Pakistan on Tuesday executed nine convicts, including four brothers, in the latest hangings since it lifted a moratorium on death penalty last year following the Peshawar carnage.
The Pakistan government on Monday asked the Supreme Court to launch treason proceedings against former dictator Pervez Musharraf for imposing emergency in 2007, the first time the civilian administration has sought the criminal prosecution of a military ruler.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes just two days after a second round of a four-country meeting in Kabul aimed at reviving talks with the Taliban
The apex court asked the government to trace the missing persons within two weeks.
Pakistan and Britain have decided to set up a joint working group to deal with terrorism, much on the lines of the anti-terror mechanism Islamabad recently agreed upon with India.
Interestingly, PM Modi had thanked his UAE counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum for offering the support to the rain-battered state on August 18.
The boat, whose capacity was 100 people, was overloaded.
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Intelligence reports submitted to the interior ministry say that jihadi elements, including the al-Qaeda, are planning abductions of senior officials and top leader to seek the release of detained militants.
Hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad steamrolled over one of Iran's best known statesman to win the presidency on Saturday in a landslide election victory that cements conservative control over nation's politicial leadership.
The blast caused smoke to rise above the city and triggered an alarm in the US Embassy.
At least 37 people were killed in an attack near two hotels in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse, according to Reuters news agency.
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Though women won full political rights a year ago, some of them have been intimidated during campaigning.
The head of the murdered American hostage Paul Johnson was found in a freezer in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
'Governments, democratically elected governments, are custodians for a short- specified time.' 'Parents don't let baby sitters decide the course of their child's future.'
Fifteen of these groups took part in sectarian violence, while the rest are jehadi outfits fighting against Western interests, the Daily Times quoted officials as saying.
Shahbaz was allegedly involved in the corruption of Rs14 billion Ashiana Housing project and Rs 4 billion Punjab Saaf Pani Company scams.
Five people were killed and several wounded in the shootout Monday.
Egyptian police have detained a suspected mastermind behind last month's deadly attacks in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, an Interior Ministry official said on Friday.
US and Iraqi forces freed a Briton and two Canadian hostages, including one of Indian origin, in a military operation Thursday.
This operation was conducted to teach a lesson to the blasphemers of this land whose poisonous tongues are constantly abusing Allah...the religion of Islam and the Messenger...under the pretext of so-called 'freedom of speech', Mufti Abdullah Ashraf, a spokesman for Ansar al-Islam, said in the statement according to SITE Intelligence Group.
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the horrific suicide bombing attack on a shia mosque in Saudi Arabia, which took lives of at least 21 people.
The Iraqi military said that the site of a meeting was struck killing several of the group's leaders.
The Pakistan Boxing Federation lambasted the country's interior ministry for their lethargic attitude
The Italian federation (FIGC) is determined to complete the season and its president Gabriele Gravina has been presenting new ideas on an almost daily basis of how that can be done. Meanwhile, Turkmenistan in Central Asia is set to resume its soccer season with spectators at the weekend, making it only the second country in the world to let fans attend matches as the new coronavirus shuts down almost all of world football.
Two suicide bombers wearing explosive belts blew themselves up in the middle of a group of 500 special forces policemen protesting the disbanding of their unit.
Thousands of defiant supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi on Sunday staged a sit-in at Cairo, a day after the Muslim Brotherhood claimed that security forces killed nearly 200 Islamists, opening a deadly new phase of conflict in the deeply polarised country.
The run-off vote pits the pro-Europe, pro-business Macron against anti-immigration and anti-European Union Marine Le Pen.
They were trampled in Mina valley near Mecca as they jostled to stone a pillar representing the devil.
France's highest administrative body ruled that Sikhs can wear their turbans in drivers' licence photos.\n
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