Fugitive Bangladesh ex-lawmaker sentenced to life for war crimes
DHAKA: Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal on Tuesday sentenced a fugitive former lawmaker to life in prison for genocide and religious persecution of the country's Hindu minority during the 1971 independence…
30 Hazaras abducted in Afghanistan: officials
KANDAHAR: Masked gunmen have abducted 30 Shia Muslim men who were travelling by bus through central Afghanistan, officials said on Tuesday. The men, members of the minority Hazara ethnic group,…
IS jihadists kidnap 90 Christians in Syria: monitor
BEIRUT: Jihadists from the Islamic State group have kidnapped at least 90 Assyrian Christians in northeast Syria, a monitor said on Wednesday. The abductions took place on Tuesday after IS…
Indian foreign secretary to visit Pakistan in March
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan-India foreign secretary level talks are expected to resume in the first week of March 2015 in Islamabad, senior diplomats from both sides told Dawn. Diplomats are in touch…
Nisar urges West to stop spread of Islamophobia
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan called on the West to stop the spread of Islamophobia during a meeting with his British counterpart Theresa May at the Home Office in London. A…
PM, General Raheel discuss strategy to take out Mullah Fazlullah: sources
ISLAMABAD: Army chief General Raheel Sharif and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif discussed on Tuesday strategy to take out Pakistan’s most wanted terrorist Mullah Fazlullah, according to sources. The army chief called…
Top Afghan official in Qatar amid high hopes for Taliban peace talks
ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s top security adviser is holding talks with senior leaders in Qatar in a bid to launch peace talks in the oil-rich Gulf state with the Afghan Taliban. The Taliban negotiators based…
Death toll rises to at least 70 in Bangladesh ferry disaster
DHAKA: The death toll from a weekend ferry disaster in central Bangladesh rose to 70 on Monday in the latest shipping mishap in the South Asian nation. The official search…
Diamer-Bhasha project: Heftier payouts offered to residents displaced by dam
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has agreed to hand over bigger payouts to people displaced by the construction of Diamer-Bhasha dam. Compensation has been increased by 25 per cent for those forced…
Taliban leadership gives go-ahead for peace talks
ISLAMABAD: The top leadership of the Afghan Taliban has approved ‘preliminary peace talks’ with Kabul, a former top commander of the group who is privy to the development told The Express Tribune on…