KARACHI: At least 13 persons were killed and more than two dozen vehicles, shops, teashops and carts parked on roadsides were set ablaze in the wake of the assassination of Syed Raza Haider, a Muttahida Qaumi Movement member of the Sindh Assembly, in Nazimabad on Monday. (Update after the filing of this report: At least [...]
PESHAWAR: As raging floods wreaked havoc across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and some Fata regions, inundating large parts of Nowshera, Charsadda and Swat, the people of Dera Ismail Khan were warned on Friday of a similar disaster after 400,000 to 500,000 cusecs of water discharged from the overflowing Tarbela reservoir threatened all natural and man-made protective barriers [...]
KARACHI: Three people were killed on Friday night in incidents of target killing in Karachi. Unknown gunmen shot a person in Baldi Town No.4 and his body was transferred to Civil Hospital. Another man was killed in Layari’s New Lane area while the third person was shot dead in Kemari’s Ghas Bandar area. – DawnNews
Former head of Pak’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) Gen Hamid Gul has described the 91,000 leaked US military documents, which allege close connections between Pak and Taliban militants, as “fictional”. Gul, DG of ISI from 1987 to 1989, said there was “much bashing of the ISI and of the army indirectly in this case, and [...]
PARIS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy convened a crisis meeting Monday after an Al-Qaeda affiliate in the Sahara said it had killed a 78-year-old French hostage to avenge a deadly but failed rescue raid. French authorities said they were trying to verify the claim, made by the head of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in [...]
