Security officials inspect the wreckage of motorbikes at the site of a bomb explosion in Karachi yesterday. Two people, including a suspected suicide...
Security officials inspect the wreckage of motorbikes at the site of a bomb explosion in Karachi yesterday. Two people, including a suspected suicide...
PESHAWAR: The incidence of targeted killings has increased by 30.3 percent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the current year, according to data collected by...
ISLAMABAD: Resistance in the parliament to adopting the Pakistan Protection Ordinance (PPO), promulgated by the PML-N government last October, as law ended on...
ISLAMABAD: In view of the recent terrorist attack on Karachi airport and incident of firing on an airliner at Peshawar airport, Prime Minister...
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leadership is likely to induct seven more ministers in its provincial cabinet and reshuffle the offices...
Buddhist monks walk during a prayer ceremony for the victims of unrest in Mandalay, Yangon, yesterday. MANDALAY: Hundreds of Buddhists threatened to kill...
MANILA: Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, one of the Philippines’ most powerful politicians, was arrested yesterday over a massive corruption scandal that has shocked...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police said yesterday they had arrested four foreign nationals suspected of having links to Sri Lanka’s defeated separatist Tamil Tigers,...
DHAKA: Hundreds of Bangladeshi construction workers have been beaten and humiliated by soldiers in Iraq after becoming dragged into their host country’s sectarian...
BEIJING: Officials in China’s restive western region of Xinjiang have told Muslims to ignore religious customs during the holy month of Ramadan, an...
HONG KONG: Five organisers of a massive pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong were charged by police yesterday with minor offences, as pressure builds...
JAKARTA: A landslide at an illegal gold mine has killed nine men in remote eastern Indonesia, an official said yesterday, the latest deaths...
US President Barack Obama honours Spanish-born chef and restaurateur Jose Andres (centre) with the Outstanding American by Choice award during a naturalisation ceremony...
BERLIN: An employee of Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the United States, two politicians with...
A man walks through a flooded street after Hurricane Arthur passed through in Manteo, North Carolina, yesterday. The first hurricane of the Atlantic...
KIEV: Ukraine’s embattled new leader agreed yesterday to immediate crisis talks with rebel commanders and Russia aimed at stemming the bloodshed that has...
LAGOS: Nigerian soldiers blocked roads, fired shots into the air and burned several buses in Lagos yesterday after a soldier was killed in...
New York: Hillary Clinton has said Edward Snowden should be entitled to both a legal and public defence of his decision to leak...