A five-storey structure in Behrampada slum, Bandra East collapsed killing six people on Thursday afternoon.
Enraged by Pakistani-origin Canadian writer Tarek Fatah's critical remarks about their country, two Pakistani writers on Friday walked out of the inaugural session of the Indore Literary Festival.
83-year-old 'organized criminal' James 'Whitey' Bulger is probably breathing easy on the prospect of not having to face the lethal injection, but instead spend the rest of his life behind bars.
United States President Barack Obama on Monday named former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as his next defence secretary, and also nominated his counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan, who was involved in the planning of the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, as the new Central Intelligence Agency chief.
'Washington is confident the Saudi-born militant will be killed or captured within a year,' says The Guardian.
United States Senator John F Kerry -- President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next Secretary of State -- has asserted that he would be strongly opposed to any cuts in America's considerable aid to Islamabad.
US President Obama will nominate his counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan, who was involved in the planning of the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, as the new chief of CIA, White House officials said.
Radical preacher Abu Qatada, often referred to as Osama bin Laden's point man in Europe, was on Saturday sent back to jail by a British judge after being arrested for alleged breach of bail conditions.
The family of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Monday accused the powerful military of "abducting" the Islamist leader and vowed to take legal action against the army chief.
Senior American and Pakistani defence and military officials met in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Monday to discuss the regional security environment and the situation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Khadim Hussain Rizvi is now gone. But the mass appeal of fundamentalism among Pakistan's burgeoning, young, illiterate, unemployed and angry population isn't, observes Shekhar Gupta.
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Pakistan's powerful spy agency Inter Services Intelligence regards the United States as its "worst enemy" and Islamabad's claim that it is cooperating with Washington is a sham to extract billions of dollars in aid, jailed Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi who helped the CIA trace Osama bin Laden has said.
'They have tried too hard to be that stereotypical Australian team that are aggressive and go hard at people.'
Seven members of United States Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in carrying out a raid that killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, have been reprimanded for allegedly divulging classified information for a video game, senior Navy officials said on Friday.
Mexico drug baron Joaquin Guzman Loera has been named the world's most wanted man following Osama bin Laden's death.
British humanitarian group Save the Children is being forced to shut its offices in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Tahir Ali tells us why
Pakistan on Thursday ruled out the possibility of releasing Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA track Osama bin Laden, saying the matter was sub judice and his fate would be decided by courts.
Zero Dark Thirty works as an action movie, writes Raja Sen.
Actions of Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped track Osama bin Laden, have "seriously jeopardised" Pakistan's efforts to fight polio, the top Pakistani diplomat told US lawmakers.
"US better forget him (Afridi) as he is never going to leave here, he will never be traded for Dr Afia Siddiqui, no such proposition is under consideration," Director General ISI, Lt General Zaheeer-ul-Islam said.
Official White House photographer Pete Souza has used his incredible access to document Obama's journey, capturing both the tense moments and the lighter ones to provide a behind-the-scenes look at his presidency.
After the Shakil Afridi episode, both sides are back to where they were, with ties strained and reconciliatory efforts coming to a standstill, says Amir Mir
A powerful House committee chairman has accused the Obama administration of jeopardising national security by providing classified information to two filmmakers producing a movie on the raid by Navy SEAL that killed Osama bin Laden.
A former Egyptian military officer turned Al Qaeda terrorist has been chosen to head Osama bin Laden's terror network temporarily until the slain leader's successor is officially named.
Official White House photographer Pete Souza has used his incredible access to document Obama's journey, capturing both the tense moments and the lighter ones to provide a behind-the-scenes look at his presidency.
Two top United States officials have called off visits to Islamabad without assigning any reasons, reflecting the current tensions between the two countries as they struggle to reset their troubled ties a year after the killing of Al Qaeda's Osama bin Laden.
A year after Osama bin Laden was killed by United States Special Forces in Pakistan, his terrorist outfit Al Qaeda has little support in the Muslim world, a poll has said.
The United States has said that drone strikes are "legal and ethical" tools against Al Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan, dismissing Islamabad's concerns over the attacks.
'There's no wonder that many Pakistani parents send their kids to madrasa and one knows what happens to a small percentage of the kids who go there.
The Congress accused the BJP and a section of media of deliberately twisting Gandhi's remarks.
The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist media, identified the shooter as Mohammed al-Shamrani, and said that prior to opening fire he condemned America as a "nation of evil" in an online manifesto on twitter, according to media reports.
The majority Democratic leadership in the United States Senate prevented a key Republican Senator from moving a vote on his amendment that if passed would have cut off all US aid to Pakistan till release of the imprisoned physician who helped the Central Intelligence Agency trace Osama bin Laden.
The Pentagon has ruled out any move to ban the sale of the controversial book on the killing of Osama bin Laden, which it says has been written by a former navy SEAL in breach of contractual obligations and contains classified information.
Despite the fact that Al Qaeda's top brass has been ruthlessly eliminated in US-operated drone strikes and ground operations in Pakistan, including its very chief Osama bin Ladin, the group has strengthened itself at both ideological and financial grounds, reports Tahir Ali.
A top American senator has introduced a legislation in the Senate that seeks to eliminate foreign aid to Pakistan until the conviction of Shakil Afridi -- the doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency trace Osama bin Laden is overturned and he is released
A group of lawyers representing Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi, sentenced to a 33-year jail term after he helped the Central Investigation Agency track Osama bin Laden, appealed against his conviction on Friday.
While the United States has already shown dissatisfaction over Pakistan's claims that Dr Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani physician who helped the Central Intelligence Agency track down and kill Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, had relation with militants, the Pakistan Taliban have not only rejected the reports of any links with him, but has also said that the imprisoned doctor is 'wajib-ul-qatal' (one that deserve death penalty), as he helped the US to kill bin Laden
Seeking a clarification from Pakistan, the United States on Wednesday said that it did not believe in the "story" that a Pakistani doctor, who helped the Central Intelligence Agency track Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to 33-years in jail for links with the banned Lashkar-e-Islam militant group.
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