One dead, seven wounded in Israel raids on Syrian post: army source
DAMASCUS - Israeli air raids on a Syrian army position in the Golan Heights killed one person and wounded seven others, a Syrian military source said Friday. "The enemy aircraft…
Pakistan pulls back from hosting Commonwealth moot
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly (NA) on Thursday announced with regret its decision to pull back as the host of the 61st Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) as the “Indian demand to…
Iran, Pakistan sign MoU on joint border trade
A cooperation MoU on joint border trade between Iran's Sistan-va-Baluchestan Province and Pakistan's Balochistan Province was signed following conclusion of the third round of talks here on Thursday.At the end…
Turkey accuses BBC of ‘openly supporting terrorism’
Turkey has accused the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) of “openly supporting terrorism” by making “written and visual propaganda” of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during a broadcast on Aug.…
North Korea: We’re in a ‘quasi-state of war’
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un on Friday said his country was in a “quasi-state of war” with South Korea and ordered his military to prepare for battle. The escalating war rhetoric…
Military launches ground operations in NWAs Shawal valley
RAWALPINDI: After heavy air strikes by fighter jets for the last one-and-a-half years, the military finally announced to have launched a ground offensive against the local and foreign militants in…
Two men who spied on Shuja Khanzada arrested
LAHORE: The Counter-Terrorism Department on Thursday took two members of a banned organisation into custody who allegedly spied on the assassinated home minister of Punjab, retired Col Shuja Khanzada. The…
Chinese hackers most likely targeting India: experts
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Cyber spies most probably based in China have been snooping on Indian government bodies and universities since 2012 for sensitive material on its rival neighbour, Internet…
Hurriyat leaders released hours after house arrest
Just hours after they were placed under house arrest, Kashmiri separatist leaders were on Thursday released by authorities in Srinagar indicating a confused response to their proposed meeting with Pakistan's…
Indonesian rescuers find no survivors in wreckage of crashed plane
JAKARTA- All 54 people on board a Trigana Air aircraft were killed in a crash two days ago in Indonesia's Papua province, the latest in a string of aviation disasters…