest chapter in a history of violence against local media.On Tuesday, November 20, a car travelling through the al-Rimal district of Gaza City was struck by a missile, turning the vehicle into a ball of flame and ...

KARACHI - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has strongly condemned the killing of six polio vaccinators in Karachi and Peshawar and demanded the arrest of the perpetrators, effective steps to prevent such attacks in future and compensation for the heirs’ families. In a statement ...

Ahle Hadith Youth Force held a demonstration outside the Press Club on Sunday to condemn and protest against murder of Hafiz Abdul Rasheed Azhar. President AHYF Zakirur Rehman Siddiqui led the demonstration largely attended by activists. The participants were carrying placards and banners inscribed ...

QUETTA - While condemning the targeted killings and recovery of decomposed bodies of Baloch youth and political workers, the leaders of Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) have demanded for immediate end to human rights violations in Balochistan.They alleged that Governor and Chief Minister ...