QUETTA - At least seven people were killed and three others including two security personnel sustained injuries in different incidents of violence across Balochistan on Friday.Unidentified armed men hurled a hand-grenade at a CD shop near a petrol pump. As a result, the shopkeeper identified as ...

BAGHDAD -  Attacks in Iraq on Thursday killed 11 people, including four soldiers, officials said, the latest in a wave of violence that has left 420 people dead so far this month. Gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Taji, north of Baghdad, killing the four soldiers and wounding five others, ...

NEW YORK - The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent watchdog body, has called on the incoming government of Pakistan, which is set to be headed by PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif, to urgently address the issue of violence against the press by bringing perpetrators of past crimes to ...

KARACHI - Five people were gunned down in separate incidents of violence here on Wednesday.A dismembered body of an MQM activist was found from a house in Chisti Nagar, Orangi Town in the remits of Iqbal Market police station. The body was found after people reported police about stink emitting ...

KABUL : A roadside bomb in western Afghanistan and clashes in the volatile south left eleven police officers dead, officials said Tuesday.The bomb killed six police guards in Herat province on Tuesday as they travelled to a hydroelectric dam that is under protection from insurgent attack.The ...

KarachiAt least eight people, including two political activists were killed in various incidents of violence here Monday.A local leader of the Sindh National Movement was shot dead near Metrological Department in Gulistan-e-Jauhar within the limits of Mobina Town Police Station. SHO Jamal Leghari ...

Five bombings and clashes between soldiers and gunmen killed eight people in Iraq on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a spate of violence that has cost more than 370 lives so far this month.In Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, clashes between Iraqi soldiers and gunmen and a suicide bombing killed ...

BAGHDAD - Violence in Iraq killed 11 people on Saturday including a police officer, his wife and two children, while gunmen kidnapped up to 10 people, among them police, officials said.The attacks are the latest in a wave of violence that has killed more than 270 people since the beginning of May, ...

KIRKUK - A suicide bomber attacked Shia mourners in north Iraq Thursday, killing 12 people, and 13 died in other violence, officials said, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blamed sectarianism for unrest plaguing the country.The suicide bomber tried to enter Al-Zahraa husseiniyah, a Shia place of ...

KARACHI At least three people succumbed to violence-related incidents in the city on Monday. Unidentified assailants targeted a school with a ball bomb in Pirabad area and opened indiscriminate fire on two brothers identified as Waheed and Naseeb who were running the institute. Both the brothers ...

      KARACHI/QUETTA   The Election 2013 ended under the shadow of bomb blasts, rocket firings and shootings across the country, killing more than 50 people on the polls day. Four bomb blasts occurred in various areas ofKarachiwhile three cracker attacks and exchange of fire ...

KARACHI - Two killed in different incidents of violence here on Thursday.Police found a bullet-riddled body of youth from Karbala Ground within the remits of Landhi Police Station. Police shifted the body to morgue for identification after autopsy. However, reason behind the killing is yet to be ...

QUETTA/ PESHAWAR/ MANSEHRA/ SWABI/ BANNU/ BAJAUR AGENCY/ NORTH WAZIRISTAN - Election-related violence triggered scenes of panic across the country on Thursday as election candidates and security officials, and schools designated as election offices came under attacks, killing dozens of people and ...

ECP is after all striking a right note when it brushes aside any presumption that the elections could be either deferred or would be violent. That, however, could also be interpreted as suggesting that the ongoing killings and violence is not of a scale dreadful enough for the ECP to assume that ...

The spell of violence and firing incidents continued overnight in the metropolis, as at least three more people were gunned down.According to details, some unidentified miscreants resorted to indiscriminate firing in Jumma Goth’s Bengali Para in the remit of Bin Qasim Police Station, where ...

karachi - Five people including a cop and a kid were shot dead in separate incidents here on Sunday while a doctor committed suicide in a separate case. A man namely 32 year-old Kashif Habib was gunned down while his friend Muhammad Hashim sustained injuries in Zia Colony within the limits of ...

  KANO,Nigeria: Thirty-nine people were killed while 30 others were seriously injured in clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs in centralNigeria's Taraba state on Friday, a police spokesman said. "We have so far compiled a death toll of 39 people while 30 others were seriously injured," ...

MOSUL (AFP): Fighting in northern Iraq killed nine police Friday, while a car bomb targeting worshippers near a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad left nine dead, security and medical officials said. The fighting between police and armed men in west Mosul, including mortar rounds fired at checkpoints, ...

quetta - As general elections are nearing, attacks on political campaigns, candidates and election commission offices are increasing across Balochistan.More than dozens of hand grenade, rocket and remote controlled bomb attacks have been carried out in various parts of the province during past few ...

KARACHI - Eight people were gunned down in various incidents of violence here on Wednesday.A Pakistan Navy employee was shot dead in the remits of Kharader police station.Police said that victim Zahid Gull, resident of Dockyard, was shot multiple times by unidentified armed riders near Tower. He ...

Islamabad - British High Commissioner Adam Thomson has expressed the hope that violence would not derail elections in Pakistan, saying the credible and acceptable elections on May 11 were of tremendous importance for UK-Pakistan relations.In his press briefing to announce 25 members of the United ...

Despite Rangers and police operation in Karachi, violence continued in the metropolis, claiming three lives on Wednesday.Police said a tortured body was found from Gulshan-e-Sikandar in Kemari Town and another from Phool Chowk in Kharadar area. The deceased were not identified. Rescue sources said ...

BAGHDADAt least 23 people were killed in Iraq on Monday in a series of car bombs in Shia areas and militant attacks, medics and police sources said, taking the week’s death toll to nearly 200 as sectarian violence intensifies.Clashes have increased as the civil war in Syria puts strain on ...

Peshawar - Continuous attack of the TTP are forcing the main party in the country's restive northwest, an important battleground in the upcoming general election, to campaign in the shadows.The Awami National Party (ANP) ruled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province for the past five years, but it is now ...

BEIJING:Chinahas arrested more suspects over clashes in the ethnically divided region of Xinjiang last week that left 21 people dead, state media said Monday. Chinablamed the violence in the western Chinese region on "terrorists", but rights groups say the charge is used to justify the authorities' ...

Our media has been showing footage from a horrific video, initially aired by the British media, about the massacre of the Burmese Muslims – a tragedy that could not catch international attention earlier. Violence between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Rakhine region erupted ...

As the country comes closer to actual voting, the violence grows, almost as if opponents of the polls have been given a free hand. Of late, they have turned their attention to Karachi, which has election offices attacked, with fatal results. The latest is the attack on an ANP election office in ...

karachi - Seven people were killed in various incidents of violence here on Saturday.A leader of Jafferia Alliance was wounded while his police guard was killed near Gujjar Nala, Liaquatabad within the remits of Supermarket police station.Police said that Mulana Baqar Zaidi along with his police ...

  LOS ANGELES TS PIERCE Brosnan was the deadliest James Bond - but he thinks society is being damaged by violence in films and video games. The actor, who relinquished his licence to kill in 2004, told The Sun he does not let his two teenage sons play shoot ‘em up style computer games in ...

MAIDUGURI: An attack Thursday in restive northernNigeriawhere suspected militants stormed a police station and stole nearly $60,000 from a bank killed 20 insurgents and five officers, the local police chief said. "Five policemen and 20 gunmen have been confirmed dead when some Boko Haram Terrorist ...