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Lahore, Aug. 10 : Pakistan’s Punjab province has cancelled all outdoor activities planned for celebrating Independence Day in view of terror threats, officials said.The officials said that the Quetta incident that took place this Monday killing over 70…

Islamabad, Aug.10 : A top Islamic body has asked the Pakistan government to compulsorily include jihadist verses of the Koran in school curricula, even as experts have warned that such a move would be disastrous for the country, which has a history of …

New York, Aug. 10 : The Pentagon has acknowledged that U.S. troops abandoned equipment and weapons after they came under fire from ISIS fighters during recent operations in Afghanistan.The Pentagon had previously indicated that photos of the military i…

Islamabad, Aug. 10 : The outgoing chief of United Nations Development Programme, Marc Andre has said the concentration of public spending in Pakistan is politically driven and only restricted to a few developed districts, which is increasing inequality…

New Delhi, Aug 10 : A Bangadeshi-American immigrant has called on the prosecutors of the Queens Criminal Court, New York to bring hate crime charges against a person he says was attacked while screaming ‘F***K Indians’.Ali Najmi, who is representing Ga…

Islamabad, Aug. 9 : Terming the Quetta suicide attack which killed over 70 people as cowardly act against the country’s judiciary by the terrorists, Pakistan Army Chief General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday said it was carried out to undermine the success o…

Dhaka, Aug. 9 : A court in Bangladesh’s Gazipur district on Tuesday sentenced six people to death and three others to life-term imprisonment for killing a schoolboy in 2001.The convicts have been identified as Rafiqul Islam, Atiqul Islam, Atique Sheikh…

Lahore, Aug. 9 : Pakistan’s Punjab province Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday ordered polygraph tests of children recovered in kidnapping cases to verify the claims that they had in fact been kidnapped.The decision was made after police briefed …

Islamabad, Aug. 9 : A judicial magistrate has sent Move on Pakistan (MoP) Party Chairperson Mohammad Kamran to Adiala jail on 14-day judicial remand for displaying controversial banners of Army Chief General Raheel Sharif in Islamabad and other cities….

Kabul, Aug. 9 : At least one civilian was killed and 14 others injured in a suicide attack in Mazar-i-Sharif city of Afghanistan’s Balkh province on Tuesday.Local officials said that a child and three women are among those injured. The officials said t…