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Gravely inappropriate: Pakistani journalist reports on Edhi death from 6ft under Published time: 9 Jul, 2016 17:35 Get short URL The coffin of philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi rests on a table during his funeral at the National Stadium in Karachi, Pakistan July 9, 2016. © Akhtar Soomro /...

2 Russian pilots killed as ISIS shoots down chopper near Palmyra – MoD Published time: 9 Jul, 2016 16:59Edited time: 9 Jul, 2016 18:47 Get short URL File photo. © Dmitriy Vinogradov / Sputnik AddThis Sharing Buttons Russian soldier wounded in Syria dies in Moscow hospital The Ministry of...

Impressed by Pakistan Army Chief General Raheel Sharif's leadership skills, he hoped that the general continues to lead Islamabad. McCain said that Pakistan should take action against the Haqqani network "involved in killing a number of US soldiers and citizens in Afghanistan". (Photo: AFP)...

Before the signing of the Iran nuclear deal last year, BBC’s defense correspondent, Mark Urban, published a report [1] that Pakistan’s military has made a clandestine deal with Saudi Arabia that in the event of Iran developing a nuclear weapon, Pakistan would provide ready-made nuclear warheads...

12 Pakistanis, seven Saudis arrested following Madina blast DUBAI: Saudi Arabia identified on Thursday suspects in two of the three attacks that struck the kingdom on the same day this week, including one outside the sprawling mosque where the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is buried in the western...

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Saturday the central government would allocate 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) over the next two years for a labour resettlement fund. RELATED ARTICLES China firm to cut up to 50,000 jobs - Khaleej Times Mar 12, 2016 China to fire 1.8 million workers in coal...

Failure of the Afghan peace process will harm Pakistan’s credibility to a great extent. By Umair Jamal March 12, 2016 2 2 Shares The Afghan peace process, which is being facilitated by various regional states, has once again hit a roadblock with the Afghan Taliban refusing to hold direct...

Pakistan has proven time after time that it plays both sides of the fence when it comes to its relationship with the United States and other countries that aren't our allies. We can't totally isolate Pakistan because it has helped us in the past with intelligence and other types of aid, but we...

The current diplomatic row between Bangladesh and Pakistan is about more than opening old wounds from 45 years ago – it is about the threat to pluralistic democracy in South Asia posed by Pakistan’s security policies. BY SETH OLDMIXON MARCH 10, 2016 Pakistan’s dysfunctional relationship...

Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty MAAJID NAWAZ Obscene Praise for the Pakistani Muslim Who Murdered a ‘Blasphemer’ Mumtaz Qadri, hanged last week for killing Punjab’s governor, is being hailed as a martyr and hero—bad news for a Christian woman changed with “blasphemy.” LONDON — Asia Bibi is a...

AFP/Rawalpindi, Pakistan Filed on March 1, 2016 Qadri, a police bodyguard to Salman Taseer, shot the liberal Punjab governor 28 times at an Islamabad market in 2011. RELATED ARTICLES Pakistan on alert as governor's assassin is hanged - Khaleej Times Feb 29, 2016 Tens of thousands of...

By Umar Cheema ISLAMABAD: The United States has now officially confirmed that the 334 online American universities and accredited institutions run by the Karachi-based company Axact for selling degrees and diplomas are fake, a damning declaration that will have serious legal repercussions for...

China has suspended new stock market rules after only four days because they were fueling sharp trading losses -- rather than taming them. The so-called circuit breakers were introduced this week in the wake of last year's wild market swings. They were supposed to act as a kind of emergency...

The officer said that STF had received intelligence that a Pakistani had been sent to western Uttar Pradesh through Bangladesh to collect information about activities of Indian Army. LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) on Friday claimed to have arrested an ISI agent from Meerut...

ISLAMABAD / GUJRAT: Around 50 Pakistani asylum seekers have been deported from Norway. Many more will soon be sent back to their home country or to Russia, as the Norwegian government has now introduced stricter rules for asylum seekers, Norwegian Ambassador Tore Nedrebø said in a statement...

By DIONNE SEARCEY and KEITH BRADSHERNOV. 28, 2015 By AXEL GERDAU and AMY CHIH-HSIN LEE on Publish DateNovember 28, 2015. Photo Canyon Lake Ranch was once a playground for Christian day campers, and then was a corporate retreat with water-skiing, barbecues and cowboy shoot-’em-up shows. Hawks...

KARACHI, Pakistan — Fire gutted a Christian cable TV channel and completely destroyed the station's computers and broadcasting equipment, it's manager said. The blaze broke out Tuesday at the offices of Gawahi Television in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city that boasts a sizable Catholic...

ISLAMABAD: “Are these the people with bullets who took my papa away?” two-year-old Sabiha Ahmad asked her mother anxiously when AFP visited her family, members of Pakistan’s Ahmadi minority, who are currently living in hiding. The toddler’s family have had little contact with anyone since...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — HBO comedy "The Brink" is following in the footsteps of "Homeland" by ruffling the feathers of viewers in Pakistan — those who can get their hands on it, anyway. Featuring Tim Robbins as the U.S. Secretary of State and Jack Black as a bumbling foreign staffer, the...

Pakistan's population bomb: 240 million in 2030 ZOFEEN T. EBRAHIM — PUBLISHED ABOUT AN HOUR AGO Fifteen-year-old Nasreen Qutubuddin beams happily at her mother, Haseena Bibi, and says: "Now that she is well all I want is to get some good uninterrupted sleep." Belonging to Alipur village in...