LOS ANGELES : A US soldier convicted of killing five of his colleagues in Iraq in May 2009 was sentenced to life behind bars Thursday and dishonorably discharged. Army Sergeant John Russell was convicted earlier this week over the murders at a clinic for soldiers suffering from war-related stress ...

A war crimes court sentenced a top Bangladeshi Islamist to death on Thursday for masterminding the slaughter of at least 120 farmers in 1971 war.In a ruling likely to further fuel tensions between the secular government and religious hardliners, a special tribunal found Mohammad Kamaruzzaman guilty ...

KARACHI - Six more people, including a policeman, were gunned down in various violent incidents here on Saturday.A policeman was shot dead in the remits of Iqbal Market police station.Police said that Sub-Inspector Sohrab Ali Abro left home to drop his eight-year-old daughter Asfa to School when ...

LOS ANGELES : AUSsoldier pleaded guilty Monday to killing five of his colleagues inIraqfour years ago, in a plea deal to escape a death sentence, a military spokesman said. Army Sergeant John Russell was accused of the May 2009 murders at a clinic for soldiers suffering from war-related stress ...

The firing in Pishin and the bomb in North Waziristan, on Sunday, showed differing aspects of the same campaign: the attempt by terrorists to sabotage the election. Whereas the shooting in Pishin’s Karbala Bazar took three lives (two ANP workers in the firing, and the attacker when he was ...

KARACHI – A man and his son among six people were killed during targeted operation continued in the city.On one side, police and rangers continue operation against target killing while on the other side target killing on political and sectarian grounds have also been continued in the city. In ...

KARACHI - Allama Talib Johri has said that the government is responsible for the killings of the vulnerable Shia community in the country. The killing of innocent citizens by the hands of terrorists is nothing but a failure of the government, he said.  He pointed out that demanding rights is ...

The administration of President Barack Obama is completing a counterterrorism manual that will establish clear rules for targeted-killing operations, The Washington Post reported late Saturday.But citing unnamed US officials, the newspaper said the guidebook would contain a major exemption for the ...

KARACHI –Two cops were gunned down in separate acts of target killing in different parts of the City on Wednesday.A cop was gunned down near Al Haider Sindh Balochistan Hotel within the precincts of Memon Goth police station.Police said that a cop namely Mohammad Rafiq, 35, son of Atta ...

KARACHI –Two cops were gunned down in separate acts of target killing in different parts of the City on Wednesday.A cop was gunned down near Al Haider Sindh Balochistan Hotel within the precincts of Memon Goth police station.Police said that a cop namely Mohammad Rafiq, 35, son of Atta ...

JALALABAD (AFP/Reuters) - Hundreds of students chanting “Death to America” and proclaiming holy war on Tuesday staged Afghanistan’s first protest against a US army sergeant’s massacre of 16 villagers.The demonstration in the eastern city of Jalalabad came after the US ...

NEW YORK — The effects of Sunday’s attack on Afghan civilians and the recent burning of the copies of the Holy Quran imperil President Barack Obama’s plan to hand control to the Afghan forces while drawing the Taliban to talks to end more than a decade of war, a US newspaper ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - Scores of activists and supporters of Majlis Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) rallied here the other day, to protest the killings of 18 passengers in Kohistan.The rally started from central Imambargah and concluded at district press club. The enraged activists demanded end to the killing ...

DAMASCUS - Syrian forces on Monday bombarded the city of Rastan for a second straight day, monitors said, as former UN chief Kofi Annan and other world envoys prepared a diplomatic drive to end the bloodshed.Rastan, which activists expect to be the next target of a drive by regime forces to expel ...

KARACHI - Federal Interior Minister Senator Rehman Malik has said that a Gilgit-based terrorist group has been involved in recent incidents of target-killings in the City. Maulvi Fazlullah, a leader of Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat has been aiding and abetting the outlaws for attack in the City to spread ...

DAMASCUS  - Syrian security forces stepped up a crackdown on Friday as activists said almost 110 people were killed in a two-day spike in violence ahead of a bid to condemn Damascus at the UN Security Council.The head of the Arab League monitoring mission in Syria said that, since Tuesday, ...

NEW DELHI - An Indian court has ordered a probe into extra-judicial killings in Gujarat state, ruled by Hindu nationalist Chief Minister Narendra Modi who is thought to have prime ministerial ambitions. The Supreme Court told one of its former judges to investigate allegations that 22 people, 19 of ...

ISLAMABAD - The initial investigation into the killings of 15 Frontier Constabulary (FC) men has ascertained the involvement of Lashkar-e-Islam, a militant offshoot of TTP having strong influence in the parts of Pakistan’s north-western tribal belt, it is learnt.Officials at a law enforcement ...

A wrongful death lawsuit linked to a defining moment of the Iraq war has ended with the company formerly known as Blackwater agreeing to settle with the families of four security contractors killed in a gruesome 2004 ambush. The victims’ survivors reached a confidential settlement with the ...

QUETTA - A strike was observed in Harnai Friday to protest against the killing of three drivers and an official in the district. The strike call was given by PkMAP, which was supported by other parties, including ANP and JUI. Kidnappers killed three drivers in Harnai while armed men shot dead ...

GUJRANWALA - Three women including two teenage girls and their step mother were gunned down apparently over a matrimonial issue here in the remit of Baghbanpura Police in the wee hours of Friday. Reportedly, 42-year-old Sughran Bibi, 18-year-old Kiran Shahzadi and 16-year-old Saima were found dead ...

LAHORE Countrys leading intelligence agencies have warned the provincial and federal authorities that militants are planning to carry out large-scale and coordinated terror strikes on the Pakistani citizens and Natos supply lines in response to the US drone strikes. At this critical juncture, the ...

LAHORE - Former president Pervez Musharraf says ethnic communities in Karachi are being made to fight each other and this factor is responsible for killings in the countrys biggest city. In an interview to a private TV channel on Sunday, he said whatever is happening in Karachi is not happening by ...

KARACHI - Lyari gangsters may be involved in 40 per cent killings in the commercial capital of the country, TheNation learnt reliably on Monday. Routine crime statistic of the outgoing six months of the current year revealed that over 40 per cent killings in the metropolis took place in Lyari and ...

KARACHI - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Tuesday expressed grave concerns over deteriorating law and order in Karachi, particularly increasing target killings. Statistics compiled by HRCP Karachi chapter show that a total of 1138 people were killed in the city during first six ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - A lawyers delegation led by Lahore Bar Association President Shahzad Hassan Sheikh met Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and warned that they would continue their strike until foolproof security arrangements on court premises. Shahbaz Sharif who after hearing grievances and ...

HAFIZABAD-The recovery of semi-naked dead bodies of a young girl and boy from the rear seat of a car in locked garage on Alipur Road, has become a mystery for the police. The bodies were removed to the DHQ Hospital for autopsy and police have started investigation. According to police, brother of ...

KARACHI - The ruling PPP taking shelter of minor technicalities in the formation of adjournment motion on the issue of target killings avoided to discuss the subject, which is of utmost important for the government and public in general, when the Sindh Assembly met here Monday for the first session ...

KARACHI The Sindh High Court on Thursday issued directive to DIG Investigation to appear before the court in person and submit the detailed report regarding target killings in the metropolis on the next hearing to be fixed later. Counselling on behalf of the state, Additional Advocate General ...

KARACHI - Awami National Party (ANP) Central President Asfandyar Wali Khan on Monday said there was no involvement of MQM and ANP in the incidents of target killings in the metropolis, adding that neither every Urdu speaking was the activist of MQM nor every Pakhtoon was affiliated with ...