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All parks in the metropolitan cities of Punjab including Lahore, Rawalpindi and Islamabad are ordered to be closed to the public from 9:30pm onwards in light of security threats emanating on Eidul Fitr holidays, reported ExpressNews. In the city of Karachi however, Roshan Ali, Commissioner...

At least five people were killed in drone attack in tehsil Shawal of Miranshah in North Waziristan. A US drone attack early Sunday morning killed at least five people in Miranshah area in North Waziristan near Afghan border. According to details, US spy plane fired four missiles at two...

KABUL: An Afghan civilian employed on a Nato base, shot dead three international coalition soldiers on Friday – the same day three others were killed by an Afghan policeman, Isaf said on Saturday. “The shooter was not in uniform and our current reporting indicates he was a civilian employee...

BRUSSELS: The European Union turned down a request on Tuesday by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to blacklist Hezbollah as a terror group after last week’s deadly bombing in Bulgaria. “There is no consensus for putting Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organisations,” said Cypriot...

Peshawar, Daud zai, At least two policemen were injured in a blast near a patrolling vehicle here in Peshawar, Geo News reported Friday. According to sources, a police party was on a routine patrol in Daud Zai area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s capital, when it came under attack. The injured...

At least 18 people travelling to Iran were killed when unknown assailants opened fire on them in Turbat, Balochistan, Express News reported on Friday. The travellers were taken off the bus they were travelling in and then shot at by gunmen. According to reports, the people were travelling to...

NORTH WAZIRISTAN: A US drone attack has killed at least 17 people in Zoi, Datta Khel district of North Waziristan on Friday, reported Express News. According to initial reports, a remotely piloted drone aircraft fired six missiles at a house. At least two people were reported to have been...

aliban gunmen have attacked a hotel in the Afghan capital Kabul, triggering a gun battle with Afghan security forces and coalition troops, officials say. They say the insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns attacked the Spozhmai Hotel in the Qaghar Lake area...

A report submitted in the Supreme Court on Tuesday by the judicial commission probing into the Memogate scandal has claimed that former envoy to the United States, Husain Haqqani, had authored the confidential memo, Express News reported. The Supreme Court also ordered the former envoy to come...

Six people, including three US nationals, were detained Monday after police discovered a large cache of illegal arms from their vehicles. According to police sources, the “suspicious cars” were stopped for a routine check at the Peshawar Motorway toll plaza when the weapons were discovered...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan suspended MNA Farahnaz Ispahani’s membership of the National Assembly while hearing the dual nationality case on Friday, Express News reported. The court observed that Ispahani, wife of former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani, cannot be a part of...

DALLAS: The University of North Texas president has given the prestigious 'Staff Contribution Award' to a Pakistani American scholar and Assistant Dean at the University, Dr. Qaisar Abbas to recognize his extraordinary peace building activities. The University President Dr. V. Rawlins...

PESHAWAR: Sensitive organizations during an operation arrested twelve terrorists from the vicinity of Tehkal police station, Geo News reported Friday. According to sources, the agencies carried out a search operation in Tehkal area of Peshawar and arrested 12 terrorists. Suicide jackets...