PERTH: China´s official news agency says a Chinese ship that is part of the multinational search effort looking for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has detected a "pulse signal" in southern Indian Ocean waters. The report says a black box detector ...
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has convened a joint meeting of the government and Taliban committees here today (Saturday). According to the interior ministry, the meeting will consider matters relating to next phase of direct talks ...
SAN FRANCISCO: Samsung Electronics will add two safeguards to its latest smartphone in an effort to deter rampant theft of the mobile devices nationwide, the company said Friday. The world's largest mobile-phone maker said users will be able to activate ...
Afghanistan will be entering a new phase today when elections are held to find a replacement for President Karzai who cannot contest for a third term in office as per the constitution. Soon the country will also say goodbye to the American troops that are ...
How far police inefficiency and malice can go in Pakistan sometimes is hard to guess, as it nominated a nine-month-old infant as one of the accused of planning a murder, threatening a police team and interfering in state affairs. The interesting yet shocking ...
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Pervaiz Rasheed Thursday brushed aside reports as unfounded of government's consultations with Chief of Army Staff (COAS) in connection with General (retd) Pervez Musharraf. Talking to media ...
ISLAMABAD: A constitutional petition was filed on Wednesday in the Supreme Court, praying for restraining immediately former President General (R) Pervez Musharraf from making an exit from Pakistan on parole. The petition was filed under Article 184(3) of ...
ISLAMABAD: The special court constituted for the treason trial of former President General (retd) Pervez Musharraf will announce its decision on his counsel's plea to allow his client to travel abroad after 2:00 PM today (Monday). Earlier before going on break, ...
ANKARA: Polls opened Sunday in Turkey for municipal elections that are seen as a referendum on the rule of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has faced anti-government protests and a major corruption scandal. More than 50 million voters were to ...
ANKARA: Polls opened Sunday in Turkey for municipal elections that are seen as a referendum on the rule of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has faced anti-government protests and a major corruption scandal. More than 50 million voters were to ...
ISLAMABAD: The fact that Pakistan voted against the US backed resolution on Sri Lanka that was tabled at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva did not make news. The element of surprise came when in an 'unprecedented step' ...
ADEN: Gunmen killed 20 Yemeni soldiers in a dawn attack on a checkpoint Monday, most of them in their sleep, in the latest in a wave of deadly violence blamed on Al-Qaeda. The assault came in the eastern province of Hadramawt were the security forces ...
ADEN: Gunmen killed 20 Yemeni soldiers in a dawn attack on a checkpoint Monday, most of them in their sleep, in the latest in a wave of deadly violence blamed on Al-Qaeda. The assault came in the eastern province of Hadramawt were the security forces ...
CONAKRY: An Ebola epidemic which has already killed dozens of people in Guinea's southern forests has spread to the capital Conakry, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Sunday. "At least 59 out of 80 who contracted Ebola across the West African ...
KARACHI/QUETTA: At least 42 people died when two passenger buses carrying smuggled petrol and diesel on their rooftops caught fire after a fierce collision with a truck on the RCD Highway near Gadani Morr in Lasbela district of Balochistan on Saturday.
MIRPUR: India won the first match of their T-20 World Cup 2014 campaign against Pakistan by 7 wickets at Sher-e-Bangla Stadium Mirpur. Chasing a not very stiff target of 131, India got off to a brilliant start and reached 50 without loss in the 8th over. But both ...
Crimea's vote for independence in a referendum on Sunday was actually a vote to reintegrate itself with Russia. Official results indicate that nearly 90 percent of Crimeans cast their ballot in favour of independence and the Crimean parliament has already ...
BAALBEK: A suicide car bomb attack killed four people late Sunday in an area dominated by Hezbollah near the Syrian border, a Lebanese security source told AFP. The attack in the Bekaa Valley was claimed by the Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon, as well as by ...
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has called for exit of all foreign forces from Syria, cessation of all hostilities and ending supply of weapons to all sides as it urged intensified diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict in the Arab country. The Syrian crisis should not ...
NOWSHERA: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) chief and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) negotiations committee head Maulana Samiul Haq on Friday said the time has come when the government and the Taliban should sit face to face to restore peace.
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