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PESHAWAR: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Razman Shah and eleven other 'TTP' men surrendered to security forces in the Kalaya area of Orakzai Agency on Monday. Razman Shah is believed to be an important commander of the banned militant group's Orakzai chapter. The other 'militants'...

New Delhi: India's government on Friday accused three television networks of violating broadcasting regulations by showing interviews that criticized the execution of Yakub Memon, hanged last month for bombings that killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993. In formal notices to the three networks...

LAHORE: A day after the arrest of two suspects linked to theYouhanabad attack, the Crime Investigation Agency (CID) claimed on Wednesday that they had arrested at least four alleged terrorists from the Lahore railway station, recovering hand grenades, explosives and detonators from their...

LANDI KOTAL: Security forces on Saturday arrested an important militant commander in Jamrud here. Security officials said Taliban commander Umar Khan Maki Khel was arrested from a house in Ghundi area during a joint raid conducted by Swat Scouts and Khasadar force. They said Umar Khan was...

The Salman Khan-starrer Bajrangi Bhaijaan may have been a work of fiction, but sometimes life shocks us by imitating fiction. At the Edhi Foundation shelter in Karachi’s Mithadar, far from the glamour of a Bollywood film production, real life heroes are working to find the hometown of an Indian...

ISLAMABAD: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met in Islamabad Saturday and agreed to enhance counter-terrorism cooperation aimed at fighting the possible threat from militant group Islamic State and other such organisations. The two leaders also discussed...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led (PTI) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it had refused a request from the Foreign Office to issue permits to VIPs from Gulf states for hunting the Houbara bustard in the province. K-P ‘s Additional Advocate...

GILGIT: An ailing American mountaineer was rescued by an army helicopter from the K2 base camp of his expedition on Tuesday. Robert Jackson, 38, was part of a 27-member K2 expedition which arrived in Pakistan on June 16, according to the ISPR, the military’s public relations wing. The...

QUETTA: Security forces on Monday foiled multiple terror bids and seized a large quantity of weapons and explosives from Balochistan's Sherani and Killa Abdullah districts. Security sources told Dawn.com that an intelligence-based raid was conducted in district Sherani's Kapip area, which...

BAHAWALPUR: Anti-terrorism court judge Khalid Arshad on Friday awarded 10-year and four months jail term to the prayer leader of a mosque at Qaimpur Town near Hasilpur, about 90km from here, for delivering hate speech. He was also awarded Rs0.7m fine. The convict, Maulana Abdul Ghani, was...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan summoned Afghanistan’s ambassador in Islamabad to the foreign ministry and lodged a formal protest over the detention of an official of Pakistan Consulate General at Kandahar by Afghan authorities. An official of the Pakistan Consulate General at Kandahar ‘was forcibly taken...

PESHAWAR: Police in Peshawar raided a refugee camp on the outskirts of the city on Thursday and arrested three men for allegedly spreading propaganda of Islamic State (IS) militant group. Urmar police raided a house in Shamshato Refguee camp on the outskirt of the city and arrested two Afghan...

SLAMABAD: Terming the 2013 general elections ‘the most controversial’, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Wednesday that when governments can’t be changed through the ballot, then the only option left is a ‘bloody revolution’ or ‘martial law’. Addressing the media after...

Russian officials have targeted yoga as part a crackdown on activities associated with "religious cults". At least two studios in the central city of Nizhnevartovsk have reportedly been sent letters by local authorities asking them to stop hosting yoga classes being taught in municipal...

RAWALPINDI: A special anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday gave its verdict in the NATO oil tankers attack case. Three Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists were awarded the death sentence eight times. They were sentenced for setting fire to eleven NATO tankers travelling to...

PTCL today announced a massive cut in its DSL broadband packages, especially for those packages with high speed rates. PTCL said that price cuts are in line with company’s vision of equipping internet users in the country with highest possible broadband speeds. PTCL’s DSL broadband services...

KARACHI: A central Texas-based US fried chicken chain is all set to enter Pakistan. The Golden Chick Restaurant — Chicken Tender-Fried Chicken will initially open three restaurants this year and aims to raise the number to 30 joints in subsequent years. The company signed a ‘letter of intent’...

With an aim to generate artificial rainfall in the parts of Sindh witnessing an intense heatwave, the government is now mulling the use of cloud seeding technology, Express News reported. Talking to the media, Director General Ports and Shipping Abdul Malik Ghauri said all arrangements had...

KARACHI: Germany asked Pakistan on Friday to rethink its stand on death penalty as it would affect both investment opportunities and Islamabad’s image in Europe. Addressing the representatives of Pakistan German Business Forum (PGBF) and Germany Pakistan Trade and Investment (GPti) at a local...

In his latest show of hostile rhetoric towards Pakistan, Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Thursday those who fear India’s new posture have started reacting. “Those who fear India’s new posture have started reacting,” Parrikar said, according to NDTV. Parrikar’s statement is...