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ISLAMABAD: The Interior Ministry finalizes the draft for establishment of the National Counter Terrorism Authority, the first civilian institution to handle the threats of terrorism in the country. The Interior Ministry sources told our correspondent that this proposed law will be given final touches in the Federal Law Ministry and then it will be promulgated [...]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was informed by the law enforcing agencies that India is involve in the string of coordinated explosions in Lahore. PM chaired a high level meeting in Islamabad to review the security situation prevailing in the country. The law enforcing agencies informed that evidence of Indian involvement was found in [...]
ISLAMABAD: The police torture of the accused persons that made headlines in the electronic media a few days ago echoed in the National Assembly on Friday when PPP legislator Sherry Rehman questioned the silence of the public representatives on the issue despite the suo moto notice of the Supreme Court. Sherry Rehman, who also submitted [...]
PESHAWAR: A lashkar commander from Mohmand Agency was gunned down along with two guards in Peshawar on Saturday. According to police officials, the lashkar commander, Haji Lal Badshah was on his way to his residence in Peshawar when unidentified gunmen riding on a motorcycle opened fire at him at new Garhi Bukhshu Pul Area. The [...]
PESHAWAR: At least 10 people were killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan’s Swat valley on Saturday, a day after a series of bombings brought chaos and bloodshed to the city of Lahore, police said. The bomber blew himself up in Saidu Sharif, on the southern outskirts of Mingora, the main town of Swat, where [...]
LAHORE: Panic and fear gripped Lahore on Friday after it was rocked by a twin-suicide attack that killed at least 50 people, followed by a series of low-intensity explosions that made a mockery of the security apparatus. Two suicide bombers struck in R.A. Bazaar area of the cantonment in the afternoon, killing 50 people, including [...]
KARACHI: Prominent religious clerics and the head of Aalami Khatm-e-Naboowat organization Molana Saeed Jalalpuri were among four people gunned down while another two sustained wounds on Thursday when some unknown assailants opened fire on them. SSP Gulshan Javed Mahar told media that the assassination took place on Abul Hassan Isfahani Road in Gulzar Hijri locality [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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