566,000 registered as IDPs, meeting told
ISLAMABAD: The government has put the official figure of internally displaced persons (IDPs) at 566,000 and claimed that they are being taken care of quite well. At a high-level meeting…
Saudi Airline to resume flight operation to Peshawar from July 7
Peshawar-Saudi Airline has announced to cancel its flights to Peshawar Airport for four more days.Peshawar airport Authorities told that Saudi Airline told through a letter that they will not fly…
China rejects report about fasting ban
WEB ISLAMABAD : China has contradicted a news report published in a section of the press claiming that the Chinese government has banned civil servants, students and teachers in…
Taliban set dozens of fuel trucks on fire in Kabul
KABUL: Taliban militants set fire to dozens of fuel trucks, which they claimed were supplying foreign troops in Afghanistan, in an attack on the outskirts of Kabul, officials said Saturday. The…
Suicide bomber kills 15 in attack on Iraq forces
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a security forces position north of Baghdad on Friday, killing 15 people, police and a doctor said. The attack south of the…
Al-Qaeda suspects blow themselves up in Saudi Arabia
Two suspected al-Qaeda militants blew themselves up early Saturday in southern Saudi Arabia after police surrounded them inside a government building. Reports on casualties were not immediately available. Saudi Arabia…
Three attackers of Saudi border post killed
Al Arabiya News obtained on Friday exclusive pictures of the bodies of the gunmen who attacked a border post between Yemen and Saudi Arabia killing one Saudi border security officer…
Pak-Afghan – Post NATO Ousting
The NATO forces pulled out of Sangin district in Helmand almost a month ago. Last week, after a fierce attack launched by 800 to a 1000 heavily armed Taliban fighters…
Life for Kashmir’s former fighters ‘ruined’
Bandipore, India-administered Kashmir - Farmer Abdul Majid Lone is a broken man. As the afternoon sun shines over the ploughed fields in Badipora, north of Srinagar, the summer capital of India-administered…
92 women are raped in India every day, but crime data offers some silver linings
On an average, 92 women were raped in India every single day last year. + By themselves, the latest numbers on sexual violence are grim and point in one…