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KARACHI: In yet another incident of target killing, also sectarian in nature, the son of the Ahl-e-Sunnat Chief, Maulana Ghafoor has been shot dead in Nazimabad, Karachi on Thursday, police officials said.
Maulana Ghafoor himself is also said to be in critical condition.
Maulana Ghafoor was on his way to the court in the morning when two [...]
LONDON: Five Pakistani men linked to a terror plot in Britain similar to the attacks on the London transport system in 2005 were arrested days before they planned to strike, a hearing was told Tuesday.
A British intelligence officer, identified only as ZR, told an immigration panel that the group had been planning to stage an [...]
KARACHI: An American captured in Pakistan this week and accused of being a key spokesman for al-Qaeda was wrongly identified as Adam Gadahn, the most wanted American in the terrorist organisation, Pakistani officials admitted today.
The man arrested in the southern city of Karachi was first identified as Mr Gadahn, who was born in Oregon and is [...]
NASEERABAD: Anti-Terrorism Court of Naseerabad/ Jaferabad sentenced four accused life in prison and fined a lakh each on Tuesday.
The incident of the women being buried alive occurred two years back in Goth Gorang in a remote village, the Baba Kot, 80 kilometers away from Usta Mohammad city of Jafferabad district.
These women were buried alive for [...]
LAHORE: A car bomb explosion killed at least 14 people and injured 61 others near the FIA and the Special Interrogation Unit buildings in Model Town, Lahore on Monday.
“Eleven people have been killed and several others injured in a suicide car bombing, which took place near the FIA and the Special Interrogation Unit buildings in [...]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary has ordered the IGPs, home secretaries, Advocates General of all the four provinces
ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan has become the new ‘battlefield’ between India and Pakistan as Indian agents have taken ‘revenge’ in Kandahar on Thursday by killing five Pakistanis. The Indians had earlier accused Pakistani agents of killing 17 people, including nine Indians, in an attack on a Kabul guesthouse. Pakistan has refuted the Indian allegation.
The Afghan secret service, [...]
JHELUM: Pakistani police said Friday teams were working round the clock to recover a five-year-old British boy kidnapped during a family holiday as his father begged for his son’s release.
Robbers snatched Sahil Saeed from his grandmother’s house in the town of Jhelum about 100 kilometres (65 miles) south of the capital Islamabad on Thursday, stealing [...]
ISLAMABAD: A list of wanted persons prepared by Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) names 119 individuals including those involved in attacks on former premier Benazir Bhutto, Pervez Musharraf and on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. However, the list does not include names of prominent Taliban leaders, a BBCUrdu report said.
Although the list formulated with the [...]
PESHAWAR: Taliban militants blew up a boys’ school and assailants threw grenades into a music event, killing a student, in separate incidents in north and southwest Pakistan, officials said Wednesday.
The boys’ school attack took place overnight in the Spin Qabar area of Khyber, a lawless district that straddles the main supply line for Nato troops [...]
PESHAWAR: The military said Wednesday that a supplier of suicide jackets and explosives who operated a key inter-city network had
SWAT: Five important militant commanders including Maulvi Alim Binori and Maulana Shamsul Haq were killed in Madain area
PESHAWAR: Suspected militants armed with guns and rockets on Monday blew up a tanker carrying fuel through Pakistan for NATO troops based in neighbouring Afghanistan, police said.
Several armed men lobbed a rocket and then opened fire on the supply convoy on the outskirts of Pakistan’s northwestern city Peshawar, senior police officer Imtiaz Ahmed said.
“The attack [...]
DHAKA: Bangladesh has arrested a suspected Pakistani militant and four of its own nationals who planned to carry out attacks in the country, a spokesman for the elite force that made the arrests said on Sunday.
Commander Mohammad Sohel of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said the five, aged between 26 and 30, were members of [...]
ROME: Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has released an audio message from one of two Italians kidnapped in Mauritania in December, US-monitoring agency SITE said on Sunday.
The message is a plea from Italian captive Sergio Cicala and is entitled “Call from the kidnapped Italian to the Berlusconi government,” said SITE, which monitors Islamist websites.
It [...]
WASHINGTON: At a closed briefing in 2003, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee raised no objection to a C.I.A. plan to destroy videotapes of brutal interrogations, according to secret documents released Monday.
The senator, Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, also rejected a proposal to have his committee conduct its own assessment of the agency’s harsh [...]
BERLIN: German police have arrested three people suspected of helping a radical Islamist group whose followers have confessed to planning attacks on US targets in Germany, prosecutors said on Monday.
The federal prosecutor’s office said it suspected two men whom it identified only as Alican T. and Fatih K., and one woman, Filiz G., of supporting [...]
ISLAMABAD: Two people were injured after Frontier Corps personnel opened fire here on Sunday.
The two civilians were shot at by FC personnel near the Bari Imam shrine and were shifted to Poly Clinic, our correspondent reported.
It is unclear why the shooting took place and a FIR has been registered against the personnel involved, police officials [...]
KABUL: The Afghan government on Monday strongly condemned a NATO air strike that killed 33 civilians after mistaking them for militants, calling it “unjustifiable”.
The air strike on Sunday hit three vehicles of people in Daykundi, which has been carved out of Uruzgan province, after NATO mistook them for militants moving towards their base, NATO and [...]
BAHAWALPUR: A motorcycle rider was killed and two others sustained injuries at the Cholistan Jeep Rally on Sunday when a police mobile hit them.
The motorcyclists were hit by a police van which was escorting the chief guest, Senior Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Zulfiqar Khosa.
The incident occurred at Mehrabwala, approximately 50 kilometres from Bahawalpur.
The [...]
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Muhammad Yousuf & Younis Khan suspended indefinitely from playing cricket, others heavily fined
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