Tabassum Zakaria and Mark HosenballNew US guidelines for conducting armed drone operations overseas set a higher bar for attacking non-Americans and could reduce controversial “signature strikes” targeted at suspicious groups rather than individuals.But the drone guidelines announced by ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America’s controversial drone attacks but announced new restraints on targeted killings, saying civilian casualties haunt him and that Washington is in the process of rebuilding relations with Pakistan.In a major speech to military and ...

Pakistan on Friday opposed U.S. drone strikes hours after President Barack Obama defended the use of controversial drone mission as self-defense against the militants.Addressing the National Defense University in Washington on Thursday, President Obama defended the use of drones and said, "We are ...

NEW YORK-US President Barack Obama is set to lay out his administration’s legal justification for using drones against suspected terrorists in a speech on Thursday (today), with a leading newspaper saying on Wednesday that the number of strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has ...

IslamabadUS drone strikes in Pakistan have a ‘minimal’ impact on militant recruitment, a respected think tank said Tuesday, contrary to arguments the controversial programme creates more extremists than it kills.The Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) said however the ...

LONDON - INP - Britain's Foreign Office admitted that it has been funding public opinion surveys in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), which reveal that US drone attacks are causing resentment among the locals, UK newspaper The Guardian reported. Foreign Minister Alistair Burt ...

  washington A senior defence official has told a congressional hearing on drone strikes carried out by US military that the war on terror is one without end or boundary. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, Assistant Defence Secretary Michael Sheehan said ...

A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the northern coast of Japan's main Honshu island on Saturday, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage.The quake hit at 2:48 pm (0548 GMT) in the Pacific some 50 kilometres (31 miles) from Namie ...

BENGHAZIA powerful car bomb exploded Monday near a hospital in the Libyan city of Benghazi, killing and wounding dozens in what officials said was the first such attack on civilians since Moammar Gaddafi’s ouster.Officials gave contradicting death tolls, however, as information trickled in ...

PESHAWAR - US drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal belt are illegal, Peshawar High Court declared on Thursday and directed the Foreign Ministry to move a resolution in the UN against such attacks.The PHC issued the verdict against the strikes by CIA-operated aircraft in response to four ...

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has declared the US drone strikes within Pakistani territory as illegal and ordered the government to contact International War Crime Tribunal (IWCT) over the issue. A two-member bench of the PHC headed by Chief Justice Dost Muhammad heard the case against the CIA-led ...

LONDONAnti-war campaigners opposed to Britain’s use of armed drones in Afghanistan on Saturday marched on a military base that this week began hosting the aircraft’s human operators for the first time.Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots had been operating Reaper aircraft to support British ...

So it’s Musharraf who first allowed drone strikes, after all. The truth came out in his talk with the CNN at Islamabad on Friday. It has been long since, nine years, that the pilot-less planes began hitting Pakistan’s tribal areas with the ostensible purpose of taking out militants. The ...

LONDON (AFP) - Brent crude oil sank this week to an eight-month low, hit by the poor outlook after a raft of demand forecast downgrades and in line with the stronger dollar, analysts said.Precious metal gold meanwhile dived under $1,500 per ounce, reaching the lowest level since July 2011 on the ...

NEW YORK - In the first public admission by a top-ranking Pakistani leader, former president Pervez Musharraf has said his government had secretly cleared US drone strikes on the country's tribal areas.At the same time, he told CNN in Islamabad that the government signed off on the strikes ...

Former President Pervez Musharraf acknowledged his government secretly signed off on U.S. drone strikes, the first time a top past or present Pakistani official has admitted publicly to such a deal.Pakistani leaders long have openly challenged the drone program and insisted they had no part in it. ...

NEW YORK - A new book claims that the CIA made a deal with Pakistan that allowed the United States to begin its drone assassination programme in exchange for the murder of an enemy of Pakistan.In an excerpt in Sunday’s New York Times, journalist Mark Mazzetti outlined how Pakistan, which was ...

LAHORE – Dacoits on Saturday hit the provincial metropolis for 29 times, robbed families, motorists, and passersby, and made off with cash, gold ornaments and other valuables worth five million rupees besides eight cars and 13 motorcycles from different parts of the city, police sources said. ...

AMMAN, Nov 14, 2012  - Jordan was hit Wednesday by a wave of protests and strikes while rioting broke in southern cities and a police station was attacked, security officials said, as anger mounted against a whopping rise in fuel prices.The sudden price hike, followed by an 11 percent increase ...

Kim SenguptaA British diplomat in Kabul, reached by phone in the middle of Sunday’s mayhem, was exasperated. “I really don’t know why they are doing this - we’ll be out of here in two years’ time, all they have to do is wait.” The answer, not completely glib, is ...

A rescue official says a car laden with explosives detonated outside of a Catholic church in a restive city in central Nigeria, killing at least three people and injuring others. The blast happened Sunday morning outside of St. Sinba's Catholic Church in the city of Jos. The official says the ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Russia’s East Siberia on Sunday, with tremor shocks felt by residents of the Irkutsk Region and the Republic of Khakassia, RIA Novosti reported.Russia’s Emergencies Ministry has said the tremor epicenter was located some 100 km (62 miles) from the city ...

Shortly before the United States ended a two-month pause in missile strikes on militants in Pakistan last month, senior U.S. officials telephoned their Pakistani counterparts and told them Washington would be resuming its covert drone program despite mounting objections in Islamabad.Vice President ...

MANDI BAHAUDDIN - Litigants have expressed serious concerns over frequent strikes and boycott of courts by the legal fraternity. A number of litigants, this scribe talked to, said that lawyers were on strike for the last three days and the courts were not functioning. They said they came to the ...

 Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Firdous Ashiq Awan on Saturday said government of Pakistan condemned the resolution tabled in the US Congress regarding the Balochistan issue and it was an intervention in the domestic matters of Pakistan.Addressing a ceremony at Private ...

PESHAWAR - At least 21 suspected militants were killed in two separate US drone attacks in North Waziristan Agency on Thursday. In the first attack, a US aircraft fired at least two missiles at about 8:30am on a house at Spalga village near Miranshah, headquarters of the North Waziristan Agency, ...

CCTV captures a burglar conducting a Spiderman-style break-in at a supermarket by cutting a hole in the roof and abseiling down a rope into the store, from where £10,000 of cigarettes and alcohol were then stolen.The daring thief can been seen lowering himself down on a rope after dropping ...

ABU DHABI  - England opener Alastair Cook missed a century by six runs and Jonathan Trott made a half-century before Pakistan hit back with four wickets in the last session in the second Test here on Thursday.Cook was trapped leg before wicket off spinner Saeed Ajmal for 94 -- his fourth ...

ISLAMABAD – The judicial commission probing the memogate scandal has asked the parties including the federation, Mansoor Ijaz and Husain Haqqani to compile their lists of witnesses and produce them before the commission within two days and directed the government to issue a multiple-visa to ...

LAHORE - PIA Sialkot-bound flight PK-396 was diverted to Lahore after being hit by lightning on early Saturday morning, sources in the airlines said.However, all the 73 passengers on board remained safe. Sources said the lightning caused tripping in the navigational system of the aircraft, but the ...