U.S. strike kills senior figure in Al-Qaeda India branch: report
U.S. drone strikes killed eight suspected militants in Pakistan on Saturday, including Sheikh Imran Ali Siddiqi, a senior figure of the newly created Indian branch of Al-Qaeda, Pakistan’s The Express…
Kashmiri activists to hold peaceful sit-in near LoC
MUZAFFARABAD: Activists of three Kashmiri organisations will stage a peaceful sit-in near the Line of Control (LoC) on Wednesday (October 15) to protest against New Delhi’s ‘inhuman treatment’ of flood…
Border clashes: Sartaj Aziz informs UN chief of India’s ceasefire violations
ISLAMABAD: As tension along the border between Pakistan and India escalates, Advisor to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz wrote a letter to UN Secretary General…
20,000 Kurds protest against ISIS in Germany
More than 20,000 Kurdish immigrants have protested in Germany against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group. Police said the demonstration Saturday in the western German city of…
Hagel confirms ‘long-term’ fight against ISIS
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Saturday that the embattled Syrian city of Kobane was a very difficult problem but added that air strikes had made some progress in…
India resumes shelling AJK, Sialkot villages
MIRPUR/SIALKOT- An elderly civilian was grievously injured as Indian troops resorted to unprovoked shelling from across the Line of Control on village Kairi adjacent to Naiza Pir Sector in Haveli,…
Pakistan, Afghanistan sign transit fee accord
WASHINGTON - Pakistan and Afghanistan Saturday signed a key agreement over transit pricing for the Central Asia South Asia electricity transmission project (CASA-1000), which will help ease energy shortages in…
US drone strike kills 4 in Shawal
PESHAWAR- A US drone strike killed at least four militants in a restive northwestern tribal area on the Afghan border Saturday, officials said, raising the toll from a series of…
Markhors on Mukshpuri and bright stars in a dark night
It was a stormy night on 23rd September 2014 in the Galiyat region of Pakistan’s Abbottabad district. Rizwan, a young member of Youth Impact, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to wilderness-based…
Suicide bombings in Yemen kill at least 50 people
SANAA, Yemen: Yemeni officials say two suicide bombings — one in the capital, Sanaa, the other in the country’s south — have killed at least 50 people. Security and hospital…