Peshawar, Nov 8 (IANS) At least 13 people, including a city mayor, were killed and 36 others were wounded near this northwestern frontier town when a suicide bomber blew up a ...

Peshawar, Nov 8 (IANS) The city mayor was among 12 people who were killed Sunday when a suicide bomber struck at a bustling livestock market close to this Pakistan frontier city, ...

Jammu, Oct 29 (IANS) A Jammu and Kashmir journalist, who was arrested Oct 25 on charges of working as a spy for Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), had visited the Lashkar-e-Taiba ...

Karachi, Oct.15 (ANI): The Sindh Assembly administration appears to care the least about keeping important documents and historical records concerning the house proceedings intact and secure. Historical records such as the 'power documents' ...

Kolkata, Oct 12(ANI): Reacting to Government's initiative to fight against Naxals in various parts of the country, the Maoists on Monday struck back when they carried out several attacks in the ...

New Delhi, Oct.10 (ANI): Defense Mnister A.K. Antony on Saturday said Pakistan needed to take a determined and strong action against the terrorists operating from its soil, not just to satisfy ...

Raipur, Sep 17 (IANS) Troopers of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) early Thursday gunned down two Maoist guerrillas in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region, police said. The rebels were shot dead in ...

Islamabad, Sep 7 (DPA) At least five soldiers and 10 Taliban militants were killed Monday in two separate incidents of violence in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region that borders Afghanistan, security officials ...

Sydney, Aug.25 (ANI): Special Australian security forces, the Diggers, have reportedly killed senior Taliban leader, Mullah Karim, in a special operation primarily targeting the hardcore extremists in the Oruzgan province of ...

Paliganj (Bihar), Aug 7 (ANI): The Special Task Force (STF) has arrested seven Maoists including the area commander of banned outfit Communist Party of India (Maoists) from Bihar's Paliganj region late on ...

New Delhi, Aug 7 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh has said that Pakistan's ban on Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) along with 25 religious and other groups should have happened a ...

New Delhi, Aug 6 (ANI): Welcoming the ban on terrorist organisations in Pakistan, Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said India expects Islamabad to fulfill its ...

Karachi, Aug. 5 (ANI): Pak-Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud's wife was killed by a US missile strike in Pakistan's South Waziristan on Wednesday, Pakistani military officials said. Although Mehsud's aides didn't confirm ...

Islamabad, July 26 (DPA) Pakistani police Sunday said investigators were quizzing a former pro-Taliban lawmaker believed at the centre of the slaying of a Polish engineer by militants earlier this year. Shah ...

Islamabad, July 2 (DPA) At least 51 Taliban militants and two policemen were killed in airstrikes, clashes and a roadside bombing in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday. The latest violence comes as ...

Islamabad, June 18 (IANS) Peshawar's international airport that was temporarily shut Wednesday amid a rise in Taliban attacks in the northwestern city, was reopened on Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's orders, ...

Islamabad, June 17 (DPA) Pakistani authorities Wednesday temporarily shutdown Peshawar's international airport amid a rise in Taliban attacks in the northern city. "Peshawar airport has been closed for the time being due ...

Bangalore, June 9 (IANS) Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Tuesday urged Indian students in Australia to stay calm and not to get provoked by attacks on them. "Time and again, Indians have ...

Hyderabad, May 24 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh police Sunday gunned down two top Maoist leaders, including one allegedly involved in 2003 assassination attempt on former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. Patel Sudhakar Reddy, ...

Hyderabad, May 24 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh police Sunday gunned down two top Maoist leaders, including one allegedly involved in the assassination attempt on former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. Patel Sudhakar Reddy, ...

Kabul, May 12 (DPA) More than 100 schoolgirls were taken to a hospital after a suspected gas attack on their school Tuesday, the third in series of such incidents in the ...

Islamabad, April 18 (DPA) A suicide car bomber attacked a military convoy and checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan Saturday, killing at least 18 soldiers and two civilians, a senior police official said. The ...

Karachi, Apr 8 (ANI): The Karachi police on Wednesday foiled an attempt to carry out a terrorist act by arresting five alleged terrorists, seizing explosives and a large cache of ammunitions from ...

Lahore, Apr 6 (ANI): Tehreek-I-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud has been able to escape several attempts to kill and capture him because he has friends in the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. ...

Islamabad, March 26 (DPA) At least eight people were killed Thursday when a suicide blast ripped through a restaurant in north-western Pakistan as a feud raged between rival militant groups, a ...

Kabul, March 16 (DPA) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that his country was allowing cargo supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan through its territory to cooperate with the stabilisation ...

Chennai, Feb 5 (IANS) The Madras High Court's acting Chief Justice S. Mukhopadhyay and Judge V. Dhanapalan Thursday expressed concern over the unruly behaviour of lawyers protesting against the killing of Tamil ...

Colombo, Jan 29 (IANS) A senior leader of the Tamil Tigers has been seriously injured in an attack by advancing government troops, a pro-rebel website said Thursday."A senior leader and special member ...

Raipur, Jan 28 (IANS) Chhattisgarh Home Minister Nankiram Kanwar made a surprise visit Wednesday at two Salwa Judum relief camps in restive Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh to review security arrangements.Kanwar along ...

Kabul, Dec 31 (DPA) Seventeen militants were killed in fighting with the US-led coalition troops in Afghanistan, the US military said Wednesday.Eleven insurgents loyal to Hezbi Islami, an associate group of Taliban ...