Police officials inspect the site of a bomb explosion in the city of Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province yesterday. DERA ISMAIL...
Police officials inspect the site of a bomb explosion in the city of Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province yesterday. DERA ISMAIL...
KABUL: Afghanistan has closed down three major public universities in the capital Kabul for more than a week after sectarian clashes left one...
ISLAMABAD: During the last about three years, over 17 million Pakistanis went abroad illegally in search of employment, it was learnt yesterday. According...
LAHORE: International cricketing-legend-turned-politician Imran Khan could be prime minister of Pakistan in his 60th year. His Pakistan Union for Justice Party (PTI) is...
KARACHI: Dr Ishrat ul Ebad Khan, Governor of southern Pakistani province of Sindh, has asked law enforcers to draw up a plan of...
Firefighters extinguish a blaze in the nine-storey Tazreen Fashion plant in Savar, about 30km north of Dhaka, yesterday. Ashulia, Bangladesh: Rescue workers in...
MANILA: In order to ensure continuity and successful conclusion of the peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf), Senate President Juan...
MANILA: Thirteen Philippine policemen have been sacked and more than 350 others placed under investigation for allegedly cheating in written exams, the police...
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh: At least 13 people were killed and dozens are feared missing after a flyover under construction collapsed in Bangladesh’s southeastern port...
DAMASCUS: Syrian troops bombarded the outskirts of Damascus, where monitors said almost 50 people died in a battle for a military airport, as...
DERIK, Syria: Residents and militias in Derik have removed almost all the ubiquitous presidential portraits from official buildings since the regime made its...
MOGADISHU: Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked Shebab fighters briefly took control of a small town on the border with Kenya in a battle that left...
KARBALA: Millions of Shias flooded the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala yesterday for the peak of Ashura rituals, which have been largely spared...
SANA’A: At least three Shias were killed in a bomb attack targeting the first public commemoration of Ashura in the Yemeni capital in...
KABUL: Afghanistan has closed down three major public universities in the capital Kabul for more than a week after sectarian clashes left one...
ASHULIA, Bangladesh: At least 109 people died when fire swept through a garment factory in the worst-ever blaze to hit Bangladesh's apparel industry,...
CAIRO: Egypt's stock market plunged on Sunday in its first day open since Islamist President Mohamed Mursi seizure of new powers set off...
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israel's eight-day bombardment of the Gaza Strip has caused more than $1.2 billion in direct and indirect damages, a...