ISLAMABAD: After the All Parties Conference in Islamabad, a 40 percent rise was witnessed in terror activities in September while security agencies escalated...
ISLAMABAD: After the All Parties Conference in Islamabad, a 40 percent rise was witnessed in terror activities in September while security agencies escalated...
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) permitted former president Asif Ali Zardari to use bullet-proof vehicles with tinted glasses and keep private security...
ISLAMABAD: One of Pakistan’s most powerful men, General Ashfaq Kayani, is likely to stay head of the military with a new title when...
OSLO: Norway will cut its aid to Afghanistan in 2014 due to a lack of progress on women’s rights and efforts to combat...
MIRANSHAH: Gunmen released a journalist yesterday a day after he was kidnapped in one of Pakistan’s tribal areas on the Afghan border, a...
Federal workers demonstrate against the government shutdown in front of the US Capitol in Washington, yesterday. WASHINGTON: The White House said yesterday that...
ROME: An Italian Senate committee yesterday proposed Silvio Berlusconi be expelled from parliament following his criminal conviction, dealing a further humiliating blow to...
MOMBASA: Four rioters died and a church was torched amid gunfire yesterday, as police in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa quashed protests sparked...
MADRID: A Spanish court yesterday handed down jail sentences and large fines to some 50 city officials and business executives over a vast...
MIAMI: Tropical Storm Karen churned towards the US Gulf Coast yesterday, with forecasters warning of weekend flooding and heavy rainfall in several states,...
BANGKOK: A Thai political activist imprisoned under the kingdom’s controversial laws against insulting the monarchy was released yesterday after receiving a royal pardon....
SEOUL: North Korea’s top military body launched a blistering personal attack yesterday on South Korean President Park Geun-Hye and vowed to push ahead...
KATHMANDU: Gunmen shot an election candidate in southern Nepal yesterday, police said, fuelling fears about security before crucial national polls next month. Mohammad...
TOKYO: Japan’s atomic watchdog summoned the boss of Fukushima operator TEPCO yesterday for a public dressing-down over sloppy standards at the crippled nuclear...
KUALA LUMPUR: Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Malaysia’s leader yesterday as part of a Southeast Asian charm offensive, with analysts saying...
WASHINGTON: The US voiced hope yesterday that Myanmar will reform its constitution in time for elections in 2015 after opposition leader Aung San...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s military has demolished a fortified underground bunker used by Tamil Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran, who was killed in a final...
Children join informal settlers at a barricade near a garbage dump site in Quezon City yesterday. Informal settlers set up a road blockade...
