Gunmen stormed the Mayo Hospital Surgery Unit and got free an under-treatment detainee, police admitted on Saturday. The assailants tortured the on-duty policemen and took away their official guns. A police officer said Athar had been arrested in connection with double murder and he was also wanted ...

NOWSHERA Nowshera police, in an operation on Thursday, rescued a man, Abdul Wahab, who claimed that the son of former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was being held captive along with him.  Acting on information received from an intercepted satellite-phone call from Waziristan, which ...

In an attempt to recover Ali Haider Gilani, son of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani who was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from Multan on May 9, Nowshera police on Thursday conducted an operation in Misri Banda area of Akora Khatak and rescued a hostage.Talking to media persons, the DPO ...

 ANKARATurkish and Israeli officials will meet on Monday in Israel for another round of talks over compensation for a deadly 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a diplomatic source told AFP."The second round of negotiations will be held in Israel tomorrow," the source said on Sunday, ...

QUETTA The Frontier Corps claimed to have killed an alleged commander of the banned Baloch Liberation Front and apprehend several other accused in a pre-down raid in tehsil Jaho, district Awaran, on Friday.The Frontier Corps spokesperson said they being informed carried out a search operation ...

LAHORE – In just 24 hours, dacoits struck the provincial metropolis for 28 times successfully, robbed residences, looted families, and motorists and made off with cash, gold ornaments and other valuables worth millions of rupees, police sources claimed on Sunday. The robbers continued armed ...

MOGADISHU - A nine-man suicide commando blasted its way into Mogadishu's main court complex Sunday, some blowing up their explosives vests while others sprayed gunfire in a rampage that left 29 civilians dead, while a separate bomb attack killed five more.The Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militant group ...

KARACHI - DHA Security and Vigilance in coordination with police contingent conducted effective raids on a number of Sheesha bars located on Khayaban-e-Sehar in DHA Phase-VI and confiscated the equipment and sealed the cafes. This was the part of the ongoing campaign to close down all the Sheesha ...

ISTANBUL (AFP) - Pro-Palestinian activists said on Monday they would not withdraw a lawsuit against Israeli commanders for a fatal 2010 raid on their Gaza-bound flotilla, ahead of official compensation talks between Turkey and the Jewish state this week. “We will not discuss compensation or ...

SHIGAL, Afghanistan  - Eleven children and a woman were killed by an air strike during a Nato operation targeting Taliban commanders in eastern Afghanistan, officials in the region said Sunday.Civilian deaths have been a long-running source of friction between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and ...

PARIS (AFP) - Police raided the Paris home of an ex-advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday as part of a probe into whether the former French president misused public funds to pay for opinion polls while in office. Since losing to Socialist Francois Hollande in the presidential election in May, ...

GUJRANWALA - Noose has been tightened around the accused in fake degree cases as a crackdown was launched in Gujranwala district on Tuesday in compliance with the Supreme Court order.For the crackdown a special team of the Civil Lines Police was formed on the instructions of Regional Police Officer ...

GUJRANWALA - Noose has been tightened around the accused in fake degree cases as a crackdown was launched in Gujranwala district on Tuesday in compliance with the Supreme Court order.For the crackdown a special team of the Civil Lines Police was formed on the instructions of Regional Police Officer ...

An air raid south of Damascus on Thursday killed at least 11 civilians, among them seven children, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights."Seven girls, three women and a man were killed in the air strike," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman, updating an earlier toll of 10.Warplanes ...

JUBA  - South Sudan on Monday accused its former foes in the Khartoum government of arming gunmen who killed 79 people in a cattle raid, as the UN warned tensions between the two sides risk regional peace."A militia group from Unity state penetrated into Warrap state... and attacked people in ...

KHYBER AGENCY - Two security personnel and three kidnappers were killed in a raid conducted by the security forces on Monday here in Ghundi area of tehsil Jamrud, sub-division of Khyber, official and local sources informed on Monday.Top political official Khyber administration, Mutahir Zeb, told ...

MARDAN - A sub-inspector and an alleged terrorist were killed when police and security forces conducted a joint raid in the limits of Chura Police Station on Thursday late night, police sources said.They said the security forces and police got information that an alleged militant Tariq, son of ...

LAHORE – Seven anti-social elements including two females were arrested from a brothel house in merrymaking condition in Raiwind City police precincts on Thursday. According to details, on the tip-off, SHO Rainwind City Inspector Mahmood Ali Bhati accompanied by a good number of police team ...

SARGODHA - A traffic police officer was found involved in extorting money from truck drivers during a raid conducted by the vigilance team on Sargodha-Lahore Road in the wee hours of Saturday. The vigilance team on a tip-off conducted a sudden raid led by DSP (Headquarters) on the Sargodha bypass ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian police raided more than a dozen offices belonging to local and foreign rights groups on Thursday, as part of an investigation into alleged illicit foreign funding, an official statement said. At least two US rights groups -- the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the ...

MOGADISHU (AFP) - Fighter jets pounded rebel-held southern Somalia killing at least 10 people and wounding several others, the majority reportedly civilians, witnesses and Islamist militia commanders said Wednesday. Military jets targeted several locations in Hosingow in the Lower Juba region, ...

WASHINGTON NATO forces may have been lured into attacking friendly Pakistani border posts in a calculated manoeuvre by Taliban, according to preliminary US military reports on the deadliest friendly fire incident with Pakistan since the Afghanistan war began. The NATO airstrike killed 24 Pakistani ...

ISLAMABAD - Defence Secretary Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Athar Ali informed the Inquiry Commission that the strategic assets of the country were fully protected and an elaborate defence mechanism was in place. Giving statement to the Inquiry Commission on Abbottabad Operation here on Saturday, Syed Athar ...

Bin Ladens codename wasnt Geronimo, it was Crankshaft. Geronimo was the code for finding bin Laden. Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the courier that led the CIA to bin Ladens hideout, drove a white SUV with a spare tire on the back emblazoned with an image of a white rhino. Before eating Costco sandwiches ...

ISLAMABAD DGMO Maj-Gen Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmad has told the Abbottabad commission that no one at any tier of Pakistan Army had knowledge of US raid at Osama bin Ladens compound. The director general of military operations (DGMO) asserted that the cause of apparent failure in intercepting OBL compound ...

LONDON (Agencies) - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani says he has received US assurances there will be no repeat of the unilateral raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May. Gilanis remarks, in an interview with the Guardian, contradict assertions by the US president, Barack Obama, and other American ...

KABUL (AFP) - Heavily armed Taliban militants stormed a top Kabul hotel, sparking a ferocious battle involving Afghan commandos and a Nato helicopter gunship that left at least 21 dead including the nine attackers. Officials said all of the gunmen were killed during the night-time raid on the ...

MIRANSHAH (Agencies) - Nato forces violated Pakistani airspace on Monday as two of its helicopters intruded into the Pakistani territory. Sources said that two Nato choppers entered the Pakistani airspace to hunt insurgents in the border area of North Waziristan Agency (NWA). The Nato helicopters ...

Our staff reporter SHAHKOT - The Abbotabad debacle on May 2, has added insult to the wounds of the nation inflicted by 1965, 1971, Siachin and Kargil wars and the American trampling of Pakistan sovereignty by conducting a unilateral raid inside Pakistan is the biggest dilemma of the national ...

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama monitored the raid that left Osama bin Laden dead in real time but an aide wouldnt say whether he watched it unfold via live video. John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, told reporters Monday the president and ...