Afghan children sell handicraft items to Nato soldiers during a monthly bazaar at the International Security Assistance Force headquarters in Kabul, yesterday.
Afghan children sell handicraft items to Nato soldiers during a monthly bazaar at the International Security Assistance Force headquarters in Kabul, yesterday.
KABUL: The Taliban yesterday warned of a prolonged war in Afghanistan if any foreign troops stay after the end of 2014, as Kabul...
KARACHI: Thousands of Pakistani tribesmen yesterday protested the killing of warlord Mullah Nazir and hoisted black flags to mark his death, officials said....
ISLAMABAD: Before going into elections, Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf (pictured) has a wish: to move like a real ‘Raja’ in the...
PESHAWAR: Unknown gunmen yesterday shot dead two Pakistani charity workers involved in an education project in the northwestern city of Charsadda, 130km from...
ISLAMABAD: The Planning Commission of Pakistan has so far released Rs105.7bn ($1.09bn) under its Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) as against the total...
KARACHI: In all likelihood, YouTube will remain inaccessible in Pakistan for the foreseeable future. Islamabad’s negotiations with Google — the Internet giant that...
Stranded travellers at an airline counter at Changshui International Airport in Kunming, in southwestern China’s Yunnan province, early yesterday. BEIJING: Thousands of angry...
MANILA: A man accused of helping a Philippine gunman kill seven people and wound 12 has been detained as police investigate the motive...
TOKYO: Japan scrambled fighter jets yesterday to head off a Chinese state-owned plane that flew near islands at the centre of a dispute...
YANGON: Mediators trying to broker a peace deal between the military and ethnic minority rebels in northern Myanmar yesterday appealed to Nobel laureate...
LONDON: Nepalese army Colonel Kumar Lama, currently serving as a UN peacekeeper in South Sudan, appeared in a London court yesterday charged with...
JAKARTA: Five suspected terrorists were killed in raids on militant camps in eastern Indonesia in the latest in a series of anti-terror operations,...
Men dressed as the Three Wise Men greet the crowd as they arrive by boat at the port of Gijon, Spain, yesterday. Children...
SYDNEY: Thousands of people have fled wildfires raging on the Australian island of Tasmania that have destroyed at least 80 properties amid fears...
ROME: Outgoing Italian prime minister Mario Monti said yesterday that if he wins February’s parliamentary election one of his first acts would be...
CARACAS: Venezuelan emergency workers launched a sea and air search yesterday after a small plane carrying the head of Italy’s Missoni fashion family...
WASHINGTON: A gunman killed three people before police killed him in turn yesterday in a shooting in a house in Aurora, Colorado, scene...
