NEW YORK : Slain Boston Marathon bomber suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has finally been buried, ending a growing row over what to do with his body, police in the Massachusetts town of Worcester said Thursday.“As a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came ...

MAKHACHKALA, Russia:One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings had made links with two figures in the anti-Kremlin insurgency in the Northern Caucasus, both of whom were killed by Russian security forces, a source said Monday. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was known to have been in ...

LAHORE – Renowned Eye Specialist Prof Syed Ali Hyder, who was murdered along with his son Murtaza Hyder in a drive-by shooting, was laid to rest at the Gulberg graveyard on Tuesday, amid tight security.A large number of people attended his funeral. Strict security arrangements were ensured ...

A senior Taliban commander has been appointed to succeed warlord Mullah Nazir, who orchestrated attacks in Afghanistan until his death in a US drone strike, officials said Friday.Nazir, killed late Wednesday and buried Thursday, was the main militant commander in the tribal district of South ...

PESHAWAR – The Levies Force personnel who were abducted and killed by Taliban were laid to rest on Sunday amid tight security. A large number of people participated in their funeral prayers. The funeral prayers were offered in Kohi Hassan Khail Jana Kor area where victims were residing. ...

KARACHI – Eight people were gunned down in separate acts of violence in different parts of the metropolis here on Wednesday.According to details, a seminary teacher was gunned down at Ghazi Salahuddin Road within the remits of Bahadurabad police station.Police said that the victim namely ...

KARACHI – Eight people were gunned down in separate acts of violence in different parts of the metropolis here on Wednesday.According to details, a seminary teacher was gunned down at Ghazi Salahuddin Road within the remits of Bahadurabad police station.Police said that the victim namely ...

ISLAMABAD - The funeral prayer of Omar Shahzad Kundi, younger brother of Imran Kundi, staff reporter of TheNation, was offered here on Monday afternoon at Naai Abadi graveyard near Rizwan Shaheed Road, Bahara Kahu.The dead body of Omar Shahzad was found in mysterious circumstances in one of the ...

QUETTA - Slain journalist Abdul Haq Zehri was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Khuzdar on Sunday. A large number of people, including civil society activists and tribal chieftains, attended the funeral.On Saturday night, gunmen killed Khuzdar Press Club General Secretary Zehri when he was ...

KARACHI - Four real brothers belonging to the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, formerly known as outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) were laid to rest on Tuesday. Mohammad Fareed, Abdul Waheed, Abdul Muqeeb and Abdul Moeed lost their lives while their nephew Salman was injured when at least four armed ...

TEHRAN - Iran on Friday buried a top scientist it said was killed as part of an Israeli-American covert campaign against its nuclear programme, as a US-led drive for crippling sanctions ran into opposition even from allies.Meanwhile, diplomats in Vienna said the UN nuclear watchdog would send its ...

SIALKOT - The slain PML-N Senior Vice President of Japan Chaudhary Nafees Ahmed was laid to rest in his native village Daallowali-Sialkot graveyard in the presence of hundreds of the mourners from all walks of life.His dead body arrived from Japan to here the other day. He was brutally murdered in ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - The daughter of the slain governor of Punjab refuses to be cowed by extremism and is taking up the cause that killed her father. I think I have an important story to tell: my father was assassinated in Pakistan six months ago because of his opposition to the misuse of blasphemy ...

SIALKOT - The Sialkot Cantt Police handed over the dead body of a slain beautician to her heirs for burial after her autopsy at local hospital here. She was laid to rest in her native graveyard here in the presence of hundreds of the mourners from all walks of life. Reportedly, local senior ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A baby miraculously survived a Baghdad car bombing cradled in his mothers lap as she was burned alive in a blast that claimed the lives of eight people on Tuesday, witnesses said. The baby boys father was also seriously wounded in the attack not far from a shrine in the Kadhimiyah ...

KARACHI - International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has reported that in 2008, a significant number of casualties were reported against the journalists working in high profile war zones but the number of casualties was decreased as compared to previous years. According to the report, as many as ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - US forces have killed an Al-Qaeda militant who planned some of the biggest bombings in Baghdad and who killed a group of Russian diplomats in 2006, the military said on Saturday. Mahir Ahmad Mahmud al-Zubaydi, also known as Abu Assad or Abu Rami, was killed along with an ...