Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday deviated from a longstanding stance of dialogue with Taliban insurgents and said his party will be standing by the army in case a military…
Chief of Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam- Samiulhaq (JUI-S ) Maulana Sami-ul- Haq on Wednesday announced that he is distancing himself from the proposed talks with the insurgent Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Due to his perceived…
Inspector General Frontier Corps (IGFC) Balochistan Major General Muhammad Ejaz Shahid on Wednesday said that militants attacking forces in Balcohistan should not be termed ‘estranged Baloch.’ During a meeting of Senate’s Standing…
Latvia’s parliament approved on Wednesday Laimdota Straujuma to become the first female prime minister of the Baltic state, which joined the euro zone on January 1. Valdis Dombrovskis, 42, who steered the…
A man was shot to death at Indiana’s Purdue University on Tuesday and a male suspect was taken into custody, police said, in an apparently targeted killing that follows a rash of…
A leading pro-government activist was shot and wounded on Wednesday in Thailand’s northeast, a stronghold of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, as a state of emergency began in the capital where protesters are…
Two demonstrators were on Wednesday reported killed in new anti-government unrest in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, inflaming protesters who confronted the police. Reports spread that a man had been shot dead by…
A prominent human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong who protested against corruption has gone on trial in China on charges of “gathering crowds to disrupt public order”. He is one of several activists…
Israel killed two Gaza gunmen in an air strike on Wednesday, blaming one of them for firing rockets across the border during former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s funeral last week. Palestinian…
A U.S. cybersecurity firm says it has gathered evidence that the Russian government spied on hundreds of American, European and Asian companies, the first time Moscow has been linked to cyber attacks…
The US east coast has been slammed by the second major winter storm of the year, with up to 30cm of snow, strong winds and bitter cold forecast. States across the northeast…
A senior Islamist militant was killed by the police in Russia’s North Caucasus ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, where security forces searched on Tuesday for a woman they fear is…
Syria’s government and its enemies came face to face for the first time on Wednesday at a one-day peace conference in Switzerland which world powers hope can at least start a process…
The Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) on Wednesday foiled a terror bid by diffusing a bomb outside the Chaman district complex, a private news channel reported. According to BDS officials, a bomb weighing…
Minister of Defence Production, Rana Tanveer on Wednesday termed Tuesday’s airstrikes by Pakistan Military as a retaliation to the attacks that targeted Army personnel in Bannu and Rawalpindi. Talking to media reporters,…
Karachi administration has decided to build a price-controlling workforce of eunuchs for overlooking the rates of daily-use consumer products and put a stop to profiteering and hoarding in the city. According to…
Lyari gang war affiliate Behram was killed in a joint operation of Rangers and Karachi police, a private news channel reported on Wednesday. According to police, Behram was an associate of Wasiullah…
