Civil trial for Gaddafi loyalists
BENGHAZI - A Libyan military court ruled on Wednesday that 50 people accused of fighting for ...
Thursday, February 23, 2012
- PML-N not serious in making alliance: Saifullah
- Imran wants Mohammad Amir back in team
- Argentine train slams into station, killing 49
- Two politicians beaten to death in India
- Imran misleading nation on 20th amendment: Kh Saad
- Mansoor Ijaz deposes before memo tribunal
- 3rd T20: SAfrica beat New Zealand by 3 runs to win series 2-1
- Barhamdagh Bugti supports US bill on Balochistan
- Nawaz conditions APC participation to missing persons' recovery, leaves for Umrah
- US presses Pakistan to allow bases near Iran: Report
Attack on Iran would be an act of criminal stupidity
After a decade of calamitous western wars in the wider Middle East, the signs are becoming ever more ominous that we’re heading for another. And, hard as it is to credit, the same discredited arguments used to justify the disasters of Iraq and Afghanistan – from weapons of mass ...
Nuclear talks failure heightens Iran tensions
TEHRAN - A fruitless visit to Iran by UN nuclear inspectors sparked anger and raised tensions on Wednesday, with Russia warning ...
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Argentine train crash kills 49 people, hurts 600
BUENOS AIRES - A packed commuter train plowed into the buffers at a Buenos Aires station during morning rush hour on Wednesday, ...
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Mubarak trial enters last day
CAIRO - The landmark murder and corruption trial of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak entered its final day of hearings on ...
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Karzai demands quick transfer of US-run jail
KABUL - President Hamid Karzai Wednesday urged the US military to speed up a transfer of the controversial Bagram prison to ...
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Other International Stories
Deal must be applied: Hamas
AZA CITY - A reconciliation deal between rival Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas must be ...
Explosions rock Nigerian city
KANO - Suspected Islamists threw explosives and fired at a Nigerian military checkpoint on ...
Abkhazia leader survives attack
MOSCOW - The leader of the Moscow-backed breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia survived an ...
Four more bodies found on liner
ROME - Salvage workers have found four more bodies on the wreck of the Costa Concordia, bringing to ...
Somalia militants lose key town
MOGADISHU - Ethiopian and Somali troops captured a key Islamist militant stronghold in Somalia on ...
Separatists among new Yemen’s major challenges
SANAA - Yemen’s southern separatists have emerged as a major challenge for Yemen, which is ...
Israel approves 500 new West Bank homes
JERUSALEM - An Israeli committee on Wednesday approved construction of 500 new homes in the West ...
Assad forces try to bomb Homs into submission
MMAN - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces rained rockets and bombs down on ...
Russia urges to send UN envoy
UNITED NATIONS - Russia on Tuesday urged the United Nations to send a special envoy to Syria to ...
BYC to move ICJ against Herbyar Marri for bloodshed
LONDON - Chairman Baloch Youth Council, Mir Hazar Khan Baloch has announced that the Council ...
How Nasser shaped the Arab Spring
SARAH MOUSAThis week marks the 54th anniversary of the foundation of the United Arab Republic ...
Why Yemen’s election might actually matter
DANYA GREENFIELDWith daily massacres in Homs and prosecution of US non-governmental organisations ...
Two politicians beaten to death in India
Two political leaders from a communist party in India’s eastern state of West Bengal were ...
Afghans continue protest over Quran burning for second day
At least eight people were injured on Wednesday when thousands of Afghan people staged protest ...
Energy crisis
When the present government took office, the first thing they had promised was that power loadshedding would be abolished soon ...
20th amendment: One of those rare moments
The 20th Amendment is the latest achievement of the government. They have managed to include a clause which takes away all the ...
Israel planning to attack Iran
Iran has been an eyesore for USA for no rhyme or reason. Although there are about a dozen nuclear powers in the world, the United ...
Monthly progress of Bhasha dam
We have been hearing news of Bhasha dam since 2006 with its first groundbreaking by Ex-President Musharraf and then its second ...
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