BAGHDAD : Attacks mostly targeting members of Iraq’s security forces killed 12 people on Sunday, the latest in an increase in violence in a country only a few years removed from a brutal sectarian war.The violence comes amid myriad political rows and fears that civil war in neighbouring Syria ...

  NEW YORK   A new campaign by a family of information-stealing malware, which appears to originate out ofIndia, has been hittingPakistanhard over the last few months, according to American researchers. Citing researchers at Eset, Dark Reading, a comprehensive news and information portal ...

At least 12 people were killed and several others wounded in a suicide blast near a JUI-F’s election gathering here on Tuesday.According to police, the blast took place at the main market in Doaba area of Hangu district.JUI-F candidate in PK-43 Mufti Saeed Janan is also among the injured.It ...

Jan AchakzaiIt is, indeed, terrible that ANP leaders and workers are being targeted. Perhaps, it is because of the ANP-PPP coalition government's policies in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata that are now backfiring. The first mistake that the coalition made was to call in the army in Khyber ...

Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain said an attempt is being made to push the party out of electoral process through bombings.Condemning the killings of two party workers overnight in Hyderabad, Altaf Hussain noted the entire Pakistan should see as to how the Muttahida’s ...

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 ...

RUSSELL Brand has become Hollywood’s latest ‘swatting’ victim after police received a hoax 911 call reporting armed men at the comedian’s home. Cops raided the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star’s home in Los Angeles to investigate claims two gun-toting men clad in body ...

KARACHI - Heavy contingent of the police conducted targeted operation in various areas including Khayaban-e-Badar of the City, apprehending at least twenty five suspects. Numerous suspicious vehicles also were impounded during the operation, adding various firearms including SMG, 6 TTs and a pistol ...

US Ambassador in Pakistan Richard Olson has pledged continued support of his country for Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). He also appreciated the contribution of the interventions of BISP towards uplifting the lives of the poorest of the poor of the society during a meeting with Federal ...

There are reasons to be relieved by - and concerned about - the reports that the Obama administration is preparing a “playbook” of rules for targeted killings of suspected terrorists abroad. If drone-strike assassinations - which have already killed more than 2,000 people in Pakistan ...

KARACHI  - At least three people were killed in separate incidents of target killing in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi over last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 55 over the last week, police said on Sunday.Unrest prevailed in the city during the last week where at least ...

KARACHI - At least three people were killed in separate incidents of target killing in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi over last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 55 over the last week, police said on Sunday.Unrest prevailed in the city during the last week where at least four ...

Amos Guiora and Laurie Blank Targeting individuals who pose an imminent threat to the US is a lawful exercise of self-defence. But the current US targeted killing programme – using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) to strike terrorist operatives wherever we find them – raises ...

JERUSALEM  - An Israeli defence official on Thursday denied a Kuwaiti report that Israel’s Mossad spy agency had foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate Defence Minister Ehud Barak during a visit to Singapore this week. “We have no knowledge of this,” an official told AFP on ...

NEW DELHI - A hitman on a motorbike fixed a suspected magnetic bomb on an Israeli embassy car in the Indian capital on Monday, police said, in one of two attacks in New Delhi and Tbilisi blamed by Israel on Iran.The embassy car exploded in a ball of flames in a diplomatic area of central New Delhi, ...

WASHINGTON  - British and Pakistani journalists said Sunday that the CIA’s drone strikes on suspected militants in Pakistan repeatedly targeted rescuers who responded to the scene of a strike, as well as mourners at subsequent funerals.The report, by the London-based Bureau of ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - It will be a case of intellectual dishonesty if our experts continue to vehemently favour granting of MFN to India while ignoring deliberately the case of Pakistani cement and textile which have been blocked by Indian government through Pakistan specific NTBs. The ...

KHYBER AGENCY Militants blew up an oil tanker supplying fuel to NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan by installing explosive device to it on Wednesday here in Chengai area, tehsil Landi Kotal, administration and local sources said. Sources said last morning a magnetic explosive device, fitted by ...

BRITISH Hotels are deploying new technology to combat one of the menaces of the hospitality industry - the towel thief. The anti-theft system, which could soon be arriving in Britain, uses washable radio-frequency tags stitched into towels, bathrobes and other linen which can trigger an alarm if ...

PAKPATTAN Explosion caused by a planted bomb outside the centuries-old Sharqi Gate of Hazrat Baba Fareed-ud-Din Masood Ganj Shakar (RA) Shrine on Monday morning resulted in seven deaths while 17 others were injured. According to police, the bomb hidden in milk pot went off at 6:25am after Fajr ...

WASHINGTON (APP) - Several people involved in the plotting of terrorist attacks aimed at Europe have been identified and targeted, said Pakistans ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani. I think that several people who were involved in the plotting have been targeted, and the others are ...

LAHORE Former president Bank of Punjab Hamesh Khan has been made a target, as he had refused to become approver against Ch Pervaiz Elahi and Ch Moonis Elahi in Harris Steel Mills case and to give loans to the sons of Punjab Chief Minister, PML-Q chief Ch Shujaat Hussain alleged here on Sunday. He ...

ISLAMABAD Terming the repatriation of Dr Aafia a common cause, State Minister of Foreign Affairs Malik Amad Thursday assured the National Assembly that the government would fully defend her till the final hearing. Winding up the discussion on Dr. Aafias conviction, he said that the evidence ...

Information Secretary of Muslim League (N) Ahsan Iqbal has said the 1992 was not targeted against a specific party or group but it was launched against the extortionists and criminals. Talking to a private TV, Ahsan Iqbal said that in the operation in Karachi no incidents of extra-judicial killings ...

Beijing (AFP) - Over 470 people have been stabbed with syringes in Chinas restive Xinjiang region, a state-run television said on Thursday, reportedly leading to fresh protests in Urumqi. Since August 20, the Xinjiang government has been receiving reports by local disease control centres that ...

NEW YORK - A 2004 pre-election operation aimed at disrupting potential terrorist plots focused on more than 2,000 immigrants from mostly Muslim countries, but most were found to have done nothing wrong, according to newly disclosed government data. Some of them, however, were deported for ...

An operation in 2004 meant to disrupt potential terrorist plots before and after that year's presidential election focused on more than 2,000 immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries, but most were found to have done nothing wrong, according to newly disclosed government data. The program, ...

Security forces gunship helicopters carried out air strikes at militants' positions in Loi Sam area in Bajaur Agency. According to reports, several feared dead during bombing whereas a weapon depot has also been destroyed.