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Jeddah [Saudi Arabia], Jan. 24: Saudi security forces recently foiled major terror attempts by storming two hideouts in Jeddah. Two suspected terrorists blew themselves up following a confrontation with security forces, according to an Interior Ministr…

Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan. 24 : Pakistan will host the 13th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) in March this year.The ECO held its last summit in 2012 and now it is Pakistan’s turn to host the meeting, reports the Daily Times.The mem…

Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan. 23 : German newspaper ‘Suddeutsche Zeitung’ on Monday tweeted documents linking the role of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam in the Panama Papers scandal.”For those in Pakistan who doubt the role of the prime min…

Kabul [Afghanistan], Jan. 23 : At least 21 loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group have been killed in air strikes carried out by the Afghan Air Forces in Zabul province.Khamma Press quoted the provincial police, as sayi…

Abu Dhabi [UAE], Jan.23 : The Chairman of the Hedayah board, Dr Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi has asserted that if there is no extremism there will be no terrorism.”We felt earlier that threat of terrorism is not only to us as a nation, but also to the world, t…

Lahore [Pakistan], Jan. 23 : Two chunks of land, measuring 175 acres each have been provided to a Chinese company by the Government of Pakistan for the USD1.57 billion Matiari-Lahore 660kV High Voltage Direct Current transmission line power project.The…

Abu Dhabi [UAE], Jan.23 : The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has asserted its commitment to countering the threat of extremism and foreign terrorist violence and finding solutions for it.Maqsoud Kruse, the Executive Director of Hedayah, the Abu Dhabi-based…

Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan 23 : Pakistan’s Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is not only a name of any road but a framework for several developmental projects.In an interview given to a government ne…

Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan. 23 : Addressing a large crowd of Pashtun supporters on the occasion of the death anniversaries of Khudai Khidmatgar Tehreek leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and his son Khan Abdul Wali Khan, and days after a bomb blast claime…

Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan.23 : The joint death anniversary of Khudai Khidmatgar Movement founder and Pashtun independence activist Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988), popularly nicknamed Bacha Khan or Pacha Khan and his son, Khan Abdul Wali Khan (1917…