An Afghan schoolgirl reads aloud from a book during a lesson in Kandahar yesterday. The literacy rate in Afghanistan is about 30 percent...
An Afghan schoolgirl reads aloud from a book during a lesson in Kandahar yesterday. The literacy rate in Afghanistan is about 30 percent...
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is still mulling over more than 300 pending cases against politicians and senior bureaucrats despite its claim...
PESHAWAR: The Taliban militants’ fear continues to hinder the launch of girls education campaigner Malala Yousafzai’s book in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber...
UNITED NATIONS: Two UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) workers kidnapped in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi have been freed, the United Nations said yesterday. ...
LAHORE: The Punjab government is reportedly giving Rs379m worth high-powered vehicles, automatic pistols and assault rifles to the new batch of Elite Police...
Kabul: At least 40 Taliban militants were killed or injured following military operations by Afghan national security forces in the past 24 hours,...
A pro-Russia protester raises her arm on a barricade outside a regional government building in Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, yesterday. KIEV: US Vice-President...
Demonstrators attack a water cannon during a protest against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas late on Monday.
LONDON: Former British prime minister Gordon Brown is stepping up his efforts to stop Scotland leaving the United Kingdom as opinion polls show...
LONDON: A group of scientists, academics and prominent writers accused British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday of stoking sectarian divisions through his repeated...
KANO: Nigerian soldiers and vigilantes are hunting “around the clock” for the Islamist fighters holding scores of schoolgirls hostage, an official said yesterday,...
NEW YORK: A federal appeals court ordered the US Department of Justice to turn over key portions of a memorandum justifying the government’s...
Syrian President Bashar Al Assad visiting the Christian town of Maaloua, northeast of Damascus. The Syrian leader visited the recaptured town of Maaloula...
Hamas deputy leader Mussa Abu Marzuq (left) with Hamas Deputy Prime Minister in Gaza Strip, Ziad Al Zaza at the Rafah border crossing...
Turkish plainclothes policemen detain a unionist near Taksim Square in Istanbul yesterday as security forces prevent union members from issuing a press statement...
WASHINGTON: The United States has indications of the use of a toxic chemical, probably chlorine, in Syria this month and is examining indications...
PARIS: Mock executions, hunger, thirst, cold, beatings, a makeshift chess game to pass the time... and a “surreal” snowball fight with their jailers....
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s parliament convenes tomorrow to try to elect a new president without a clear frontrunner in sight because of deep divisions over...
